Category: Regulations

  • Cruise Industry Events 2015

    Cruise Shipping Miami

    March 16-19, 2015

    Miami, Florida

    http://www.cruiseshippingevents.com/en/miami

     

    Marine Hotel Association

    April 12-14, 2015

    Naples, Florida

    http://www.mhaweb.org

     

    MedCruise General Assembly

    June 3-6, 2015

    Zadar, Croatia

    http://www.medcruise.com

     

    Cruise Canada New England Symposium

    June 7-10, 2015

    Bar Harbor, Maine

    http://www.ccnesymposium.com

  • Costa Concordia leads to new cruise ship regulations

    Three new cruise ship regulations have been adopted:

    1)  Passage Planning – although cruise lines have followed IMO guidance on passage planning for many years our policy now deems this to be a mandatory minimum requirement and enhanced by endorsement of the best practices contained in the International Chamber of Shipping’s Bridge Procedures Guide. Furthermore, under this policy each passage plan is to be thoroughly briefed to all bridge team members well in advance of its implementation and it is to be drafted by a designated officer and approved by the master.

    2)  Personnel Access To The Bridge – to minimize unnecessary disruptions and distractions on the bridge we have adopted a policy that bridge access is to be limited to those with operational functions during any period of restricted manoeuvring or when increased vigilance is required.
    3)  Lifejackets – In addition to the statutory requirement of carriage of lifejackets for each person onboard, we have adopted a policy of carrying additional adult lifejackets onboard each cruise ship in excess of these legal requirements so that the number of additional adult lifejackets to be provided must not be less than the total number of persons berthed within the ship’s most populated main vertical fire zone. This ensures that the number of lifejackets carried are far in excess of the number of persons actually onboard the ship.

    For the full information release see: http://www.europeancruisecouncil.com/content/ECC%2024%20April%202012_Cruise%20Industry%20Announces%20Three%20New%20Safety%20Policies.pdf