ISO 9367-1 Mooring and Securing Arrangements for Road Vehicles Used in Maritime Transport on Ro/Ro Ships - General Requirements - Part 1: Commercial Vehicles and Vehicle Combinations, Excluding Semi-Trailers

The standard “ISO 9367-1 Mooring and securing arrangements for road vehicles used in maritime transport on Ro/Ro ships - General requirements - Part 1: Commercial vehicles and vehicle combinations, excluding semi-trailers” developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) contains the minimum requirements to allow effective mooring and securing of road vehicles on roll-on/roll-off (Ro/Ro) ships, particularly by specifying the mooring arrangements on the vehicle and the securing method to be used. At the same time, the standard annex includes the generally used belay point arrangements on Ro/Ro ships as specified by the International Maritime Organization, in order to provide information to vehicle designers (Annex A).

This standard applies to road vehicle types with a maximum permissible total vehicle and cargo mass between 1176 t and 3,5 t as defined in the standard "ISO 40 Road vehicles - Masses - Vocabulary and codes". Semi-trailers fall within the scope of the standard ISO 9367-2.

The ISO 9367-1 standard does not apply to passenger cars, buses, special vehicles (tractor vehicles only) or commercial vehicles that are not intended to be carried on Ro/Ro vessels but are transported without cargo for delivery purposes only.

Road vehicles with characteristics outside the general parameters (especially where the normal height of the centre of gravity is exceeded) require special consideration of the location and number of fixing points.

For the purposes of the ISO 9367-1 standard,

• A Ro/Ro ship is a ship that is normally undivided transversely, has one or more decks, closed or open, usually extending the entire length of the ship, onto which goods can be loaded by means of ramps and elevators., It is transported on self-propelled vehicles on road vehicles, including road tankers, semi-trailers, trailers, trolleys and similar cargo transport units, or on loading vehicles moving between the ship and the shore.
• Vehicle refers to the following types of vehicles defined in the IS0 3833 standard: freight vehicle, semi-trailer-tractor vehicle, road train, vehicle combination.
• An anchor point is the location of the anchor point that is suitably reinforced to withstand the anchoring forces on the vehicle.
• The mount point is the part within the mount point to which the mount can be directly attached.

According to this standard, passenger cars, buses, special vehicles (only tractors) or commercial vehicles that are not intended to be carried on Ro/Ro ships but are transported without cargo for delivery purposes only are excluded from the scope of this standard. Road vehicles with characteristics outside the general parameters (especially where the normal height of the centre of gravity is exceeded) require special consideration of the location and number of anchorage points.

The general requirements are:

• Securing points should be designed to ensure that the road vehicle is secured to the ship.
• Each fixing point must have at least one anchor point with the clearance specified in the standard.
• The safety point and mooring point must allow mooring to the ship deck at different angles.
• More than one mooring should not be allowed at each mooring point.
• More than one anchor point is allowed on an anchor point, but each anchor point must have the required strength for a single anchor point as given in the table.
• In the case of an anchor point with more than one anchor point, the anchor point must be capable of withstanding the total loads that may be applied to each anchor point.

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