The external draft of Harmonized Common Structural Rules(CSR-H) for Bulk Carriers and Oil Tankers has been released for external review. Based on a consistent methodology at the adoption of the current CSR, CSR-H aims to be in compliance with the IMO GBS where GBS functional requirements fall within the scope, and the safety level is equivalent to or higher than the current CSR criteria. In this paper, by consequence assessment on a 320k VLCC, a 163k Suezmax tanker, a 115k Aframax tanker, a 76k Panamax tanker and a 48k MR tanker, the results of the comparison on the structural scantlings to CSR, the evaluation on the increasing of steel weight and some critical technique issues are discussed.
