Valge 4 / 11413 Tallinn / ESTONIA / +372 620 1200 / [email protected] / www.transpordiamet.ee

Registry code 70001490

Aleksander Rabi

TS Shipping OÜ

[email protected]

Your ref 03.08.2026

Our ref 07.09.2026 nr 17.1-3/26/15711-2

M/V BOTNICA (IMO No 9165877)

To whom it may concern,

The Estonian Transport Administration has reviewed the owner's request to complete the Cargo

Ship Safety Construction intermediate survey for M/V BOTNICA (IMO No. 9165877; GT 6370;

keel laid on 2 September 1997) outside the time frame specified in SOLAS, Chapter I (HSSC),

Regulation 10(a)(iii), as amended in 2006.

Following its review, the Administration has decided that the intermediate survey may be

completed after the third anniversary date of the Cargo Ship Safety Construction Certificate, but

no later than 30 December 2026. This decision is based on the fact that the items relevant to the

certificate have already been surveyed and found to be in satisfactory condition and fit for the

service for which the ship is intended.

The extension is not related to the routine Cargo Ship Safety Construction intermediate survey

requirements, but solely to the additional requirements introduced by IMO Resolution

MSC.527(106).

Further details regarding the scope of the Cargo Ship Safety Construction intermediate survey are

provided in IMO Resolution A.1207(34), “Survey Guidelines under the Harmonized System of

Survey and Certification (HSSC)”, Annex, section 4.3, and Annex I, section 2.3.

The items covered by the Cargo Ship Safety Construction annual survey were last surveyed on 7

May 2026, while the intermediate survey items that are additional to the annual survey

requirements were alternatively completed between the second and third annual surveys, as

follows:

1. Inspection of the outside of the ship's bottom in dry dock (bottom survey) – 30 April 2025;

2. Main Class Hull Intermediate Survey – 7 May 2026;

3. Auxiliary boiler complete survey and survey of other pressure vessels – 7 May 2026;

4. Survey of machinery and equipment, steering gear and associated control systems, and electrical

installations maintained in accordance with the requirements of the classification society – 7 May

2026.

2 (2)

Based on the above, the Administration considers that the ship continues to comply with the

relevant construction survey requirements pending completion of the additional survey items

required by IMO Resolution MSC.527(106), which shall be completed no later than 30 December

2026.

Yours sincerely

(Digitally signed)

Jan Jaanson

Head of Shipping Department

Pavel Muhhin

+372 5243858, [email protected]