Which parameter should be used to monitor cargo on-board?
The relevant cargo parameters to monitor and report transport work vary on a ship type basis, and the Implementing Act on Cargo Parameters indicates which parameters must be considered for every type of ship.
The parameters documented in the Implementing Act are reported below:
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The parameters documented in the Implementing Act are reported below:
- For passenger ships: the number of passengers
- For ro-ro ships, container ships, oil tankers, chemical tankers, gas carriers, bulk carriers, refrigerated cargo ships and combination carriers: the mass of cargo carried expressed in tonnes
- For ro-ro ships only, the actual mass of cargo may be used as an additional option to determine cargo weight
- For LNG carriers, the total volume of cargo on discharge expressed in cubic metres (or the sum of cargo discharged during a voyage and the cargo discharged at all subsequent ports of call until new cargo is loaded)
- For container/ro-ro cargo ship: the volume of cargo carried expressed in cubic metres
- For general cargo ships: the mass of cargo expressed in tonnes of deadweight carried, with the mass of cargo on-board as an additional parameters on a voluntary basis
- For vehicle carriers: the mass of cargo carried expressed in tonnes or both tonnes and tonnes of deadweight carried
- For ro-pax ships: the mass of the cargo carried expressed in tonnes and the number of passengers
- For other ship types: the mass of the cargo carried expressed in tonnes or in tonnes of deadweight carried
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