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FOREWORD

The continuing occurrence of casualties involving shift and loss of timber deck cargoes, the employment of larger and more sophisticated ships in this trade, the introduction of new techniques and the desirability of having more comprehensive safety recommendations in this particular maritime activity made it necessary for the International Maritime Organization (I.M.O.) to revise and update "The Code of Safe Practice for Ships Carrying Timber Deck Cargoes", first circulated by the organization in 1972 and subsequently amended in 1978.

This new Canadian Code incorporates the new I.M.O. Code as adopted by Resolution A.715(17) and Canadian modifications^* and supersedes the Canadian Code issued in 1974 (TP2534).

Although the Code is directed primarily at providing recommendations for the safe carriage of timber deck cargoes Annex B contains recommendations applicable to the underdeck stowage of logs.

Ships with assigned timber freeboards and loading to this freeboard are required by Regulation 44 of the International Conference on Loadlines (1966) to fit the lashings of the timber deck cargo with sliphooks. This provision is not required by the 1988 Loadline Protocol and is contained as an option by the Canadian modification to this Code. However, until such time as the 1988 Loadline Protocol is ratified, all ships loading to assigned timber freeboards will be required to fit the lashings of timber deck cargo with sliphooks.

The Canadian Coast Guard Board of Steamship Inspection, under Board Decision No. 5103, has stipulated that the provisions of this Code are mandatory for every load line ship carrying a cargo consigned to any place that is outside Canada and is not a place within the limits of an inland voyage, effective January 1, 1992.

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