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.