picks from this week’s latest maritime publication releases and important regulatory guidance for each title to help you decide if it’s requirement for your vessels.

This 2021 will supersedes and updates the 2020 Edition on 1^st Jan 2021.

The 2021-2022 Ports & Terminals Guide has over 20,500 ports and terminals included in one place for your convenience. This one-stop guide saves time and money compared to having to purchase multiple products at higher prices.

– Now covers 6,400 ports, 14,100 terminals, giving you over 20,500 ports and terminals

– 4,430 port plans with updates to over 830 plans since the last edition of the Ports & Terminals Guide

– 30,000 port service providers

– 100% Geo-referenced berths, with the CD-ROM having Google Earth capabilities to port area or individual berths. No one can match this level of expertise and critical data to assist with your navigational requirements, saving you on costs in case the details were inaccurate

– Pre-Arrival documents that will save you time for entry in every port. Potentially these documents could save ships 30 minutes to 1 hour for every port the ship calls into, covering more than the cost of one Ports & Terminals Guide

The Guide to Port Entry 2021/ 2022 provides accurate and comprehensive information on over 14,700 global commercial ports and terminals.

Key features include:

• Information on over 14,700 commercial ports and terminals in 191 countries

• 126 new ports and terminals since the last edition

• Over 5,000 port plans and mooring diagrams, designed and reviewed by our inhouse cartographers

• 83 port information categories providing extensive detail presented in logical sequence which your customers are familiar with

• 27,834 port service providers

• All data sourced directly from port authorities, agents or operators

This book is a clear, instructive guide to ship stability for anyone studying to become certified to Mate/Master or officer of the watch (OOW) level.

The book covers the following areas:

• The ship stability syllabus requirements for learners studying for a STCW 78 as amended OFFICER IN CHARGE OF NAVIGATIONAL WATCH REG

• The ship stability syllabus requirements for learners studying for a STCW 78 as amended CHIEF MATE/MASTER REG. II/2 (UNLIMITED) certificate of competency

• The principles of ship construction, as necessary to understand the nature of the stresses to which a ship’s hull will be subjected in service

 This 2021 edition of the Passage Planning Guide Straits of Malacca and Singapore (SOMS) has been completely revised to incorporate the latest guidance and practical advice for ships transiting the region. This comprehensive guide contains the latest navigational guidance and practical advice for the region including details of traffic hotspots, Straits Pilot Services, TSS and VTS information.

The ICS Tanker Safety Guide (Chemicals) is the standard reference work for chemical tankers. Now in its fifth edition, the Guide provides chemical tanker operators and crew with up-to-date best practice guidance for safe and pollution-free operations on chemical tankers and oil tankers carrying chemical cargoes in accordance with MARPOL Annex II.

The fifth edition contains valuable new guidance on key safety issues and operations, is fully aligned with ISGOTT: International Safety Guide for Oil Tankers and Terminals, Sixth Edition and provides new and improved ship/shore safety checklists. It should be carried on all chemical tankers and should be readily accessible by anyone involved in the carriage of chemicals on ships, including ship operators, cargo interests, training institutes and terminal operators.

This 2021 edition of the Passage Planning Guide Straits of Malacca and Singapore (SOMS) has been completely revised to incorporate the latest guidance and practical advice for ships transiting the region. This comprehensive guide contains the latest navigational guidance and practical advice for the region including details of traffic hotspots, Straits Pilot Services, TSS and VTS information.

The International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code relates to the safe carriage of dangerous goods by sea but does not include all details of procedures for packing of dangerous goods or actions to take in the event of an emergency or accident involving personnel who handle goods at sea. These aspects are covered by the publications that are associated with the IMDG Code, included in this Supplement.

The Supplement also includes texts of the Medical First Aid Guide, descriptions of the reporting procedures for incidents involving dangerous goods, harmful substances and/or marine pollutants, the IMO/ILO/UNECE Guidelines for packing of cargo transport units, the International Code for the Safe Carriage of Packaged Irradiated Nuclear Fuel, Plutonium and High-Level Radioactive Wastes on board Ships and other appropriate Assembly resolutions, resolutions and circulars of the Maritime Safety Committee and circulars of the Facilitation Committee and of the Sub-Committee on Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers. 

 T This document provides the requirements for Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) certification, set out in Chapter II of the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) International Convention of Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, 1978 (STCW Convention), as amended and corresponding sections of the STCW Code.

 Training courses developed in line with these criteria and delivered at centres approved by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), will cover the mandatory minimum requirements for the safe use of ECDIS.

This new edition supersedes and updates the previous edition Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS) Simulator Training, 2nd Edition

This concise map is regularly updated with the latest MARPOL information and amendments. The most recent changes, effective from January 2021, concerns Annex II, the discharge of Noxious Liquid Substances (NLS). A new regulation 13.7.1.4 applies to NW Europe, including the North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Baltic Sea and Irish waters.

Management Guidance is the latest release from the UK Chamber of Shipping. This operational handbook explores what good bridge resource management looks like and details, for all types of vessel, techniques for effective and optimised bridge teams.  It equips readers with the principles and practice necessary to avoid single point failures when executing a berth to berth voyage. Commonly encountered issues are highlighted and high level BRM principles illustrate the importance of an effective management strategy. 

The 2011 ESP Code provides requirements for an enhanced programme of inspections during surveys of single-hull and of double-hull bulk carriers and single-hull and double-hull oil tankers, in accordance with the provision of SOLAS regulation XI-1/2 and in line with the IACS UR Z10 series.

It provides, in particular, special requirements for:

– renewal, annual and intermediate surveys

– preparation for surveys

– documentation on board

– procedures for thickness measurements

– reporting and evaluation of surveys.

– Bridge alert management

– Revised performance standards and functional requirements for the long-range identification and tracking of ships

– Revised performance standards for enhanced group call (ECG) equipment, and

– Code of Alerts & Indicators, 2009

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China Sea Pilot Volume 4 (Third Edition) 2020

ISBN No: 978-0-70-774-5770

cancelled

Volume M First Edition 2020. Western Side of North Pacific Ocean

Excluding Western Parts of Philippine, East China and Yellow Seas

ISBN No: 978-0-70-772-4201

(07/10/20) First updates in NM week 48/20. Volume M 2019/20 is cancelled

South East Atlantic Ocean, West Africa and Mediterranean

(Including Tidal Stream Tables)

Volume 8 2021

ISBN No: 978-0-70-772-2368

Maritime Radio Stations

The Americas, Far East and Oceania

ISBN No: 978-0-70-774-4995

cancelled

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