12/10/2010
Case 4 General Average/Salvage and Carrying Equipment The container ship of a Member was struck ob the port side by a bulk carrier while anchoring. The Member had 314 containers on board, of which 32 were constructive...
Case 4 Ship Damage While discharging a container ship, a member's crane driver moved his crane without lifting the gantry. The gantry hit and partly demolished the ship's radar mast, radio antenna and various other...
Case 5 Customs Duty A terminal operator member received two container loads said to contain cigarettes, to be loaded on one of his customer's ships, Because of the sensitive nature of the cargo, the containers were...
Case 5 Typhoon Maemi, Korea The severest typhoon since records began 100 years ago struck Korea on 12 September 2003. This caused considerable damage to the port facilities and operators' equipment at a port and other...
Case 6 Equipment A multi-purpose container carrier (ro/ro and cellular) was loading containers to the ro/ro deck over a stern three-quarter ramp. A container lifter, insured by the Club as ship's equipment, was...
Case 6 Liability - Death and Bodily Injury A terminal member was discharging bundles of steel tubes at night. The bundles were stowed on the main vehicle deck of a ro/ro vessel and were being moved by fork-lift trucks...
07/10/2010
Dr Risto Talas, Research Fellow at University of Hull Logistics Institute, writes:
The FIATA Advisory Body Dangerous Goods (ABDG) has provided an advice concerning the proposed amendments of the ADR (European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road) and the RID (Regulation concerning the carriage of Dangerous Goods by rail) that are due to enter into force on 1 January 2011. There are general transitional measures until 30 June 2011 with the possibility to apply for longer transitional measures for specific technical issues.
Based on an analysis revealing a number of major structural failures in port equipment in recent years, Laurence Jones, TT Club's Global Risk Assessment Director, stresses how essential it is for operators of ports and cargo handling facilities to establish a regular sequence of maintenance and thorough examination of all the lifting appliances it utilises.
26/09/2010
Readers of TT Talk may well remember the article we published about the IMDG Code Amendment 34-08 which came into mandatory force in January this year. The article pointed out that a major change in the IMDG Code was the introduction of new mandatory training requirements for shore side staff involved in the preparation, handling and transport of dangerous goods by sea. Accidents involving packaged dangerous goods continue to occur and this measure was seen as an important element in the wider programme of tackling this issues.
The Club has recently seen an increase in claims against transport operator Members for release of cargo without presentation of the transport operator bill of lading.
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