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The Maritime Safety Committee,

  1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its seventy-seventh session (28 May to 6 June 2003), recognizing the need to standardize the conditions for the fitting of partially weathertight hatchway covers on containerships and to develop recommendations on installation of such covers on containerships, and having considered proposals by the forty-fifth session of the Sub-Committee on Stability and Load Lines and on Fishing Vessels Safety (SLF), the seventh session of the Sub-Committee on Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers (DSC) and the forty-seventh session of the Sub-Committee on Fire Protection (FP), approved the Guidelines for partially weathertight hatchway covers on board containerships, as set out in the annex.

  2 Member Governments are invited to bring the annexed Guidelines to all the parties concerned for their application, as appropriate, urging them, in particular, to apply the measures for construction and equipment contained in sections 1 and 2 of the Guidelines to ships constructed on or after 1 January 2004 and to implement the operational measures contained in section 3 of the Guidelines as soon as possible for all ships.

Parent topic: MSC/Circular.1087 – Guidelines for Partially Weathertight Hatchway Covers on board Containerships – (Adopted on 18 June 2003)
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