Bulk carrier water ingress alarms - legislation update

摘要

Bulk carrier operators tasked with fitting water ingress detection systems on their vessels in compliance with SOLAS regulation XII/12, can finally start to progress their procurement plans. As Martek Marine reports, IMO has recently defined a firm performance standard for this equipment The recommendation for the fitting of such alarms was highlighted in the preliminary version of IACS unified requirement S24 first published in September 1998. This was then taken further during the meeting of the Working Group on Bulk Carrier Safety held during the MSC's 74th session in December 2001, following on from recommendations of the UK Report of the re-opened formal investigation into the loss of the Derbyshire.