摘要: |
July 19 marks the "final" deadline for all inland vessels to have certificates of inspection documenting their compliance with Subchapter M. The reason we put "final" in quotation marks is that actual compliance of all vessels with all of the Subchapter M requirements was supposed to be complete by July 19, 2018. However, the burden of issuing all those COIs was spread out and phased in in several stages, for the benefit of both industry and the Coast Guard. All vessels are required to be certificated as of July 19. The discussions and industry-government cooperation are still ongoing as vessels navigate into the next stage of Sub M: hull inspections at shipyards. It was German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck who made the famous if cynical remark that anyone who likes sausages and laws should not look too closely into how either are made. This may be one of those famous sayings that no longer applies. |