Engine room fire on board Marigold at Port Hedland
Engine room fire on board Marigold at Port Hedland
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Read moreTokyo MoU CIC from 1 September to 30 November 2013 Defects related to propulsion and auxiliary machinery installations have traditionallybeen one of the top six categories of deficiencies recorded during port State control(PSC) inspections in previous years. An average of 7% of the total number of thedeficiencies identified within the Tokyo MOU region are related to machineryinstallations. For the purpose of verifying compliance with the requirements of SOLASConvention Chapter II-1, member Authorities of the Tokyo MOU undertook aConcentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery from1 September to 30 November 2013.During the three-month's period, a total of 8,257 inspections were carried out duringthe CIC by the Tokyo MOU member Authorities, of which 6,367 inspections wereconducted with a CIC questionnaire (77.1%). A total of 282 detentions were recordedduring the CIC inspections, among which 72 or 25.5% of them were detained as adirect result of the CIC. The CIC-topic related detentions rate is 1.13% while theoverall CIC detention rate is 4.4%.Preliminary results indicated that the most significant deficiencies found during thecampaign were related to:the emergency source of power and emergency lighting 468(25.4%),main and auxiliary boilers and boiler feed systems 319 (17.3%),protectivearrangements for machinery to minimize danger to persons with regard to ...
Read moreThe National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued marine Accident Brief on engine room fire on board towing vessel Marguerite L. Terral happened on June 9, 2012.
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Read moreAccording to Braemar SA "Lessons are still not being learned when it comes to preventing engine room fires." This is the message from Graeme Temple, Regional Director for Braemar SA's Far East operations, following a review of incidents taking place in 2013."Last year we attended a significant number of engine-room fires - the industry is still experiencing far too many unnecessary casualties where flammable liquids in engine rooms are finding their way onto hot spots,"he says."On many of the vessels I visit, these hot spots are only too easy to find, with thermal imaging photographs readily identifying these defects".Yet despite all the attention Class aims at fire prevention and protection design, potential problems must be detected earlier to ensure a fast and efficient first response. A crew has only limited resources available and time to prevent any problem escalating.At any one time in a modern engine room there can be thousands of litres of flammable liquids circulating inside the pipe systems. Aside from the obvious risk to life, a ship fire is inevitably a very expensive, time consuming, property repair. Heat damage, firefighting effort damage, acid residues from burnt plastics, soot cleaning and painting all add up, leaving a cost ...
Read morePropulsion and Auxiliary Machinery a matter of concern on older ships Weel maintained engine room / Image Credit: Paris MoUPreliminary results from the Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on Propulsion and Auxiliary Machinery, carried out between 1 September 2013 and 30 November 2013 in the Paris MoU region show that:68 ships (41% of all detentions) were detained over the 3 month period as a direct result of the CIC for deficiencies related to propulsion and auxiliary machinery. Problem areas included the propulsion of the main engine, cleanliness of the engine room and emergency source of power/emergency generator.In previous years deficiencies related to propulsion and machinery installations accounted on average for 7% of the total number of deficiencies within the Tokyo and Paris MoU´s, ranking number six in comparison with all the deficiencies by categories statistics.Reason enough for the Paris MoU to concentrate attention to this area during a CIC.More than half (54%) of all CIC-topic related detentions involved ships of 20 years or more. This category had a CIC-topic related detention rate of 3.6%, which compares unfavourable to the overall 1.8% CIC-topic related detention rate."This outcome illustrates that wear and tear of propulsion and auxiliary machinery remains an issue, which should ...
Read moreTwenty-four crewmembers are safe after abandoning ship approximately 440 miles west of Guam Monday
Read moreAny non-identical replacement engine to which MARPOL ANNEX VI reg. 13 applies has to comply with the Tier level in force on the date of installation. This means Tier II compliance is required for all engines installed after 1-1-2011, and Tier III compliance is required for engines installed after 1-1-2016 on board vessels operating in ECAs.
Read moreWhile underway a towing vessel with six crewmembers on board experienced an engine room fire.
Read moreMAIB Accident Report No 20/2013: Engine room fire on board FV Amy Harris III
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