The fifth session of the IMO Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction (SDC 5) met last week between the 22nd and 26th January 2018. Please find below to this email the INTERCARGO Outcome Brief (the meeting pre-Brief is available here)...
The fifth session of the IMO Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction (SDC 5) will meet at the IMO headquarters between the 22nd and 26th January 2018, and will be attended by the INTERCARGO Secretariat. Among the agenda items, the following...
During MSC 98 it was agreed that the 6 Non-Conformities (NCs), which were raised during the Initial Audits of the Harmonised Common Structural Rules, can be considered rectified and thus re-confirms that the Common Structural Rules are in compliance...
On the 3rd May 3017, IACS released a draft Rule Change Proposal 1 (RCP 1) to the Common Structural Rules (CSR for BC & OT), 01 January 2017 version. INTERCARGO has reviewed the draft Rule Change Proposal and provided IACS with comments. You...
Outcome of SDC 4 (4th session of the IMO Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction), 13-17 Feb 2017
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INTERCARGO performed a review of the second Rule Change Proposal (RCP 2) and accompanying Technical Background and informed IACS, by letter, of the comments and concerns. A copy of the letter can be found below (member login required). You need to...
INTERCARGO performed a review of IACS Draft Rule Change Proposal RCP 1 and provided the IACS Secretariat with a number of comments. The letter, containing INTERCARGO’s comments and concerns can be found below. A summary of the comments are as...
Liquefaction is a phenomenon in which a soil-like material is abruptly transformed from a solid dry state to an almost fluid state. Many common bulk cargoes, such as iron ore fines, nickel ore and various mineral concentrates, are examples of...
(25 Jan 2016)
Outcome of 3rd session of IMO Sub-committee on Ship Design and Construction (SDC 3)
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At the last IACS Council meeting on 10 Dec 2015, INTERCARGO introduced a critique on how the IACS’ Harmonised Common Structure Rules (CSR-H) is being applied to bulk carriers through the IACS Knowledge Centre (KC) output; the enclosed “Appraisal of...
CSR Harmonisation The Common Structural Rules were originally developed separately for Tanker and Bulk Carriers. IACS is now undertaking a major project to harmonise the rules, including key elements such as wave loads, finite element analysis and...