I Message priority
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I Message priority

  1 The Committee, being aware of the message priority requirements applicable to satellite communications, and given the diversity of ship security alert systems, agreed that there was no need to develop a message priority requirement for ship security alerts.

  2 Ship security alert system communication service providers should deliver the ship security alert messages without delay so as to permit the relevant competent authorities to take appropriate action.

  3 Ship security alerts may be addressed to more than one recipient, as designated by the Administration, in order to enhance the resilience of the ship security alert system.

  4 The Committee urged once more those SOLAS Contracting Governments that had yet to establish criteria for the delivery of ship security alerts, to do so as a matter of priority.

  5 SOLAS regulation XI-2/13.1.3 requires SOLAS Contracting Governments to communicate to the Organization and to make available to Companies and ships the names and contact details of those who have been designated to be available at all times (twenty-four hours a day seven days a week) to receive and act upon ship security alerts.

  6 Administrations should ensure that their designated recipients of ship security alerts are capable of processing the information received with the highest priority and taking appropriate actions.

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