2017/09/27 14:00:29 | Code: 148766 |

RMI encourages early implementation of IMSBC Code draft amendments

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The Marshall Islands Ship Registry issued a safety advisory to remind of the amendments to the IMSBC Code, adopted in June 2017, and to encourage their early adoption from 1st January 2018. The entry into force date for these amendments is set to be 1 January 2019, however the Administration highlights the need for voluntary implementation, on all vessels to which the IMSBC Code applies, one year earlier.

The new individual IMSBC Schedules listed in IMO Resolution MSC.426(98) are as follows:

FOAM GLASS GRAVEL;

• IRON SMELTING BY-PRODUCTS1

• METAL SULPHIDE CONCENTRATES, CORROSIVE UN 1759

• MONOAMMONIUM PHOSPHATE (M.A.P.), MINERAL ENRICHED COATING;

• MONOCALCIUMPHOSPHATE (MCP);

• OLIVINE SAND;

• OLIVINE GRANULAR AND GRAVEL AGGREGATE PRODUCTS;

• SAND, MINERAL CONCENTRATE, RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL, LOW SPECIFIC (LSA-1) UN 2912;

• SILICOMANGANESE (carbo-thermic);

•SUGARCANE BIOMASS PELLETS;

• SYNTHETIC CALCIUM FLUORIDE;

• SYNTHETIC SILICON DIOXIDE; and

• TITANOMAGNETITE SAND.

RMI notes that from 01 January 2018 until 31 December 2018 and prior to mandatory entry into force on 01 January 2019, for the new schedules listed above and amendments to existing schedules including other associated changes to the IMSBC Code as referenced in IMO Resolution MSC.426 (98), it is possible that cargo interests may present cargoes for shipment under the existing IMSBC requirements listed in the current IMSBC Code (2016 Edition including Amendment 03-15).

Find herebelow the IMO Resolution MSC.426(98) referring to the IMSBC Code amendments