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The Maritime Safety Committee

 RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,

 NOTING that the 1997 SOLAS Conference adopted chapter XII of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974 concerning additional safety measures for bulk carriers,

 NOTING FURTHER that SOLAS chapter XII will enter into force on 1 July 1999,

 DESIRING to ensure that all Contracting Governments to the 1974 SOLAS Convention implement SOLAS chapter XII in a consistent and uniform manner,

 RECOGNIZING, therefore, the need to establish, for that purpose, guidance on applications of, and the interpretation to, the relevant provisions of that chapter, further to that already adopted by resolution MSC.79(70)),

 RESPONDING to the request of the 1997 SOLAS Conference, as recorded in Conference resolution 8 thereof, regarding the term "bulk carrier of single side skin construction",

 REALIZING that SOLAS regulation XII/8.3, if applied literally, would require every bulk carrier of 150 m in length and upwards of single side skin construction, carrying solid bulk cargoes having a density of 1,780 kg/m3 and above constructed before 1 July 1999, to be permanently marked on the side shell with a solid triangle, and recognizing that this is clearly not the intention of the regulation,

  1. URGES Governments concerned to:

  • .1 interpret the term "bulk carrier of single side skin construction" defined in regulation XII/1.2 as indicated in Annex 1 to the present resolution; and

  • .2 interpret the requirement for certain bulk carriers to be permanently marked on the side shell with a triangle, provided in SOLAS regulation XII/8.3, as indicated in Annex 2 to the present resolution; and

  2. INVITES Governments concerned to bring the contents of this resolution to the attention of all parties concerned.

Parent topic: Resolution MSC.89(71) - Interpretation of the Provisions of SOLAS Chapter XII on Additional Safety Measures for Bulk Carriers - (adopted on 28 May 1999)
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