Industry Loss Prevention products

Initiatives that may assist in the prevention of incidents

Meeting MARPOL Standards MARPOL Training Institute, Inc. www.marpoltraining.com Between 1998 and 2007 the US Department of Justice collected more than US $200 million in criminal penalties in US waters and levied more than US $100 million in civil penalities. Meeting MARPOL Standards (MMS) is a comprehensive, computer-based, multi-media training system that you, your officers and crew can take aboard ship or in your offices that teaches how to comply with MARPOL regulations. MMS holds your learner’s interest. It includes written and spoken instruction along with interactive exercises, Oil Record Book entry drills and arcade-type learning exercises. MMS includes an electronic version of the MARPOL Consolidated Edition 2006, and most screens link directly to a page in the regulations. After every lesson, your trainees take an “open-book” assessment to confirm they have learned the material. A companion product, Waste Management Best Practices©, is included with MMS and is designed to teach crew the Best Practices in the Engine Room, Cleaning, Oily Water Separator, Sludge Processing, Incinerator Operation, Exhaust Gas Economizer, Garbage Handling and Superintendents Port Inspection. This premium, DNV certified, training system is designed to ensure ship operations staff fully understand both the MARPOL regulations and how to properly manage their waste streams aboard vessels to fulfill the requirements of MARPOL. For more information, visit the Marpol Training Institute, Inc. website www.marpoltraining.com

Case Studies : Ship Engine Trouble NYK Line Safety & Environmental Management Group. Click Here for order details Analysis of engine troubles based on "down-time", which is one of the benchmarks for measuring the safety of the NYK fleet. Introduction of seventy cases of real engine trouble provided by ship managers and classified by machine type. Descriptions of know-how learned from on-site repair work, research into the causes of trouble, and feedback items to prevent similar accidents. From the editor, Captain Hiroshi Sekine To maintain safe operations, we believe there is no royal road. Safe operations can be achieved only through the daily , steady efforts of all parties concerned. Engine trouble is no exception. We believe that it can be minimised - hopefully eliminated - through the effort of all engineers on board, in addition to the shipowners, ship managers, manufacturers, dockyards, repair companies, and classification society that provide support from shore. We would be greatly pleased if this book can be of some assistance to the crew and parties concerned on shore as a reference to maintaining safe ship operations.

Dangerous Goods Management Hazcheck Online www.hazcheck.com Procedures for complying with the IMDG Code can be complicated for shippers, forwarders and container packers. And it is no easier for shipping line booking staff accepting freight containers of dangerous goods. All parties need to be trained to understand the requirements of the IMDG Code. Even so, consistently maintaining high standards of safety-critical IMDG compliance under time pressure is challenging. To help, Exis Technologies have developed internet, network and PC computer systems for IMDG Code compliance. The internet service Hazcheck Online will: provide a comprehensive substance/article IMDG Code database with key compliance information automatically check mixed dangerous goods container loads against the stowage and segregation requirements of the IMDG Code provide easy-to-follow packaging checks produce the Multimodal Dangerous Goods Note (DGN) Setting the compliance benchmark For over 15 years Hazcheck systems have been in use with shippers, shipping lines and ports worldwide. Continuous development with major operators has delivered the most user-friendly, reliable and full-featured systems for dangerous goods management, built to quality standards that set the compliance benchmark. Off-the-shelf products provide immediate solutions, while 'toolkit' programs and databases save development time, reduce cost and project risk for systems developers.

Lloyd’s Register, in conjunction with the UK P&I Club, has produced a series of pocket checklist guides to help ship owners and operators achieve compliance with the requirements on safety and pollution protection and to be prepared for port state control inspections, which are increasing world-wide.

The first checklist, Reducing the Risk of Port State Control Detentions, details the most common deficiencies found during PSC inspections. It identifies the top 50 most common causes of ship detention. When used prior to port entry, the guide is widely acknowledged as a useful tool in helping owners and operators to reduce the risk of their vessels being detained.

Marine Pollution Prevention, the second pocket checklist in the series, can help masters and owners comply with the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships 1973, as amended by MARPOL 73/78. With a detailed list of areas that must be up to standard and covering areas where operational deficiencies are frequently found, it should help to reduce the risk of port state control (PSC) detentions.

The third pocket checklist in the series, Life-Saving Appliances, aims to help owners, operators and crew comply with international convention requirements, thereby reducing the risk of Port State Control detention.

• ISF Watchkeeper is a computer software package – for use on board ships - for maintaining records of seafarers’ hours of work and rest, allowing ships and their crews to demonstrate compliance with complex international work hour rules.
• Allows individual work hour records to be maintained, to demonstrate compliance with international rules to flag and port state control inspectors.
  Permits individual record forms to be printed off, pre-completed with calculated totals, following the official IMO/ILO format.
• Checks compliance, using new forward planning facility, with the wide variety of different work hour regimes permitted by ILO, as well as STCW 95, OPA 90 and (as permitted by ILO) hours agreed in collective bargaining agreements.
• Using ISF's expert understanding of ILO Convention 180, checks compliance with complex rules, difficult to calculate manually, including effective use of so called "2 day derogation rule" needed for flexible working while ensuring compliance.

The SAFELAUNCH Lifeboat Release Hook is a quick release on-load hook that is designed to allow the safe launch of conventional davit launched lifeboats. SAFELAUNCH combines innovative design, high quality materials and precision engineering to provide a reliable, durable and cost-effective release hook which sets new standards of operational safety with the added benefit of low lifetime cost of ownership.

SAFELAUNCH meets the requirements of the latest SOLAS, IMO and LSA Codes and is approved by DNV in accordance with the EU Marine Directive. The system is designed to be compatible with all existing types of conventional lifeboat and can be installed into new lifeboats or retrofitted to old lifeboats as an upgrade.

Key Features
The design of SAFELAUNCH was based on a thorough review of existing designs and utilised real-life experience by Survival Craft Inspectorate, who have been maintaining this type of equipment for many years. The key requirement was to eliminate the risk of accidental release and to keep the need for maintenance to a minimum.

Every year thousands of containerised cargoes are damaged by moisture problems. Metal parts arrive corroded, cardboard boxes mouldy and wet and food commodities are found to be unfit for consumption. Millions of dollars are spent on protective packaging, coatings and silica gels that often do not solve the problem. The solution is to create a dry environment within the shipping container.

ABSORPOLE

Absorpole is based on the proven ability of Calcium Chloride to aggressively remove moisture from the air. The resulting brine is collected in a solid plastic container that is installed in the container corrugation. Absorpole is made only from PE/PP plastics and salt, which are non-toxic and recyclable.

ABSORTOP

Based on the same principles as Absorpoles, Absortop is specifically designed for use in bulk containers and fully loaded containers. Absortop is mounted at the container ceiling; it is tightly secured, robust and will stay in place even when tilt stuffing and unstuffing is employed. The absorbed water cannot re-evaporate into the container since it is transferred and stored in the lower compartment of the absorber.

Visit the AbsorboPak Ltd website using the link above for more information on these products and more.

The JLMD system has been nominated as finalist for the Lloyd’s List Award for Innovation and the Sea-Trade Award. According to JLMD Ecologic Group, oil spills resulting from collisions, grounded vessels, or hull breakage represents 77% of the pollution risks. The prevention of or reduction of oil spillage after a marine incident is crucial if environmental damage is to be avoided. The JLMD system, which has been reviewed by the UK Club, would seem to greatly improve salvors’ ability to quickly remove oil remaining on board after a casualty, enabling the recovery of 70 to 90% of the hazardous liquid cargo. The JLMD system® is preinstalled on tankers, and allows a fast recovery of the oil trapped in the wreck. Oil leaks and spills are consequently limited. The pre-installation (prevention aspect) of the system enables the salvage company to start recovering the oil immediately in case of casualty without wasting time drilling the hull and mounting valves. As soon as the flexible extraction hose is connected to the system, the recovery can start instantaneously. The JLMD system is pre-installed or retrofitted in cargo and/or bunker tanks.

The sketch (right) demonstrates the layout of several tank sections (portside and starboard) of a tanker equipped with the JLMD system. Each tank of the ship is independently equipped with a recovery system set made of five connectors, so all the sets can work separately. Thus if the ship is broken in two parts (case of the Erika) or if a tank is ripped open, the functioning of the equipment for the other tanks is not altered and this stand-alone characteristic gives the possibility to recover from several tanks at the same time, speeding up the removal process.

The system allows a highest and lowest point to be obtained no matter what the position of the wreck. Once connected to the salvage vessel (by diver/ROV), sea water is pumped by hydrostatic pressure to the lowest point. The lighter density oil or chemicals are naturally forced up towards the highest point without the use of a pump.
As it is no longer necessary to breach the hull of the submerged vessel, the oil recovery operation can start immediately, thereby considerably reducing pollution. In the case of the "Prestige" over 140 tons leaked daily for three months, representing 50 kms of oil slicks, every 24hrs.

It took ten months to recover the heavy oil trapped into the Erika wreck. It is estimated it would have taken two to three weeks to complete the operation, in the same conditions, if the vessel had been equipped with the JLMD system®. We understand that this invention has attracted considerable interest from tanker owners, with firm orders taking place. The first installation took place in September 2004 on a Suezmax tanker at Daewoo.

Further information on the JLMD System can be found at www.jlmdsystem.com.

Click Here to view a presentation on real incident case scenarios, illustrating the potential cost and time savings afforded by the JLMD systems.

Click Here for the 2005 JLMD Brochure.

The BULKSAFE control and alarm panel provides indicates the alarm status for each named compartment with discrete signals for 0.5m and 2m alarm levels. The system incorporates an optional function to provide a fully automatic 'in-situ' functional test of all detectors, even while cargo is present in the holds.

Langh Ship
www.langh.fi






Loss Prevention in Steel Transportation

The sensitivity of steel products has increased at the same time as the value of the products has grown. When steel is transported in the cargo hold as break bulk, the products often suffer from damage. The loading, securing and discharging are time consuming and require a lot of disposable securing material.

Langh Ship has produced a solution for this with a patented clamping mechanism which ensures the firm securing of the heavy products in the container. The company has developed a side-door container that enables fast and easy stuffing of the container. When built to high carrying capacity of 32 tonnes, the container offers an optimum way to transport heavy products effectively and without damages.

The company has also developed other special units for the transportation of heavy products of different size and form.