The Port Reception Facilities Decree has been extended by Article 2 sub c, which creates a basis for designating ports for sediments of ballast water. Regulation B-5 of the Annex to the Ballast Water Convention requires ships to deliver ballast water sediments. In this context...

Directive 2000/59/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 November 2000 on port reception facilities for ship-generated waste and cargo residues has recently been replaced by Directive (EU) 2019/883 of 7 April 2019 on port reception facilities for the delivery of waste...

By amending Article 1 of this Decree, the Ballast Water Treaty is one of the treaties whose compliance is checked when a port State inspection is carried out. This change applies on 9 September 2017.

With the "Collective Act IenM 2018", Article 11d of the Port State Control Act has been tightened, in order to implement the sanctions policy for violations of the STCW Convention, the SOLAS Convention and the Maritime Labor Convention. This amendment of the law applies from...

An update of the Bareboat Register has been published on het website of the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate. This register provides an overview of seagoing vessels with a foreign registration that sail under the Dutch flag.The documents can be found here.

From 21 December 2019, seagoing vessels must also report electronically in smaller ports in the Netherlands. The municipalities of these smaller ports will use the reporting systems of nearby larger ports for this.When visiting a port, seagoing vessels must report to the competent authority of...

Many cruise ship passengers and cargo vessel crew have found themselves stranded since the outbrak of the coronavirus pandemic. European Commission has issued guidelines to provide recommendations on health, repatriation and travel arrangements. They also call on Member States to create a network of ports...