Regulation 21 - Cargo Ports and other similar Openings
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Regulation 21 - Cargo Ports and other similar Openings

  (1) Cargo ports and other similar openings in the sides of ships below the freeboard deck shall be fitted with doors so designed as to ensure watertightness and structural integrity commensurate with the surrounding shell plating. The number of such openings shall be the minimum compatible with the design and proper working of the ship.

  (2) Unless permitted by the Administration, the lower edge of such openings shall not be below a line drawn parallel to the freeboard deck at side, which has at its lowest point the upper edge of the uppermost load line.

Parent topic: Chapter II - Conditions of Assignment of Freeboard
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