23rd August 2019

Bulletin 313: Annual Testing of Voyage Data Recorders

GUIDELINES ON ANNUAL TESTING OF VOYAGE DATA RECORDERS (VDR) AND SIMPLIFIED VOYAGE DATA RECORDERS (S-VDR)

Application: all ship-owners, operators, masters and officers of merchant ships and authorised classification societies.

The IMO has issued MSC.1/Circ.1222/Rev.1 – please be guided by the attached.

313: Annual Testing of VDRs & SVDRs