The Performance Standards for Shipborne Radiocommunications and Navigational Equipment, 2020 edition provides mariners, Administrations, shipowners and manufacturers with new and revised standards for the safe and secure communication and navigation of ships. Under resolution A.825(19), and its superseding resolution A.886(21), the adoption of performance standards, as well as their amendments,…
Of all the international conventions dealing with maritime safety, the most important is the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, better known as SOLAS, which covers a wide range of measures designed to improve the safety of shipping. The Convention is also one of the oldest of its the first version was adopted in 1914 following the sinking of the Titanic with the loss of mor…