Our External links

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MARITIME ORGANIZATION
International Maritime Organization (IMO)	International Labour Organization (ILO)
World Health Organization (WHO)	Marine pollution conventions
ILO labour standards for seafarers	Liability conventions
ILO labour standards for seafarers	IMO Conventions (entry-into-force dates)
ILO publication listing maritime standards	International Convention on Arrest of Ships 1999
IMO Conventions	UNCLOS (United Nations Conventions
International treaties (1997 links to non-IMO treaties) Safety conventions
Safety conventions

THE BRITISH LAW
London Maritime Arbitrators' Association (LMAA)	London Shipping Law Centre
Merchant Shipping legislation	Statutory Instruments (1997 to date)
Consultation Paper on Possible Legislation to Combat	Marine Guidance Notes (MGNs)
Commercial & Admiralty UK court cases	Merchant Shipping Notices (MSNs)

BRITISH GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS
British Shipping - Charting a New Course (Government policy paper)	Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee
MCA prosecutions	Consultation papers on shipping
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)	Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)	Radiocommunications Agency (RA)
MCA contacts list	Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
Marine Accident Investigation Branch	Environment Agency
MCA detention lists

FOREIGN FLAG STATE
Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA)	Cyprus Flag
Australian Registry of Ships	Hong Kong Shipping Register
Bahamas Maritime Authority	Hong Kong Marine Department
Belize Registry	International Registries Inc. (Marshall Islands register)
Isle of Man Shipping	Lloyd's Register of Shipping (LR)
Norwegian International Ship Register (NIS)	Liberian International Shipping & Corporate Registration Office (LISCR)
Cambodian Registry	US Coast Guard

CLASSIFICATION SOCIETIES
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)	Hellenic Register of Shipping
Bureau Veritas (BV)	International Association of Classification Societies (IACS)
China Classification Society (CCS)	Korean Register of Shipping (KRS)
Cyprus Bureau of Shipping (CBS)	Lloyd's Register of Shipping (LR)
Det Norske Veritas (DNV)	Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (NKK)
irclass.org	Polish Register of Shipping (PRS)
Registro Italiano Navale (RINa)	Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS)
Germanischer Lloyd (GL)	Turk Loydu

SHIPS' EQUIPMENT
Aspli Safety (LSA)	Comet (pyrotechnics)
BESCO (lifeboats)	Crewsaver (lifejackets)
BMEC register of systems, services and equipment	Datrex (LSA)
British Marine Equipment Council (BMEC)	Hammar (hydrostatic releases)
British Marine Industries Federation (BMIF)	I C Brindle & Co. (LSA)
British Maritime Technology	British Maritime Technology
British Standards Institute (BSI)	Jason’s Cradle (rescue stretchers and davits)
L & G Marine Fire and Safety	Jotron (UK) (survivor location aids)
McMurdo (survivor location aids)	Kelvin Hughes (chart services)
UK Hydrographic Office	Solar Solve (anti-glare roller screens)

MASTER AND CREW
STCW Convention   IMO Library Bibliography on STCW

EMERGENCIES, GMDSS & SEARCH & RESCUE
Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS)  Shipping emergencies - Search and Rescue and the GMDSS (Focus on IMO paper)

POLLUTION
Briggs Marine (oil spill response specialists)	Oil Companies International Marine Forum (OCIMF)
British Oil Spill Control Association (BOSCA)	Oil Pollution Act 1990 (OPA 90)
International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds	Oil Pollution Act 1990 (OPA 90) - text of Act
ITOPF summary of oil spill response arrangements and resources	OPA 90 – US Government report on double-hull tanker legislation
Sea Empress Oil Spill (University of Wales School of Biological Sciences)	Oil Spill Response Limited (OSRL)

SALVAGE
Bugsier, Germany	Lloyd's Open Form (downloadable)

SHIPOWNERS' ORGANIZATIONS
BIMCO	International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
Chamber of Shipping (UK)	International Chamber of Shipping (ICS)
Hong Kong Shipowners’ Association	Intertanko (independent tanker owners' association)
Intercargo (dry bulk cargo shipowners' association)	International Shipping Federation (ISF)
Ken Olsen's shipowners' organisations links	Norwegian Shipowners’ Association
UK Maritime Forum	Sea Safety Group
United Kingdom Offshore Operators’ Association (UKOOA)

MARINE INSURANCE
Cargo insurance law (Lex Mercatoria)	International Underwriting Association
Central Union of Marine Underwriters (CEFOR)	International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI)
Healy & Baillie - Legal and Maritime Links - P & I and Insurance Resources	Lloyd's
International Association of Producers of Insurance and Reinsurance (BIPAR)	Lloyd’s Agency and Salvage
Marine Insurance Act 1906 (text)	Lloyd’s brokers (directory)

SEA FAREERS' ORGANISATIONS
Apostleship of the Sea	Marine Society
International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF)	Maritime Volunteer Service
Institute of Marine Engineers	Missions to Seafarers
International Federation of Shipmasters’ Associations	Nautical Institute
Seafarers International Research Center (Cardiff University) American Steamship Owners Mutual P&I Association	NUMAST (officers' union)
Seafarers’ Benefits Advice Line	RMT (ratings’ union)

P&I CLUBS
American Steamship Owners Mutual P&I Association	London Steam-Ship Owners' Mutual Insurance Association
Assuranceforeningen Gard (Gjensidig)	North of England P&I Association
Assuranceforeningen Skuld (Gjensidig)	Standard Steamship Owners' P&I Association
France P&I	Swedish Club
Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association	UK P&I Club

LOSS ADJUSTERS
Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters	Marine Insurance Megasite claims section

PORT STATE CONTROL
AMSA list of flag state organisations responsible for port state control	Tokyo MOU on Port State Control regime (Asia-Pacific)
Paris Memorandum Secretariat	US Coast Guard Port State Control (USA)
Paris MOU on Port State Control regime (Europe & Canada)	US Coast Guard Port State Information Exchange
Viña del Mar Agreement on Port State Control (S. America)	USCG Port State Control Home Page

SURVEYS & INVESTIGATIONS
Cargo Survey Network (UK ports)	Marine Insurance Megasite surveyors section
International Maritime Bureau (IMB)	Salvage Association
SIRE Ship Inspection Report Programme