The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea, more commonly known as the Rotterdam Rules. 

No. It does not apply to small doors for pilot access, fuelling or other operational matters and not intended to be used by passengers or for loading cargo.

Section A: general details of date/time/location of accident, identity of vessel, weather conditions, and type and consequences of accident; 

Periods as agreed in the charter party's Laytime Clause which are not to count as laytime, even if loading or discharging is carried out during them. 

(1) An initial survey before the ship is put into service: 

For as long as the original STCW Certificate of Competency remains valid.

(1) Make daily attempts to have the notice accepted; (2) send a letter of protest to charterers or their agent; (3) consult owners' P&I club correspondent; (4) note protest as soon as possible.

Oil filtering (15 ppm) equipment of a design approved by the flag State Administration. (MARPOL Annex I, reg. 14. 1)

(1) Close-up examinations of: frames, webs and bulkheads in selected cargo holds and tanks; ballast tank internal structure; hatch covers and coamings; deck structure and underdeck plating between cargo hold hatches; and areas of inner bottom plating; (2) thickness measurements of deck and shell plating, and hull internal structure; and (3) cargo and ballast tank pressure tests.

(a) Classify work activities; (b) identify hazards and personnel at risk; (c) identify risk controls; (d) estimate the risk; (e) decide the tolerability of the risks; (f) prepare risk control action plan (if necessary); (g) review adequacy of action plan; (h) ensure risk assessment and controls are effective and up to date.

The revised Annex V entered into force on 1 January 2013. Unless expressly provided otherwise in the regulations of the Annex, it applies to all ships. Regulation 5 contains special requirements for discharges of garbage from fixed and floating platforms.

Yes. The same rules apply as for ships on Part I of the Register.

(1) Oil Record Book (Part 1) Machinery Space Operations (All Ships); and (2) Oil Record Book (Part 2) Cargo/Ballast Operations (Oil Tankers).

A premium levied on a P&I club's members by the club managers. Advance calls are levied at the start of the P&I year (20 February). Later in the year, if claims have been heavier than expected, the managers will ask members for a supplementary call to balance the books.

The Hague Rules and the Hague-Visby Rules are applied by most countries, while relatively few countries have adopted the Hamburg Rules. (For questions on all these rules see Section F.)