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    Bulk carrier ships are designed to carry bulk cargoes in their large cargo holds. They have no internal deck divisions, allowing for fast loading and unloading of cargo. Their engines are usually placed aft and they have topside and lower hopper tanks to help stabilize the ship and assist in cargo handling. SOLAS Chapter XII provides regulations for bulk carriers regarding their damage stability, structural strength requirements, and survey requirements to ensure their safe operation and enhance safety.

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    Bulk Carrier Construction

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    Bulk carrier ships are designed to carry bulk cargoes in their large cargo holds. They have no internal deck divisions, allowing for fast loading and unloading of cargo. Their engines are usually placed aft and they have topside and lower hopper tanks to help stabilize the ship and assist in cargo handling. SOLAS Chapter XII provides regulations for bulk carriers regarding their damage stability, structural strength requirements, and survey requirements to ensure their safe operation and enhance safety.

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    Bulk carrier ships are designed to carry bulk cargoes in their large cargo holds. They have no internal deck divisions, allowing for fast loading and unloading of cargo. Their engines are usually placed aft and they have topside and lower hopper tanks to help stabilize the ship and assist in cargo handling. SOLAS Chapter XII provides regulations for bulk carriers regarding their damage stability, structural strength requirements, and survey requirements to ensure their safe operation and enhance safety.

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    Bulk Carrier Construction

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    Bulk carrier ships are designed to carry bulk cargoes in their large cargo holds. They have no internal deck divisions, allowing for fast loading and unloading of cargo. Their engines are usually placed aft and they have topside and lower hopper tanks to help stabilize the ship and assist in cargo handling. SOLAS Chapter XII provides regulations for bulk carriers regarding their damage stability, structural strength requirements, and survey requirements to ensure their safe operation and enhance safety.

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    The key takeaways are that bulk carriers have large clear cargo holds with no internal decks, sloped hopper tanks to assist with cargo handling, and engines usually placed aft.

    The main structural features of a bulk carrier include large clear cargo holds, weather tight hatch covers, sloped upper and lower hopper tanks to self-trim bulk cargoes like grain, and longitudinal framing under deck.

    SOLAS Chapter XII covers requirements for bulk carriers regarding damage stability by regulating cargo density and ability to withstand flooding of any single cargo hold. It also covers structural strength requirements for the foremost cargo spaces and surveys required for older bulk carriers.

    Bulk Carrier Construction

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    These ships have large clear holds with no tween decks.
    This facilitates fast loading & discharging.
    Hatches are capable of being covered with weather tight
    covers.
    Engines are usually placed aft.
    Topside tanks (Upper Hoppers) are provided as shown in
    sketch, to enable water ballast to be carried high up &
    reduce GM.
    This may be required when carrying heavy cargoes, such
    as ore in the holds.
    A deep tank is usually not fitted, although one of the
    middle cargo holds may be usable for taking in ballast
    (Heavy Ballast Condition).
    In the type shown in the sketch, the sloping side tanks at
    the bilge form a hopper(Lower Hopper) which assists
    in handling of bulk cargo.
    The sloping upper & lower hoppers make the bulk
    carrier holds self trimming for carriage of cargoes such
    as grain.
    The height of Hatch coamings on freeboard deck, raised
    quarter deck, or within one-quarter of the ships length
    from the stem on superstructure decks is to be 600 mm,
    where they are exposed to the weather. Abaft one-quarter
    of the length from the stem, the height is to be 450mm.
    Framing except in Large Bulk Carriers is composite
    type.
    Framing under deck is Longitudinal type.
    The side plating where longitudinal stresses are less, is
    Transversely framed.
    Framing in Double bottom is longitudinal type.
    The longitudinals are supported by Plate floors not more
    than 3.7 metres apart
    The structural arrangement of a conventional bulk carrier and
    problem areas

    Why is bulk carrier listed in Chapter XII of SOLAS?


    The need to establish proper guidance and interpretation
    regarding bulk carriers and in doing so to enhance safety.
    To ensure that bulk carriers to which SOLAS chapter XII
    applies are clearly identified as such ,either on the Safety
    Management Certificate issued under the provisions of
    SOLAS chapter IX, or in the booklet required under the
    provisions of SOLAS regulation XII/8;
    In order to enhance safety of bulk carriers Chapter
    provides detailed regulations and compliance requirements
    regarding:
    Damage stability giving guidance on cargo density and be
    able to withstand flooding incase flooding in any one cargo
    hold.
    The chapter also covers the requirement related to
    structural strength for the Bulk carriers. The transverse
    watertight bulkhead between the two foremost cargo holds
    and the double bottom of the foremost cargo hold shall
    have sufficient strength to withstand flooding of the
    foremost cargo hold, taking also into account dynamic
    effects resulting from the presence of water in the hold, in
    compliance with the bulk carrier bulkhead and double
    bottom strength standards.
    It also covers the survey of the cargo hold structure of bulk
    carriers.
    A bulk carrier of 150 m in length and upwards of single
    side skin construction, of 10 years of age and over, shall
    not carry solid bulk cargoes having a density of 1,780
    kg/m3 and above unless it has satisfactorily undergone the
    survey.
    The regulation also covers requirement for bulk carrier to
    have a loading instrument for enhancing safety.
    The regulation to detect accidental flooding cover the
    provisions regarding dry space water level detectors

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