Tag: Britannia Club

In an exclusive interview to SAFETY4SEA, Mr. Jacob Damgaard, Associate Director, Loss Prevention, Britannia P&I, highlights that only with close cooperation across industry stakeholders, the maritime industry will move forward.

The carriage of bagged rice cargo is a potentially hazardous undertaking, with claims potentially running to millions of dollars when problems arise, says the Britannia P&I Club.

For almost ten years there has been a continuous issue of vessels incurring customs fines in Dakar, Senegal.

Britannia P&I Club released a case study focusing on a fatality incident where an electrician lost his life inside an elevator shaft.

The Britannia P&I Club informs of an incident, where the cargo ship ''Boston Trader'' was moored in the Port of Oran in Algeria, when a seafarer was hit on the foot by a falling lashing bar. As a result, a toe of the crewman had to be amputated.

The Britannia P&I Club has recently reported an increased number of enquiries regarding the carriage of containers on bulk carriers.

Two crew members on a general cargo ship were injured when a suspended load fell and struck them. The suspended load were wire rope legs and shackles used to move the ship’s hatch covers (“the lifting gear”), which fell because the hoist parted after one of the shackles became wedged at the storage location. As part of its BSafe campaign, Britannia Club shared lessons learned from the incident. 

An increase has been observed in the number of cases of illegal drugs being found onboard ships in the US, according to data provided by local correspondents to Britannia P&I Club. 

The third officer (3/o) of a chemical tanker was splashed with caustic soda while preparing the ship’s cargo tanks ready for loading caustic soda. As part of its BSafe campaign, Britannia Club describes the case and shares key lessons learned. 

As part of its BSafe Campaign, Britannia P&I Club analyzed a fatality involving the second officer (2/o) of a general cargo ship who was fatally injured when he was crushed between the ship’s gantry crane and a stack of cargo hold hatch covers during post-cargo loading operations, alongside in port.