scholarly journals Traffic Regulation at Sea

1963 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-255

The Maritime Safety Committee of the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization considered the Report of the Dover Strait Working Group set up by the British, French and German Institutes of Navigation, at its session which ended on 25 January. Members of the Safety Committee were, in general, in agreement with the recommendations of the Group that a system of routing should be established and that the navigational marks and other aids in the Strait should be improved. The Committee considered, however, that the report required further study by governments before definite views could be formed; account would also have to be taken of the result of the enquiry now being addressed to masters of ships by the International Chamber of Shipping through its members.

1969 ◽  
Vol 6 (04) ◽  
pp. 356-359
Author(s):  
C. P. Murphy ◽  
P. S. Stiff

The Intergovernmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO) through the Subcommittee on Tonnage Measurement of its Maritime Safety Committee in 1959 undertook to determine if it could develop a universal system for the tonnage measurement of ships. It considered the matter for nine years in nine sessions of the Subcommittee and seven sessions of the Working Group of the Subcommittee. Most of the sessions dealt, almost exclusively with the problem of a universal system. In 1968 after the Subcommittee had completed its work the IMCO Secretariat distributed to governments three basic proposals, including draft Articles, Regulations, and a Tonnage Certificate in each case, which the Subcommittee had prepared for a universal system of tonnage measurement of ships. There was also distributed a modified version of one of the proposals suggested by Denmark. Governments were requested to consider the proposals as possible basic documents for an International Conference on Tonnage Measurement to be convened in London for a four-week period commencing May 27, 1969.


1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. W. Richey

This report was first published in the Journal in 1966 (Vol. 19, p. 411). In its reprinted form it has been abridged by omitting detailed recommendations for the establishment of separation areas and recommended routes in the Baltic, the North Sea, the Dover Strait, and the English Channel to Gibraltar. These recommendations were included in the original section 7. The report is followed by comments from Norman Cockcroft.In 1961 the Institutes of Navigation in Great Britain and France, with the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Ortung und Navigation, formed a representative Working Group to go into the question of regulating traffic in converging areas at sea with particular reference to the Dover Strait. The Group's Report, which was published in October 1962, made certain proposals for routing traffic in the area which were accepted, in April 1964, by the Maritime Safety Committee of the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization.


1966 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-450 ◽  

In 1961 the Institutes of Navigation in Great Britain and France, with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ortung und Navigation, formed a representative Working Group to go into the question of regulating traffic in converging areas at sea with particular reference to the Dover Strait. The Group's Report, which was published in October 1962, made certain proposals for routing traffic in the area which were accepted, in April 1964, by the Maritime Safety Committee of the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization.


1979 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Bakr

Numerous collisions over the years have emphasized the need for rapid and efficient ship-to-ship voice communication systems. Such systems, set up to satisfy the demand for more and better channels through which messages can be sent, should guarantee that both sender and receiver come to share the same thoughts and feelings. ‘It can be said that two expressions have the same meaning if their utterance results in the same change of behaviour.’ Recognizing that voice communication systems cannot be effective until all parties speak and understand the same ‘language’, the Maritime Safety Committee of IMCO has developed the Standard Marine Navigational Vocabulary, a significant landmark in the attempt to achieve the maximum safety to navigation and the most appropriate conduct of ships at sea. This paper will concentrate on the objectives of the Vocabulary and will try to ascertain if such objectives have been achieved. The analysis will emphasize the viewpoint of ‘non-English speaking people’ using English ‘for the interchange of intelligence between individuals of all maritime nations’, and will take linguistic considerations into account.


1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 120-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Slaymaker ◽  
C Joseph ◽  
C L R Bartlett

The European Surveillance Scheme for Travel Associated Legionnaires’ Disease was set up by the European Working Group on Legionella Infections (EWGLI) in 1987 to identify cases of legionella infection in returning travellers and to detect outbreaks and cl


2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 9045-9102 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. F. Ivanovic ◽  
L. J. Gregoire ◽  
M. Kageyama ◽  
D. M. Roche ◽  
P. J. Valdes ◽  
...  

Abstract. The last deglaciation, which marked the transition between the last glacial and present interglacial periods, was punctuated by a series of rapid (centennial and decadal) climate changes. Numerical climate models are useful for investigating mechanisms that underpin the events, especially now that some of the complex models can be run for multiple millennia. We have set up a Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) working group to coordinate efforts to run transient simulations of the last deglaciation, and to facilitate the dissemination of expertise between modellers and those engaged with reconstructing the climate of the last 21 thousand years. Here, we present the design of a coordinated Core simulation over the period 21–9 thousand years before present (ka) with time varying orbital forcing, greenhouse gases, ice sheets, and other geographical changes. A choice of two ice sheet reconstructions is given, but no ice sheet or iceberg meltwater should be prescribed in the Core simulation. Additional focussed simulations will also be coordinated on an ad-hoc basis by the working group, for example to investigate the effect of ice sheet and iceberg meltwater, and the uncertainty in other forcings. Some of these focussed simulations will focus on shorter durations around specific events to allow the more computationally expensive models to take part.


Marine Drugs ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 520
Author(s):  
Nathalie Arnich ◽  
Eric Abadie ◽  
Zouher Amzil ◽  
Marie-Yasmine Dechraoui Bottein ◽  
Katia Comte ◽  
...  

Brevetoxins (BTXs) are marine biotoxins responsible for neurotoxic shellfish poisoning (NSP) after ingestion of contaminated shellfish. NSP is characterized by neurological, gastrointestinal and/or cardiovascular symptoms. The main known producer of BTXs is the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis, but other microalgae are also suspected to synthesize BTX-like compounds. BTXs are currently not regulated in France and in Europe. In November 2018, they have been detected for the first time in France in mussels from a lagoon in the Corsica Island (Mediterranean Sea), as part of the network for monitoring the emergence of marine biotoxins in shellfish. To prevent health risks associated with the consumption of shellfish contaminated with BTXs in France, a working group was set up by the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (Anses). One of the aims of this working group was to propose a guidance level for the presence of BTXs in shellfish. Toxicological data were too limited to derive an acute oral reference dose (ARfD). Based on human case reports, we identified two lowest-observed-adverse-effect levels (LOAELs). A guidance level of 180 µg BTX-3 eq./kg shellfish meat is proposed, considering a protective default portion size of 400 g shellfish meat.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Jorge Latorre ◽  
Jesús Sola

<p class="Abstract"><em>Gijón, also known as Xixón, is an important city that rivals Oviedo, the historical capital of the Autonomous Region and Principality of Asturias (Spain), in historical demographic and economic terms. It has traditionally been a port and, more recently, an industrial city, which experienced very rapid population growth and with little planning. After the industrial crisis of the 80s, the city wanted to become a tourist location more than an industrial harbor. Both its privileged location and the historical urban heritage that still remain are corner stones to make this change possible. However, the late and strict legislation (improvised to protect the last remains of a previously uncontrolled development) impeded a necessary urban re-design in order to shelter the new touristic supplies. This paper proposes some urban solutions to selectively modify the catalogue according with the cultural and touristic potentials of the city. These solutions were agreed by the working group set up by Gijón City Council and ERDU (Estudio de Renovación y Desarrollos Urbanos -Urban Renovation and Development Studio).</em></p><em><em><br /></em></em>


1959 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 221-237 ◽  

At the end of a conference held in London in June 1957 to discuss the avoidance of collision at sea and in the air, it was recommended that the three sponsoring bodies (the British and French Institutes of Navigation and the Ausschuss für Funkortung) should set up a representative Working Group to study the desirability of amending the Collision Regulations to take into account the use of radar.The Group, which was formed in January 1958, was composed of the following members, not all of whom were able to attend every meeting: Commander P. C. H. Clissold (School of Navigation, University of Southampton), Captain W. H. Coombs (Honourable Company of Master Mariners, Barrister at Law), Captain R. Dublineau (Compagnie Générale Transatlantique), Captain P. Dupuy (Compagnie des Chargeurs Réunis), Captain H. Giessler (Ausschuss für Funkortung), Captain H. D. Harries (Regierungedirektor beim Bundesminister für Verkehr), Vice-Admiral K. Hoffman (Bundesverkehrsministerium), Professor P. Hugon (Professor Général d'Hydrographic, Rear Admiral, Ret.), Captain E. H. Ketels (Verband Deutscher Radar), Captain Le Bihan (Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes), Captain G. Lohmnitz (Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen), Captain P. Marchand (Ocean Weather Ship Service), Dr. F. W. Marienfeld (Bundesverkehrsministerium), Captain D. G. Tait (Honourable Company of Master Mariners), President Dr. R. Vogler (Bundesoberseeamt, Hamburg), Captain F. J. Wylie, R.N. (Director, Radio Advisory Service), Captain C. J. Wynne-Edwards, R.N. (Director, Compass Department, Admiralty Compass Observatory). The members of the Group served only in a personal capacity.


Author(s):  
Bruno Verdini Trejo

Explains how the United States and Mexico negotiators were able to shift their approaches, taking a series of steps outside the typical inter-agency and diplomatic protocols. Building Trust by Sharing Information demonstrates the innovative data sharing ways the two sides relied on to exchange sensitive information, without giving up confidential components, which in turn empowered the two countries to get their energy, technical and political experts on the same page. Analyzing Precedents to Define a Roadmap illustrates how Mexico prepared for the negotiation process by evaluating international examples of transboundary hydrocarbon reservoir agreements, which allowed them to devise a set of alternatives for consideration. Switching From an Adversarial to a Mutual Gains Approach presents the genesis of the innovative suggestion by the lead U.S. negotiator to set up binational working group sessions, discarding the typical draft-counter-draft strategy that pervades and drags down so many diplomatic negotiations.


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