The date, operational code (i. e. letter) and item number must be inserted in the appropriate columns and the particulars recorded chronologically in the blank space. For example, the place of bunkering is recorded as H27.1, and the time of bunkering as H27.2.

To make reasonable endeavours to ensure that the risks associated with the warranted operations are reduced to an acceptable level in accordance with best industry practice.

They take the place of either the second or third annual survey.

No. The International Tonnage Certificate (1969) is sufficient.

Damage done to either ship or quay at an unsafe berth is usually owners' liability, not charterers' (although some courts have held the reverse to be the case). It is always best to assume that the shipowners will be liable.

Either: (1) from the ship's agent; or (2) directly from the ship by radio, e-mail, fax or telephone (possibly through a VTS control room), before the ship is allowed entry to the port facility.

Council Regulation (EC) No 3051/95 of 8 December 1995 on the safety management of roll-on/roll-off passenger ferries (ro-ro ferries).

The second stage of the abandon ship drill, i. e. the muster and drill at survival craft stations. This stage of the drill should be announced by the abandon ship signal or by the particular means by which "abandon ship" is announced, or by a signal used for the purpose of summoning crew members to their survival craft stations.

Under SOLAS regulation V/28 (which is mandatory for UK ships under The Merchant Shipping (Safety of Navigation) Regulations 2002), each ship of 500 GT or above, engaged on international voyages exceeding 48 hours, must submit a daily report to its Company (as defined in SOLAS regulation IX/1), which must retain it and all subsequent daily reports for the duration of the voyage.

No, it only applies to a ship at sea which is in a position to be able to provide assistance. A ship in port is under no obligation to render assistance, but may do so, since it may in some circumstances be able to render assistance.

Every ship must have a muster list, which must be in an MCA-approved format. It must be exhibited in conspicuous places throughout the ship including the bridge, the engine room and crew accommodation. It must specify certain information.

Cleaning agents or additives contained in deck and external surfaces wash water may be discharged into the sea within a special area while the ship is en route, but only if these substances are not harmful to the marine environment, taking into account the IMO 2012 Guidelines for the Implementation of MARPOL Annex V.

SOLAS regulation XI-2/3. 1 requires flag State Administrations to set security levels and ensure security level information to ships entitled to fly their flag. Department for Transport Maritime Security (formerly known as TRANSEC) sets the current security level for all UK ships.

UK ships which are not Convention-size ships and other UK ships not plying on international voyages. MCA Instructions for the Guidance of Surveyors states that UK Load Line Certificates should be used only for "new ships" (i. e. built after 21 July 1968) of less than 24 m in length or "existing ships" of less than 150 GT.

Hull underwriters normally impose a warranty and instruct an approved survey organisation to make a survey of the towing arrangements to verify that the conditions of the warranty are complied with.