Specific cases
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Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Circulars - Maritime Safety Committee - MSC.1/Circular.1295 – Guidance in Relation to Certain Types of Ships which are Required to Transmit LRIT Information on Exemptions and Equivalents and on Certain Operational Matters – (8 December 2008) - Annex – Guidance in Relation to Certain Types of Ships which are Required to Transmit LRIT Information on Exemptions and Equivalents and on Certain Operational Matters - Exemptions and Equivalents - Specific cases

Specific cases

  6.2.1 Ships which are not normally engaged on international voyages but which, in exceptional circumstances, are required to undertake a single international voyage may be exempted from the requirement to transmit LRIT information, pursuant to the provisions of regulation I/4(a), exemptions from the requirements of regulations IV/7 to IV/11 for a single voyage.

  6.2.2 Ships fitted with automatic identification system (AIS) and operating exclusively within sea area A1, may, for the purpose of employment in another sea area A1, undertake a single voyage outside sea area A1 during the course of which may be exempted from the requirement to transmit LRIT information.

  6.2.3 Ships which may be granted, pursuant to the provisions of regulations IV/3.1 and IV/3.2.2, exemptions from the requirements of regulations IV/7 to IV/11 for a single voyage and not fitted with radiocommunication or other shipborne equipment which may be used to transmit LRIT information, may be exempted from the requirement to transmit LRIT information during the course of such single voyages.


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