SHIP LOADING RULES

Hawera Star, Volume L, 10 September 1930, Page 9

SHIP LOADING RULES

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

IMPORTANT NEW DECISIONS

HIGHER STANDARD OF SAFETY

(British Olficial Wireless.) Received 2,45 P.m., to-day. RUGBY, Sept, 9. The full text is now issued of the International Load Line Convention, which was signed unanimously on behalf oif 29 countries at the- recent London conference. The Convention, if ratified, will take effect from July 1, 1932, and will apply to all merchant ships of 150 tons .cross and over engaged on lnteination.nl voyages. It lays- down definite rules for the loading Q-f ships according to- the part of the world in which tlfpv may be. , , The United Kingdom delegates say m their report that the conference contained technical and nautical representatives of all the principal maritime nations whose considered opinion is that the new rules are a marked improvement. on anything which has gone before. The United Kingdom delegates are satisfied that the new rules uni raise the standard of safety of merchant ships throughout the world. They draw attention to two outstanding points namely, the protection of decs openings and the introduction, for the first time on British, ships of special load lines for timber ships and tankers. The extreme importance of protecting all deck openings in had n ea t hoi U recognised by all seamen, and rules on this subject are made more definite than ever before, . Uniform loading rules for ships ot all nations are established the nist time. -