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 The following categories of ships passing through or proceeding to and from ports and anchorages in the Barents SRS area are required to participate in the ship reporting system:

  • .1 all ships with a gross tonnage of 5,000 and above;

  • .2 all tankers;

  • .3 all ships carrying hazardous cargoes (paragraph 1.2 refers);

  • .4 a vessel towing when the length of the tow exceeds 200 metres; and

  • .5 any ship not under command, restricted in their ability to manoeuvre or having defective navigational aids.

  1.2 The meaning of hazardous cargoes is as follows:

  • .1 goods classified in the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG Code);

  • .2 substances classified in chapter 17 of the International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (IBC Code) and chapter 19 of the International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk (IGC Code);

  • .3 oils as defined in MARPOL Annex I;

  • .4 noxious liquid substances as defined in MARPOL Annex II;

  • .5 harmful substances as defined in MARPOL Annex III; and

  • .6 radioactive materials specified in the Code for the Safe Carriage of Irradiated Nuclear Fuel, Plutonium and High-Level Radioactive Wastes in Flasks on Board Ships (INF Code).

  1.3 Ships not listed above may participate in the ship reporting system (SRS) on a voluntary basis.

Parent topic: Annex – Mandatory Ship Reporting System “In the Barents Area” (Barents SRS)
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