INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION

4 ALBERT EMBANKMENT
LONDON SE1 7SR E
Telephone: 020-7735 7611
Fax: 020-7587 3210
Telex: 23588 IMOLDN G IMO

Ref. T3/1.01 CSC/Circ.119

13 December 2000
Original: ENGLISH

INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION FOR SAFE CONTAINERS (CSC), 1972

Implementation, testing, inspection and approval

Note by the Secretariat

1 The Secretary-General has received, in accordance with article IV(2) of the International
Convention for Safe Containers (CSC), 1972, the information set out in the attached annex*.

2 This circular replaces the information provided in CSC/Circ.115, which is hereby revoked.

3 CSC Contracting Parties, which have not yet done so, are invited to submit similar information.

4 To keep the list as up to date as possible, Contracting Parties, which have previously submitted
relevant information, are invited to review the list and notify the Secretary-General of any changes required.

***

*
Annex English only.

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ORGANIZATIONS ENTRUSTED TO TEST, INSPECT AND APPROVE CONTAINERS

ARGENTINA

Implementation

Prefectura Naval Argentina

Direccion de Policia de Seguridad de la Navigacion
Av. E. Madero 235
1106 Buenos Aires
República Argentina

Telephone: + 54 1 34 1812
Telefax: + 54 1 331 2876
Telex: 18581 PREFEC AR

AUSTRALIA

Implementation

Chief Executive
Australian Maritime Safety Authority
P.O. Box 1108
Belconnen ACT 2616
Australia

Telephone + 61 6 279 5000

Telefax: + 61 6 279 5866

Testing, inspection and approval

American Bureau of Shipping

Bureau Veritas
Det norske Veritas
Germanischer Lloyd
Lloyd's Register of Shipping
Nippon Kaiji Kentei Kyokai and
Nippon Kaiji Kyokai

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BAHAMAS

Testing, inspection and approval

American Bureau of Shipping

Forty-five Broad Street
New York, NY 10004
United States of America

Germanischer Lloyd
P.O. Box 11 16 06
D-2000 Hamburg 11
Federal Republic of Germany

Nippon Kaiji Kyokai

17-26 Akasaka 2-Chome
Minato-Ku
Tokyo 107
Japan

Det norske Veritas

P.O. Box 300
1322 Høvik
Oslo
Norway

Lloyd's Register Industrial Services

Norfolk House
Croydon CR9 2DT
United Kingdom

Bureau Veritas
31 Rue Henri-Rochefort
Paris, 17e
France

BULGARIA

Implementation

Ministry of Transport
Levski Str. 9/11
1000, Sofia
Bulgaria

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BULGARIA (continued)

Testing, inspection and approval

Bulgarian Register of Shipping

9000, Varna
Head Office - Varna-port
Bulgaria

Telephone: + 359 52 23375

+ 359 52 26122
Telex: 77340 BKR BG

CANADA

Implementation

Board of Steamship Inspection of the Canadian Coast Guard

Testing, inspection and approval

American Bureau of Shipping

Bureau Veritas
Det norske Veritas
Lloyd's Register Industrial Services

CHILE

Implementation

Ministerio de Transportes y Telecomunicaciones

Amunategui 139
Santiago
Chile

Telephone: + 56 2 711978
Telefax: + 56 2 6995138
Telex: + 56 2 240200

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CHILE (continued)

Testing, inspection and approval

1 Sudamericana Agencias aéreas y marítimas S.A. (S.A.A.M.)

Address: Plaza Justicia No. 12

Casilla 26-V, Valparaíso, Chile

Telephone: + 56 32 253077
Telefax: + 56 32 219172
Telex: 230024 SAAM CL
230027 SAAM CL

[Representatives in all major ports]

2 Terminal de Contenedores de Santiago S.A. (COSAN)

Address: Camino Lo Ruiz 3200, Renca Santiago, Chile

Telephone: + 56 32 773332
+ 56 32 371623
+ 56 32 372058
Telefax: + 56 32 372058
Telex: 241321 COSAN

Address: Errázuriz No. 1178 - Of. 82 Valparaíso, Chile

Telephone: + 56 32 210968
+ 56 32 217083
Telex: 230489 COSAN

Sr. Mario López M.

Legal Representative
Delmar Containers S.A.
Avenida Lota No.2486
Providencia
Santiago
Chile

Telephone: + 56 2 321404
+ 56 2 325219
+ 56 2 321159
Telefax: + 56 2 315959
Telex: 645378 DCDU CT

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CHILE (continued)

Sr. Raúl Henríquez Mezzano

Representante Legal
Servicios Integrados de Transportes S.A. (SITRANS)
Av. Maipú 3301, Lo Valledor
Santiago
Chile

Telephone: + 56 2 5517822
Telefax: + 56 2 5550547
Telex: 241248 SITRA CL

Sr. Jorge Aldunate González

Representante Legal
Terminales y Servicios de Contendedores Ltda. (TESCO LTDA.)
Blanco 1090, 4e Piso
Valparaíso
Chile

Telephone: + 56 32 216336
Telefax: + 56 32 250674
Telex: 635382 TESCO CT

CHINA

Testing, inspection and approval

Register of Shipping of the People's Republic of China

10 Fuxing lu
P.O. Box 2453
Beijing
China

Telephone: + 86 1 864 3224

Telex: 22462 COMCT CN

China Classification Society

40 Dong Huang Cheng Gen Nan Jie
Beijing 100006
China

Telephone: + 86 1 513 6787

Telefax: + 86 1 513 0188

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CROATIA

Implementation, testing, inspection and approval

Croatian Register of Shipping Co. Ltd. (Abrev. CRS)

Marasovicéva 67
P.O. Box 257
58000 Split
Croatia

CUBA

Implementation

Dirección de Seguridad e Inspección Maritima

Ministerio del Transporte
Ave. Rancho Boyeros y Tulipán
Ciudad de La Habana
Cuba

Telephone: + 53 7 818627; 819498

Telefax: + 53 7 335118
Telex: 511350 MITRANS CU

Testing, inspection and approval

Registro Cubano de Buques

Lloyd's Register of Shipping
Bureau Veritas

CZECH REPUBLIC

Testing, inspection and approval

_eský lodní a pr_myslový registr, s.r.o.

(Czech Shipping and Industry Register, Ltd.)
Jankovcova 10
170 00 Praha 7
Ceska Republika

Telephone: + 42 2 667 100 01

Telefax: + 42 2 808 984
Telex: + 42 2 122 874 cslr c

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DENMARK

Implementation

Danish Directorate for Labour Inspection Service

Landskronagade 33 - 35
DK 2100 Copenhagen Ø
Denmark

Telephone: + 45 31 18 00 88

Approval

Det norske Veritas Danmark

Nyhavn 16
1051 Copenhagen K
Denmark

Lloyds Register of Shipping

Kronprinsessegade 26
1306 Copenhagen K
Denmark

Germanisher Lloyd SURVEY

Adelgade 58, 6. sal
1304 Copenhagen K
Denmark

ESTONIA

Testing, inspection and approval

Register of Shipping
(formerly the USSR Register of Shipping)
Glavnoe Upravlenie Registra
Rossiyskaya Federatsiya
191065, Sankt-Peterburg, Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya, 8
Russia

Telephone: + 7 812 3120743

Telefax: + 7 812 3141087
Telegraphic address: S-PETERBURG, REGISTR
Telex: 321235 TRONK

Date of appointment: 27 July 1973

Approval reference letters: RF
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FRANCE

Implementation

Secrétariat d'Etat à la mer

Direction des Ports et de la Navigation Maritimes
3 place de Fontenoy
75007 Paris
France

Telex: MIMER 250823 F

Approval

Bureau des Conteneurs

44 rue de Rome
75008 Paris
France

Telex: SNCFBWP 280917 F

Testing, inspection and approval

American Bureau of Shipping

5 rue d'Aguesseau
75008 Paris
France

Bureau Veritas
Service CMI
17 bis place des Reflets
La Defense - 2
92400 Courbevoie
France

Lloyd's Register of Shipping

32 rue Caumartin
75009 Paris
France

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GERMANY

Implementation

Bundesministerium für Verkehr

Referat A14
Robert-Schuman-Platz 1
D-53175 Bonn
Federal Republic of Germany

Telephone: + 49 228 300 24 40

+ 49 228 300 24 43
Telefax: + 49 228 300 24 09
Telex: 885 700 BMV D

Testing, inspection and approval

Germanischer Lloyd
Vorsetzen 31
20459 Hamburg
Federal Republic of Germany

Telephone: + 49 40 36 14 90
Telefax: + 49 40 36 14 92 00
Telex: 212 828 GLHH D

GREECE

Implementation

Ministry of Mercantile Marine

Merchant Ships' Inspection Service
1 Paleologou Str.
Piraeus
Greece

Telephone: + 30 1 4111214
Telex: 212581 GR

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HUNGARY

Implementation

The Shipping Authority

Shipping Department
Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications
Budapest
Apáczai Csere János utca 11
1052
Hungary

Telephone: + 36 1 181 880

Telex: 225258

Testing, inspection and approval

Közlekedési Föfelügyelet (General Inspection for Transport)

H-1389 Budapest
VI. Lenin krt. 96
P.O. Box 102
Hungary

Telex: 226688 aufel 4

INDONESIA

Implementation

Director General
Sea Communications
Indonesia

Testing, inspection and approval

P.T. (Persero) Indonesian Bureau of Classification

Indonesia

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ISRAEL

Implementation

Division of Technical Services

Administration of Shipping and Ports
Ministry of Transport
P.O. Box 33993
Haifa 31339
Israel

Telephone: + 972 4 520241

Telex: 46632 SAPAN IL

Testing, inspection and approval

Standards Institution of Israel

American Bureau of Shipping
Bureau Veritas
Det norske Veritas
Germanischer Lloyd
Lloyd's Register of Shipping
Nippon Kaiji Kyokai
Registro Italiano Navale

ITALY

Testing, inspection and approval

Direzione Generale della Motorizzazione

civile e dei trasporti in concessione
Viale del Policlinico 2
00161 Roma
Italy

Azienda Autonoma delle Ferrovie dello Stato

Piazza della Croce Rossa 1
00161 Roma
Italy

Telephone: + 39 6 8490
Telex: 610089 MINTRA I

Italian Naval Register

Via Corsica
16128 Genova
Italy
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JAPAN

Implementation

Maritime Technology and Safety Bureau

Ministry of Transport
2-1-3, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo
Japan

Telex: 02225193 (A/B 2225193 JMSAHO J)

Testing, inspection and approval of containers in the design type series

The Ship Equipment Inspection Society of Japan

3-32, Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo
Japan

Testing, inspection and approval

Nippon Kaiji Kyokai

NETHERLANDS

Directorate-General
Shipping and Maritime Affairs
P.O. Box 5817
2280 HV Rijswijk
The Netherlands

Telephone: + 31 70 395 5555

Telefax: + 31 70 399 6274
Telex: 31040 DGSM NL

Implementation

Dock Labour Inspectorate

Stadionweg 43C
P.O. Box 9580
3007 AN ROTTERDAM
The Netherlands

Telephone: + 31 10 4798300
Telefax: + 31 10 4797093
Telex: 29029 STDDT NL

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NETHERLANDS (continued)

Approval, testing and inspection

The Netherlands branch offices of:

- Lloyd's Register of Shipping

- Bureau Veritas
- Germanischer Lloyd
- Det norske Veritas
- American Bureau of Shipping
- Registro Italiano Navale
- Nippon Kaiji Kyokai

NEW ZEALAND

Implementation

Maritime Safety Authority of New Zealand

P.O. Box 27006
Wellington
New Zealand

Telephone: + 64 4 473 0111

Telefax: + 64 4 473 6699
E-mail: msa@msa.govt.nz
Web Site: www.msa.govt.nz

Testing, inspection and approval

American Bureau of Shipping

Burau Veritas
Det Norske Veritas
Germanischer Lloyd
Lloyds Register of Shipping

NORWAY

Testing, inspection and approval

Det norske Veritas

Veritasveien 1
1322 Høvik
Norway

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PAKISTAN

Government of Pakistan
Ministry of Communications
Ports & Shipping Wing
Plot No. 12, Misc. Area,
Mai Kolachi Bye Pass,
Karachi - 74200
Pakistan

Telephone: + 92 21 9206405 6
Telefax: + 92 21 9206407/9204191
Telex: 29822 DGPS PK

PERU

Implementation

Dirección General de Capitanías y Guardacostas

Dirección de Control de Intereses Acuáticos
Constitución 150
Callao
Perú

Telephone: + 51 1 429 6536 4296495

Telefax: + 51 1 429 6536 4296495
E-mail: dicacont@marina.mil.pe

POLAND

Implementation

Ministry of Transport and Maritime Economy

Department of Maritime and Inland
Waters Administration
ul. Cha_ubi_skiego 4/6
00-928 Warszawa
Poland

Telephone: + 48 2 6211448
Telefax: + 48 2 6288515
Telex: 816651 PKP PL

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POLAND (continued)

Testing, inspection and approval

Polski Rejestr Statków

al. Gen. J. Hallera 126
80-416 Gda_sk
Poland

Telephone: + 48 58 412068; 412069; 416482

Telefax: + 48 58 316636
Telex: 512373 PRS PL
512952 PRS PL

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

Implementation and approval

Inspection and Measurement Division

Seafarers and Ship Bureau
Korea Maritime and Port Administration
112-2, Inui-dong Chongro-ku
Seoul 110-410
Korea

Telephone: + 82 2 744 4743

Telefax: + 82 2 744 9591

Testing, inspection but not approval

Industrial Service Bureau

Korean Register of Shipping
_ _
1465-10 Socho-dong, Socho-ku
Seoul 137-073, Korea

Telephone: + 82 2 582 6001

Telefax: + 82 2 584 8813

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ROMANIA

Implementation

Registrul Naval Român

Sector 7, Bd. Diniou Golescu, Nr.38
Bucharest
Romania

Telephone: + 40 0 17 05 50
Telex: 10 256 r n r r
Telegraphic address: renere, Bucuresti, România

RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Implementation

Otdel Portovoy Deyatelynosti i Mezhvedomstvennykh Otnosheniy i Portov

Departament Morskogo Transporta
Ministerstvo Transporta, Rossiyskaya Federatsiya
103759, Moskva
Ul. Rozhdestvenka
Russia

Telephone: + 7 95 9261509
Telefax: + 7 95 9261427
Telex: 411197

Testing, inspection and approval

Register of Shipping
Glavnoe Upravlenie Registra
Rossiyskaya Federatsiya
191065, Sankt-Peterburg, Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya, 8
Russia

Telephone: + 7 812 3120743

Telefax: + 7 812 3141087
Telegraphic address: S-PETERBURG, REGISTR
Telex: 321235 TRONK

Date of appointment: 27 July 1973

Approval reference letters: RF

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SPAIN

Implementation and approval

Dirección General de Calidad y Seguridad Industrial

Paseo de la Castellana, 160
28071 Madrid
Spain

Telephone: + 34 1 349 4000/01/02

Telefax: + 34 1 4578066; 4582019

Testing and inspection

Subdirección General de Seguridad Industrial

Paseo de la Castellana, 160
28071 Madrid
Spain

Telephone: + 34 1 349 4303

Telefax: + 34 1 457 8066

SWEDEN

Implementation

National Maritime Administration

S-601 78 Norrköping
Sweden

Telephone: + 46 11 191000

Testing, inspection and approval

Swedish Plant Inspection Limited

(Svensk Anläggningsprovning AB)
Box 49306
S-100 29 Stockholm
Sweden

Telephone: + 46 8 6174000

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UNITED KINGDOM

Implementation

England, Scotland and Wales

Health and Safety Executive

Safety Policy Division A4 (Marine)
Room 5SW, Rose Court
2 Southwark Bridge
London SE1 9HS

Telephone: 0171-717-6211
Fax: 0181-717-6699

Northern Ireland

Department of Economic Development

Maryfield
100 Belfast Road
Holywood
Co. Down
Northern Ireland
BT18 9QX

Telephone: + 44 2317 4232

Testing, inspection and approval

British Engine Insurance Co. Ltd., (Approval reference letters: BE1)

Longridge House
Manchester M60 4DT

Telephone: + 44 61 833 9282

Cornhill Insurance Co. Ltd., (Approval reference letters: CIG)

Engineering Department
P.O. Box 10
57 Ladymead
Guildford GU1 1DB

Telephone: + 44 483 68161

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UNITED KINGDOM (continued)

Det Norske Veritas (Approval reference: GB-DNV + number)

Veritas House
112 Station Road
Sidcup
Kent DA15 7BU

Telephone: 0181-309-7477
Fax: 0181-309-1834
Telex: 896526 DNVURG

Bureau Veritas (Approval reference: GB-BV + number)

Unit 7
Odyssey Centre
Corporation Road
Birkenhead L41 1HY

Telephone: 0151-647-8356
Fax: 0151-666-1914
Telex: 886201 BVLONDG

Eagle Star Engineering Insurance Co. Ltd., (Approval reference letters: ESG)
Hagley House
54 Hagley Road
Edgbaston
Birmingham B16 8QP

Telephone: + 44 21 455 9876

Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance plc (Approval reference letters: GRE)

Civic Drive
Ipswich IP1 2AN

Telephone: + 44 473 212422

Lloyd's Register Industrial Services (Approval reference letters: LR)

Norfolk House
Croydon CR9 2DT

Telephone: + 44 81 686 2455

National Vulcan Engineering Insurance Group Ltd. (Approval reference letters: NV)
St. Mary's Parsonage
Manchester M60 9AP

Telephone: + 44 61 834 8124

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UNITED KINGDOM (continued)

Plant Safety Limited (Approval reference letters: PS)

Parklands
825a Wilmslow Road
Didsbury
Manchester M20 8RE

Telephone: + 44 483 68161

UNITED STATES

Implementation

U.S. Coast Guard (G-MVI-2)

2100 Second Street, S.W.
Washington D.C. 20593-0001
U.S.A.

Telephone: + 1 202 267 1181

Telefax: + 1 202 267 1069

Testing, inspection and approval

American Bureau of Shipping Approval date: 6 June 1978

Attn: Mr. Aris Antoniou Code: AB
16855 Northchase Dr.
Houston TX 77060-6008
U.S.A.

Telephone: + 1 713 873 5200

Telefax: + 1 713 874 9553

ABS Industrial Verification Approval date: 6 June 1978

Services, Inc. Code: AT
Attn: Mr. Aris Antoniou
16855 Northchase Dr.
Houston, TX 77060-6008
U.S.A.

Telephone: + 1 713 873 5200

Telefax: + 1 713 874 9553

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UNITED STATES (continued)

International Cargo Gear Bureau, Inc. Approval date: 6 June 1978

Attn: Mr. Charles Visconti Code: IB
17 Battery Place
New York, NY 10004
U.S.A.

Telephone: + 1 212 425 2750

Telefax: + 1 212 269 9469

Marine Container Equipment Approval date: 6 June 1978

Certification Corporation Code: MC
Attn: Capt. M. W. Allen
160 Squankum Yellowbrook Road
Farmingdale, NJ 07727
U.S.A.

Telephone: + 1 732 938 6622

Telefax: + 1 732 938 6972

B.A. Bodenheimer and Co., Inc. Approval date: 17 November 1978

Attn: Mr. Bert A. Bodenheimer Code: BA
2831 NW 41st Street, Suite A
Gainesville, FL 32606
U.S.A.

Telephone: + 1 352 336 5400

Telefax: + 1 352 336 5455

Container Transport Technology Approval date: 27 December 1979

Attn: Mr. P.W. Shahani Code: CT
P.O. Box 99
Annadale, NJ 08801
U.S.A.

Telephone: + 1 908 735 6676

Telefax: + 1 908 735 2160

Intermodal Transportation Approval date: 15 September 1980

Services, Inc. Code: IT
Attn: Mr. E. Matthew Marks
Linden Plaza
9 Campus Drive
Parsippany, NJ 07054-4476
U.S.A.

Telephone: + 1 201 993 3634

Telefax: + 1 201 993 5749

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UNITED STATES (continued)

C.R. Cushing & Co., Inc. Approval date: 8 September 1981

Attn: Mr. C.R. Cushing Code: CR
18 Vesey Street
New York, NY 10007
U.S.A.

Telephone: + 1 212 964 1180

Telefax: + 1 212 285 1334

R.J. Del Pan & Co., Inc. Approval date: 10 March 1982
Attn: Lee A. Del Pan Code: DP
No.501 Don Alfonso Sycip Bldg.,
U.N. Avenue Corner L. Guerrero Street
Ermita
Manila, Phillippines

Telephone: + 63 2 5220066; 5210178; or 5210180

Telefax: + 63 2 5210367

Hodges Transportation, Inc. Approval date: 24 October 1988

Nevada Automotive Test Center Code: NA
Attn: Mr. H.C. Hodges, Jr.
P.O. Box 234
Carson City, NV 89702
U.S.A.

Telephone: + 1 702 882 3261

Telefax: + 1 702 882 3264

Silver Inspection Services Approval date: 29 June 1995

Attn: Mr. James R. Silver Code: SI
2810 Todville Road
P.O. Box 1124
Kemah, TX 77565

Telephone: + 1 713 474 7968

Telefax: + 1 713 474 7840

The Hartford Steam Boiler Approval date: 11 December 1995

and Insurance Company Code: HB
Attn: Mr. Timothy C. Healy
One State Street
Hartford, CT 06102

Telephone: + 1 203 722 5150

Telefax: + 1 203 722 5530

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UNITED STATES (continued)

Pacific Marine Repair, Inc. Approval date: 4 February 1998

Attn: Mr. Gary A. Raymond Code: PM
1132 Thorne Road
Tacoma, WA 98421

Telephone: + 1 253 272 4302

Telefax: + 1 253 272 3096

Omnimodal, Inc. Date approval rescinded: 13 December

1995
Attn: Mr. Peter Canellis Code: OM
1A Boxwood Road
Port Washington, NY 11050

Telephone: + 1 915 597 8641

VANUATU

Deputy Commissioner of Maritime Affairs

Vanuatu Maritime Services Limited
42 Broadway, Suite 1200-18
New York, N.Y. 10004

Telephone: + 1 212 425 9600

Telefax: + 1 212 425 9652
E-mail: vmsnyc@attglobal.net

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