Shipping Coordinating Committee Schedules June 6 Meeting
The State Department's Shipping Coordinating Committee will meet at 9:30 am June 6 in Room 51222 of the U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters Building, 2100 Second Street, SW, Washington, to prepare for the fifty-eighth Session of the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Sub-Committee on Safety of Navigation in the U.K. July 2 to 6.
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The meeting is to consider:
- Decisions of other IMO bodies
- Routing of ships, ship reporting and related matters
- Amendments to the General Provisions on Ships' Routing (resolution A.572(14), as amended)
- International Telecommunication Union (ITU) matters, including Radiocommunication ITU-R Study Group matters
- Development of an e-navigation strategy implementation plan
- Development of policy and new symbols for Automatic Identification System (AIS) aids to navigation
- Casualty analysis
- Consideration of International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) unified interpretations
- Development of performance standards for inclinometers
- Biennial agenda and provisional agenda for NAV 59
- Election of Chairman and Vice-Chairman for 2013
Further information: George H. Detweiler, Jr., at George.H.Detweiler@uscg.mil or 202-372-1566