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The IMO issued a News Release reminding governments and the maritime community that various recent amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) and the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue (SAR) enter into force on 1 July. The SOLAS provisions relating to bulk carrier safety have been extensively revised. Among other things, most new bulk carriers must be constructed with double-side skin protection. Both the SOLAS and SAR conventions have been amended to clarify the responsibility of governments to assist the master of a ship that has rescued persons in distress at sea to deliver those persons to a place of safety ashore.

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