Gen Memo 45/13: IMO Assembly / ICS MLC / Futurenautics / UNCTAD Review / LR /

MARTECH

Dear Members,

PLEASE ENSURE THIS GEN MEMO IS WIDELY DISTRIBUTED WITHIN YOUR

INSTITUTION.

1 IMO Assembly

The attached notes on the 28th General Assembly meeting, held from 25 November to 4

December, compiled by Capt Paddy McKnight for InterManager have been kindly provided by

InterManager. The General Assembly, IMO's highest governing body, meets every two years.

2 ICS MLC

Members are advised of the International Chamber of Shipping Maritime Labour Convention

website which is incorporated into the new ICS Website. The website has been produced in

response to member feedback and can be accessed either directly from the right hand side of the

front page of the ICS website and clicking the icon “Are you ready for the ILO MLC?”

It can alternatively be accessed directly by going to the following website address

http://www.ics-shipping.org/are-you-ready-for-the-ilo-mlc- The ICS/ISF Guidance on Port State

Control

of the ILO MLC can be downloaded at no cost.

The site contains all information relating to the MLC including how to access the various ILO

and ICS publications which have been produced as well as an updated list of frequently

asked questions and answers. The site also links directly into the ILO portal for the latest

information regarding ratifications, national laws and determinations and social security

information.

3 Futurenautics

InterManager also provides advice about Futurenautics ie shipping’s technology-enabled future.

Through magazine, web-portal and events, it examines advances in M2M, nanotechnology,

connected communications, big data, the cloud and new business models, and contextualises

their impact from ship operations, design, and materials to organisational and commercial

structures, jobs and skill-sets of people at sea and ashore.

A free copy may be downloaded at www.futurenautics.com. To join the online debate on the

Futurenautics Linkedin Group go to

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=5095354&trk=my_groups-b-grp-v

4 UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport 2013

As UNCTAD states, maritime transport is the backbone of international trade and the

global economy. Around 80% of global trade by volume and over 70% by value are carried by

sea

and are handled by ports worldwide. These shares are even higher in the case of

most developing countries.

UNCTAD's Review has since 1968 provided coverage of key developments affecting

international seaborne trade, shipping, the world fleet, ports, freights markets, and transport-

related regulatory and legal frameworks.

As in previous issues, the 2013 Review contains critical analyses and unique data, including

long-term data series, on seaborne trade, fleet capacity, shipping services, and port-handling

activities.

5 LR

Lloyd's Register has undergone significant change and growth in recent years has changed it's

logo to refresh our brand to reflect these changes to the market, our customers and all our

stakeholders – a brand that works in the digital age. The new logo and accompanying text are

in the attachment.

6 MARTECH

The flyer for the biennial MARTECH Conference in Singapore is attached,

Kind regards

Rod Short

Executive Secretary

GlobalMET Limited

IMO Assembly

Before reporting the outcome of the latest IMO Assembly, it may be useful to know that Assembly is the highest Governing Body of the organisation. It consists of all [170] Member States and meets once every two years where it approves the work programme, votes the budget and determines IMO’s financial arrangements. The Assembly also elects a Council for a two year term as is the case for 2014 and 2015. By way of explanation, the Council is the Executive Body of the IMO and is responsible, under the Assembly, for supervising the IMO’s work. Between the two-yearly sessions of the Assembly the Council performs a majority of all Assembly functions most notable of which is that of appointing the Secretary-General, though subject to approval by the Assembly. Council members are elected in three categories, viz:

Category (a) 10 States with the largest interest in providing international shipping services

Category (b) 10 other States with the largest interest in international seaborne trade, and

Category (c) 20 States not elected under (a) or (b) above which have special interest in maritime transport or navigation and, importantly, whose election to the Council will ensure the representation of all major geographic interests of the world.

A great deal of the first week was spent by relevant Member States making their case for election to the Council for the next biennium 2014 / 2015. On this occasion, the 10 sitting States in Category (a) and (b) were unchallenged whilst 24 Members vied for the 20 places in Category (c). Voting slips for this third category were cast by the 157 Member States present of which 154 were valid.

The composition of the New Council is:

Category (a) China, Greece, Italy, Japan, Norway, Panama, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, UK and USA.

Category (b) Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden.

Category (c) Australia, Bahamas, Belgium, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand and Turkey. [Peru replaces Egypt but the composition of Category (c) is otherwise unchanged.]

The Council, as the elected executive body of 40 Member States, normally meets twice a year (once a year during Assembly year) and monitors the status of the biennial budget, also the progress of work by the legal and technical bodies, ie Legal, Facilitation, Technical Co-Operation, Maritime Safety and Marine Environment Protection Committees, with the latter two –

the MSC and the MEPC – acting as the ‘parent bodies’ of the recently reorganised specialist Sub-Committees.

In order to achieve its objectives, succeeding Assemblies adopt three documents: (1) the Strategic Plan (SP), covering a six-year period; (2) the High Level Action Plan (HLAP) covering the biennium, ie over the next 2 years, and (3) the Results-Based Budget (RBB), also over the biennium. In simple terms, the Assembly then sets out to quantify the high-level actions necessary to achieve the directions laid out in the Strategic Plan and as provided for in the Results-Based Budget. Easier said than done ...

Points of interest from the meeting, suitably abbreviated are as follows:

• STRATEGY, PLANNING AND REFORM. A draft Assembly resolution on ‘High Level Action Plan of the Organisation’ and priorities for the 2014 – 2015 biennium was adopted in Plenary.

• IMO MEMBER STATE AUDIT SCHEME. It was decided that after transition from voluntary to mandatory, the Audit Scheme should be arranged and carried out in line with the Framework and Procedures using the III Code (IMO Instrument Implementation Code) as the audit standard.

• REPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF MSC, MEPC AND FAL COMMITTEES. Reports and recommendations by all three committees during the period under review were approved and adopted as follows:

MSC: Four draft Assembly resolutions related to maritime safety were adopted:

(1) IMO Ship Identification Number Scheme (2) Recommendations for the training and certification of personnel on mobile offshore units (MOU) (3) Recommendation on the use of adequately qualified deep-sea pilots in the North Sea, English Channel and Skagerrak (4) Recommendation on the use of adequately qualified deep-sea pilots in the Baltic

A further seven draft Assembly resolutions related to both maritime safety and marine environment protection were also adopted:

(1) IMO Instrument Implementation Code (III Code) (2) Revised guidelines on the implementation of the International Safety Management (SM) Code by Administrations (3) Revised guidelines for a structure of an integrated system of contingency planning for shipboard emergencies (4) Recommendation on the use of national tonnage in applying international conventions (5) Guidelines to assist investigators in the implementation of the Casualty Investigation Code (6) Amendment to the survey guidelines under the Harmonised System of Survey and Certification (HSSC), 2011

(7) 2013 Non-exhaustive list of obligations under instruments relevant to the IMO Instruments Implementation Code

MEPC: Two draft Assembly resolutions were adopted:

(1) 2013 Guidelines for the designation of special areas under MARPOL, and (2) Application of the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediment, 2004.

It was noted that MEPC 65 had approved (2) with a view to providing confidence in the application of the BWM Convention. The resolution will allow flag states to give owners up until the first special survey date of a vessel after the convention comes into force, to be compliant, and this could mean up to a five-year respite for some. The criteria of at least 30 Member States has already been exceeded by 5, representing 31% of world tonnage and the Convention will come into force a year after the percentage of the global fleet represented by signatories exceeds 35%. So far, 31 BW systems have gained full type-approval out of a total of 71 systems being developed or tested. Shipowners generally consider that the testing process is not robust enough, indeed the US has drawn up its own regulations which will come into force soon and they will not ratify the BWM Convention. Vessels built before this month will have until the first scheduled survey, after either 2014 or 2016 depending on ballast-water capacity. IMO type-approval of systems will also require US approval of which there are none to date. However, 27 have received a provisional permit known as an ‘Alternative Management System’ (AMS) and having such a permit grants them a five-year window to operate in accordance with the rules. Type approval by the US authorities for which manufacturers must apply is more stringent than that for IMO.

FAL: Two draft Assembly resolutions were adopted:

(1) Implementation of the Facilitation Convention, and (2) Fair treatment of Crew Members in respect of shore leave and access to shore-side facilities.

The short-term solution at (2) was proposed by the Islamic Republic of Iran pending the entry into force of relevant amendments to the FAL Convention.

• AMENDMENTS (MINOR) were made to:

The International Convention on Load Lines, 1966 The International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969, and The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972

• SUMMARY RECORDS OF ASSEMBLY. A new system offering the ability to record discussions in all the six interpreted languages of the Assembly’s plenary meetings found favour with a majority of the Committee. The traditional (and costly) hard-copy Summary Record will accordingly be suspended for this session of Assembly and the impact of doing so duly evaluated by the Secretariat, reporting to Assembly 29 in two years’ time. The capability of recording Plenary in the Committee Room simultaneously with

Room 9 or 10 will also be further investigated.

• LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR MARITIME CLAIMS (LLMC 96). Amendments to LLMC 96 are expected to enter into force on 8 June 2015 raising the general limits in article 3 by some 51%, and reflect the changes in monetary values that have occurred since the last increase in 1996.

• PRESERVATION AND COLLECTION OF EVIDENCE ON BOARD. Following an allegation of a serious crime having taken place on board a ship or following a report of a missing person from a ship, draft Guidelines have been produced to assist ship’s Masters in the preservation of evidence and in the pastoral and medical care of persons affected; also, when appropriate, in the collection of evidence during the period between receipt of a report of a possible serious crime having been committed on board and the time when law enforcement authorities or other professional crime scene investigators take action.

• PIRACY. Note was taken of the Legal Committee’s strong support for a proposal that organisations in consultative status with IMO should share their experience in resolving problems relating to the apprehension of pirates as well as its agreement to collaborate closely with the United Nationals Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNIOCRI) with regard to piracy-related issues.

• THE INTEGRATED TECHNICAL CO-OPERATION PROGRAMME (ITCP). The Committee noted that the ITCP for 2014 – 2015, comprises 15 regional and global programmes to provide assistance to developing countries, with a total funding requirement of $25.2 million.

• RESULTS-BASED BUDGET FOR THE 2014 – 2015 BIENNIUM. Plenary endorsed the Secretary General’s Mixed Zero-Growth policy for the regular biennium 2014- 2015 budget, representing Zero Nominal Growth for 2014 and Zero Real Growth of 2.9% for 2015. This represents a regular budget for the 2014 – 2015 biennium of £64,304,000, comprising an appropriation of £31,686,000 for 2014 and £32,618,000 for 2015. It also agreed to a total number of meeting–weeks of 32.6, comprising 17.2 weeks for 2014 and 15.4 weeks for 2015.

• COUNCIL 111 MEETING. Following completion of Assembly 28, the newly elected Council met for its 111th session. No matters additional to the many issues at Assembly were discussed but candidates for the Chairman and Vice Chairman posts were considered. In the event, Mr J Lantz (USA) was re-elected as Chairman, also Mr D Ntuli (SOUTH AFRICA) as Vice Chairman. The 112th regular session of the Council will be held at IMO from 16 through 20 June 2014.

Captain Paddy McKnight

Dear Rod

Lloyd’s Register has undergone significant change and growth over recent years. We have grown to a

£1 billion turnover service provider with over 9000 employees in 78 countries, restructured to create

the Lloyd’s Register Foundation as the organisation’s parent entity, invested in technology leadership

through our global technology centres, diversified our services further into energy and rail, and

expanded our Management Systems business, LRQA.

We needed to refresh our brand to reflect these changes to the market, our customers and all our

stakeholders – a brand that works in the digital age.

For years our clients have been referring to us as LR, so we took inspiration for our new logo from the

LR stamp – the true ‘brand’ that our surveyors have stamped into steel as proof of approval since

1884.

But this is not a name change – we will continue to be called Lloyd’s Register, recognising the value

that the Lloyd’s name has around the world as a mark of quality.

Our new identity reflects our commitment to independence, technical excellence and public benefit.

And the new logo is a device that links together all the members in our group, including LRQA,

making our broad service portfolio easier to navigate.

We recognise that as your business needs change, so do your expectations and requirements; as we

move into 2014 and beyond, our new services will help ensure your ships are designed and

maintained to perform better in every way, from the fuel they consume to the technologies and

procedures they employ.

Lloyd's Register Marine is leading the way in providing innovative solutions to the marine industry.

Our work on gas-fuelled shipping is just one example. In Asia, we are supporting the Maritime and

Port Authority of Singapore to develop an internationally recognised standard for gas bunkering,

including consulting with the major stakeholders to make sure their challenges are addressed. In

Europe, our support for the ground-breaking ropax vessel, Viking Grace, has enabled us to establish

large vessel LNG fuel standards and procedures. These procedures are now being used for new

alternative fuel projects from Quebec to Dalian.

The new brand identity is only the beginning and we are looking forward to the journey ahead - for

both our clients and our brand.