As of 5 June 2009, amendments to SOLAS Chapter V (Regulation 19) came into effect, requiring every passenger ship >500 GT and every cargo ship / tanker >3000 GT to be provided with an Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS).
- Applicability:
· all existing tankers >3000 GT by July 2015
· all existing cargo ships >50000 GT by July 2016
· all existing cargo ships >20000 GT by July 2017
· all existing cargo ships >10000 GT by July 2018
(detailed implementation schedule included in IMO Res. MSC.282(86)).
- Approval requirements: the manual is not required to be approved, but vetting auditors / inspectors (e.g. Oil Majors, Rightship, etc.) will check that relevant procedures are in place and an ISM auditor may examine them as a part of an ISM audit.
