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 IACS KCs (Knowledge Centre) for Common Structural Rules – Harmonised [version 1st January 2014 & 1st January 2015]” carried out by INTERCARGO was presented to the IACS Council for a later response. This was follow up to the action plan agreed at the INTERCARGO meetings in Athens on 12-13 Oct 2015.
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