Language difficulties arise a common language should be used for navigational purposes, and that In 1973, the Maritime Safety Committee agreed, at its twenty-seventh session that where The vessel, the people on board and the environment. Languages, since problems of communication may cause misunderstandings leading to dangers to The increasing number of internationally trading vessels with crews speaking many different This is of particular importance in the light of There is a need to standardize the language used. RECOMMENDS Governments to give the IMO Standard Marine Communication Phrases a wide circulation to all prospective users and all maritime education authorities, in order to support compliance with the standards of competence as required by table A-II/1 of the STCW Code Īs navigational and safety communications from ship to shore and vice versa, from ship to ship,Īnd on board ship must be precise, simple and unambiguous so as to avo id confusion and error, AUTHORIZES the Maritime Safety Committee to keep the IMO Standard Marine Communication Phrases under review and to amend them when necessary in accordance with the procedure set out in Annex 2 to the present resolution ģ. ADOPTS the IMO Standard Marine Communication Phrases set out in Annex 1 to the present resolution Ģ. HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations of the Maritime Safety Committee at its sixty-eighth and seventy- fourth sessions,ġ. RECOGNIZING ALSO the wide use of the English language for international navigational communications and the need to assist maritime training institutions to meet the objectives of safe operations of ships and enhanced navigational safety through, inter alia, the standardization of language and terminology used, RECOGNIZING that the standardization of language and terminology used in such communications would assist the safe operation of ships and contribute to greater safety of navigation, RECALLING FURTHER the provisions of regulation V/14.4 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, requiring that on all ships to which chapter I thereof applies, English shall be used on the bridge as the working language for bridge-to-bridge and bridge-to-shore safety communications as well as for communications on board between the pilot and bridge watchkeeping personnel unless those directly involved in the communications speak a common language other than English, RECALLING ALSO resolution A.380(X) by which it adopted the Standard Marine Navigational Vocabulary, RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in relation to regulations and guidelines concerning maritime safety,
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