Definition of open-top containership
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Definition of open-top containership

  2 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.


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