Part 5 Specific Vessel Types

Chapter 10 Vessels Intended to Carry Vehicles

Section 4 Cargo Safety 5-10-4

3.9.2 Ro-Ro Cargo Spaces Intended to Carry Vehicles with Fuel in Their Tanks
Gravity drains from ro-ro cargo spaces carrying motor vehicles with fuel in their tanks for
their own propulsion are not to be led to machinery or other spaces where sources of ignition
may be present.

3.9.3 Ro-Ro Cargo Spaces Intended to Carry Dangerous Goods

3.9.3(a) Flammable and toxic substances. Enclosed ro-ro cargo spaces intended to carry
flammable or toxic dangerous goods are to be designed to ensure against the pumping of such
liquids through machinery space piping or pumps; see 5-10-4/Table 2 and 5-10-4/Table 3, and
also of 4-7-2/7.3.5.
3.9.3(b) Explosives. Enclosed ro-ro cargo spaces intended to carry explosives, for which the
provisions for either cooling or flooding of the space by copious quantities of water is
required, the bilge pumping arrangements are to be such as to prevent the build-up of free
surfaces. If this is not possible, the adverse effect upon the stability of the added weight and
the free surface of water is to be taken into account in the approval of the vessel’s stability
information. See 5-10-4/Table 2 and 5-10-4/Table 3, and of 4-7-2/7.3.1(c) and 4-7-2/7.3.1(d).

3.9.4 Ro-Ro Cargo Spaces Fitted with Water-spray System

Ro-ro cargo spaces fitted with fixed pressure water-spray systems are to have drainage or
bilge pumping arrangements complying with the requirements of 5-10-4/3.3.1(b).

3.11 Permanent Opening in Ro-Ro Cargo Spaces

Permanent openings in the side plating, the ends or deckhead of open and closed ro-ro cargo spaces
are to be so situated that a fire in the cargo space does not endanger stowage areas and embarkation
stations for survival craft and accommodation spaces, service spaces and control stations in
superstructures and deckhouses above the cargo spaces.

5 Cargo Spaces, Other Than Ro-Ro Cargo Spaces, Intended

to Carry Vehicles with Fuel in Their Tanks
Cargo spaces, other than ro-ro cargo spaces, intended for the carriage of motor vehicles with fuel in
their tanks for their own propulsion, are to comply with the provisions of 5-10-4/3, except that in lieu
of 5-10-4/3.1, a sample extraction smoke detection system complying with the provisions of 4-7-3/13
may be permitted and 5-10-4/3.3.4 may be omitted.

ABS RULES FOR BUILDING AND CLASSING STEEL VESSELS . 2005 1357