D16A - The IMO-Vega Database (V16.0), 2011

D16A - The IMO-Vega Database (V16.0), 2011

The IMO-Vega Database is an essential tool for anyone involved in shipping: ship-owners and operators, shipbuilders, classification societies, casualty investigators, governments, insurers and underwriters, port authorities, surveyors and many others.

IMO-Vega, developed jointly by IMO and Det Norske Veritas (DNV), puts all the necessary information at your fingertips. Given year of build, ship type, ship size, cargo and trade area, IMO-Vega will quickly identify the requirements applicable to the ship in question.

Unlike other, similar products, IMO-Vega contains historical data including regulations which have been superseded. In the content of Port State Control, for example, access to the correct historical regulations is essential.

Version 16 of IMO-Vega includes up-to-date texts, with all amendments adopted up to September 2011 of the following IMO requirements:

-1974 SOLAS Convention, including 1978 and 1988 Protocols and all amendments
-1966 Load Lines Convention, including the 1988 and 2003 Protocols
-MARPOL 73/78, including all amendments
-1978 and 1995 STCW Convention and Code, with amendments
-1972 Collision Regulations
-1969 Tonnage Convention
-2004 Ballast Water Management Convention
-International Bulk Chemical (IBC) Code, with amendments
-International Gas Carrier Code (IGC) Code, with amendments
-International Safety Management (ISM) Code
-International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code
-International Code of Safety for High-Speed Craft (HSC) 1994 and 2000
-International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes Code (IMSBC Code)
-International Code on Intact Stability, 2008
-International Grain Code
-Code of Safe Practice for Cargo Stowage and Securing, as amended
-Code of Safe Practice for Ships Carrying Timber Deck Cargoes, as amended
-2009, 1989 and 1979 Code for the Construction and Equipment of Mobile Offshore Drilling (MODU Code), as amended
- International Code for Fire Safety Systems (FSS Code)
- International Code for Application of Fire Test Procedures (FTP Code)
-International Code of Signals
-International Life-Saving Appliance (LSA) Code
-International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Co-operation (OPRC), 1990
-OPRC-HNS Protocol 2000
-Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, 2009.

View the new documents added to version 16 at www.imo.org/Publications/Documents/Attachments/new_V16.pdf

Whereas only the most known requirements are listed above (several other conventions and codes are included), the database also contains best safety-related documents (e.g. performance standards, guidelines etc.) issued by IMO as circulars, resolutions, etc.

IMO-Vega is available as a web-based solution that can be accessed directly through your web browser provided you have a user ID and password. It will be regularly updated.

View The IMO-Vega Database (V16.0) demo at