The Maritime Safety Committee,
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Resolutions - Maritime Safety Committee - Resolution MSC.362(92) – Revised Recommendation on a Standard Method for Evaluating Cross-Flooding Arrangements – (Adopted on 14 June 2013) - The Maritime Safety Committee,

The Maritime Safety Committee,

 RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning the functions of the Committee,

 RECALLING ALSO resolution A.266(VIII), by which the Assembly, at its eighth session, adopted the Recommendation on a standard method for establishing compliance with the requirements for cross-flooding arrangements in passenger ships,

 RECALLING FURTHER resolution MSC.245(83), by which it, at its eighty-third session, adopted the Recommendation on a standard method for evaluating cross-flooding arrangements,

 NOTING that the above Recommendation on a standard method for evaluating cross-flooding arrangements needed to be revised and improved, based on recent research results regarding cross-flooding,

 RECOGNIZING the need to establish a methodology for evaluating cross-flooding arrangements on ships subject to the applicable subdivision and damage stability requirements of SOLAS chapter II-1 to ensure uniform treatment of cross-flooding and equalization arrangements,

 HAVING CONSIDERED, at its ninety-second session, the Revised Recommendation on a standard method for evaluating cross-flooding arrangements, prepared by the Sub-Committee on Stability and Load Lines and on Fishing Vessels Safety, at its fifty-fifth session,

  1 ADOPTS the Revised Recommendation on a standard method for evaluating cross-flooding arrangements, the text of which is set out in the annex to the present resolution;

  2 INVITES Governments to apply the annexed Revised Recommendation to ships constructed on or after 14 June 2013 and to bring it to the attention of all parties concerned;

  3 NOTES that calculations to evaluate cross-flooding arrangements performed before 14 June 2013 remain valid.


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