Turkmenistan has issued the Law “On accession to the 1988 Protocol to the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966”.
The International Convention on Load Lines was adopted on the initiative of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) on April 5, 1966 in London. The Convention provides for the determination of the freeboard of ships by dividing them into compartments and calculating emergency stability. It applies to all ships engaged in international voyages, with the exception of warships, ships of less than 150 gross tons, fishing vessels and pleasure yachts not engaged in commercial transportation.
In 1988, a special Protocol amended the Convention, later supplemented in 2003 by the IMO Maritime Safety Committee.
The Law of Turkmenistan "On accession to the 1988 Protocol to the International Convention on Load Lines, 1966" was published in today's newspaper "Neutral Turkmenistan".
