CLASSIFICATION CONDITIONS

No ABJ0/GNB/20150928072613

NAME OF SHIP: SEA PROGRESS

REGISTER No: 14258A

Ex-names: AEGINA
Flag: Nigeria

Gross Tonnage: 4999

Year built: 1992

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Oil tanker
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Class symbols, marks and notations

entered in the Register Book or, in any
case, on the classification certificate:
REGISTERED OWNER Information:
Full name:
Address:
Phone:

SEA PROGRESS LIMITED

31B, MARINE ROAD, APAPA LAGOS APAPA - LAGOS NIGERIA
,
, Fax:
E-mail:

MANAGER Information (if any):

Full name:
Address:
Phone:

,
E-mail:

, Fax: ,

Address where Bureau Veritas must forward all future letters, certificates, invoices and various documents
concerning ship:

Full details where Bureau Veritas must issue invoices concerning ship:

Bureau Veritas connecting district where a copy of the reports will be kept:
Abidjan
In which language should the quaterly statements of class and statutory position be made up ?
English
French
Spanish
Scandinavian
Do you want to access survey status, survey reports and certificates on the internet through the Bureau Veritas
website www.veristar.com ?
yes
no
If yes,

Please add this ship to my existing username /

Please create a new username/password
Last name:
First name:

E-mail:

Document to be signed page 5 and sent to CM

See General Conditions of Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore Division on page 2

CLASSIFICATION CONDITIONS No ABJ0/GNB/20150928072613 (ctd)

NAME OF SHIP:SEA PROGRESS
REGISTER No: 14258A

MARINE & OFFSHORE DIVISION - GENERAL CONDITIONS

(7 January 2013)

ARTICLE 1
1.1. - BUREAU VERITAS is a Society the purpose of whose Marine & Offshore Division (the Society) is the classification (
Classification ) of any ship or vessel or offshore unit or structure of any type or part of it or system therein collectively
hereinafter referred to as a Unit whether linked to shore, river bed or sea bed or not, whether operated or located at sea or in
inland waters or partly on land, including submarines, hovercrafts, drilling rigs, offshore installations of any type and of any
purpose, their related and ancillary equipment, subsea or not, such as well head and pipelines, mooring legs and mooring
points or otherwise as decided by the Society.
The Society:
prepares and publishes Rules for classification, Guidance Notes and other documents ( Rules );
issues Certificates, Attestations and Reports following its interventions ( Certificates );
publishes Registers.
1.2. - The Society also participates in the application of National and International Regulations or Standards, in particular by
delegation from different Governments. Those activities are hereafter collectively referred to as Certification .
1.3. - The Society can also provide services related to Classification and Certification such as ship and company safety
management certification; ship and port security certification, training activities; all activities and duties incidental thereto such
as documentation on any supporting means, software, instrumentation, measurements, tests and trials on board.
1.4. - The interventions mentioned in 1.1., 1.2. and 1.3. are referred to as Services . The party and/or its representative
requesting the services is hereinafter referred to as the Client . The Services are prepared and carried out on the
assumption that the Clients are aware of the International Maritime and/or Offshore Industry (the Industry)
practices.
1.5. - The Society is neither and may not be considered as an Underwriter, Broker in ships sale or chartering, Expert in Units
valuation, Consulting Engineer, Controller, Naval Architect, Manufacturer, Shipbuilder, Repair yard, Charterer or Shipowner
who are not relieved of any of their expressed or implied obligations by the interventions of the Society.
ARTICLE 2
2.1. - Classification is the appraisement given by the Society for its Client, at a certain date, following surveys by its Surveyors
along the lines specified in Articles 3 and 4 hereafter on the level of compliance of a Unit to its Rules or part of them. This
appraisement is represented by a class entered on the Certificates and periodically transcribed in the Societys Register.
2.2. - Certification is carried out by the Society along the same lines as set out in Articles 3 and 4 hereafter and with reference
to the applicable National and International Regulations or Standards.
2.3. - It is incumbent upon the Client to maintain the condition of the Unit after surveys, to present the Unit for surveys
and to inform the Society without delay of circumstances which may affect the given appraisement or cause to modify
its scope.
2.4. - The Client is to give to the Society all access and information necessary for the safe and efficient performance of the
requested Services. The Client is the sole responsible for the conditions of presentation of the Unit for tests, trials and surveys
and the conditions under which tests and trials are carried out.
ARTICLE 3
3.1. - The Rules, procedures and instructions of the Society take into account at the date of their preparation the state
of currently available and proven technical knowledge of the Industry. They are a collection of minimum requirements
but not a standard or a code of construction neither a guide for maintenance, a safety handbook or a guide of
professional practices, all of which are assumed to be known in detail and carefully followed at all times by the Client.
Committees consisting of personalities from the Industry contribute to the development of those documents.
3.2. - The Society only is qualified to apply its Rules and to interpret them. Any reference to them has no effect unless
it involves the Societys intervention.
3.3. - The Services of the Society are carried out by professional Surveyors according to the applicable Rules and to the Code
of Ethics of the Society. Surveyors have authority to decide locally on matters related to classification and certification of the
Units, unless the Rules provide otherwise.
3.4. - The operations of the Society in providing its Services are exclusively conducted by way of random inspections
and do not in any circumstances involve monitoring or exhaustive verification.

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ARTICLE 4
4.1. - The Society, acting by reference to its Rules:
reviews the construction arrangements of the Units as shown on the documents presented by the Client;
conducts surveys at the place of their construction;
classes Units and enters their class in its Register;
surveys periodically the Units in service to note that the requirements for the maintenance of class are met.
The Client is to inform the Society without delay of circumstances which may cause the date or the extent of the
surveys to be changed.
ARTICLE 5
5.1. - The Society acts as a provider of services. This cannot be construed as an obligation bearing on the Society to
obtain a result or as a warranty.
5.2. - The certificates issued by the Society pursuant to 5.1. here above are a statement on the level of compliance of
the Unit to its Rules or to the documents of reference for the Services provided for.
In particular, the Society does not engage in any work relating to the design, building, production or repair checks,
neither in the operation of the Units or in their trade, neither in any advisory services, and cannot be held liable on
those accounts. Its certificates cannot be construed as an implied or express warranty of safety, fitness for the
purpose, seaworthiness of the Unit or of its value for sale, insurance or chartering.
5.3. - The Society does not declare the acceptance or commissioning of a Unit, nor of its construction in conformity
with its design, that being the exclusive responsibility of its owner or builder.
5.4. - The Services of the Society cannot create any obligation bearing on the Society or constitute any warranty of proper
operation, beyond any representation set forth in the Rules, of any Unit, equipment or machinery, computer software of any
sort or other comparable concepts that has been subject to any survey by the Society.
ARTICLE 6
6.1. - The Society accepts no responsibility for the use of information related to its Services which was not provided for the
purpose by the Society or with its assistance.
6.2. - If the Services of the Society or their omission cause to the Client a damage which is proved to be the direct and
reasonably foreseeable consequence of an error or omission of the Society, its liability towards the Client is limited to
ten times the amount of fee paid for the Service having caused the damage, provided however that this limit shall be
subject to a minimum of eight thousand (8,000) Euro, and to a maximum which is the greater of eight hundred
thousand (800,000) Euro and one and a half times the above mentioned fee. These limits apply regardless of fault
including breach of contract, breach of warranty, tort, strict liability, breach of statute, etc.
The Society bears no liability for indirect or consequential loss whether arising naturally or not as a consequence of
the Services or their omission such as loss of revenue, loss of profit, loss of production, loss relative to other
contracts and indemnities for termination of other agreements.
6.3. - All claims are to be presented to the Society in writing within three months of the date when the Services were supplied
or (if later) the date when the events which are relied on of were first known to the Client, and any claim which is not so
presented shall be deemed waived and absolutely barred. Time is to be interrupted thereafter with the same periodicity.
ARTICLE 7
7.1. - Requests for Services are to be in writing.
7.2. - Either the Client or the Society can terminate as of right the requested Services after giving the other party thirty
days' written notice, for convenience, and without prejudice to the provisions in Article 8 hereunder.
7.3. - The class granted to the concerned Units and the previously issued certificates remain valid until the date of effect of the
notice issued according to 7.2. here above subject to compliance with 2.3. here above and Article 8 hereunder.
7.4. The contract for classification and/or certification of a Unit cannot be transferred neither assigned.
ARTICLE 8
8.1. - The Services of the Society, whether completed or not, involve, for the part carried out, the payment of fee upon receipt
of the invoice and the reimbursement of the expenses incurred.
8.2. Overdue amounts are increased as of right by interest in accordance with the applicable legislation.
8.3. - The class of a Unit may be suspended in the event of non-payment of fee after a first unfruitful notification to
pay.

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ARTICLE 9
9.1. - The documents and data provided to or prepared by the Society for its Services, and the information available to the
Society, are treated as confidential. However:
Clients have access to the data they have provided to the Society and, during the period of classification of the Unit for
them, to the classification file consisting of survey reports and certificates which have been prepared at any time by the
Society for the classification of the Unit ;
copy of the documents made available for the classification of the Unit and of available survey reports can be handed over
to another Classification Society, where appropriate, in case of the Units transfer of class;
the data relative to the evolution of the Register, to the class suspension and to the survey status of the Units, as well as
general technical information related to hull and equipment damages, may be passed on to IACS (International
Association of Classification Societies) according to the association working rules;
the certificates, documents and information relative to the Units classed with the Society may be reviewed during
certificating bodies audits and are disclosed upon order of the concerned governmental or inter-governmental authorities
or of a Court having jurisdiction.
The documents and data are subject to a file management plan.
ARTICLE 10
10.1. - Any delay or shortcoming in the performance of its Services by the Society arising from an event not reasonably
foreseeable by or beyond the control of the Society shall be deemed not to be a breach of contract.
ARTICLE 11
11.1. - In case of diverging opinions during surveys between the Client and the Societys surveyor, the Society may designate
another of its surveyors at the request of the Client.
11.2. - Disagreements of a technical nature between the Client and the Society can be submitted by the Society to the advice
of its Marine Advisory Committee.
ARTICLE 12
12.1. - Disputes over the Services carried out by delegation of Governments are assessed within the framework of the
applicable agreements with the States, international Conventions and national rules.
12.2. - Disputes arising out of the payment of the Societys invoices by the Client are submitted to the Court of Nanterre,
France, or to another Court as deemed fit by the Society.
12.3. - Other disputes over the present General Conditions or over the Services of the Society are exclusively
submitted to arbitration, by three arbitrators, in London according to the Arbitration Act 1996 or any statutory
modification or re-enactment thereof. The contract between the Society and the Client shall be governed by English
law.
ARTICLE 13
13.1. - These General Conditions constitute the sole contractual obligations binding together the Society and the
Client, to the exclusion of all other representation, statements, terms, conditions whether express or implied. They
may be varied in writing by mutual agreement. They are not varied by any purchase order or other document of the Client
serving similar purpose.
13.2. - The invalidity of one or more stipulations of the present General Conditions does not affect the validity of the remaining
provisions.
13.3. - The definitions herein take precedence over any definitions serving the same purpose which may appear in other
documents issued by the Society.

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NAME OF SHIP:SEA PROGRESS
REGISTER No: 14258A

The undersigned, being aware of and accepting the Bureau Veritas Rules and Regulations and the Marine &
Offshore Division General Conditions given hereabove, declares to be willing to maintain the vessel in class with
Bureau Veritas.
The undersigned declares also being aware of the Rules relating to the surveys to be carried out for the
maintenance of class, and in particular in case of damage or grounding, and of the requirements to notify the
Society whenever the ship's bottom and related items can be examined in drydock.
The signature of this document by any person other the owner implies that this person is commissioned by the
owner and warrants payment of Bureau Veritas fees.
Name of Owner's representative signing this document : .......................................................
Title:

At LAGOS , on28 September 2015

Signature