Arctic Shipping Safety and Pollution Prevention Regulations (SOR/2017-286)

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Regulations are current to 2024-10-30 and last amended on 2023-06-07. Previous Versions

SCHEDULE 2

(Section 5)

Construction Standards for Types A, B, C, D and E Vessels

Item	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6	Column 7	Column 8	Column 9	Column 10	Column 11	Column 12	Column 13
Item	Type of Vessel	American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)	Bureau Veritas (BV)	China Classification Society (CCS)	Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK)	DNV	Finnish-Swedish Ice Class Rules (FSICR)	International Association of Classification on Societies (IACS)	Korean Register of Shipping (KR)	Lloyd’s Register of Shipping (LR)	Poiski Rejestr Statkow (PRS)	Rina Services (RINA)	Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
1	Type A	Ice Class IAA	ICE CLASS IA SUPER	Ice Class B1*	NS (Class 1A Super Ice Strengthening)	Ice (1A), ICE-1A or E4	1A Super	PC1 to PC7	IA Super	Ice Class 1AS FS (+) or Ice Class 1AS FS	L1A	ICE CLASS 1A SUPER	UL or LU5 or Arc5
2	Type B	Ice Class IA	ICE CLASS IA	Ice Class B1	NS (Class 1A Ice Strengthening)	Ice (1A) or ICE-1A or E3	1A		1A	Ice Class 1A FS (+) or Ice Class 1A FS	L1	ICE CLASS 1A	L1 or LU4 or Arc4
3	Type C	Ice Class IB	ICE CLASS IB	Ice Class B2	NS (Class 1B Ice Strengthening)	Ice (1B) or ICE-1B or E2	1B	–	1B	Ice Class 1B FS (+) or Ice Class 1B FS	L2	ICE CLASS 1B	L2 or LU3 or Ice 3
4	Type D	Ice Class IC	ICE CLASS IC	Ice Class B3	NS (Class 1C Ice Strengthening)	Ice (1C) or ICE-1C or E1	1C	–	1C	Ice Class 1C FS (+) or Ice Class 1C FS	L3	ICE CLASS 1C	L3 or LU2 or Ice 2
5	Type E (see Note)	Below Ice Class IC	1D	Ice Class B	NS (Class 1D Ice Strengthening)	ICE-C or E	Category II	–	1D	Ice Class 1D or Ice Class 1E	L4	1D	L4 or LU1 or Ice 1

Note: Type E includes the identified ice class and any class below it, as well as vessels without an assigned class of ice strengthening.