This report includes information about incidents involving enclosed spaces on ships and subsequent actions that should be considered in order to prevent these incidents occurring again.
The UK P&I Club recently held a webinar on the subject of Chemical Tanker Claims, the webinar was a great success with more than 1000 registrations from over 58 countries.
Members’ attention is drawn to the following procedures applicable to all oil tankers arriving at ports in Sri Lanka to discharge oil cargo at a single point buoy mooring (SPBM).
Following concerns raised about the environmental impact of permissible discharges from tankers carrying Noxious Liquid Substances (NLS), MEPC 74 in May 2019 adopted by way of IMO Resolution MEPC.315(74), amendments to MARPOL Annex II to strengthen discharge requirements for cargo residues and tank washings from such vessels.
