Environmental friendliness is an important element of responsible shipping and increasing importance is given to design and operational measures enabling environmental sustainable maritime operations. Navies are no exception to this philosophy, hence applicability of MARPOL to naval ships is of interest in view of demonstrating compliance to worldwide recognised standards. However, MARPOL was not designed to cover naval ships and a certain degree of adaptation is necessary in order to align its requirements with Navy practices and procedures. As a complement to its RINAMIL (Rules for the Classification of Naval Ships), RINA SPA carried out such adaptation, which is being implemented in the Italian Navy's fleet. The aim of the paper is to discuss the applicability of MARPOL to naval ships, outline the customisation carried out by RINA SPA and present a few examples of applications based on experience with the Italian Navy's fleet.
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