1 Categories of Ships Required to Participate in the System
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1 Categories of Ships Required to Participate in the System

  1.1 Ships required to participate in the mandatory ship reporting system WETREP:

Every kind of oil tanker of more than 600 tonnes deadweight, carrying a cargo of:

  • heavy crude oil, meaning crude oils with a density at 15°C of higher than 900 kg/m3;
  • heavy fuel oils, meaning fuel oils with a density at 15°C of higher than 900 kg/m3, or a kinematic viscosity at 50°C of higher than 180 mm2/s;
  • bitumen and tar and their emulsions.

  1.2 Pursuant to SOLAS, the mandatory ship reporting system WETREP does not apply to any warship, naval auxiliary or other vessel owned or operated by a contracting government and used, for the time being, only on government non-commercial service.

Parent topic: Annex 1 - Description of the Mandatory Ship Reporting System for the Western European Particularly Sensitive Sea Area
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