2 Paragraphs 3.1.1.1
to .3 of part A of the ISPS Code specify the vessels and mobile
offshore drilling units subject to SOLAS chapter
XI-2 and ISPS Code requirements. Advice
was sought on the position of floating production, storage and offloading
units (FPSOs), floating storage units (FSUs) and single buoy moorings
(SBMs).
3 The Committee agreed that neither of the two
types of floating production, storage and offloading units (FPSOs)
and floating storage units (FSUs), were ships subject to the provisions
of the ISPS Code, but that they should have
some security procedures in place to prevent “contamination”
of ships and port facilities subject to the ISPS
Code.
4 It was concluded that such units, when attached
to a fixed platform, should be covered by the security regime in force
for the platform.
5 Such units, when engaged in periodic short voyages
between the platform and the coastal State, should not be considered
to be ships engaged on international voyages.
6 The Committee also agreed that single buoy moorings
(SBMs), attached to an offshore facility would be covered by that
facility's security regime and if it was connected to a port facility
it would be covered by the port facility security plan (PFSP).
7 In all cases the intention was to provide sufficient
security to maintain the integrity of ships and port facilities covered
by SOLAS and the ISPS Code.