Maritime Link
Maritime Organization
- International Maritime Organization (IMO)
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Marine pollution conventions
- ILO labour standards for seafarers
- Liability conventions
- IMO Conventions (entry-into-force dates)
- ILO publication listing maritime standards
- International Convention on Arrest of Ships 1999
- IMO Conventions
- UNCLOS (United Nations Conventions
- International treaties (1997 links to non-IMO treaties)
- Safety conventions
The British Law
British Government Organizations
- British Shipping – Charting a New Course (Government policy paper)
- Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee
- MCA prosecutions
- Consultation papers on shipping
- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
- Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)
- Radiocommunications Agency (RA)
- MCA contacts list
- Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
- Marine Accident Investigation Branch
- Environment Agency
- MCA detention lists
Foreign Flag State
- Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA)
- Cyprus Flag
- Australian Registry of Ships
- Hong Kong Shipping Register
- Bahamas Maritime Authority
- Hong Kong Marine Department
- Belize Registry
- International Registries Inc. (Marshall Islands register)
- Isle of Man Shipping
- Lloyd’s Register of Shipping (LR)
- Norwegian International Ship Register (NIS)
- Liberian International Shipping & Corporate Registration Office (LISCR)
- Cambodian Registry
- US Coast Guard
Classification Societies
- American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)
- Hellenic Register of Shipping
- Bureau Veritas (BV)
- International Association of Classification Societies (IACS)
- China Classification Society (CCS)
- Korean Register of Shipping (KRS)
- Cyprus Bureau of Shipping (CBS)
- Lloyd’s Register of Shipping (LR)
- Det Norske Veritas (DNV)
- Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (NKK)
- irclass.org
- Polish Register of Shipping (PRS)
- Registro Italiano Navale (RINa)
- Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS)
- Germanischer Lloyd (GL)
- Turk Loydu
Ships’ Equipment
- Aspli Safety (LSA)
- Comet (pyrotechnics)
- BESCO (lifeboats)
- Crewsaver (lifejackets)
- BMEC register of systems, services and equipment
- Datrex (LSA)
- British Marine Equipment Council (BMEC)
- Hammar (hydrostatic releases)
- British Marine Industries Federation (BMIF)
- I C Brindle & Co. (LSA)
- British Maritime Technology
- International Safety Products (LSA)
- British Standards Institute (BSI)
- Jason’s Cradle (rescue stretchers and davits)
- L & G Marine Fire and Safety
- Jotron (UK) (survivor location aids)
- McMurdo (survivor location aids)
- Kelvin Hughes (chart services)
- UK Hydrographic Office
- Solar Solve (anti-glare roller screens)
Master And Crew
STCW Convention
Emergencies, Gmdss & Search & Rescue
Shipping emergencies – Search and Rescue and the GMDSS (Focus on IMO paper)
Pollution
- Briggs Marine (oil spill response specialists)
- Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF)
- British Oil Spill Control Association (BOSCA)
- Oil Pollution Act 1990 (OPA 90)
- International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds
- Oil Pollution Act 1990 (OPA 90) – text of Act
- ITOPF summary of oil spill response arrangements and resources
- OPA 90 – US Government report on double-hull tanker legislation
- Sea Empress Oil Spill (University of Wales School of Biological Sciences)
- Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL)
Salvage
Shipowners’ Organizations
- BIMCO
- International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
- Chamber of Shipping (UK)
- International Chamber of Shipping (ICS)
- Hong Kong Shipowners’ Association
- Intertanko (independent tanker owners’ association)
- Intercargo (dry bulk cargo shipowners’ association)
- International Shipping Federation (ISF)
- Ken Olsen’s shipowners’ organisations links
- Norwegian Shipowners’ Association
- UK Maritime Forum
- Sea Safety Group
- United Kingdom Offshore Operators’ Association (UKOOA)
Marine Insurance
- Cargo insurance law (Lex Mercatoria)
- International Underwriting Association
- Central Union of Marine Underwriters (CEFOR)
- International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI)
- Healy & Baillie – Legal and Maritime Links – P & I and Insurance Resources
- Lloyd’s
- International Association of Producers of Insurance and Reinsurance (BIPAR)
- Lloyd’s Agency and Salvage
- Marine Insurance Act 1906 (text)
- Lloyd’s brokers (directory)
- Marine Insurance Megasite (numerous links)
Sea Fareers’ Organisations
- Apostleship of the Sea
- Marine Society
- International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF)
- Maritime Volunteer Service
- Institute of Marine Engineers
- Missions to Seafarers
- International Federation of Shipmasters’ Associations
- Nautical Institute
- Seafarers International Research Center (Cardiff University)
- NUMAST (officers’ union)
- Seafarers’ Benefits Advice Line
- RMT (ratings’ union)
P&i Clubs
- American Steamship Owners Mutual P&I Association
- London Steam-Ship Owners’ Mutual Insurance Association
- Assuranceforeningen Gard (Gjensidig)
- North of England P&I
- Assuranceforeningen Skuld (Gjensidig)
- Standard Steamship Owners’ P&I Association
- France P&I
- Swedish Club
- Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association
- UK P&I Club
Loss Adjusters
Port State Control
- AMSA list of flag state organisations responsible for port state control
- Tokyo MOU on Port State Control regime (Asia-Pacific)
- Paris Memorandum Secretariat
- US Coast Guard Port State Control (USA)
- Paris MOU on Port State Control regime (Europe & Canada)
- US Coast Guard Port State Information Exchange
- Viña del Mar Agreement on Port State Control (S. America)
- USCG Port State Control Home Page
Surveys & Investigations
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