INTERCARGO (the International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners) is alerting that there is no area for complacency, despite the fact that there has actually been no documented loss of a mass service provider in 2018. It is additionally essential of flag states’ sluggishness in releasing examination records complying with bulker losses.
The organization’s simply released Bulk Carrier Casualty Report 2018 analyzes reported bulker losses from 2009 to 2018, when 188 lives were shed and also 48 mass providers over 10,000 dwt were determined as failures.
Although the ten-year patterns in yearly ordinary varieties of lives and also completely dry freight ships shed program favorable indicators of safety and security renovation, INTERCARGO claims that freight failing and also liquefaction remain to be a significant worry for completely dry mass delivery.
In the duration covered by the record, 9 casualties that saw the loss of 101 seafarers’ lives were thought to be from freight relevant failings: 6 mass providers lugging nickel ore from Indonesia, 2 with laterite (clay) iron ore from India and also one with bauxite from Malaysia.
Lessons gained from previous occurrences play a crucial function in identifying the range of extra safety and security renovations. INTERCARGO keeps in mind that, since completion of January examination searchings for on 23 of the 48 losses covered in the record had actually still not been sent to IMO by the pertinent flag States, according to details on IMO GISIS data source at end January 2019.
Examples of pending examination records for entry consist of:
- The highest possible death has actually been credited to freight failing (liquefaction), completing 101 lives shed from 9 casualties. Two examination records of thos enine situations have actually not been sent to IMO.
- The most typical reported root cause of ship losses has actually been basing, completing 19 losses amongst the 48 situations. Six examination records on those 19 situations have actually not been sent to IMO.
- Six ships shed with unidentified reasons asserted 61 lives. Five examination records of those 6 situations have actually not been sent to IMO.
- Reported flooding caused losses of 6 ships. No examination records on those 6 situations has actually been sent to IMO.
The organization claims that the current magazine of the Stellar Daisy Casualty Investigation Report by the Marshall Islands Maritime Administrator (on April 19, 2019) was a lot anticipated by the market and also INTERCARGO had actually continuously prompted for its prompt entry to IMO, as over 2 years have actually passed considering that the awful sinking of the Stellar Daisy with the loss of 22 lives.
INTERCARGO’s Bulk Carrier Casualty Report can be accessed HERE
