Reaffirmed 2019

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (First Revision) which is identical with ISO 6218 : 2005 ‘Inland navigation vessels - Manually operated coupling devices for push tows - Safety requirements and main dimensions’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Inland Harbour Crafts and Fishing Vessels Sectional Committee and approval of the Transport Engineering Division Council.

This standard was first published in 1998. In this revision, beside other changes, nominal size ‘10’ of coupling devices has been included. This revised standard also gives rules for designation and testing.

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker in the International Standard while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.