GUIDELINES FOR PRE-PLANNING OF SURVEYS IN DRY DOCK

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11 December 2006

GUIDELINES FOR PRE-PLANNING OF SURVEYS IN DRY DOCK

OF SHIPS WHICH ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE ENHANCED

PROGRAMME OF INSPECTIONS

1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its eightieth session (18 to 27 May 2005) recognized

that pre-planning is essential in order to ensure that major necessary repairs and maintenance

works were effectively carried out during dry docking and that it was the duty of shipowners to

prepare the dry dock survey.

2 The Committee further recognized that resolution A.948(23) did not provide for

pre-planning of surveys carried out in the dry dock whereas resolution A.744(18) did impose a

planning for the intermediate and renewal surveys, which are to include a survey in dry dock

depending on the vessel’s age, conducted under the enhanced programme of inspection and

therefore tasked the Flag State Implementation Sub-Committee, at its fourteenth session, to

develop a draft circular for the pre-planning of surveys in dry dock of ships which are not subject

to the enhanced programme of inspections.

3 The Committee, at its eighty-second session (29 November to 8 December 2006),

approved the Guidelines for pre-planning of surveys in dry dock of ships which are not subject to

the enhanced programme of inspections, as set out in the annex.

4 Member Governments are invited to bring the annexed Guidelines to all the parties

concerned for their application for pre-planning of surveys in dry dock of ships which are not

subject to the enhanced programme of inspections.

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ANNEX

GUIDELINES FOR PRE-PLANNING OF SURVEYS IN DRY DOCK

OF SHIPS WHICH ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE ENHANCED

PROGRAMME OF INSPECTIONS

Scope

1 These Guidelines apply to ships which are not subject to the enhanced programme of

inspections (resolution A.744(18), as amended).

2 Discretion may be exercised in the application of these Guidelines for smaller sized ships

(e.g., cargo ships of less than 100 m in length

the surveyor can occur during, rather than in advance of, the survey in dry dock as dry docks for

these smaller ships are much more available and the dry docking of these ships occurs more

promptly and with much less advanced notice than it does for larger ships.

∗) where the meeting held between the owner and

Objective

3 To assure that a survey in dry dock will be effectively and safely carried out in

accordance with the relevant rules and regulations applicable to the ship and that major necessary

repairs and maintenance will be effectively undertaken, the owner, the attending surveyor and

other interested parties (e.g., a representative of the thickness measurement company), should

co-operate and meet in advance of the dry-docking survey.

Pre-planning meeting

4 A pre-planning meeting should occur in advance to co-ordinate the work to be undertaken

during the survey which should include, as a minimum, a review of the following information:

.1 survey status and basic ship information;

.2 survey records from the previous bottom survey;

.3 details of any outstanding recommendations or known damaged areas (due to

grounding, lightering, etc) that affect or may affect the dry-docking survey;

.4 details of any known structural damage previously suffered by the ship;

.5 reports of known structural repairs that will be carried out during the dry-docking

survey; and

.6 details of any additional items to be surveyed, thickness measurements to be taken

and known maintenance work that will be carried out during the dry-docking

survey.