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Steps to improve safety in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore


Navigational safety and environmental protection in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore is set to improve following a detailed investigation into accident reports by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS). As part of a wider initiative being undertaken in tandem with other major international shipping associations, The ICS has conducted a survey of incident reports which it is anticipated will result in the development of agreed proposals to enhance the management of traffic in the Straits. The ICS suggests that improvements


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could be made to the location of pilot boarding areas and the timing of pilot departures. There is also concern about the understanding and use of navigation systems such as ECDIS, AIS and radar, both


10° 0km MALAYSIA SINGAPORE Over 150 vessel transit the straits daily


at sea and ashore. Together with Malaysia and Indonesia, the


ICS anticipates making a joint submission to IMO's sub-committee on safety of navigation in July next year, advising of the accident survey and its current status. More than 70,000 vessels each year (over 150 a day) transit these Straits.


UK P&I club speaks out on ecdis The use of ecdis systems will increase the incidence of collisions and groundings if industry fails to improve its management practices and training says Karl Lumbers, a director of Thomas Miller P&I, managers of the UK P&I Club. A related concern is that ecdis will be used to obscure the ‘human element’ as a cause in any accident. Writing in the UK P&I Club’s customer


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magazine, LP News, Mr Lumbers argues that ecdis’ automation of traditional manual navigational tasks can delay the opportunity for error detection and recovery, “allowing a navigational single point failure to develop undetected into a single point catastrophic failure, ultimately resulting in an incident”. Research has shown that humans are poor


monitors of automated systems and tend to rely more on system alarms than manual checks,


especially in relation to those systems which have proven themselves as highly reliable, says Mr Lumbers. In several casualty investigations it has been determined that automation has resulted in the navigator developing an ‘operational bias,’ relying on the automated systems rather than the salient cues provided visually through the bridge window. “Given the increased technology available to the modern navigator, one of the conundrums must be why increased computerisation and automation has not removed, and perhaps not even reduced the potential for failure. Instead of making things safer, new pathways to failure seem to have developed, centred on an initial miscommunication between man and machinery resulting in a misalignment in the reality of where the navigator thinks he is and where the automated system has actually taken him.” According to Mr Lumbers, the main areas of


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Karl Lumbers: “New pathways to failure seem to have developed”


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risk when considering ecdis operation are: • The equipment itself may suffer from failure (both hardware and software) including power outages, sensor input failure and potential virus infection. • The charts are operated under a permits which may expire, the charts in use are not corrected up-to-date and/or the updates are not correctly applied. • ENC chart coverage is unavailable, requiring the system to be used in RCDS mode without the appropriate paper chart folio being available. • The operation of the ecdis system onboard is carried out by poorly trained crew following poor navigational practices and operational ›››


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• Gazcon will supply two very large PSA nitrogen generator plants for two 74,500 dwt stainless steel tankers being built at New Times Shipyard, China, for Jo Tankers. Each plant consist of eight 160kW compressors, four refrigerant air dryers and eight nitrogen generator modules. Gazcon believes these are the largest plants of their kind to have ever been ordered for maritime installation.


Zamboanga Sandakan Isabela


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Manado Borneo Balikpapan Palu Sulawesi


• Braemar Shipping Services has brought all of its technical services businesses - Braemar Casbarian, Braemar Falconer, Braemar Steege, Braemar (incorporating The Salvage Association) and Braemar Wavespec/ Wavespec - under the umbrella of the newly formed Braemar Technical Services division.


Banjarmasin Ujung Pandang Baubau


Bali Lombok Mataram


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• Bunker tanker owner Sentek Marine & Trading has selected SpecTec’s AMOS2 full suite for eight of its vessels.


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• Laurin Maritime has secured contracts to manage five MR product and chemical tankers. The vessels belong to Marflet Services and are chartered to Anglo-Atlantic Steamship for two years. Laurin, with a fleet of 18 MR prod/chem tankers, has one of the largest fleets of IMO II capable MR tonnage.


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• The product tanker Sinbad has left A&P Group’s Tyneside facility in the UK following a major refurbishment. The 183m vessel was at the Hebburn yard for 14 days for extensive repairs and a complete repaint. Eships’ 127m sister ships Agamid, Quest and Barracuda recently drydocked at A&P’s Falmouth facility.


• Wilhelmsen Ships Service has opened a fire, rescue and safety service station in Gdansk, Poland, to serve vessels in the Baltic Sea.


• Keppel Shipyard has secured a contract to convert the tanker Umbe into an FPSO unit for Bumi Armada Berhad (Bumi Armada). The vessel will be completed at the end of 2012 and will go on charter to ONGC for deployment in the D-1 field, 200km west of Mumbai, India.


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