Directive on Reporting Formalities For Ships Arriving At Or Departing From EU Ports

From 19th May, 2012, the new EU Directive 2010/65/EU on reporting formalities, applicable to ships arriving at, or departing from, ports in the European Union, superseded Directive 2002/6/EC. The purpose is to simplify and harmonise the administrative procedures in maritime transport by standardising the electronic transmission of information and by rationalising reporting formalities. It targets the national maritime authorities of the Member States who will be obliged to accept all Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic (FAL) forms for the fulfilment of reporting. They also have to accept electronic reports and their transmission via a single window no later than the 1st of June 2015.

EU Directives on Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC)

The EU Directive (the Directive for the enforcement of the MLC through Port State Control) entered into force on 20th August, 2013, and ships have not reported any problems encountered as of yet.

Lloyd's Register-Fairplay: Fleet Statistics

The World Fleet

According to Lloyd's Register-Fairplay data, as of March 2014, the world fleet of self-propelled, sea-going merchant ships, greater than 1,000 gross tons (GT), stood at 52,001 ships of 1,311,906,161 gross tons, including 5,344 ships, of 196,795,247 gross tons, on order.

Αustralian owner orders LNG-powered RoRo ferry from FSG

Germany's Flensburger-Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) has signed a contract with the Australian shipping company SeaRoad for an LNG-powered RoRo ferry newbuilding. With a length of 181m and a breadth of 26.6m, the vessel will offer more than 1,960 lane metres. Its speed will be 20.5 knots.

HELMEPA at the US Coast Guard Academy's 133rd Commencement Exercises

It was a great event that the Director General of HELMEPA, Dimitris Mitsatsos, and the Association's Executive Coordinator, Christiana Prekezes, attended at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, in New London, Connecticut, on May 21 2014.

Sino - Hellenic Maritime Seminar at Posidonia 2014 organized by the CCS

The China Classification Society - "CCS" organizes for the first time the Sino- Hellenic Maritime Seminar within the Posidonia exhibition.