Listing of loading and unloading berthsU.K.
35.—(1) The owner of a ship shall ensure that the ship is provided with a list (“the Berth List”) of all loading berths at which it is intended the ship shall load or discharge cargo or vehicles.
(2) The Berth List shall list separately for each port which the ship is intended to visit to load or discharge cargo or vehicles—
(a)the loading berths at which the ship in question can, when so loading or discharging, comply with the requirements of regulation 28(1) without relying on paragraph (2) of that regulation; and
(b)where it is intended that the ship shall so load or discharge in the manner permitted by regulation 28(2), the loading berths at which it will so load or discharge.
The berths of the type described in sub-paragraph (b) shall be listed separately from those of the type described in sub-paragraph (a).
(3) A copy of the ship’s Berth List shall be supplied to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
(4) No ro-ro passenger ship shall, except in an emergency, load or discharge cargo or vehicles through a loading door at any berth which is not listed in the ship’s Berth List and in the copy thereof supplied to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.