The one hundredth session of the Maritime Safety Committee (MSC 100) was held at the IMO in London, U.K. from 3 to 7 December 2018. Since the minutes, resolutions and circulars of the meeting were recently released from the IMO, a summary of the decisions taken at MSC 100 is provided as below for your information.

1. Adopted mandatory requirements
Mandatory requirement adopted at MSC 100 is as follows:

Amendments to SPS Code (See attachment 1)
Amendments to SPS Code (Code of Safety for Special Purpose Ships) were adopted in order to comprehensively consolidate the related resolutions and amendments (MSC/Circ.739, MSC.183(79), MSC.439(99)) into one resolution.

Applied: on or after 1 January 2020

2. Approved mandatory requirement
The following mandatory requirements were approved at this session, and are expected to be considered for adoption at MSC 101 in June 2019.

(1) Amendments to IBC Code (See attachment 3)
Amendments to IBC Code Chapter 17 (minimum requirements), 18 (list of chemicals to which this Code does not apply), 19 (Index of Products Carried in Bulk), 21 (Criteria for assigning carriage requirements for products subject to the IBC Code), etc. were approved following a comprehensive review of carriage requirements for products subject to the IBC Code. The draft amendments are expected to be adopted at MSC 101 and MEPC 74.

(2) Amendments to IGF Code (See attachment 4)
Amendments to regulations of IGF Code, on alternative fuel tank locations (5.3.4 of IGF Code), loading limit for liquefied gas fuel tanks (6.8.2bis of the Code), fuel piping (9.5.3-9.5.6 of the Code), internal combustion engines of piston type (10.3.1.1bis of the Code) and fire protection (11.3.3, 11.3.3bis of the Code), were approved.

(To be continued)