Chapter 1 Admiralty Charts and Nautical Publications 1
1 Admiralty Charts 1
2 Admiralty Notices to Mariners 8
3 Admiralty Sailing Direction(Pilots) 21
Chapter 2 Marine Weather Report 49
1 Introduction 49
2 Examples of a Marine Weather Reports 49
Chapter 3 Navigational Aids 71
1 Gyrocompass 71
2 RADAR and ARPA 73
3 Global Positioning System 76
4 Electronic Chart Systems and ECDIS 79
5 IBS—Integrated Bridge System 82
6 Automatic Identification System(AIS) 84
7 Voyage Data Recorder(VDR) 88
Chapter 4 Ship Watchkeeping and Collisions Avoidance at Sea 101
1 Watch-keeping(extracted on the STCW) 101
2 International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea,1972 108
Chapter 5 Safety Management System(SMS) 127
1 SMM 127
2 SMP 130
3 SMO and SMR 131
Chapter 6 Port State Control 142
1 History of PSC 142
2 A short history of Paris MOU 143
3 New inspection Regime(NIR)of PMOU 145
Chapter 7 Marine Accident Reports 159
1 Collision 159
2 Grounding 162
3 Firing 164
4 Pollution at Sea 165
Chapter 8 International Conventions Extractions 177
1 SOLAS Convention 177
2 Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Oil 180
3 International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments 182
4 Regulations for Prevention of Pollution by Sewage from Ships 184
5 Regulations for Prevention of Pollution by Garbage from Ships 186
6 ISPS CODE 188
7 Maritime Labour Convention(MLC),2006 190
Chapter 9 Cargo Work 210
1 Main Type of the Cargoes 210
2 Lashing and Securing Systems 213
3 Cargo Ventilation 214
Chapter 10 Ship Structure,Maintenance and Repairs 227
1 Ship Structure 227
2 Ship's Maintenance and Repairs in Dry Dock 231
Chapter 11 Bill of Lading and Charter Party 252
1 COSCO Standard Form 06 252
2 Charter Party—the"Gencon"Charter(As Revised 1922 and 1976) 266
Chapter 12 Ship's Logbook and Correspondence 279
1 Ship's Record in Logbook 279
2 Ship's Correspondence 285
3 Reports on Ship's Accident 287
VOCABULARY 297
REFERENCES 327