Code on Intact Stability

Incorporates amendments adopted in May 1998 (Resolution MSC.75(69)).

The intact stability of conventional cargo and passenger vessels has been the subject of many Assembly resolutions and recommendations. As the range of types of ships has broadened, resolutions have been drafted which deal with dynamically supported craft and mobile offshore drilling units, for example.

The publication Intact Stability Criteria for Passenger Ships and Cargo Ships, first published in 1975 and revised in 1981 and 1987, contained the texts of several Assembly resolutions. This publication consists of the text of resolution A.749(18), which is a consolidation and extension of the texts of previous resolutions.