Guidance

Ship security planning: examples and templates

Example security plans for passenger and cargo ships, these documents are to be used as templates for officers creating their own plans.

Documents

Cruise ship template

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RoRo passenger ferry template

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Details

These model ship plans will help company and ship security officers to compile a ship security plan (SSP) under the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code, for agreement and verification by the Department for Transport.

A template for use with cargo ships is available on the Maritime and Coastguard website.

Updates to this page

Published 19 November 2012

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