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Unit Aims, Objectives and Prerequisites
C.2.2 - Container ship stowage plans

1. Unit Aims

This Unit is designed:

1. To describe the conventions and layout of cellular container ship general arrangement, outline and bay plans.
2. To explain how to read and interpret container ship bay and other stowage plans.
3. To introduce the main types of stowage plans used for general cargo/container and RoRo vessels that carry containers, and explain how to read and interpret them.

2. Unit Objectives

After completing this Unit, the learner will be able to:

1. Recognize and distinguish between a general arrangement, an outline plan and a bay plan for a cellular container vessel.
2. Identify correctly, from the general arrangement ship plan, the layout of hatches, bays and other features of a cellular container vessel.
3. Identify correctly all 20ft, 40ft and optional stowage positions on a container ship general arrangement plan.
4. On an outline plan of a cellular vessel, identify correctly: the bay profiles; the container positions above and below deck; the position of hatch covers; the symbols and codes for ‘specials’ and loading/discharge ports; and the number of containers that can be stowed in each bay, above and below deck.
5. Locate correctly a given stowage slot address on a given cellular container ship outline plan.
6. Given a completed bay plan, identify correctly the slots into which given containers are to be loaded or from which they are to be discharged.
7. Given a completed bay plan, identify correctly the containers stowed in, or to be stowed in, a series of given stowage slots.
8. Identify correctly those slots on a standard bay plan which are occupied by ‘special’ containers, and recognize their special nature.
9. List the information recorded on a cellular vessel bay plan for each container in stowage.
10. Given an outline plan of a general cargo/container vessel, identify correctly the main features of the vessel and the container stowage positions above and below deck.
11. Given an outline plan of a general cargo/container vessel, correctly identify all container stowage addresses.
12. Given detailed stowage plans for a general cargo/container vessel, correctly identify all container stowage addresses and the recorded details of containers carried in given address positions.
13. Given an outline plan of a RoRo vessel, identify correctly the vessel features and the container stowage positions on the vehicle decks, the weather deck and (if there is cellular LoLo stowage) in the holds.
14. Identify correctly the container stowage addresses and information details on a RoRo vessel stowage plan, on the vehicle decks, the weather deck and (in the case of a RoRo/LoLo vessel) in the holds.
15. Define, recognize the best definition of, or distinguish between true and false statements concerning, the technical terms used in the Unit, as listed in sections 3 and 4 below.

3. Unit Prerequisites

It is assumed that trainees will, before starting this Unit, have completed successfully the following Units, or will have demonstrated (for example by successfully completing the Tests for those Units) their understanding of the topics covered by them:

• Container terminal operations (C.1.1)
• Container ship construction (C.2.1)
• Container construction (C.3.1)
• Container numbering and marking (C.3.2)