New IMO radio regulations

New IMO radio regulations
Jake Frith 13 August 2018 http://www.maritimejournal.com/news101/onboard-systems/navigation-and-co...

Regulations set down by IMO came into action at the beginning of this July this year. These regulations involved fire fighters’ radios used aboard vessels.

As suppliers of these radios UK-based AMI Marine has recently informed its customers of this regulation and also to assure them that its products comply.

SOLAS regulation II-2/10.10.4 requires that: "For ships constructed on or after 1 July 2014, a minimum of two two-way portable radiotelephone apparatus for each fire party for fire-fighter's communication shall be carried on board. Those two-way portable radiotelephone apparatus shall be of an explosion-proof type or intrinsically safe. Ships constructed before 1 July, 2014 shall comply with the requirements of this paragraph not later than the first safety equipment survey after 1 July, 2018."