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The Swedish P&I Club issues Monthly Safety Scenario for September 2015 The Swedish P&I Club has published its Monthly Safety Scenario for September 2015 regarding contaminated lube oil which caused by engine damage.The Swedish Club publishes on a monthly basis a new "Monthly Safety Scenario" (MSS) to assist owners in their efforts of complying with the maritime regulations.The vessel was sailing in good weather. Suddenly the high lube oil temperature alarm activated and the main engine stopped automatically. Investigations revealed an abnormal level in the sump tank and the cooling water expansion tank had lost water.Cooling water had got into the lubricating oil sump and contaminated the lube oil system. It was further found that the number 2 cylinder head was leaking coolant from a loosened guide bolt on the inlet valve crossbar. Attempts to tighten the bolt failed. The cylinder head was replaced with a spare.Approximately 900kg of fresh oil was filled without draining off any contaminated oil. The main engine was restarted and the voyage resumed. Two days later when the vessel was approaching the pilot station an alarm sounded indicating a high lube oil temperature from cylinder number 3.The engine was stopped and investigations were carried out. ...

The Swedish P&I Club issues Monthly Safety Scenario for August 2015 The Swedish P&I Club has published its Monthly Safety Scenario for August 2015 regarding cargo damaged caused by broken lashings. The Swedish Club publishes on a monthly basis a new "Monthly Safety Scenario" (MSS) to assist owners in their efforts of complying with the maritime regulations.A general cargo vessel equipped with two cargo holds was planning to load in three different ports before the ocean passage. The vessel's master requested dunnage and lashing material for the loading in the last port from the charterer. The request included 64 stoppers, 64 H-beams and 50 D-Rings. Everything except the H-beams was delivered to the vessel.The charter had also arranged for a super cargo to be onboard during the loading to make sure that the cargo securing was done properly. For reasons unknown the super cargo was present at all ports except the final loading port. Cargo securing and lashing in all three ports was done by the crew. A lashing plan had not been drawn up by the charterers for any of the loading ports.The charterer had arranged weather routing for the ocean voyage. A few days into the voyage, the ...

The Swedish P&I Club has published its Monthly Safety Scenario for July 2015 regarding blackout occured on board a bulk carrier which caused grounding and collision.

The Swedish P&I Club has published its Monthly Safety Scenario for June 2015 regarding flooding resulting in cargo damage

The Swedish P&I Club has published its Monthly Safety Scenario for May 2015 regarding a collision due to poor communication on bridge

Swedish P&I Club issues Monthly Safety Scenario for April 2015 TheSwedish P&I Club published its Monthly Safety Scenario for April 2015 regarding engine failure due to fuel change .The Swedish Club publishes on a monthly basis a new "Monthly Safety Scenario" (MSS) to assist owners in their efforts of complying with the maritime regulations.The vessel was approaching California in moderate weather conditions. The weather forecast predicted an increase to gale forces. The vessel was soon to enter the low sulphur zone and the engineers were running behind in preparing to switch over to low sulphur fuel.They did however manage to switch over just before entering the low sulphur zone. Suddenly the main engine stopped, as apparently the fuel pumps had failed.There can be difficulties when switching from one fuel to another due to low load operations and leaking pumps caused by low fuel viscosity. This is because distillate fuels can gas up at a too high temperatures causing vapour locking and fuel starvation.Low viscosity fuels will flow through fine clearances previously sealed by higher viscosity fuel resulting in fuel leakage. Distillates do not require heating like HFO. If the distillate temperature is too high, the viscosity will be greatly reduced ...

Main engine failure caused serious damage

The Swedish P&I Club published its Monthly Safety Scenario for February 2015 regarding injury due to falling from ladde

Engine failure causes collision

The Swedish P&I Club Monthly Safety Scenario for December 2014 The Swedish P&I Club published its Monthly Safety Scenario for December 2014 regarding injury while climbing onboard .The Swedish Club publishes on a monthly basis a new "Monthly Safety Scenario" (MSS) to assist owners in their efforts of complying with the maritime regulations.The bulk carrier was alongside waiting to preparefor dry-docking. The vessel had cranes with grabs that weigh 10 tonnes and are higher than 4m andare used during the cargo operation. During the daily safety meeting the superintendent informed people that four grabs were to be taken ashore.The chief officer had done a risk assessment of the operation and was monitoring the operation on the vessel. The plan was to land the grabs in the open position onto a trailer on the quay.An AB was operating the crane for lifting thegrabs. On the quay were two cadets, the third officer, two ABs and the vessel's superintendent.The chief officer had instructed the two cadets to only help if specifically needed. The ABs were instructed to remove the wires when the grab wassafely secured on the trailer.The AB operating the crane landed the grabson the trailer in the open position with ...