Consilium, VDR!

Idag avslutar IMO-organet MSC (Matitime Safety Committee) sitt möte i London (12-21 maj). Det ska bli mycket intressant att ta del av vilka nya VDR-regler som har klubbats. Mycket troligt är att man har beslutat om nya retrofit-regler som gäller ca 20 000 lastfartyg, och en total marknad om ca 5 miljarder kronor under ca tre år. Consilium räknar med att "ta" ca 20 procent av denna marknad, d v s ca 1 miljard i meromsättning under tre år (= ca 370 MSEK i merintäkter per år enbart på grund av dessa nya regler) - högintressant!

Följande hämtat från IMOs hemsida www.imo.org

"Feasibility study gives green light to simplified VDRs
A study carried out by an IMO correspondence group has concluded that
retrofitting existing cargo ships with Voyage Data Recorders (VDR) is
feasible and desirable and that a simplified VDR (S-VDR) could be
specified for existing cargo ships. The Organization's Sub-Committee on Safety
of Navigation (NAV) will now refer this as a recommendation to the
Maritime Safety Committee (MSC).
Draft amendments to regulation V/20 on a phased-in carriage requirement
for a shipborne simplified Voyage Data Recorder (S-VDR) have now been
agreed by the Sub-Committee for approval by the MSC and subsequent
adoption. The proposed draft regulation would require a VDR, which may be a
simplified voyage data recorder (S-VDR), to be fitted to cargo ships
above 3,000 gross tonnage. The proposed draft regulation would phase in
the requirement for cargo ships over 20,000 gross tonnage first,
possibly by 2007, to be followed by cargo ships above 3,000 gross tonnage,
possibly by 2008.
Draft performance standards for simplified voyage data recorders
(S-VDRs) have also been agreed (subject to comments by the Sub-Committee on
Radiocommunications, Search and Rescue) and these will be put before the
MSC for adoption in May 2004."

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