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The Conference,

 HAVING ADOPTED amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974, as amended, concerning the safety of bulk carriers,

 CONSIDERING that new SOLAS regulation XII/6 requires that the transverse vertically corrugated watertight bulkhead between the two foremost cargo holds and the double bottom structure in way of the foremost cargo hold of bulk carriers of 150 m in length and upwards of single side skin construction, carrying solid bulk cargoes having a density of 1780 kg/m3 and above, should have sufficient strength, in compliance with the bulk carrier bulkhead and double bottom standards developed by the Organization, to withstand flooding of the foremost cargo hold, taking also into account dynamic effects,

 BEING OF THE OPINION that the implementation by Governments of the said regulation in accordance with the implementation schedule prescribed in new SOLAS regulation XII/3 will greatly contribute to enhancing the safety of existing bulk carriers and safeguarding the lives of those on board,

 HAVING CONSIDERED the recommendation made by the Maritime Safety Committee of the International Maritime Organization at its sixty-eighth session,

 ADOPTS:

  • .1 the Standards for the evaluation of scantlings of the transverse watertight vertically corrugated bulkhead between the two foremost cargo holds, set out in annex 1 to the present resolution; and

  • .2 the Standards for the evaluation of allowable hold loading of the foremost cargo hold, set out in annex 2 to the present resolution,

for the purpose of application of SOLAS regulation XII/6.

Parent topic: Resolution 4 - Standards for the evaluation of scantlings and for the evaluation of allowable hold loading of the foremost cargo hold – (Adopted on 27 November 1997)
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