Art.15 - Documents and Requirements :

A -Documents to be produced are :

(1)Suez Canal Special Tonnage Certificate and Calculation Sheets ( 3 copies in the first transit ).

(2)Certificate of Registry & ship's drawing.

(3)Statistical Declaration.

(4)Extract from the vessel's official documents and information concerning the vessel's type and her cargo ( Containers, barges, etc ... ).

(5)Declaration concerning the use of double bottom tanks and the lower parts of the high tanks.

(6)Declaration concerning vessels in ballast.

(7)Declaration of State of Navigability.

(8)The last Classification Certificate issued.

(9)Any other information necessary for transiting the Canal.

(10)Piping plan and general arrangement plan for L.P.G. and L.N.G. vessels.

(11)( I.O.P.P. ) International Oil Pollution Prevention Certificate of Compliance and its supplement for the record of construction and equipment as amended for tankers vessels.

B-Vessel wishing to transit the Canal must declare at the CA Offices and pay the various dues mentioned in Part IV Chap. XIII of the present Rules. She must furnish the CA Officials with all the particulars requested by her agent's.

C-The vessel must in addition comply with the requirements of the A.R.E. Government Authorities.

D-In case the CA deems it necessary to be supplied with a new Seaworthiness Certificate issued by a recognized classification society belonging to I.A.C.S..

Seaworthiness Certificates to be accepted by SCA, if in native language , are to be translated into Arabic or English and duly certified by the Embassy or Consulate in the ARE.

E-Navy ships transiting the SC Waters must be provided with a Suez Canal Special Tonnage Certificate showing the SC.G. and N.T. If such documents is not on board, the Commanding Officer has to give, in writing, the following information :

(1)Name of Ship.

(2)Name of Commanding Officer.

(3)Call sign of the ship ( Radio Call ).

(4) L.O.A., B.O.A. and depth of the ship.

(As long as the ship is not provided with the SC Special Tonnage Certificate, transit dues will be levied on the temporary Gross Tonnage product of the empirical formula without any allowance till the presentation of the documents required ).

F-Erroneous Declarations :

( See also Art.47 bis. )If the CA Officials find out a wrong information concerning the cargo carried or the ship's situation ballast or loaded, resulting from the shipping clerk's or the Master's negligence, and all documents held, the tolls difference will be doubled. The tolls difference means the difference between the correct and the wrong amount of transit dues.