The Barbados Government has ratified and Barbados Maritime adheres to all major international conventions to date, including but not limited to the following:
The International Maritime Organisation Convention and Amendments of 1991 and 1993
The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 1974
1978 and 1988 Protocol to the 1974 Convention on Safety of Life at Sea
The International Convention on Load Lines, 1966 and its Protocol of 1988
The Constitution and Convention of the International Telecommunications Union (NICE) 1989, and the Radio Regulations, 1990
The Convention on the Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic, 1965
The International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships, 1969
The International Health Regulations (Geneva) 1969
The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972
The International Convention for Safe Containers, 1972
The 1976 Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims Convention
The 1978 Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping Convention, as amended 1974
Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their luggage by sea and its 1976 Protocol.
1976 ILO Convention No.147 â re minimum standards for seafarers
1988 Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the safety of Maritime Navigation and its 1988 Protocol
Protocol of 1978 relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from ships, 1973, as amended, Annexes 1, II, III and V
International Convention relating to intervention on High Seas in cases of Oil Pollution Casualties, 1969
Protocol of 1973 relating to Intervention on the High Seas in cases of Pollution by Substances other than Oil
Protocol of 1976 and 1992 to the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage
Protocol of 1976 and 1992 to amend the International Convention on the establishment of an International
Fund for Oil Pollution Damage. MARPOL I,II,III,IV,V & VI
International Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, 1972
International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue 1979
International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling systems on ships, 2001
International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Bunker Convention, 2001
International Convention for the Control and Management of Shipsâ Ballast Water and Sediment Water, 2004
Maritime Labour Convention 2006
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