Reduced gross tonnage of open-top containerships
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Reduced gross tonnage of open-top containerships

  4 To reduce the disadvantages caused by the use of a greater gross tonnage in comparison with a gross tonnage of conventional containerships for assessing fees, a reduced gross tonnage for open-top containerships, without limitation in size, based on a simplified formula is recommended as follows:

where:
GTR = the reduced gross tonnage
GT = the gross tonnage calculated in accordance with the 1969 Tonnage Measurement Convention

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