For the purpose of this chapter, unless expressly provided
otherwise:
1
International
Safety Management (ISM) Code
means the International
Management Code for the Safe Operation of Ships and for Pollution
Prevention adopted by the Organization by resolution
A.741(18), as may be amended by the Organization, provided
that such amendments are adopted, brought into force and take effect
in accordance with the provisions of article
VIII of the present Convention concerning the amendment procedures
applicable to the annex other than chapter
I.
2
Company means the owner of the
ship or any other organization or person such as the manager, or the
bareboat charterer, who has assumed the responsibility for operation
of the ship from the owner of the ship and who on assuming such responsibility
has agreed to take over all the duties and responsibilities imposed
by the International Safety Management Code.
6
Bulk carrier means a ship which
is constructed generally with single deck, top-side tanks and hopper
side tanks in cargo spaces, and is intended primarily to carry dry
cargo in bulk, and includes such types as ore carriers and combination
carriers.footnote
7
Mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) means
a vessel capable of engaging in drilling operations for the exploration
for or exploitation of resources beneath the sea-bed such as liquid
or gaseous hydrocarbons, sulphur or salt.