Section 255

"bulk carrier" means a ship which is constructed generally with single deck, top-side tanks and hopper side tanks in cargo spaces, and is intended primarily to carry dry cargo in bulk, and includes such types as ore carriers and combination carriers*;

"chemical tanker" means a cargo ship constructed or adapted and used for the carriage in bulk of any liquid product listed in Chapter 17 of the IBC

Code;

"company" means the owner of the ship or any other organisation or person such as the manager, or the bareboat charterer, who has assumed the responsibility for operation of the ship from the owner of the ship and who on assuming such responsibility has agreed to take over all the duties and responsibilities imposed by the International Safety Management Code;

"gas carrier" means a cargo ship. constructed or adapted and used for the carriage in bulk of any liquefied gas or other product listed in Chapter 19 of the IGC Code;

* Refer to resolution MSC. 79(70) relating to interpretation of provisions of Chapter XII on additional safety measures for bulk carriers.

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"high speed craft" means a craft of a maximum speed in metres per second

{m/s) equal to or exceeding -

3.7 vo.l667

where V = displacement corresponding to the designed water-line lm3), excluding craft the hull of which is supported completely clear above the water surface in non-displacement mode by aerodynamic forces generated by ground effect;

"International Safety Management {ISM) Code" means the International

Management Code for the Safe Operation of Ships and for Pollution

Prevention adopted by the Organisation by resolution A.741{18), as may be amended by the Organisation, provided that such amendments are adopted, brought into force and take effect in accordance with the provisions of

Article VIII of the present Convention concerning the amendment procedures applicable to the Annex other tnan Chapter I;

"mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU)" means a vessel capable of engaging in drilling operations for the exploration for, or exploitation of, resources beneath the seabed such as liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons, sulphur or salt;

"oil tanker 11 means an oil tanker as defined in Regulation 1 of Annex I of the

Protocol of 1978 relating to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973.

Application.