FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin The Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (Paris MoU) concluded its 59th Committee meeting in Glasgow on 22 May 2026, with discussions focused on strengthening maritime safety, environmental protection and seafarer welfare amid a rapidly evolving regulatory and operational landscape. The meeting, which took place from 18–22 May, was opened by Virginia McVea, Chief Executive of the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency, and chaired by Brian Hogan. Among the key developments was progress towards implementing previously agreed amendments to the Paris MoU in alignment with the revised EU Port State Control Directive, which enters into force on 6 July 2027. RelatedNews U.S. forces disable tanker bound for Iran as crew gets rescued BIMCO launches charter to support digital seafarer certificates var jnews_module_21374407_0_6a27d70049a74 = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21374407","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"77,2892,1582","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pag