Tuesday, 4th June 2019

IACS – Industry Technical Meeting – International Group participation

The International Group participated at the IACS/Industry Technical Meeting held at the IACS offices in London on 3 June 2019. OCIMF, ICS, IUMI, Intercargo and BIMCO were amongst the other attendees.

The meeting addressed various issues including:

  1. producing new guidelines for safely handling Anchoring Equipment
  2. Cyber Security standards for vessels and the need to involve all stakeholders whilst respecting the guidelines already issued by other bodies
  3. guidelines for the safe and accurate sampling of bunkers and how this will operate in practice with multiple bunker tanks on board many vessels following IMO 2020
  4. Ship design on new vessels’ bunker tanks going forward given the likely necessity for multiple bunker tanks and fuels
  5. reporting on GHG emissions data to IMO and then using IACS expertise to help the IMO identify future technologies and implementation plans for those technologies to reduce emissions whilst taking into account safety issues.
31 May 2023

Introducing the International Group's Education programme – A unique course in the industry

In this short video Alex McCooke, Chair of the International Group’s Education Committee and Annie Stow, Chair of the Education Outreach Working Group, highlight the impact of the work undertaken by the Education Committee.
17 May 2023

International Group signs updated MoU in the US with NOAA

The International Group recently signed an updated Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington DC.