Position of navigational lights
This article outlines essential guidelines for the placement and characteristics of navigational lights on vessels. These lights, including masthead, sidelights, stern lights, and others, are crucial for ensuring maritime safety and collision prevention, particularly during low visibility conditions. Specific requirements for the height, visibility, and positioning of these lights are provided, with a focus on adherence to international regulations.
Electronic Inclinometer - New SOLAS Requirement
The 107th session of the Maritime Safety Committee was held from 31 May to 9 June 2023. In this regard, Committee adopted the proposed amendments to chapter V of the 1974 SOLAS Convention, in relation carriage of electronic inclinometer. This amendment should be deemed to have been accepted on 1 July 2025 and enter into force on 1 January 2026.
Daylight signaling lamp
Daylight signaling lamps means lamps suitable for transmitting white light signals to an observer by focused light beams which may be fixed or portable.
A summary of the most important requirements of the device has been prepared in this article.
Radio personnel requirements
Every ship shall carry personnel qualified for distress and safety radio communication purposes to the satisfaction of its flag administration. (Refer to the STCW Code, chapter IV, Section B-IV/2.)
In this article, the Radio personnel requirements based on the shipping sea areas has been discussed.
GMDSS Modernization
The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) provides an integrated solution for distress, emergency, safety and conventional communications, and is the main platform for ship-shore, ship-to-ship information interaction. In order to coordinate development with the E-Navigation strategy, IMO proposed a GMDSS review and modernization plan in April 2008.
Routine test of radio equipment
Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) is the internationally agreed-upon set of safety procedures, types of equipment and communication protocols used to increase safety and make it easier to rescue all distressed ships, boats and aircrafts. The Marine Center team, in this article, tries to explain the routine evaluations of radio equipment in a useful and concise manner. Stay with us.
A general guidance on the radio survey - Part I
This document is a general guidance on the GMDSS radio survey which will be helpful by the mariners, safety officers, surveyors. Refer to the SOLAS, all ships with 300 GT and above (other than ships types which specified by the convention) shall fulfil all mentioned requirement which pointed in this article.
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