Tag: cargo damage

UK P&I Club informed that significant insurance damage claims can be made if a bulk cargo is damaged, because of leakage of the bilge system into a loaded bulk cargo hold. To reduce the chance of such cargo damage, operators are advised to inspect and test the cargo hold bilge system as part of the routine pre-loading checks of the cargo holds.

All hatch covers were opened when the vessel was at anchor and waiting for an available berth. This was to ensure the vessel was gas free since fumigation had been carried out in all cargo holds at the loading port. When the cargo hatch covers were removed, it was found that cargo in holds 1,2,3,4 and 7 had been damaged by water.

In a latest publication by UK P&I Club, Captain David Nichol describes a cargo damage case involving a bulk carrier, as a result from insufficient maintenance of the bilge system valves and the crew's wrong estimation of the ingress alarm system.

In its monthly safety scenario for December, the Swedish Club describes a case of a cargo ship listing due to overloading, as well as early deballast, that caused an AB to fall overboard and go missing until today. 

The UK P&I Club informed about an incident of flooding onboard a container ship, causing significant cargo damage, because of corrosion fractures in the ballast tanks. The Club provides a description of what happened and important lessons learned to prevent similar incidents in the future.

The Steamship Mutual P&I Club issued an alert, informing that it has recently encountered several claims for cargo damage and other liabilities caused by leakage from the manhole covers of either ballast or bunker tanks.

The disruption to cargo vessels recently caused by Hurricane Irma has raised a number of legal issues. In response, the Standard P&I Club published an alert, providing guidance on some of the issues commonly encountered.

The UK P&I Club informed about a bunker fuel contamination incident onboard a general cargo ship, during loading a bulk cargo, providing a description of what happened and important lessons learned, to prevent similar accidents from occurring in the future.

The World Shipping Council published its 2017 survey, concerning the number of containers lost at sea per year. The updated survey reveals that the average number of containers lost each year has dropped since 2014 by 48 percent.

The Association of Bulk Terminal Operators has called for a complete overhaul of the cargo sampling and liquefaction testing protocols for raw ores and less common cargoes, such as nickel ore, fine wet coal and bauxite, pointing out that the current methods for danger identification are inadequate, specially in ports where conditions are inclement.