Tag: anchor

The American Club reports an incident of poor anchor watchkeeping, that led to two vessels collision, and provides lessons learned.

UK P&I club describes an incident caused by dragging anchor, while examines possible ways to prevent a ship from dragging its anchors.

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) had detained more than 100 vessels in eastern Johor waters due to various reasons, including illegal anchoring.

Swedish Club's casebook describes a total loss incident, where an anchored vessel ran aground due to typhoon.

In its latest published casebook, Swedish Club describes an incident where a vessel experienced loss of anchor due to heavy weather.

Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) introduced the ‘Operation Jangkar Haram’, in an effort to spot illegally-anchored vessels.

The Bahamas Maritime Authority issued a Safety Alert sharing lessons learned from a grounding involving a RoRo passenger ferry after dragging anchor. The investigation highlighted that the crew had been forced to change the plan at short notice and no appraisal was conducted to select an anchorage position. 

TSB Canada issued an investigation report on the collision of the bulk carriers Golden Cecilie and Green K-Max 1 in the Plumper Sound, British Columbia, in March 2020. The Golden Cecilie suffered dragging anchor due to heavy winds, the report reveals, stressing that the crew did not follow established procedures to ready the vessel for impending adverse weather conditions. 

Transport Malta MSIU issued an investigation report into the fatality and serious injuries on board the Maltese-registered passenger/roro vessel Euroferry Malta, in October 2019, in heavy weather conditions. The investigation highlighted that the anchors were not secured, as this was not common practice for the ship in such voyages.

The Standard Club’s loss prevention (LP) department comments on how this current crisis in oil prices coupled with the fall in demand has pushed several oil producers, traders and consumers to stock up, leading to a shortage in storage space for oil, not just crude but even clean products such as aviation fuel and gasoline.