1. General
The IMO Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) at its eighty-seventh session (MSC 87) approved amendments to the CSS Code, set out in the annex as IMO MSC.1/Circ.1352.
According to these amendments, a "Guidance on providing safe working conditions for securing of containers on deck" was newly stipulated as a new annex 14.
The CSS Code, including this amendment, is listed in MSC.1/Circ.1371/Add.1 as a non-mandatory instrument.
Various flag states have advised R.O.s, including ClassNK, on their instructions regarding the application of this amendment as follows:

- Instruction from the Administration of UK (MCA)
This amendment (CSS Code annex 14) is to be applied to both UK flagged containerships, as well as to non-UK flagged container ships calling at UK ports as a mandatory requirement.

- Instruction from the Administration of Liberia
This amendment (CSS Code annex 14) is to be applied as a mandatory requirement.

2. Application of the CSS Code Annex 14 (MSC.1/Circ.1352) for above Administrations.
- Containerships with a date of keel laying on or after 1 January 2015 are subject to the provisions of Annex 14.
- Existing containerships with a date of keel laying prior to 1 January 2015 are subject to the provisions of sections 4.4, 7.1, 7.3, and 8 in Annex 14; and
- Existing containerships are subject to the provisions of sections 6 and 7.2 in Annex 14 as far as practical with the understanding that existing ships would not be required to be enlarged or undergo other major structural modification as determined by the flag State Administration.

Please be advised that new ClassNK Technical Information will be issued upon receipt of instructions from flag states other than the above.

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