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An open-top containership, for
the purpose of application of the 1969 Tonnage Measurement
Convention, means a ship which is designed for the carriage
of containers and which is constructed like an open “U”,
with not less than 66.7% of the total cargo hatchway clear opening
area in an “open-top” configuration, with a double bottom
and above this, high-sided erections without hatch covers on the upper
deck and without a complete deck above the moulded draught (refer
to the figure), and needs to be regarded as a ship of a novel type
as referred to in regulation 1(3) of the
Convention.