Leading lifeboat manufacturer and service provider Schat-Harding has completed all tests required by IMO to ensure that its SeaCure lifeboat release and retrieval systems (the new name for hooks ...

Launched in 2011, the IMO regulations state that lifeboat release and retrieval systems must be evaluated and replaced no later than July 1, 2019. This will involve the complex and costly removal ...

The IMO said it has worked to reduce casualties during lifeboat drills. International Transport Workers Federation representative, Bjorn-Erik Kristoffersen said: "This incident once again shows ...

the ITF's representative on the lifeboat working group of the IMO Maritime Safety Committee, said: "This is a sad and awful accident, made doubly so because it happened during a drill whose whole ...