200139 Cargo Securing Manual Error

08 Feb 2001 MARS

Cargo Securing Manual Error
Report No. 200139

In his letter published in SEAWAYS in June 2001, John R Knott, Author, "Lashing and Securing of Deck Cargoes", contended that the expression in Section 5 of the CSS Code giving the expression CS = MSL/1.5 was in the wrong place and should be moved and re-numbered as 7.2.4. He suggested that a Notice or Amendment should be issued to explain this. He has now expanded on his letter with the following contribution.

The IMO Cargo Securing Manual

Those of you who have been following the correspondence relating to the above expression and all others involved in the lashing and securing of cargoes and the approval of the IMO Cargo Securing Manuals (CSM), should note that Section 5 of the 1994/1995 Amendments to the CSS Code, as now included in CSM is in the wrong place. To date, the only official response I have received to the foregoing correction and suggested Notice/Amendment is from the United Kingdom MCA who say, and here I condense it:

"that they agree that the content and purpose of paragraph 5 is unclear, but the MCA are unable to divert any resources to investigate the matter".

Does this mean that they - and presumably other administrations - will continue to endorse and approve Cargo securing Manuals with the very misleading error uncorrected?

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