CASE STUDY III
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.
- 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.
