Shipping Committee to Meet Feb. 27
The State Department's Shipping Coordinating Committee will meet at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 27 in Room 5-1224 of the U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters Building, 2100 Second Street, SW, Washington, D.C., to prepare for the meeting of the International Maritime Organization Subcommittee on Flag State Implementation March 4-8 in the U.K.
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Agenda items include: Responsibilities of governments and measures to encourage Flag State compliance; mandatory reports under International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL 73/78); Casualty statistics and investigations; Harmonization of Port State control activities; Port State control guidelines on seafarers' hours of rest and PSC guidelines in relation to the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006; Development of guidelines on port State control under the 2004 Ballast Water Management Convention; Comprehensive analysis of difficulties encountered in the implementation of IMO instruments; and Review of the Survey Guidelines under the Harmonized System of Survey and Certification and the annexes to the Code for the Implementation of Mandatory IMO Instruments. Contact meeting coordinator E. J. Terminella at Emanuel.J.TerminellaJr@uscg.mil or 202-372-1239.