RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International
Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in
relation to regulations and guidelines concerning maritime safety,
RECALLING ALSO resolution A.380(X) by which it adopted the
Standard Marine Navigational Vocabulary,
RECALLING FURTHER the provisions of regulation V/14.4 of
the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974,
requiring that on all ships to which chapter I thereof applies, English
shall be used on the bridge as the working language for bridge-to-bridge
and bridge-to-shore safety communications as well as for communications
on board between the pilot and bridge watchkeeping personnel unless
those directly involved in the communications speak a common language
other than English,
RECOGNIZING that the standardization of language and terminology
used in such communications would assist the safe operation of ships
and contribute to greater safety of navigation,
RECOGNIZING ALSO the wide use of the English language for
international navigational communications and the need to assist maritime
training institutions to meet the objectives of safe operations of
ships and enhanced navigational safety through, inter alia,
the standardization of language and terminology used,
HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendations of the Maritime Safety
Committee at its sixty-eighth and seventy- fourth sessions,
1. ADOPTS the IMO Standard Marine Communication
Phrases set out in Annex 1 to the present resolution;
2. AUTHORIZES the Maritime Safety Committee to
keep the IMO Standard Marine Communication Phrases under review and
to amend them when necessary in accordance with the procedure set
out in Annex 2 to the present resolution;
3. RECOMMENDS Governments to give the IMO Standard
Marine Communication Phrases a wide circulation to all prospective
users and all maritime education authorities, in order to support
compliance with the standards of competence as required by table A-II/1
of the STCW Code;
4. REVOKES resolution A.380(X).