Maritime safety control instruments in the era of the globalisation

Resumen

For more than 30 years the International Maritime Organization (IMO) hascarried out valuable work and invested a great deal of effort in implementingrules and regulations covering maritimemaritime transportation to ensure com-pliance with vitalin order to reach an standards of shipping safety and marineenvironmental protection. The SOLAS and MARPOL Conventions have beenadopted in respect of ninety per cent of the international fleet. From the currentsituation, however, it is clear that sub-standard vessels are proliferating, and rep-resentwhat constitute a serious hazarddanger to the safety of marinemaritimenavigation. The largesheer number of different nationalities , involved in mar-itimethe maritime transportation has motivated a cause forCoastal/Port Statesto try and developget into the way of protecting policies. The Paris Memoran-dum of Paris 1982 and other agreements are examples under consideration bythefor been considering the implementation of Port State Control (PSC). Theaim of this paper, within the analysis already described, is to study the influencesof these policies regarding open Register (FOC)