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 11th edition of ‘Ballast Water Management’ sets out the current international and national ballast water legislation and provides essential information on compliance.

It discusses the various treatment options available and summarises the IMO and USCG Type Approved BWMS currently on the market.

It also highlights the significant date of 28th October 2020, after which point only BWMS with revised 2016 G8/BWMS Code Type Approval are permitted to be installed on ships.

A key feature of this new edition is a set of data sheets setting out BWMS that meet these revised standards. These data sheets present System Design Limitations, which are essential aids to shipowners when evaluating and selecting a BWMS.

This small, useful booklet contains general interest material preprinted from The Astronomical Almanac. It is published jointly by the U.S. Naval Observatory and Her Majesty’s Nautical Almanac Office two years in advance of its date. It includes such things as:

• dates for Solar equinoxes, solstices, phases of the Moon
• eclipse maps
• dates for various planetary phenomena
• visibility and magnitudes of the planets
• dates for some religious and civil holidays
• chronological eras and cycles
• the equation of time and declination of the Sun
• sunrise/set, moonrise/set times
• the position of Polaris

T Gives details on symbols and abbreviations used on the worldwide range of ADMIRALTY charts, and international Chart Series Paper Charts. It also contains information on hydrography, topography and navigational aids and services.

This publication is available in both paper format and as an ADMIRALTY e-Nautical Publication (AENP).

ADMIRALTY NavPac and Compact Data provides navigators and astronomers with simple and efficient methods for calculating the position of the sun, moon, navigational planets and stars with the aid of a personal computer running Microsoft Windows 8 and 10.

It allows navigators to compute their position at sea using traditional celestial navigation techniques combined with modern technology.

ADMIRALTY NavPac and Compact Data is used world-wide by the Royal Navy and other navies around the world as well as commercial navigators who use it to provide independent and reliable verification to their on-board Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS).

Of all the international conventions dealing with maritime safety, the most important is the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, better known as SOLAS, which covers a wide range of measures designed to improve the safety of shipping.

In order to provide an easy reference to all SOLAS requirements applicable from 1 January 2020, this edition presents a consolidated text of the Convention, its Protocols of 1978 and 1988 and all amendments in effect from that date. Additionally, this edition includes Unified Interpretations to SOLAS regulations, which were adopted by the Maritime Safety Committee. 

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

The Guide to Port Entry 2021 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

IMO 265E ESP Code 2020 – Nov 2020
IMO 978E Performance Standards 2020 – Nov 2020

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. 

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e-NP32A

China Sea Pilot Volume 3 (Third Edition) 2020

ISBN Number: 978-0-70-774-5787

(20/08/20) First updates in NM week 47/20. This edition supersedes NP32A

(Second Edition, 2019) which is cancelled

e-NP5011

ISBN Number: 978-0-70-774-6210

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