Application

The Administration should recommend that manoeuvring information, in the form of the models contained in the appendices, should be provided as follows:

1. For all new ships to which the requirements of the 1974 SOLAS Convention, as amended, apply, the pilot card should be provided.

2. For all new ships of 100 meters in length and over, and all new chemical tankers and gas carriers regardless of size, the pilot card, wheelhouse poster and manoeuvring booklet should be provided.

The Administration should encourage the provision of manoeuvring information on existing ships, and ships that pose a hazard due to unusual dimensions or characteristics.

The manoeuvring information should be amended after modification or conversion of the ship which may alter its manoeuvring characteristics or extreme dimensions.