PORT STATE CONTROL COMMON DEFICIENCY AREAS ON LIQUEFIED GAS CARRIERS CITED
This article addresses five common deficiencies that Sector Houston-Galveston Port State Control Officers (PSCOs) have fund on liquefied gas carriers. In 2018, Sector Houston-Galveston conducted 141 Certificate of Compliance (COC) exams on liquefied gas carriers, seven of which resulted in IMO detentions. This equates to a 5% detention ratio, which is more than double the national average for IMO detentions in 2018 (1.5 %).
Some combination or other of the listed deficiencies were cited in all of the Sector’s aforementioned gas carrier detentions. The purpose of this article is to share information and prompt owners, operators, surveyors and other involved parties to take proactive steps to identify and correct sub-standard safety and environmental stewardship conditions before Coast Guard port state control intervention, including COC removal, cargo cessation and/or detentions, becomes necessary.
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SAFE LOADING PRACTICES HIGHLIGHTED IN FISHING VESSEL SINKING
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has published an investigation report on the sinking of the fishing vessel ‘Western Commander’ off Triple Islands, Dixon Entrance, British Columbia, in April 2018. The report highlighted issues related to safe loading practices and proper risk identification.
Probable causes TSB said the factors that potentially affected the vessel’s safe passage included: – the rudder shaft leak, – the adverse weather conditions, – the lack of a damage assessment following the bottom contact, and an uneven load distribution.
Lessons learned Loading practices During loading, each of the 11 harvesters that delivered urchins to the Western Commander provided bags of different sizes and shapes at various times over the 2-day period. Some of the bags delivered near the end of this period did not fit through the vessel hatches and were therefore stacked about 1m high on the hatch covers.
Stacking the bags on the hatches blocked access to the holds and the lazarette and eliminated the possibility of identifying points of water ingress or adding portable pumps to these areas. Stacking bags on top of the hatches also raised the vessel’s centre of gravity and created an opportunity for the cargo to shift, which could adversely affect stability.
It could not be determined how water entered the port forward fish hold or whether the loading practices adversely affected the vessel’s stability to the extent that they contributed to its sinking.
The vessel had a stability booklet for catching and transporting herring, but the stability booklet did not reflect the vessel’s current configuration and operation to transport herring. In this occurrence, given that the vessel was transporting sea urchins, it was not required to have a stability booklet.
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The Report • June 2019 • Issue 88 | 17
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