Part 5 Specific Vessel Types

Chapter 10 Vessels Intended to Carry Vehicles

Section 4 Cargo Safety 5-10-4

TABLE 1
Dangerous Goods Classes
Class Substance
1 Explosives
(1.1 through 1.6)
2.1 Flammable gases (compressed, liquefied or dissolved under pressure)
2.2 Non flammable gases (compressed, liquefied or dissolved under pressure)
2.3 Toxic gases
3 Flammable liquids
(3.1 through 3.3)
4.1 Flammable solids
4.2 Substances liable to spontaneous combustion
4.3 Substances which, in contact with water, emit flammable gases
5.1 Oxidizing substances
5.2 Organic peroxides
6.1 Toxic substances
6.2 Infectious substances
7 Radioactive materials
8 Corrosives
9 Miscellaneous dangerous substances and articles, that is, any substance which
experience has shown, or may show, to be of such a dangerous character that the
provisions for dangerous substance transportation are to be applied.

TABLE 2
Application of Requirements to Different Ro-Ro Cargo Spaces
Ro-Ro spaces
(1)
4-7-2/… Requirements Closed Open (2) Weather deck (3)
7.3.1(a) Availability of water x x x
7.3.1(b) Quantity of water x x x
7.3.1(c) Underdeck cargo space cooling x x -
7.3.1(d) Alternative to cooling by water x x -
7.3.2 Sources of ignition x x -
7.3.3 Detection system x - -
7.3.4 Ventilation x - -
7.3.5 Bilge pumping x - -
7.3.6 Personnel protection x x x
7.3.7 Portable fire extinguisher - x x
7.3.8 Insulation of machinery space boundary x x x
7.3.9 Water-spray system x (4) x -
Notes
1 Closed ro-ro spaces are ro-ro cargo spaces which are neither open ro-ro spaces nor weather
decks.
2 Open ro-ro cargo spaces are ro-ro cargo spaces either open at both ends, or open at one end
and provided with adequate natural ventilation effective over their entire length through
permanent openings in the side plating or deckhead.
3 Weather deck is a deck which is completely exposed to the weather from above and from at
least two sides.
4 Apply only to closed ro-ro cargo spaces not capable of being sealed.

1354 ABS RULES FOR BUILDING AND CLASSING STEEL VESSELS . 2005