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Phase 4 - The Carriage of Cargoes and Dangerous Goods (SOLAS Chapters VI & VII)

The fourth phase of the campaign conducted between 1 December 2001 and 31 March 2002 focused on the requirements of SOLAS Chapters VI & VII, the carriage of cargoes and the carriage of dangerous goods.

The AMSA surveyor's inspection checklist was in two parts, namely;

General cargo and containerised cargo management; and
Dry bulk cargo management

During this phase, surveyors inspected 799 vessels and AMSA surveyors issued deficiencies to 80 ships relating to various cargo issues. This represents 10% of the eligible ships inspected.

The breakdown of ships inspected by ship type was as follows;

Ship type	Inspections	Deficiencies	Percentage of inspections with deficiencies
Bulk carrier	532	55	10.3%
Container	115	4	3.5%
General	62	4	6.5%
Ro-Ro	13	2	15.4%
Vehicle	45	1	2.2%
Other	32	14	43.8%
TOTAL	799	80

The breakdown of deficiencies by type was as follows;

Deficiency area	Number	Percentage
Stability data, loading instruments	18	22.5%
Cargo documentation/ information	36	45%
Dangerous Goods segregation	3	3.8%
Portable gas detection equipment	17	21.3%
Other	6	7.5%
TOTAL	80