REP RT CONTENTS


4 • Editor’s Letter 5 • President’s Column 7 • IIMS Organisation and Structure 8 • International Marine News


15 • UK Marine News 18 • Safety Briefings 28 • Safer Seas Digest 2023 published by the NTSB 32 • Member News 42 • New vessels review 49 • Regulation News 53 • New marine reports and guides 60 • Risk issues in respect of soybean cargoes


62 • Preventative and predictive methods for torsional vibration


76 • Stowage of heavy lift cargo: legal and insurance implications


79 • Marine lifting operations (Part II)


83 • China MSA’s action plan to prevent equipment failure


88 • IACS adopts Unified Requirements to address container loss


90 • The role of the Captain in the construction, purchase and sale and refit of a yacht


92 • Fire safety is crucial and must be treated as such


94 • HSE issues risk of serious injury from motion compensated gangways


The Magazine of the International Institute of Marine Surveying


96 • The difference between liquefaction and dynamic separation explained


98 • Insurance considerations in the MV DALI and Francis Scott Key Bridge Incident


102 • Tassie: The Wooden Boat Capital of Australia 108 • All new ships to be built without a sterntube? 110 • Report demonstrates shortfall against climate goals


112 • Ensuring compliance of oil filtering equipment on ships


116 • UK and Canada set up joint electric vessel two way charging project


118 • The new age of ship management


121 • Autonomous vessels need to be more afraid of dying


124 • Fuel leaks and unshielded hot spots in engine rooms


128 • Wind turbine recycling: Could this provide a glimmer of hope for millions of end-of-life boats?


130 • Spotlight on the Italian boating industry 132 • AI and data set to transform the maritime industry 134 • How well do you know your lifeboat?


136 • InterManager issues call for industry-wide accident reporting


138 • New Products 140 • Getting paid... 143 • A day in the life of Martin Pittilo MIIMS


130 118 134 THE REPORT | SEP 2024 | ISSUE 109 | 3


SEP 2024 | ISSUE 109


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