RESOLUTION MSC.304(87)

(adopted on 14 May 2010)

 

ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO THE CODE OF PRACTICE FOR THE SAFE LOADING AND UNLOADING OF BULK CARRIERS (BLU CODE)

 

 

THE MARITIME SAFETY COMMITTEE,

 

RECALLING Article 28(b) of the Convention on the International Maritime Organization concerning functions of the Committee,

 

RECALLING ALSO resolution A.862(20), by which the Assembly, at its twentieth session, adopted the Code of Practice for the Safe Loading and Unloading of Bulk Carriers (BLU Code), as further amended by resolution MSC.238(82);

 

NOTING that the Assembly requested the Committee to keep the Code under review and amend it as may be necessary,

 

RECOGNIZING the need to amend the Code in view of the envisaged mandatory application of the International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes Code,

 

HAVING CONSIDERED, at its eighty-seventh session, amendments to the BLU Code prepared by the Sub-Committee on Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers, at its fourteenth session,

 

1.         ADOPTS the amendments to the Code of Practice for the Safe Loading and Unloading of Bulk Carriers, the text of which is set out in the Annex to the present resolution;

 

2.         DETERMINES that the above-said amendments should become effective on 1 January 2011.

 

 

ANNEX

 

AMENDMENTS TO THE CODE OF PRACTICE FOR THE SAFE LOADING AND UNLOADING OF BULK CARRIERS (BLU CODE)

 

Section 1
Definitions

 

1          The following new paragraph 1.2 is inserted after the existing paragraph 1.1:

 

"1.2 Bulk Cargo Shipping Name (BCSN) identifies a bulk cargo during transport by sea. When a cargo is listed in the IMSBC Code, the Bulk Cargo Shipping Name of the cargo is identified by capital letters in the individual schedules or in the index. When the cargo is a dangerous good, as defined in the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code, as defined in regulation VII/1.1 of the SOLAS Convention, the Proper Shipping Name of that cargo is the Bulk Cargo Shipping Name.",

 

and existing paragraphs 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 are renumbered as 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5, respectively.

 

2          The following new paragraph 1.6 is inserted after renumbered paragraph 1.5:

 

"1.6 IMSBC Code means the International Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes Code as defined in regulation VI/1.1 of the SOLAS Convention.",