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The International Code on Intact Stability 2008 (2008 IS CODE), presents mandatory and recommendatory stability criteria and other measures for ensuring the safe operation of ships, to minimize the risk to such ships, to the personnel on board and to the environment. The 2008 IS Code will take effect on 1 July 2010.
The 2008 IS Code features:
This publication also presents Explanatory Notes to the 2008 IS Code, intended to provide Administrations and the shipping industry with specific guidance to assist in the uniform interpretation and application of the intact stability requirements of the 2008 IS Code.
The 2008 IS Code should be of interest to maritime administrations, ship manufacturers, shipping companies, education institutes and others concerned with stability criteria.
Please download and print the supplement from www.imo.org/Publications/SupplementsAndCDs/Pages/SupplementsInserts.aspx.