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IMCA guidance demonstrates the strength of working together

The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) has undertaken the ambitious project of reviewing every guidance document in their extensive library, ensuring all are fully up-to-date. Work on the project, which started in January 2016, will be completed in the first quarter of this year. The comprehensive review has seen the Marine Division Management Committee and Offshore Survey Committees working together to revise some of IMCA’s important guidance covering acoustic and satellite-based position reference systems. The result is two new documents providing guidance to both the offshore survey and dynamic positioning community; and two revised documents of equal use to members

IMCA welcomes IMO Secretary General’s call not to threaten IMO’s emissions global roadmap

The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) believes that the roadmap adopted by the Marine Environment Protection of IMO (MEPC 70) to develop a comprehensive strategy to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions globally from shipping provides the right framework for moving forward on this vital issue. According to the agreed timeline, IMO will initiate its decision-making on further measures to tackle the challenge of GHG from shipping in 2022. “We welcomed the unanimous international decision at IMO on this important issue; obtaining it took many years of negotiations and intense discussions,” explains John Bradshaw, IMCA’s Policy and Regulatory Affairs Manager. “We

Compelling presentations at IMCA’s forthcoming South America Region meeting

The first International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) South America Region meeting of 2017 takes place at the Comfort Suites MacaÃ© in Brazil on Wednesday 25 January. The meeting, which is open to IMCA members and their guests, begins with a networking lunch and then features a series of compelling presentations. Richard Benzie, IMCA’s Technical Director will provide a general IMCA update as well as a regulatory update; there will be reports too on the activities of all of IMCA’s core activity and technical committees before presentations are delivered by three guests. Cinthya Lopes of De Moura Shipping will speak on

Making Waves advertising opportunities for 2017

Details of the advertising opportunities available in 2017 in Making Waves, our quarterly magazine are now available inthe Making Waves 2017 Media Pack. Exclusive to IMCA Supplier (S/S*) members, advertising in Making Waves is a great value way to reach our targeted global readership of marine contracting industry professionals. Download the media pack from our Making Waves information page.

Surfing the industry – IMCA CEO featured in Offshore Engineer

IMCA’s Chief Executive, Allen Leatt, was recently interviewed for Offshore Engineer magazine, where he discussed his career, the industry’s own evolution and the challenges and opportunities for its future. Read the article at http://oedigital.com/subsea/item/14371-surfing-the-industryoedigital.com/subsea/item/14371-surfing-the-industry

Change is in the air for IMCA's eCMID

From January 2018 the International Marine Contractors Association’s (IMCA) will recognise only formal inspection reports conducted using its eCMID database, meaning that paper reports not uploaded into the database will no longer be considered by IMCA to be authorised inspection reports. The whole eCMID system is now based on the principles described in the ISO 19011 Guidance for Auditing Management Systems standard and is aligned with other comparable industry guidance on safety management system assurance. From the same date only validated Accredited Vessel Inspectors (AVIs) will be able to use the ‘inspector role’ in the IMCA eCMID database to conduct

Year: 2017