On Oct. 30, 2017 the Government of Canada tabled Bill C-64, to enact the Wrecked, Abandoned or Hazardous Vessels Act.

Wylie Spicer of McInnes Cooper looks at recommendations made in a report on proposed changes to the Canada Petroleum Resources Act.

As of July 1, 2016, packed cargo containers to which the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, Chapter VI, Regulation 2, applies can’t be loaded onto a ship until the master (or her representative) and the terminal representative have either received the shipping document with the verified gross mass or the terminal operator or the carrier has itself calculated the VGM.

Administrative monetary penalties, or AMPs, are a new phenomenon in the Canadian offshore. AMPs were introduced to the Newfoundland & Labrador and Nova Scotia offshore in February 2016 a