Category: Through the lens
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EMERGENCIES: COLLISION
The following text prepared is keeping in mind, the resolution A.1072(28) adopted on 4 December 2013, ‘Revised guidelines for a structure of an integrated system of contingency planning for shipboard emergencies’. The following objectives are kept in mind: Identifying and following common action items to avoid confusion. Crew is arranged into various teams and the…
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EMERGENCIES: BILGING
The following text prepared is keeping in mind, the resolution A.1072(28) adopted on 4 December 2013, ‘Revised guidelines for a structure of an integrated system of contingency planning for shipboard emergencies’. The following objectives are kept in mind: Identifying and following common action items to avoid confusion. Same teams are created to handle all the…
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Recent SOLAS Amendments-2 (2015-16)
Muster / Drill prior Departure In the wake of the Costa Concordia incident, new regulations were adopted in 2013 which came into force on 1 January 2015. Regulations were aimed to ensure that passengers undergo safety drills, including mustering at the lifeboat stations, before the ship departs or immediately on departure. Previously, the requirement was for the…
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Recent SOLAS Amendments-1 (2014)
Recovery of persons from the water With this SOLAS amendment, adopted in 2012, came in force on 1 July 2014. It aimed at improving SAR capability in situations of insufficient rescue force. It also aimed towards raising the potential of ships which actually have the capability to effectively serve as a rescue asset and have…
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Documentation by an Exporter and Contract of Carriage
Shipping is an international business. An export involves handling of expensive goods and exchange of hands of large sums of money. Documentation therefore must be done very carefully. Thus, to cause an export from India an exporter has to interact with various agencies governing international trade, under the ministry of commerce and trade. In India…
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ISM AND PSC (The two Sides of the Same Coin)
The execution of ISM principles; as well as the application of control by PSC, eventually come down to the same result. Thus, whether it is regarding safety of life, navigation, etc or about prevention of marine pollution, both the above stated tools give favourable results. PSC inspection may be defined as ‘an inspection in foreign…
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Change of draft at any point due loading or longitudinal shift of weight
To establish the relation between GML and change of trim (trc). To prove MCTC = In above fig a weight w is shifted aft (longitudinally) by d metres to cause a trimming moment = (w.d) t.m. This causes the shift of COG = The couple caused due to forces at B and G1 will trim…
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Recent Changes to LOF
With the successful history of over 100 years in the industry, Lloyd’s Open Form needs no introduction. The Lloyd’s Standard Form of Salvage Agreements (Lloyd’s Open Form or LOF) is truly the leading international standard salvage agreement. It has undergone several revisions owing to various factors such as: the changing law; environmental concerns; and the…
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INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF CONTINGENCY PLANNING FOR SHIPBOARD EMERGENCIES
The high number of non-harmonized shipboard contingency plans justifies the development of an integrated system and the harmonization of the structure of contingency plans. A ship’s crew should not have confusion in respect of his duties and stations in case of an emergency. A general alarm may be sounded at past midnight hours. In such…
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Risk Management and Decision Making
One of the apt examples of risk management can be the development and implementation of a documented safety management system. Risk may be defined as a combination of the probability, or frequency, of occurrence of a defined hazard and the magnitude of the consequences of the occurrence. IMO defines risk as the combination of the…