2011 ESP Code, 2013 Edition

Foreword
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The International Code on the Enhanced Programme of Inspections during Surveys of Bulk Carriers
and Oil Tankers, 2011 (2011 ESP Code) was adopted on 30 November 2011 by Assembly resolution A.1049(27)
and subsequently made mandatory through amendments to SOLAS regulation XI-1/2 (resolution MSC.325(90))
which entered into force on 1 January 2014. This regulation requires that bulk carriers and oil tankers as
defined in the SOLAS Convention shall be subject to an enhanced programme of inspections in accordance
with the 2011 ESP Code. The enhanced survey programme shall be carried out during the surveys prescribed
by regulation I/10 of the Convention.
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The 2011 ESP Code will also become mandatory under the MARPOL Annex I Condition Assessment
Scheme (CAS), adopted by resolution MEPC.94(46)), pending the entry into force, on 1 October 2014, of
relevant amendments to CAS, adopted by resolution MEPC.236(65). The purpose of the CAS is verification
that the structural condition of single-hull oil tankers at the time of survey is acceptable and, provided subsequent periodical surveys are satisfactorily completed and effective maintenance is carried out by the ship’s
operator, will continue to be acceptable for a continued period of operation.
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The Code consists of two annexes as follows:
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Annex A (Code on the enhanced programme of inspections during surveys of bulk carriers),
including:
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part A: Code on the enhanced programme of inspections during surveys of bulk carriers
having single‑side skin construction; and
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part B: Code on the enhanced programme of inspections during surveys of bulk carriers
having double‑side skin construction.
.2 Annex B (Code on the enhanced programme of inspections during surveys of oil tankers),
including:
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part A: Code on the enhanced programme of inspections during surveys of double-hull oil
tankers; and
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part B: Code on the enhanced programme of inspections during surveys of oil tankers other
than double-hull oil tankers.
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The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) agreed that the Code should be closely aligned with the IACS
Unified Requirement (UR) Z10 (Hull surveys) in order to keep it simple and user-friendly. Consequently,
MSC 92 in June 2013 concurred with a procedure for regular updates to the 2011 ESP Code developed by the
Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Construction (DE) at its fifty-seventh session.
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The 2011 ESP Code supersedes the Guidelines on the enhanced programme of inspections during
surveys of bulk carriers and oil tankers (resolution A.744(18)).
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