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MAN Diesel has discussed the future of state-of-the-art emission control technologies for the new as well as for existing engines with the various authorities. MAN Diesel has highlighted the potential technical concerns & possibilities in order to...

The safety of life at the sea has been a matter of responsibility to the IMO since its formation, & in this time many regulations & conventions have been accepted to enhance operational safety conditions. One way of...

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE PWOM? The Polar Water Operational Manual(PWOM) is a ship related reference document that explains in detail how the ship shall be operated in the polar waters. The procedures address operations under both...

Part I-A Chapter 12 Manning and Training of the Polar Code requires a ship owner to ensure that deck officers on SOLAS ships operating in polar waters have completed special training and have the...

Rudder and propeller of a ship in ballast and loaded ship are operating in different conditions. Propeller of a ship in ballast is in constant interaction with the ice - the ship is subjected to vibration - answers...

Amendments to SOLAS - enforced 1st July 2008 The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC), at its 82nd session held from 29 November to 8 December 2006, adopted an amendment to SOLAS regulation III/19.3.3.4 concerning provisions for...

A number of very significant accidents which took place during the late 1980's, were manifestly trigger by human errors, with management faults also identified as imparting factors. Lord Justice Sheen in his investigation into the loss of the...

With regard to SOx & PM regulation, this is to be controlled by the limitations in the sulphur content of the fuel used. An alternative measure is the use of the scrubbers. Emission projects currently in progress are...

The international maritime organization (IMO) has accepted a mandatory Polar Code to provide for safe ship operation & environmental protection in the Polar Regions. If you are onboard a ship in the Arctic or Antarctic waters, then...

BASIC REQUIREMENTS The functional requirements for the Engine Control System (ECS) are dictated by thermodynamic and other (mechanical, tribological) functional requirements. Apart from several core functions which every ECS has to perform for the electronically controlled reciprocating engine, the...