The International Maritime Organization (IMO) is a United Nations body responsible for regulating maritime transport. The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) is an international maritime agreement that sets minimum safety standards for the construction, outfitting, and operation of commercial vessels. This agreement was published by the International Maritime Organization. SOLAS was first drafted in response to the Titanic disaster in 1914. It entered into force in 1980 and has been regularly updated to cover all issues related to safety at sea, including marine pollution and commerce.
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The main purpose of the SOLAS convention is to set minimum standards for the construction, equipment and operation of ships, compatible with their safety. The SOLAS agreement applies only to international voyages and excludes warships, cargo ships less than 500 GT, non-shipped ships, wooden ships, non-commercial pleasure yachts and fishing vessels.
In this contract, which is organized in 14 chapters, Chapter II-2 is titled “Fire protection, fire detection and fire extinguishing” and covers fire safety provisions for all ships and special precautions for passenger ships, cargo ships and tankers.
This application is valid for ships built after 1 July 2002. Previously built ships are subject to the previous application. The new application provides fire safety objectives and functional requirements, fire safety objectives and functional requirements.
This part of the contract is organized under the following headings:
The most important concerns of the maritime industry are the safety of personnel and the prevention of marine pollution for trouble-free freight transport and maritime operations on the high seas. IMO (SOLAS) standards are largely aimed at providing this.
Our organization also provides fire resistance testing services according to IMO (SOLAS) standards, with its trained and expert staff and advanced technological equipment, among the numerous test, measurement, analysis and evaluation studies it provides for businesses in various sectors.
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