Checklist for owners or masters of lloyd’s register classed cargo vessels ?

  • Certificates and documents additional to IMO Resolution A.787(19) which where applicable should be readily available for inspection at the discretion of the port State control officer (PSCO)
  • Certificate of Registry
  • Certificate of Insurance or other Financial Security in Respect of Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage (Oil Tankers)
  • Suez Canal Certificate
  • Panama Canal Certificate
  • De-rat certificate or de-rat exemption certificate
  • Procedures and Arrangements Manual (NLS/Dangerous Chemicals)
  • Canada Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act
  • USA Vapour Emissions Control Systems
  • USCG Letter of Compliance
  • US Tank examination letter
  • Manifest or Stowage Plan for Dangerous Goods
  • Cargo Stowage and Securing Manual
  • Code of Safe Practice for Solid Bulk Cargoes
  • Are the damage control plans required on ships built 1-Feb-92 and after available?
  • Official log book, if required to be carried
  • Manoeuvring booklet (with information displayed on the bridge)
  • Current editions of SOLAS, MARPOL and Load Line conventions
  • Radio log entries
  • Radio station licence
  • Medical locker certificate
  • Liferaft servicing certificates
  • Liferaft hydrostatic release certificates
  • Are the following supporting documentation to the Survey Report File, as required by IMO Resolution A.744(18) ‘Guidelines on the Enhanced
  • Programme of Inspections during surveys of Bulk Carriers and Oil
  • Tankers’, available?
  • main structural plans of holds and ballast tanks
  • previous repair history
  • cargo and ballast history inspections by ship’s personnel with reference to:
    • structural deterioration in general
    • leakages in bulkheads and piping
    • condition of coating or corrosion-prevention system,

Cargo Gear