2004 2006

~ INTRODUCTION ~
Strategic development : 2006
Finances - Criminalisation
2006 Intercargo Meeting Dates
Conferences – 2006

~ ASSOCIATION POLICY & INDUSTRY NEWS ~
New Members
News about Intercargo Members
Opportunities for sponsorship / publications - bulletin
Intercargo 25th Anniversary Celebration pictorial record and calendar

~ OPERATIONAL ISSUES ~
Flag – what are the options ?
Environmental impact – worrying tendencies

~ COMMERCIAL ~
“Pooling” - EC and Competition Law
US Freight Tax
Californian Clean Coast Act

~ TECHNICAL& IMO News ~
Common Structural Rules – certainty within sight

~ INTRODUCTION ~
New Chairman - Mr Nicholas Pappadakis
Past-Chairman
Presentations at Intercargo meetings
Workload
Finances

~ ASSOCIATION POLICY & INDUSTRY NEWS ~
New Members
Significant forthcoming events
ISM Code
Australia - Demurrage
Bulk Cargo Advisory Group

~ OPERATIONAL ISSUES ~
Accommodation ladders - Australia
Baltic Sea Pilotage
Somalia
Moore Stephens Operating Costs Report
New Zealand – Fumigation
USA – Wood Packaging materials
USA – Electronic Submission of Passenger and Crew Information

~ COMMERCIAL ~
“Pooling” - EC and Competition Law
Legal – letters of indemnity
Burma / Myanmar
UK Tonnage Tax

~ TECHNICAL& IMO News ~
SOLAS amendments – effects on shipowners
Canada – Ballast Water / Bill C-15
Common Structural Rules
BLU Code (Bulk Loading and Unloading)
Disposal of solid cargo residues / Petcoke
Direct Reduced Iron / Feedback requested
Shipping and the Environment – Greenhouse Gases (GHG)
Hazardous Cargoes
Oily Water / Waste Reception Facilities
Bunkers and Air Emissions
Learning from accident reports
Port State Control – Concerted Inspection Campaigns

~ INTRODUCTION ~
Strategic policy - Criminalisation
Communication with members
Intercargo meetings

~ ASSOCIATION POLICY & INDUSTRY NEWS ~
New Members
Members Area of the Website
News about Intercargo members

~ OPERATIONAL ISSUES ~
Facilitation of Documentary Requirements
European Ports policies
Great Lakes - US Pilotage fees
Japanese Insurance
U.S. response plans for nontank vessels

~ COMMERCIAL ~
Closing Hatchcovers - charterers responsibilities
Bulk Carrier Operating Costs

~ TECHNICAL& IMO News ~
IMO meetings
MARPOL Annex VI - Regulations for the prevention of air pollution from ships
US Coast Guard Policy on oily water separators
Quarterly summary of main issues of concern

~ INTRODUCTION ~

~ ASSOCIATION POLICY & INDUSTRY NEWS ~
What's new on the Members Area
Grain - future prospects

~ OPERATIONAL ISSUES ~
Panama Canal SOPEP
Adequacy of Port Waste Reception facilities
Torres Strait
Tokyo MOU Detention Review Panel

~ COMMERCIAL ~
Mississippi Exclusive Towage
Australian Witholding tax

~ TECHNICAL& IMO News ~
Tripartite Meeting
IMO meetings - on the horizon
Protection of Fuel Oil Tanks - IMO action from Design & Equipment (DE48) meeting
US : Non Tank Vessel Response plans
Early abandonment of Bulk Carriers
Lifeboats
Automatic Identification System (AIS) requirements in the USA