Tag: lessons learned

The Nautical Institute has issued Mars Report No 14/2014 on water mist fire suppression.

The Swedish P&I Club published its Monthly Safety Scenario for March 2014 regarding cargo liquefaction in heavy weather. The Swedish Club publishes on a monthly basis a new "Monthly Safety Scenario" (MSS) to assist owners in their efforts of complying with the above regulations.

The Nautical Institute has issued Mars Report No 13/2014 to describe how 'can do' attitude may result in fatality.

According 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 ...

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

IMO Secretary General, Mr Koji Sekimizu urged maritime community to pay attention to lessons learnt from the Costa Concordia accident, during his opening address speech at IMO Sub- Committee on Human Element, Training and Watchkeeping (HTW, 1st session).

The UK MAIB has issued Investigation Report No 7/2014 FV PROSPECT casualty resulting grounding on Skibby Baas and foundering in the north entrance to Lerwick Harbour, Shetland Islands on 5 August 2013

Marine Safety Forum issued a report that summarizes marine safety report. Incident categories are consistent with the requirements of the MAIB and the British Port's Association's National Reporting System

The UK MAIB has issued year Safety Digest 01/2013 including lessons learnt from maritime accidents. One case draws the attention to lessons learned from uncontrollable pitch propeller.

ICS proposals on IMO issues The Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), representing national shipowners' associations from 35 nations and over 80% of the world merchant fleet, met in London recently to discuss the progress on serious issues regarding IMO Ballast Water Management Convention, CO2 Monitoring and Reporting and Piracy.IMO Ballast Water Management ConventionICS Still has Serious Concerns about Type-Approval Standards for New Treatment EquipmentThe ICS Board agreed that ICS will continue to refrain from actively encouraging administrations that have not yet ratified the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention from making the additional ratifications required to bring about immediate entry into force.ICS believes that governments should wait until outstanding implementation problems have been resolved at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), hopefully at the next meeting of the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) in April, at which ICS (in co-operation with other industry organisations) has proposed a way forward.ICS Chairman, Masamichi Morooka, explained: "In principle ICS fully supports the eventual entry into force of the Convention and wants to make it work as soon as possible in order provide protection against invasive species. But the industry still has very serious concerns with respect to the lack ...