There is an increasing tendency for the outgoing technical managers to remove all records from the ship when a vessel changes ownership, leaving the incoming crew and management with very little information on the condition of the ship and the machinery. Having assimilated the problem, IUMI and the Joint Hull Committee in London jointly wrote to the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) with a suggested change to their rules, such that ship maintenance records would be a condition of classification.
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