FAL+Convention

= = Members of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted in 1965 the Convention of Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic, the so-called FAL Convention. This entered into force on 5 March 1967 and has been amended in 2002 and 2005. As of 31 December 2010, 115 of the current 173 members of the IMO have acceded to the FAL Convention. With this Convention members hope to facilitate maritime transport by simplifying and minimizing the formalities, data requirements and procedures associated with arrival, stay and departure of ships engaged in international voyage. To this end, the Convention contains standards and recommended practices. Its main contribution lies with the acceptance of a set of models for standardized facilitation forms for ships to fulfil certain reporting formalities when they arrive in or depart from a port. These standardized forms include, inter alia, the IMO General Declaration, the Cargo Declaration, and the Crew and Passenger Lists, and Dangerous Goods Declaration. Introductory [|Information on the Convention]can be found on the IMO website. (two sites of information; one under conventions, the other one under [|facilitation]. ) The authoritative full text of the convention does not seem to be accessible? A copy can be found on the website of several transport ministries; example [|Canada Transport Department]. The IMO published in 2011 an [|EXPLANATORY MANUAL TO THE CONVENTION ON FACILITATION OF INTERNATIONAL MARITIME TRAFFIC]

Pages that cite the FAL Convention:
Trade-Government consultation IMO Standardized Documents Security Tools