The Maritime Safety Committee
Clasification Society 2024 - Version 9.40
Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Circulars - Maritime Safety Committee - MSC/Circular.774 – Revised Measures to Prevent Explosions in Oil Tanker Cargo Pump-Rooms – (Adopted on 12 December 1996) - The Maritime Safety Committee

The Maritime Safety Committee

  1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its sixty-fourth session (5 to 9 December 1994), noted that the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS), having considered the possibility and probable causes of explosion in cargo pump-rooms on oil tankers, had agreed a Unified Requirement (UR F39) introducing new oil tanker safety requirements.

  2 MSC 64, agreeing that there was a need to amend the relevant regulations of chapter II-2 of the SOLAS Convention to properly address measures aiming at preventing explosions in tanker cargo pumprooms, prepared a set of requirements, given in MSC/Circ.672, with a view to adopting relevant amendments to the Convention at the earliest possible opportunity.

  3 The Committee, at its sixty-seventh session (2 to 6 December 1996), considering that the alarm level of 1% of the lower flammable limit provided in MSC/Circ.672 cannot be effectively required because of the possibility of false alarms, approved the revised measures as set out in the annex.

  4 Member Governments are requested to apply the revised measures contained in the annex to new and existing oil tankers, pending the formal adoption and entry into force of any relevant requirements.

Parent topic: MSC/Circular.774 – Revised Measures to Prevent Explosions in Oil Tanker Cargo Pump-Rooms – (Adopted on 12 December 1996)
Copyright 2022 Clasifications Register Group Limited, International Maritime Organization, International Labour Organization or Maritime and Coastguard Agency. All rights reserved. Clasifications Register Group Limited, its affiliates and subsidiaries and their respective officers, employees or agents are, individually and collectively, referred to in this clause as 'Clasifications Register'. Clasifications Register assumes no responsibility and shall not be liable to any person for any loss, damage or expense caused by reliance on the information or advice in this document or howsoever provided, unless that person has signed a contract with the relevant Clasifications Register entity for the provision of this information or advice and in that case any responsibility or liability is exclusively on the terms and conditions set out in that contract.