Hull Structure and Arrangement for the Classifi cation of Cargo Ships less than 65 m and Non Cargo Ships less than 90 m December 2017 Rule Note NR 600 DT R02 E Hull Structure and Arrangement for the Classification of Cargo Ships less than 65 m and Non Cargo Ships less than 90 m December 2017 Rule Note NR 600 DT R02 E Marine & Offshore 92937 Paris la Défense Cedex – France Tel: + 33 (0)1 55 24 70 00 – Fax: + 33 (0)1 55 24 70 25 Website: http://www.veristar.com Email: [email protected]  2017 Bureau Veritas - All rights reserved MARINE & OFFSHORE - GENERAL CONDITIONS 1. INDEPENDENCY OF THE SOCIETY AND APPLICABLE TERMS 3.2. Subject to the Services performance and always by reference to 9.2. In such a case, the class granted to the concerned Unit and the 1.1. The Society shall remain at all times an independent contractor the Rules, the Society shall: previously issued certificates shall remain valid until the date of effect and neither the Society nor any of its officers, employees, servants, • review the construction arrangements of the Unit as shown on the of the termination notice issued, subject to compliance with clause 4.1 agents or subcontractors shall be or act as an employee, servant or documents provided by the Client; and 6 above. agent of any other party hereto in the performance of the Services. • conduct the Unit surveys at the place of the Unit construction; 10. FORCE MAJEURE 1.2. The operations of the Society in providing its Services are exclu- • class the Unit and enters the Unit's class in the Society's Register; 10.1. Neither Party shall be responsible for any failure to fulfil any term sively conducted by way of random inspections and do not, in any cir- • survey the Unit periodically in service to note that the requirements or provision of the Conditions if and to the extent that fulfilment has cumstances, involve monitoring or exhaustive verification. for the maintenance of class are met. The Client shall inform the been delayed or temporarily prevented by a force majeure occurrence 1.3. The Society acts as a services provider. This cannot be construed Society without delay of any circumstances which may cause any without the fault or negligence of the Party affected and which, by the as an obligation bearing on the Society to obtain a result or as a war- changes on the conducted surveys or Services. exercise of reasonable diligence, the said Party is unable to provide ranty. The Society is not and may not be considered as an underwriter, The Society will not: against. broker in Unit's sale or chartering, expert in Unit's valuation, consulting • declare the acceptance or commissioning of a Unit, nor its construc- 10.2. For the purpose of this clause, force majeure shall mean any cir- engineer, controller, naval architect, manufacturer, shipbuilder, repair tion in conformity with its design, such activities remaining under the cumstance not being within a Party's reasonable control including, but or conversion yard, charterer or shipowner; none of them above listed exclusive responsibility of the Unit's owner or builder; not limited to: acts of God, natural disasters, epidemics or pandemics, being relieved of any of their expressed or implied obligations as a re- • engage in any work relating to the design, construction, production wars, terrorist attacks, riots, sabotages, impositions of sanctions, em- sult of the interventions of the Society. or repair checks, neither in the operation of the Unit or the Unit's bargoes, nuclear, chemical or biological contaminations, laws or action 1.4. The Services are carried out by the Society according to the appli- trade, neither in any advisory services, and cannot be held liable on taken by a government or public authority, quotas or prohibition, expro- cable Rules and to the Bureau Veritas' Code of Ethics. The Society those accounts. priations, destructions of the worksite, explosions, fires, accidents, any only is qualified to apply and interpret its Rules. 4. RESERVATION CLAUSE labour or trade disputes, strikes or lockouts 1.5. The Client acknowledges the latest versions of the Conditions and 4.1. The Client shall always: (i) maintain the Unit in good condition after 11. CONFIDENTIALITY of the applicable Rules applying to the Services' performance. surveys; (ii) present the Unit after surveys; (iii) present the Unit for sur- 11.1. The documents and data provided to or prepared by the Society 1.6. Unless an express written agreement is made between the Parties veys; and (iv) inform the Society in due course of any circumstances in performing the Services, and the information made available to the on the applicable Rules, the applicable Rules shall be the rules applica- that may affect the given appraisement of the Unit or cause to modify Society, are treated as confidential except where the information: ble at the time of the Services' performance and con tract's execution. the scope of the Services. • is already known by the receiving Party from another source and is 1.7. The Services' performance is solely based on the Conditions. No 4.2. Certificates referring to the Society's Rules are only valid if issued properly and lawfully in the possession of the receiving Party prior other terms shall apply whether express or implied. by the Society. to the date that it is disclosed; 2. DEFINITIONS 4.3. The Society has entire control over the Certificates issued and • is already in possession of the public or has entered the public 2.1. "Certificate(s)" means class certificates, attestations and reports may at any time withdraw a Certificate at its entire discretion including, domain, otherwise than through a breach of this obligation; following the Society's intervention. The Certificates are an appraise- but not limited to, in the following situations: where the Client fails to • is acquired independently from a third party that has the right to dis- ment given by the Society to the Client, at a certain date, following sur- comply in due time with instructions of the Society or where the Client seminate such information; veys by its surveyors on the level of compliance of the Unit to the fails to pay in accordance with clause 6.2 hereunder. • is required to be disclosed under applicable law or by a governmen- Society's Rules or to the documents of reference for the Services pro- 5. ACCESS AND SAFETY tal order, decree, regulation or rule or by a stock exchange authority vided. They cannot be construed as an implied or express warranty of 5.1. The Client shall give to the Society all access and information nec- (provided that the receiving Party shall make all reasonable efforts safety, fitness for the purpose, seaworthiness of the Unit or of its value essary for the efficient performance of the requested Services. The Cli- to give prompt written notice to the disclosing Party prior to such for sale, insurance or chartering. ent shall be the sole responsible for the conditions of presentation of disclosure. 2.2. "Certification" means the activity of certification in application of the Unit for tests, trials and surveys and the conditions under which 11.2. The Society and the Client shall use the confidential information national and international regulations or standards, in particular by del- tests and trials are carried out. Any information, drawings, etc. required exclusively within the framework of their activity underlying these Con- egation from different governments that can result in the issuance of a for the performance of the Services must be made available in due ditions. certificate. time. 11.3. Confidential information shall only be provided to third parties 2.3. "Classification" means the classification of a Unit that can result 5.2. The Client shall notify the Society of any relevant safety issue and with the prior written consent of the other Party. However, such prior or not in the issuance of a class certificate with reference to the Rules. shall take all necessary safety-related measures to ensure a safe work consent shall not be required when the Society provides the confiden- 2.4. "Client" means the Party and/or its representative requesting the environment for the Society or any of its officers, employees, servants, tial information to a subsidiary. Services. agents or subcontractors and shall comply with all applicable safety 11.4. The Society shall have the right to disclose the confidential infor- 2.5. "Conditions" means the terms and conditions set out in the regulations. mation if required to do so under regulations of the International Asso- present document. 6. PAYMENT OF INVOICES ciation of Classifications Societies (IACS) or any statutory obligations. 2.6. "Industry Practice" means International Maritime and/or Offshore 6.1. The provision of the Services by the Society, whether complete or 12. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY industry practices. not, involve, for the part carried out, the payment of fees thirty (30) days 12.1. Each Party exclusively owns all rights to its Intellectual Property 2.7. "Intellectual Property" means all patents, rights to inventions, utility upon issuance of the invoice. created before or after the commencement date of the Conditions and models, copyright and related rights, trade marks, logos, service marks, 6.2. Without prejudice to any other rights hereunder, in case of Client's whether or not associated with any contract between the Parties. trade dress, business and domain names, rights in trade dress or get-up, payment default, the Society shall be entitled to charge, in addition to 12.2. The Intellectual Property developed for the performance of the rights in goodwill or to sue for passing off, unfair competition rights, rights the amount not properly paid, interests equal to twelve (12) months LI- Services including, but not limited to drawings, calculations, and re- in designs, rights in computer software, database rights, topography BOR plus two (2) per cent as of due date calculated on the number of ports shall remain exclusive property of the Society. rights, moral rights, rights in confidential information (including know- how and trade secrets), methods and proto cols for Services, and any days such payment is delinquent. The Society shall also have the right 13. ASSIGNMENT other intellectual property rights, in each case whether capable of regis- to withhold certificates and other documents and/or to suspend or re- 13.1. The contract resulting from to these Conditions cannot be as- tration, registered or unregistered and including all applications for and voke the validity of certificates. signed or transferred by any means by a Party to a third party without renewals, reversions or extensions of such rights, and all similar or 6.3. In case of dispute on the invoice amount, the undisputed portion the prior written consent of the other Party. equivalent rights or forms of protection in any part of the world. of the invoice shall be paid and an explanation on the dispute shall ac- 13.2. The Society shall however have the right to assign or transfer by 2.8. "Parties" means the Society and Client together. company payment so that action can be taken to solve the dispute. any means the said contract to a subsidiary of the Bureau Veritas 2.9. "Party" means the Society or the Client. 7. 7. LIABILITY Group. 2.10. "Register" means the register published annually by the Society. 7.1. The Society bears no liability for consequential loss. For the pur- 14. SEVERABILITY 2.11. "Rules" means the Society's classification rules, guidance notes and pose of this clause consequential loss shall include, without limitation: 14.1. Invalidity of one or more provisions does not affect the remaining other documents. The Rules, procedures and instructions of the Society • Indirect or consequential loss; provisions. take into account at the date of their preparation the state of currently avail- • Any loss and/or deferral of production, loss of product, loss of use, 14.2. Definitions herein take precedence over other definitions which able and proven technical minimum requirements but are not a standard loss of bargain, loss of revenue, loss of profit or anticipated profit, may appear in other documents issued by the Society. or a code of construction neither a guide for maintenance, a safety hand- loss of business and business interruption, in each case whether 14.3. In case of doubt as to the interpretation of the Conditions, the book or a guide of professional practices, all of which are assumed to be direct or indirect. English text shall prevail. known in detail and carefully followed at all times by the Client. The Client shall save, indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Society 15. GOVERNING LAW AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION 2.12. "Services" means the services set out in clauses 2.2 and 2.3 but from the Client's own consequential loss regardless of cause. 15.1. The Conditions shall be construed and governed by the laws of also other services related to Classification and Certification such as, but 7.2. In any case, the Society's maximum liability towards the Client is England and Wales. not limited to: ship and company safety management certification, ship limited to one hundred and fifty per-cents (150%) of the price paid by 15.2. The Society and the Client shall make every effort to settle any and port security certification, training activities, all activities and duties the Client to the Society for the performance of the Services. This limit dispute amicably and in good faith by way of negotiation within thirty incidental thereto such as documentation on any supporting means, soft- applies regardless of fault by the Society, including breach of contract, (30) days from the date of receipt by either one of the Parties of a writ- ware, instrumentation, measurements, tests and trials on board. breach of warranty, tort, strict liability, breach of statute. ten notice of such a dispute. 2.13. "Society" means the classification society 'Bureau Veritas Ma- 7.3. All claims shall be presented to the Society in writing within three 15.3. Failing that, the dispute shall finally be settled by arbitration under rine & Offshore SAS', a company organized and existing under the (3) months of the Services' performance or (if later) the date when the the LCIA rules, which rules are deemed to be incorporated by refer- laws of France, registered in Nanterre under the number 821 131 844, events which are relied on were first discovered by the Client. Any ence into this clause. The number of arbitrators shall be three (3). The or any other legal entity of Bureau Veritas Group as may be specified claim not so presented as defined above shall be deemed waived and place of arbitration shall be London (UK). in the relevant contract, and whose main activities are Classification absolutely time barred. 16. PROFESSIONNAL ETHICS and Certification of ships or offshore units. 8. INDEMNITY CLAUSE 16.1. Each Party shall conduct all activities in compliance with all laws, 2.14. "Unit" means any ship or vessel or offshore unit or structure of 8.1. The Client agrees to release, indemnify and hold harmless the So- statutes, rules, and regulations applicable to such Party including but any type or part of it or system whether linked to shore, river bed or sea ciety from and against any and all claims, demands, lawsuits or actions not limited to: child labour, forced labour, collective bargaining, discrim- bed or not, whether operated or located at sea or in inland waters or for damages, including legal fees, for harm or loss to persons and/or ination, abuse, working hours and minimum wages, anti-bribery, anti- partly on land, including submarines, hovercrafts, drilling rigs, offshore property tangible, intangible or otherwise which may be brought corruption. Each of the Parties warrants that neither it, nor its affiliates, installations of any type and of any purpose, their related and ancillary against the Society, incidental to, arising out of or in connection with has made or will make, with respect to the matters provided for here- equipment, subsea or not, such as well head and pipelines, mooring the performance of the Services except for those claims caused solely under, any offer, payment, gift or authorization of the payment of any legs and mooring points or otherwise as decided by the Society. and completely by the negligence of the Society, its officers, employ- money directly or indirectly, to or for the use or benefit of any official or 3. SCOPE AND PERFORMANCE ees, servants, agents or subcontractors. employee of the government, political party, official, or candidate. 3.1. The Society shall perform the Services according to the applicable 9. TERMINATION 16.2. In addition, the Client shall act consistently with the Society's national and international standards and Industry Practice and always 9.1. The Parties shall have the right to terminate the Services (and the Code of Ethics of Bureau Veritas. http://www.bureauveritas.com/ on the assumption that the Client is aware of such standards and In- relevant contract) for convenience after giving the other Party thirty home/about-us/ethics+and+compliance/ dustry Practice. (30) days' written notice, and without prejudice to clause 6 above. Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore General Conditions - Edition January 2017 R N NR 600 ULE OTE NR 600 Hull Structure and Arrangement for the Classification of Cargo Ships less than 65 m and Non Cargo Ships less than 90 m Chapters 1 2 3 4 5 6 Chapter 1 General Chapter 2 Structure Design Principles, General Arrangement and Scantling Cri- teria Chapter 3 Design Loads Chapter 4 Hull Scantling Chapter 5 Other Structures Chapter 6 Additional Requirements in Relation to the Service Notation or Ser- vice Feature Assigned to the Ship Chapter 7 Construction and Testing December 2017 Unless otherwise specified, these rules apply to ships for which contracts are st signed after December 1 , 2017. The Society may refer to the contents hereof st before December 1 , 2017, as and when deemed necessary or appropriate. 2 Bureau Veritas December 2017 CHAPTER 1 GENERAL Section 1 General 1 Application criteria 25 1.1 Types of ships covered by the present Rules 1.2 Types of ships not covered by the present Rules 1.3 Particular cases 2 General 25 2.1 Wording 2.2 Classification 3 Navigation coefficient 26 3.1 Ships with a navigation notation 3.2 Sea going launch and launch 4 Definitions 27 4.1 Moulded base line 4.2 Lengths 4.3 Breadth 4.4 Depth D 4.5 Moulded draught T 4.6 Total block coefficient CB 4.7 Chine and bottom 4.8 Lightweight 4.9 Deadweight 4.10 Freeboard deck 4.11 Bulkhead deck 4.12 Superstructure 4.13 Multihull platform 5 Reference co-ordinate system 28 5.1 General 6 Stability 29 6.1 General 7 Documentation to be submitted 29 7.1 Documentation to be submitted Section 2 Materials 1 General 31 1.1 Application 2 Steels for hull structure 31 2.1 General 3 Aluminium alloys for hull structure 32 3.1 Characteristics and testing December 2017 Bureau Veritas 3 4 Composite materials and plywood for hull structure 32 4.1 Characteristics and testing 4.2 Application Section 3 Scantling Principles 1 Main scantling principles 33 1.1 General 1.2 Type of ships 1.3 Corrosion addition 1.4 Rounding off 2 Hull analysis approach 34 2.1 Global hull girder strength and local strength 4 Bureau Veritas December 2017 CHAPTER 2 STRUCTURE DESIGN PRINCIPLES, GENERAL ARRANGEMENT AND SCANTLING CRITERIA Section 1 Structure Design Principles 1 General 37 1.1 Application 2 Structural continuity of hull girder 37 2.1 General principles for longitudinal hull girder 2.2 General principles for multihull platform 2.3 Insert plates and doublers 2.4 Connection between steel and aluminium 3 Bottom structure arrangement 38 3.1 General arrangement 3.2 Longitudinal framing arrangement of single bottom 3.3 Transverse framing arrangement of single bottom 3.4 Double bottom arrangement 3.5 Arrangement, scantlings and connections of bilge keels 4 Side structure arrangement 39 4.1 General 4.2 Stiffener arrangement 4.3 Openings in the side shell plating 5 Deck structure arrangement 40 5.1 General 5.2 Opening arrangement 5.3 Hatch supporting structures 5.4 Pillar arrangement under deck 5.5 Deck structure in way of launching appliances used for survival craft or rescue boats 6 Bulkhead structure arrangement 41 6.1 General 6.2 Watertight bulkheads 6.3 Non-tight bulkheads 6.4 Corrugated bulkheads 6.5 Bulkheads acting as pillars 6.6 Bracketed stiffeners 7 Superstructures and deckhouses 42 7.1 Connection of superstructures and deckhouses with the hull structure 7.2 Structural arrangement of superstructures and deckhouses December 2017 Bureau Veritas 5 Section 2 Subdivision, Compartment Arrangement and Arrangement of Hull Openings 1 General 43 1.1 Application 2 Definition 43 2.1 Load line length LLL 2.2 Machinery spaces of category A 3 Subdivision arrangement 43 3.1 Number of transverse watertight bulkheads 3.2 Water ingress detection 3.3 Collision bulkhead 3.4 After peak bulkheads, machinery space bulkheads and sterntubes 3.5 Height of transverse watertight bulkheads other than collision bulkhead and after peak bulkheads 3.6 Openings in watertight bulkheads and decks - Ships with service notation other than passenger ship or ro-ro passenger ship 4 Compartment arrangement 46 4.1 Definitions 4.2 Cofferdam arrangement 4.3 Double bottom 4.4 Compartments forward of the collision bulkhead 4.5 Minimum bow height 4.6 Shaft tunnels 4.7 Watertight ventilators and trunks 4.8 Fuel oil tanks 5 Access arrangement 47 5.1 General 5.2 Double bottom 5.3 Access arrangement to, and within, spaces in, and forward of, the cargo area 5.4 Shaft tunnels 5.5 Access to steering gear compartment Section 3 Scantling Criteria 1 General 50 1.1 Application 1.2 Global and local stresses 1.3 Stress notation 2 Steel and aluminium alloy structures 50 2.1 Permissible stresses under global loads 2.2 Permissible stresses under local loads 2.3 Permissible stresses of primary stiffeners under global and local loads 3 Composite material structure 53 3.1 General 3.2 Rule safety factors 4 Plywood structure 55 4.1 General 4.2 Rule safety factors 6 Bureau Veritas December 2017