Cargoes

The Code of Safe Practice for Ships carrying Timber Deck Cargoes, 2011 (2011 TDC Code) was adopted by resolution A.1048(27) at the twenty-seventh session of IMO’s Assembly in November 2011. This Code revises and updates the previous Code adopted in 1991 by resolution A.715(17). The 2011 TDC Code is non-mandatory and applies to all ships of 24 m or more in length carrying a timber deck cargo. The Code aims to ensure that stowage and cargo securing arrangements for timber deck cargoes enable a safe yet rational securing of the cargo so that it is satisfactorily prevented from shifting. 2011 TDC Code also includes alternative design principles, taking into account the acceleration forces cargo may be subjected to throughout the voyage.

El Código de prácticas de seguridad para buques que transporten cubertadas de madera, 2011 (Código TDC 2011) fue adoptado por la Asamblea de la OMI, en su vigésimo séptimo periodo de sesiones, en noviembre de 2011, mediante la resolución A.1048(27). Esta edición es una versión revisada y actualizada del anterior Código TDC adoptado mediante la resolución A.715(17).

El Código TDC 2011 no es obligatorio y se aplica a todos los buques de eslora igual o superior a 24 m dedicados al transporte de cubertadas de madera. El objetivo del Código es garantizar que los medios de estiba y sujeción de las cubertadas de madera permiten una sujeción segura y al mismo tiempo lógica de la carga, a fi n de evitar que ésta se desplace. El Código TDC 2011 también incluye principios de proyecto alternativos, teniendo en cuenta las aceleraciones que puede experimentar la carga durante la toda la travesía.

The course is essentially a practical one, and consists of a series of exercises structured around the operation of the cargo and ballast installation of a chemical tanker and carried out in conjunction with a simulator.

The purpose of the Code of Safe Practice for the Carriage of Cargoes and Persons by Offshore supply vessels (OSV Code), which was adopted by resolution A.863(20), is to provide, for both the operator and contractor, an international standard to avoid or to reduce to a minimum the hazards which affect Offshore supply vessels in their daily operation of carrying cargoes and persons from and between offshore installations. This standard should be considered when implementing a safety-management system within the meaning of paragraph 1.4 of the International Safety Management (ISM) Code.

The Maritime safety Committee, at its fifty-ninth session (May 1991), adopted a new International Code for the Safe Carriage of Grain in Bulk (International Grain Code). This replaced the original chapter VI of SOLAS, which contained detailed regulations on the carriage of grain in bulk, with more general requirements and placed the detailed provisions on grain in a separate mandatory code.