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The Gard P&I Club has issued a Case Study for the onboard safety meetings with focus on engine room fires. The case study consists of a short text describing a common task onboard most vessels, and a risk assessment form.

The Gard P&I Club has issued alert to highlight that preparatory work to ensure timely compliance with IMO’s Ballast Water Management Convention should not be postponed as it is thought the convention will soon be ratified by a sufficient number of states to pass the entry into force tonnage threshold.

The Gard P&I Club has issued alert to raise awareness of the use of drones due to a recent case in which a vessel was detained following the launch of a drone to photograph the vessel proceeding through the Suez Canal.

The Gard P&I Club has issued an article explaining how crankshaft annealing can be a viable and attractive alternative resulting in substantial savings.

Lost anchors are the root causes of many groundings and collisions and the crew and officers need to be aware of the risks and assess them thoroughly, especially in heavy weather.

The root cause of many groundings and collisions, lost anchors are among the top five reasons for claims costs. A rising number of anchor losses reported over the last several years prompted DNV GL, Gard and The Swedish Club to investigate this issue. Based on an analysis of damage cases involving anchor and anchor chain losses, the project partners have issued a presentation identifying the most frequent technical and operational causes, and some steps crews and operators can take to address them.

While the replacement of non-compliant on-load release hooks in conventional lifeboats is now well underway, identical hooks fitted in rescue boats may go unnoticed as they are not subject to the same regulations. The Gard P&I Club has issued loss Prevention Circular to address important issues regarding the on-load release hooks.

The Gard P&I Club informs that Iran has introduced special measures in response to the ongoing cholera outbreak in Iraq to prevent the spread of the cholera virus via vessels’ ballast water.

Due to recent incidents involving self-heating of coal The Gard P&I Club has issued a loss prevention ciruclar to highlight the importance of checking the accuracy of shippers declarations for all types of coal cargoes.The Club has recently been involved in several incidents of self-heating of coal cargoes and would like to emphasise the importance of treating coal cargoes as liable to self-heat until it has been satisfactorily established that they are not. The Club says that the shippers cargo declaration containing the cargo properties and the associated hazards should be examined in detail1.It should be borne in mind that the information contained in the declaration may be inaccurate. Inaccurate IMSBC Code declarations have been seen in areas such as Indonesia, where large quantities of coal are shipped. More surprisingly, Gard was involved in a recent case where a coal cargo loaded at Richards Bay, South Africa was inaccurately declared as not self-heating coal nor liable to emit methane. Subsequent investigations involving cargo experts, established that the cargo did in fact possess both properties.It is therefore recommended that all coal cargoes are treated as potentially hazardous and liable to self-heat until it can be satisfactorily established that they are not. ...

The Gard P&I Club has issued an insight focusing on a change in approach by the Western Australia Federal Court which has opened up the possibility for claimants having a maritime lien under foreign law to arrest ships in Australia.