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Scope and Application

This Guide is applicable to coatings of dedicated seawater ballast tanks in all type of ships and double-side skin spaces of bulk carriers on ABS-classed vessels. Vessels and marine structures designed, built, and coated in full compliance with the International Regulations, standards, guidelines, and recommendations as listed in 1.3 below may be assigned a class notation CPS, Coating Performance Standard.

Compliance with this Guide is mandatory for ABS-classed Common Structural Rules (CSR) vessels contracted for construction between the builder and the owner on or after 8 December 2006. For all other ABSclassed vessels, the CPS Notation is optional and subject to owner's request.

The Guide is based on the criteria contained in the IMO PSPC-SWBT as interpreted by IACS UIs SC223, SC227 and SC226.2. In applying IACS UI SC223 for ABS-classed vessels, "Administration" is to be read to be "ABS".