Code of safety practices relating to solid bulk loads.

The origin of the Code of Safety practices relating to solid bulk cargo (CG) is in the
problems arising during the transport of these, which from the first conferences
sponsored by the International Maritime Organization were placed in Manifest. In
1960, the International Conference on Security of Human life at sea was unable to
elaborate detailed rules, except for the transport of grain loads. However, the
Conference made recommendations to its members to prepare a code to address
the safety standards and the transport of bulk cargo, for implementation at the
international level.

The code is a compendium of rules that provides recommendations for each

country's maritime administrations to apply to ships entering and exiting the ports
of their geography. The captains and the personnel who must manipulate the
different loads find in the code the rules to be applied in the stowage in order to
carry out the transport without incidents occurring and for the solid loads in bulk,
With the exception of cereals 229; they can reach their destination in perfect
condition.

The content of the code is distributed in eleven sections and seven appendices in
which all the subjects related to the subjects that are currently transported in bulk
by ships and the details of the procedures of stowage, segregation and Safety to
be observed. Some of the topics covered in the sections are:

 Definitions, general precautions and safety of the personnel or the ship.

 Evaluation of the acceptability of remittances for the shipment of these in
safety conditions.

Flushing procedures and resting angle determination methods.
 Substances that contain risks of a chemical nature.

Risks in manipulation of solid bulk.

The transport of solid products in bulk presents different problems, depending on

their characteristics, which are aggravated when they are transported minerals and
concentrates, as they condition their manipulation to stricter standards. The
proliferation of accidents in ships of the same type obliges maritime organizations,
starting with the IMO, to evaluate a number of problems in order to increase
security and solve the problems that have emerged.

The consequence of the accidents of ships is that the image of safety in the
maritime world is distorts, questioning the regulations regulating the operations on
the bulk carriers and the quality of the classification concept together with the
companies that endorse them; Therefore, new standards or modifications to
existing ones are constantly being studied.

The risks associated with the handling and shipping of solid bulk materials are
grouped into four sections which bring together all matters relating to cargo, ship,
crew and environment. Each one of the sections has particular characteristics and
connotations that can relate to each other. Compliance with the rules of
manipulation and proper planning of operations avoid the accident that is always
present and can happen at any time.

TASK

1. Identify what is the tense of each sentence. Write in front. (Modal Auxiliary
/Simple present / Present progressive / / Simple past.)

1. The International Conference on Security of Human life at sea was unable to

elaborate detailed rules. _Simple past_

2. They can reach their destination in perfect condition. _Modal Auxiliary__

3. The consequence of the accidents of ships is that the image of safety in the
maritime world is distorts. _Simple present__

4. The consequence of the accidents of ships is that the image of safety in the
maritime world is distorts, questioning the regulations regulating the operations on
the bulk carriers. __Present progressive _