Tag: lifting appliances

IMCA has issued a safety flash, drawing lessons learned from an incident in which during lifting operations on a vessel, a hydraulic release shackle pin opened on its own. 

Following the announcement of the new Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) by the Riyadh MoU on ship lifting appliances, SQE MARINE consulting firm issued a circular to provide guidance on how to comply with the requirements. The campaign began on 1 September 2024 and will run until 30 November 2024.

Further to the Club’s recent update on the joint PSC CIC by Paris, Tokyo and Abuja MOUs on Crew Wages and Seafarer Employment Agreements (MLC, 2006), according to UK P&I, the Riyadh MOU (composed of member countries Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia & UAE) has announced it will launch a CIC on ship’s lifting appliances, to run from 1 September 2024 to 30 November 2024.

Marine Safety Forum issued a Safety Alert summarizing a case where a crewmember experienced two snagging events during lifting operations.

IMCA released its Safety Flashes for October, summarizing a case where a topsides started swinging during lifting.

UK MAIB published its investigation report into a fatal accident on board the Gibraltar registered general cargo vessel Cimbris at Antwerp, Belgium on 14 July 2020.

In its first Safety Digest for 2021, the UK MAIB describes a case where a lifting gear crashed to the deck, causing serious head injury.

Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has decided to investigate a lifting incident involving a personal injury on Equinor's Oseberg B facility in the North Sea, on 16 April 2020. 

CHIRP published its Maritime Feedback 54, which is its first bulletin of 2019. The bulletin includes reports on lifting operations, proactive port authority, AIS and ECDIS offsets, heat and fatigue, and safety briefings. Regarding lifting operations a report describes an operation in which several areas presented a high potential for an accident to occur.

Dutch Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC) announced the development of an innovative way of lifting 'to redefine the boundaries of lifting operations offshore'. The 'QUAD lifting' enables HMC to integrally install and/or remove oversized topsides or jackets, guaranteeing lower overall project costs.