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Enhancement of safety awareness of the people onboard and ashore is a
priority to reduce and remove safety gaps. Reviewing the past decade, a
significant contributing factor to the safety performance of bulk carriers is the

development and implementation of new international rules and regulations and,
as a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) within the International Maritime
Organization (IMO), INTERCARGO has played its part in the development of
this legislation. The application of new technology to improve ship design and
building and the introduction of new materials has also played its part.

The casualty data in this report confirms the right direction of the following
milestone developments:

SOLAS - Additional Safety Measures

• July 1999 - new SOLAS chapter XII Additional Safety Measures for Bulk
Carriers.

Common Structural Rules including related SOLAS requirements
• December 2005 – IACS adopts Common Structural Rules for Double
Hull Oil Tankers (CSR-OT) and Common Structural Rules for Bulk

Carriers (CSR-BC)
• May 2010 – MSC 87 adopts the International Goal-based Ship
Construction Standards for Bulk Carriers and Oil Tankers
• May 2010 – MSC 87 adopts new SOLAS regulation Chapter II-1, 3-10

Goal Based ship construction standards for bulk carriers and oil tankers
• May 2016 – MSC 96 confirms the CSR OT&BC complies with the goal-
based ship construction standards

SOLAS – ESP
• 1993 – IMO Assembly adopts Guidelines on the Enhanced Programme

of Inspections during Surveys of Bulk Carriers and Oil Tankers
• January 1996 - Enhanced Survey Programme becomes mandatory
by SOLAS Chapter XI-1, SPECIAL MEASURES TO ENHANCE
MARITIME SAFETY

IMSBC Code
• January 2011 - IMSBC Code, mandatory under the provisions of the
SOLAS Convention.

BLU CODE (Code of Practice for the Safe Loading and Unloading of Bulk

Carriers)
• June 1997 – MSC 68 Code of Practice for the Safe Loading and
Unloading of Bulk Carriers (BLU Code)
• November 1997 – IMO Assembly adopted the BLU Code

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