WORLD BORA COLLISION WITH THE RABA: DMAIB RELEASES ACCIDENT REPORT


On February 19, 2019, the Cypriot-flagged cargo ship RABA, sailing from Copenhagen to Szczecin, collided with the Danish-flagged ‘World Bora’, which was sailing towards the Viking wind farm in the Exclusive Economic Zone.


The master of RABA was responsible for observing the traffic onboard the vessel and did not identify any ships as a risk of collision. On the starboard side, the other vessel World Bora was seen crossing RABA’s course but wasn’t considered as a danger that could cause a collision. Thus, the master didn’t pay closer attention. However, during his watch, he got preoccupied with other duties and lost track of time, resulting in him not following up with the crossing vessel he previously saw.


In the meantime, although the AB was conducting lookout duties, he didn’t inform the master of the close quarter situation until a few minutes before the collision. It is


likely that the AB did not realise the risk of collision, because he was not trained in detecting the risk of collision by means of visual bearing alone the report highlights.


The report presents the factors that are most likely to have caused the collision between the two vessels. The underlying reason why the master forgot to follow up on the traffic was his preoccupation with the activities he was engaged in while keeping navigational watch. These activities were related to his function as watchkeeping officer and master of the ship.


DMAIB comments that, based on other investigations, watchkeeping is intertwined with other tasks than navigating the ship and keeping lookout. Even though these work practises are common and normally not an issue, they became critical when the watchkeeping officers on RABA and World Bora were simultaneously in their activities when the ships were on a collision course.


Read the report in full at https://bit.ly/2SeF6yv SEED CAKE GUIDELINES PUBLISHED FOR SAFE CARRIAGE IN CONTAINERS


CINS, together with the International Group of P&I Clubs, has published guidelines for the carriage of seed cake (s.c.) in containers. The practices set out in this document are intended to improve knowledge and the safety during the carriage of such cargo and to ensure that it is properly declared, packaged and carried.


In these Guidelines, seed cake includes any type of pulp, meals, cake, pellets, expellers or other cargo where oil has been removed from oil-bearing seeds, cereals or commodities with similar properties.


Trade names under which Seed Cake may be presented for shipment include, but are not limited to, those listed below: Animal feed;


Palm kernel expellers; Seed meal, oily;


Copra extraction pellets; Peanut (oil) cake; Soya bean meal;


The presence of oil and moisture in these cargoes can cause self-heating. Microbiological self-heating, driven by the inherent moisture content, can increase the temperature of the cargo to a point where oxidation of the residual oil occurs. This oil oxidation can cause further self-heating occurring.


While all self-heating is usually initially slow, oxidative self-heating can be much faster than microbiological heating and may raise the temperature high enough for the cargo to ignite spontaneously. As a result, the higher the moisture and oil content the higher the risk of self-heating and spontaneous ignition.


Download the pdf guidelines at https://bit.ly/2O8fsdj


Groundnut meals; Peanut meal;


Sunflower (seed) meal.


The Report • March 2020 • Issue 91 | 19


Safety Briefings


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