Foreword

Preamble
Resolution MSC.5(48)
Resolution MSC.370(93)

Chapter 1 General
1.1 Application and implementation
1.2 Definitions
1.3 Equivalents
1.4 Surveys and certification

Chapter 2 Ship survival capability and location

of cargo tanks
2.1 General
2.2 Freeboard and stability
2.3 Damage assumptions
2.4 Location of cargo tanks
2.5 Flood assumptions
2.6 Standard of damage
2.7 Survival requirements

Chapter 3 Ship arrangements

3.1 Segregation of the cargo area
3.2 Accommodation, service and machinery
spaces and control stations
3.3 Cargo machinery spaces and turret
compartments
3.4 Cargo control rooms
3.5 Access to spaces in the cargo area
3.6 Airlocks
3.7 Bilge, ballast and oil fuel arrangements
3.8 Bow and stern loading and unloading
arrangements

Chapter 4 Cargo containment

4.1 Definitions
4.2 Application
Part A Cargo containment
4.3 Functional requirements
4.4 Cargo containment safety principles
4.5 Secondary barriers in relation to tank
types
4.6 Design of secondary barriers
4.7 Partial secondary barriers and primary
barrier small leak protection system
4.8 Supporting arrangements
4.9 Associated structure and equipment
4.10 Thermal insulation
Part B Design loads
4.11 General
4.12 Permanent loads
4.13 Functional loads
4.14 Environmental loads
4.15 Accidental loads
Part C Structural integrity
4.16 General
4.17 Structural analyses
4.18 Design conditions
Part D Materials and construction
4.19 Materials
4.20 Construction processes
Part E Tank types
4.21 Type A independent tanks
4.22 Type B independent tanks
4.23 Type C independent tanks
4.24 Membrane tanks
4.25 Integral tanks
4.26 Semi-membrane tanks
Part F Cargo containment systems of novel
configuration
4.27 Limit state design for novel concepts
Part G Guidance
4.28 Guidance notes for chapter 4

Chapter 5 Process pressure vessels and

liquids, vapour and pressure piping systems
5.1 General
5.2 System requirements
5.3 Arrangements for cargo piping outside the
cargo area
5.4 Design pressure
5.5 Cargo system valve requirements
5.6 Cargo transfer arrangements
5.7 Installation requirements
5.8 Piping fabrication and joining details
5.9 Welding, post-weld heat treatment and
non-destructive testing
5.10 Installation requirements for cargo
piping outside the cargo area
5.11 Piping system component requirements
5.12 Materials
5.13 Testing requirements

Chapter 6 Materials of construction and

quality control
6.1 Definitions
6.2 Scope and general requirements
6.3 General test requirements and
specifications
6.4 Requirements for metallic materials
6.5 Welding of metallic materials and non-
destructive testing
6.6 Other requirements for construction in
metallic materials
6.7 Non-metallic materials

Chapter 7 Cargo pressure/temperature

control
7.1 Methods of control
7.2 Design of systems
7.3 Reliquefaction of cargo vapours
7.4 Thermal oxidation of vapours
7.5 Pressure accumulation systems
7.6 Liquid cargo cooling
7.7 Segregation
7.8 Availability

Chapter 8 Vent systems for cargo

containment
8.1 General
8.2 Pressure relief systems
8.3 Vacuum protection systems
8.4 Sizing of pressure relieving system

Chapter 9 Cargo containment system

atmosphere control
9.1 Atmosphere control within the cargo
containment system
9.2 Atmosphere control within the hold
spaces (cargo containment systems other
than type C independent tanks)
9.3 Environmental control of spaces
surrounding type C independent tanks
9.4 Inerting
9.5 Inert gas production on board

Chapter 10 Electrical installations

10.1 Definitions
10.2 General requirements

Chapter 11 Fire protection and extinction

11.1 Fire safety requirements
11.2 Fire mains and hydrants
11.3 Water-spray system
11.4 Dry chemical powder fire-extinguishing
systems
11.5 Enclosed spaces containing cargo
handling equipment
11.6 Firefighter’s outfits

Chapter 12 Artificial ventilation in the cargo

area
12.1 Spaces required to be entered during
normal cargo handling operations
12.2 Spaces not normally entered

Chapter 13 Instrumentation and automation

systems
13.1 General
13.2 Level indicators for cargo tanks
13.3 Overflow control
13.4 Pressure monitoring
13.5 Temperature indicating devices
13.6 Gas detection
13.7 Additional requirements for containment
systems requiring a secondary barrier
13.8 Automation system
13.9 System integration

Chapter 14 Personnel protection

14.1 Protective equipment
14.2 First-aid equipment
14.3 Safety equipment
14.4 Personal protection requirements for
individual products

Chapter 15 Filling limits for cargo tanks

15.1 Definitions
15.2 General requirements
15.3 Default filling limit
15.4 Determination of increased filling limit
15.5 Maximum loading limit
15.6 Information to be provided to the master

Chapter 16 Use of cargo as fuel

16.1 General
16.2 Use of cargo vapour as fuel
16.3 Arrangement of spaces containing gas
consumers
16.4 Gas fuel supply
16.5 Gas fuel plant and related storage tanks
16.6 Special requirements for main boilers
16.7 Special requirements for gas-fired
internal combustion engines
16.8 Special requirements for gas turbine
16.9 Alternative fuels and technologies

Chapter 17 Special requirements

17.1 General
17.2 Materials of construction
17.3 Independent tanks
17.4 Refrigeration systems
17.5 Cargoes requiring type 1G ship
17.6 Exclusion of air from vapour spaces
17.7 Moisture control
17.8 Inhibition
17.9 Flame screens on vent outlets
17.10 Maximum allowable quantity of cargo
per tank
17.11 Cargo pumps and discharge
arrangements
17.12 Ammonia
17.13 Chlorine
17.14 Ethylene oxide
17.15 Separate piping systems
17.16 Methyl acetylene-propadiene mixtures
17.17 Nitrogen
17.18 Propylene oxide and mixtures of
ethylene oxide-propylene oxide with ethylene
oxide content of not more than 30% by
weight
17.19 Vinyl chloride
17.20 Mixed C4 cargoes
17.21 Carbon dioxide: high purity
17.22 Carbon dioxide: reclaimed quality

Chapter 18 Operating requirements

18.1 General
18.2 Cargo operations manuals
18.3 Cargo information
18.4 Suitability for carriage
18.5 Carriage of cargo at low temperature
18.6 Cargo transfer operations
18.7 Personnel training
18.8 Entry into enclosed spaces
18.9 Cargo sampling
18.10 Cargo emergency shutdown (ESD)
system
18.11 Hot work on or near cargo containment
systems
18.12 Additional operating requirements

Chapter 19 Summary of minimum

requirements
Appendices
Appendix 1 IGC Code Product Data Reporting
Form
Appendix 2 Model form of International
Certificate of Fitness for the Carriage of
Liquefied Gases in Bulk
Appendix 3 Example of an addendum to the
International Certificate of Fitness for the
Carriage of Liquefied Gases in Bulk
Appendix 4 Non-metallic materials
Appendix 5 Standard for the use of limit state
methodologies in the design of cargo
containment systems of novel configuration