Calculation and Managing of various project cargoes in HAYDARPASA / ISTANBUL Port
Industry: Various cargoes including 48 mt and 60 mt machinery equipments Mode of Transportation: Project break bulk ocean freight Loading: 185 pieces of cargoes for 2 vessels Location: Haydarpaşa / Istanbul TURKEY Date: 2013
The client: Italian Government
Beyond expectations
Such losses fall into the following random categories which are neither exhaustive as to number nor mutually exclusive in occurrence:
● Severe adverse weather conditions. ● Lack of appreciation of the various forces involved. ● Ignorance of the relevant rules and guiding recommendations. ● Cost limitation pressures to the detriment of known safety requirements. ● Insufficient time and/or personnel to complete the necessary work before the vessel leaves port. ● Dunnage not utilised in an effective manner. ● Inadequate strength, balance and/or number of lashings. ● Wire attachment eyes and loops made up wrongly, including incorrect methods of using bulldog grips. ● Lack of strength continuity between the various securing components. ● Taking lashing materials around unprotected sharp edges. ● Incorrect/unbalanced stowage and inadequate weight distribution. ● The perversity of shore-based labour when required to do the job properly. ● Securing arrangements, both supplied and approved, not fully utilised on the voyage under consideration.
VOLANS supercargoes handled the cargoes seperating two different vessels and "calculating", "managing" , "guiding" were performed under "correct lashing management" and certified accordingly.