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Shipboard operations
This Chapter provides information on the full range of shipboard operations, including loading and discharging of cargo, hose clearing, tank cleaning and gas freeing, ballasting, tanker-to-tanker
transfers and mooring.
The Chapter also includes information on the safe handling of particular cargoes, such as static accumulator oils, those having a high vapour pressure and those containing hydrogen sulphide.
Other operations that are addressed include the use of vapour emission control systems and efficient stripping.