Benchmarking

What is Benchmarking?

Since the beginning of 2000, the Club's five ship inspectors have been reporting on six main areas of the ships operation as Excellent, Good, Satisfactory, Below Standard or Very Poor attaching a performance indicator of 1 to 5 in each category with 1 equal to excellent. These are:

Cargo Worthiness - Hatch watertight integrity, holds, cranes, derricks, vent pipes etc. Manning - communications, knowledge, certification, working practices etc. Service and Maintenance - Bridge procedures, management controls, maintenance, stores, admin etc. Safety Standards - FFE, LSA, SOLAS, safety awareness etc. Operational Performance - Anything that affects ships performance e.g. PSC and cargo work. Pollution Control - Pollution avoidance, oily water separators.

An average performance for each ship has then been derived by averaging the six findings for each of the categories. Ship performance indications are then combined and averaged to give a fleet rating and compared to the performance indication for that type of fleet in the Club.

This can be shown as a graph e.g.: