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MSC.1/Circ.1475
9 June 2014
2012全国卷英语GUIDELINES REGARDING THE VERIFIED GROSS MASS
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1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its ninety-third ssion (14 to 23 May 2014), having considered the proposal by the Sub-Committee on Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers, at its eighteenth ssion (16 to 20 September 2013), approved the Guidelines regarding the verified gross mass of a container carrying cargo, as t out in the annex.
2 The Guidelines are intended to establish a common approach for the implementation and enforcement of the SOLAS requirements regarding the verification of the gross mass of packed containers.
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3 Member Governments are invited to bring the annexed Guidelines to the attention of all parties concerned.
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Annex, page 1
ANNEX
GUIDELINES REGARDING THE VERIFIED GROSS MASS
OF A CONTAINER CARRYING CARGO
1 Introduction
1.1 To ensure the safety of the ship, the safety of workers both aboard ships and ashore, the safety of cargo and overall safety at a, the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), as amended, requires in chapter VI, part A, regulation 2 that packed containers' gross mass are verified prior to stowage aboard ship. The shipper is responsible for the verification of the gross mass of a container carrying cargo (hereinafter "a packed container"). The shipper is also responsible for ensuring that the verified gross mass is communicated in the shipping documents sufficiently in advance to be ud by the ship's master or his reprentative and the terminal reprentative in the preparation of the ship stowage plan. In the abnce of the shipper providing the verified gross mass of the packed container, the container should not be loaded on to the ship unless the master or his reprentative and the terminal reprentative have obtained the verified gross mass through other means.
1.2 The purpo of the Guidelines is to establish a common approach for the implementation and
三年级家长会发言稿enforcement of the SOLAS requirements regarding the verification of the gross mass of packed containers. The Guidelines provide recommendations on how to interpret and apply the provisions of the SOLAS requirements. They also identify issues that may ari from the application of the requirements and provide guidance for how such issues should be resolved. Adherence to the Guidelines will facilitate compliance with the SOLAS requirements by shippers of containerized shipments, and they will assist other parties in international containerized supply chains, including shipping companies and port terminal facilities and their employees, in understanding their respective roles in accomplishing the enhancement of the safe handling, stowage and transport of containers.
2 Definitions
2.1 For the purpo of the Guidelines:
2.1.1 Administration means the Government of the State who flag the ship is entitled to fly.
2.1.2 Calibrated and certified equipment means a scale, weighbridge, lifting equipment or any other device, capable of determining the actual gross mass of a packed container or of packages and cargo items, pallets, dunnage and other packing and curing material, that meets the accuracy stan
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2.1.3 Cargo items has the same general meaning as the term "cargo" in the International Convention for Safe Containers, 1972, as amended (hereinafter referred to as "the CSC"), and means any goods, wares, merchandi, liquids, gas, solids and articles of every kind whatsoever carried in containers pursuant to a contract of carriage. However, ship's equipment and ship's supplies1, including ship's spare parts and stores, carried in containers are not regarded as cargo.
1Refer to the Revid recommendations on the safe transport of dangerous cargoes and related activities in port areas (MSC.1/Circ.1216).
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2.1.4 Container has the same meaning as the term "container" in the CSC and means an article of transport equipment:
(a) of a permanent character and accordingly strong enough to be suitable for
repeated u;
(b) specially designed to facilitate the transport of goods, by one or more
modes of transport, without intermediate reloading;
(c) designed to be cured and/or readily handled, having corner fittings for
the purpos; and
(d) of a size such that the area enclod by the four outer bottom corners is
either:
(i) at least 14 m2 (150 sq. ft.); or
(ii) at least 7 m2 (75 sq. ft.) if it is fitted with top corner fittings.
2.1.5Contract of carriage means a contract in which a shipping company, against the payment of freight, undertakes to carry goods from one place to another. The contract may take the form of, or be evidenced by a document such as a waybill, a bill of lading, or multi-modal transport document.
2.1.6 Gross mass means the combined mass of a container's tare mass and the mass of all packa
ges and cargo items, including pallets, dunnage and other packing material and curing materials packed into the container (e also "Verified gross mass").
2.1.7 Package means one or more cargo items that are tied together, packed, wrapped, boxed or parcelled for transportation. Examples of packages include, but are not limited to, parcels, boxes, packets and cartons.
2.1.8 Packed container means a container, as previously defined, loaded ("stuffed" or "filled") with liquids, gas, solids, packages and cargo items, including pallets, dunnage, and other packing material and curing materials.
2.1.9 Packing material means any material ud or for u with packages and cargo items to prevent damage, including, but not limited to, crates, packing blocks, drums, cas, boxes, barrels, and skids. Excluded from the definition is any material within individual aled packages to protect the cargo item(s) inside the package.
2.1.10 Securing material means all dunnage, lashing and other equipment ud to block, brace, and cure packed cargo items in a container.
2.1.11 Ship means any vesl to which SOLAS chapter VI applies. Excluded from this definition are roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) ships engaged on short international voyages2 where the containers are carried on a chassis or trailer and are loaded and unloaded by being driven on and off such a ship.
2SOLAS regulation III/2 defines "short international voyage" as an international voyage in the cour of which a ship is not more than 200 miles from a port or place in which the pasngers and crew could be placed in safety, and which does not exceed 600 miles in length between the last port of call in the country in which the voyage begins and the final port of destination.
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Annex, page 3 2.1.12 Shipper means a legal entity or person named on the bill of lading or a waybill or equivalent multimodal transport document (e.g. "through" bill of lading) as shipper and/or who (or in who name or on who behalf) a contract of carriage has been concluded with a shipping company.
2.1.13 Shipping document means a document ud by the shipper to communicate the verified gross mass of the packed container. This document can be part of the shipping instructions to the shipping company or a parate communication (e.g. a declaration including a weight certificate pro
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2.1.14 Tare mass means the mass of an empty container that does not contain any packages, cargo items, pallets, dunnage, or any other packing material or curing material.
2.1.15 Terminal reprentative means a person acting on behalf of a legal entity or person engaged in the business of providing wharfage, dock, stowage, warehou, or other cargo handling rvices in connection with a ship.
2.1.16 Verified gross mass means the total gross mass of a packed container as obtained by one of the methods described in paragraph 5.1 of the Guidelines. (e also "gross mass").
3 Scope of applicability
3.1 The SOLAS requirements to verify the gross mass of a packed container apply to all containers to which the CSC applies, and which are to be stowed onto a ship determined by the Administration to be subject to SOLAS chapter VI.
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3.2 For example (but not limited to), a packed container on a chassis or trailer to be driven on a ro-ro ship is subject to the SOLAS requirements, if the ship has been determined by the Administration to
be subject to SOLAS chapter VI and is not engaged on short international voyages. However, cargo items tendered by a shipper to the master for packing into a container already on board the ship are not subject to the SOLAS requirements.
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3.3 The term container includes tank-containers, flat-racks, bulk containers etc. Also included are containers carried on a chassis or a trailer except when such containers are driven on or off a ro-ro ship engaged in short international voyages (e definition of ship). Excluded from the definition is any type of vehicle3. Also excluded from the definition are "offshore containers" to which the CSC, according to the Guidelines for the approval of offshore containers handled in open as(MSC/Circ.860) and the Revid recommendations on harmonized interpretation and implementation of the International Convention for Safe Containers, 1972, as amended (CSC.1/Circ.138/Rev.1), does not apply.
4 Main principles
4.1 The responsibility for obtaining and documenting the verified gross mass of a packed container lies with the shipper.
4.2 A container packed with packages and cargo items should not be loaded onto a ship to which t
he SOLAS regulations apply unless the master or his reprentative and the terminal reprentative have obtained, in advance of vesl loading, the verified actual gross mass of the container.
3Refer to the Revid recommendations on harmonized interpretation and implementation of the International Convention for Safe Containers, 1972, as amended (CSC.1/Circ.138/Rev.1).
