Shore bulldozer/cocoa beans and shore personnel cleaning holds
do not have an approved automatic means of preventing water ingress into the hold.
If time permits, when the cargo has been discharged from respective hatches, all inner hatch coamings’ should be teepol washed and fresh water rinsed with the fresh water high-pressure gun because it is more convenient to wash this area in port rather than at sea. If permitted by the port authority, all hatch tops should be dock water washed, ensuring that cargo remains are retained onboard and not washed into the dock. The fitting of plugs to all deck scuppers should help prevent any pollution claims alongside.
Illustrated, from top: Discharging soya meal; tapioca cargo sticking and; cargo hold after discharging minerals
A good working relationship with the stevedores will probably assist the removal of cargo remains from all of the holds using the shore crane or other cargo-handling facilities, which will avoid lengthy difficulties for ships staff during the ballast voyage.
The bilges and strums of the ballast hold should be thoroughly cleaned and all traces of previous cargo removed. The bilge suctions should be tested and confirmed as clear prior to any washing out of the cargo holds and the bilge spaces pumped out and secured with the bilge blanks.
To prevent ballast water ingress into the bilge area, it is essential that the rubber joint/gasket is in good condition and all the bilge-blank securing bolts are fitted tightly. The un-seamanlike practice of securing the bilge blank with four bolts is unacceptable and may result in pressurising the bilge line. This must be avoided.
Hatchcovers
Prior to closing the hatchcovers, all the hatch track- ways should be swept clean, then carefully hosed down. If a compressed air gun is used, it should be used with caution and suitable safety equipment should be worn to ensure both face and body protection. All hatch corner drains, including the non return valves, should be proven clean and clear. The blanking caps on the hatch corner drains, used to ensure hold air- tightness should be attached by a chain to the drain. These blanking caps or plugs are provided if the drains
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