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Maritime News 12 Mar 14
Maritime News 12 Mar 14
SAFETY STUDY
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8rdinary 4eaman suffered hea%y facial and head contusions when a *82 cylinder he and others were placin$ on rac"s on dec" fell on him while he was in a s-uattin$ position&
While in port, a ship was to load some 120 cylinders with pressurised *82 and o9y$en, each wei$hin$ about '0 "ilos& The*hief 8fficer assi$ned a bosun, an : and an 84 to perform the tas"& They wore helmets& The cylinders were loaded by means of a car$o net from ashore and landed on dec" ri$ht behind the accommodation area& The cylinders were landed in a hori;ontal position, from where they were pushed towards the stora$e rac" and a piece of wood was placed at the end of each rac"& <ach cylinder was canted with the bottom to position them onto the rac" lane& The : was holdin$ the cylinder on top while the 84 was s-uattin$ on the dec" holdin$ at the bottom helpin$ to push the cylinder to the rac" lane& 4uddenly, one cylinder, already placed in the rac" but not yet secured, fell o%er and hit the 84 on his head& The 84 was conscious and bleedin$ from his head and face& The *8 as"ed one of the assistin$ shore personnel to call an ambulance& 6e called the master and applied first aid to the in.ured 84& The 84 was disembar"ed on a stretcher and brou$ht to the hospital, where it was determined that he sustained hea%y bruisin$ on his ri$ht face near the eye but no fractures&
%ONLU&ION&
The rac" $a%e no trans%erse support to the cylinders& The cylinder tilted because of mo%ement of the ship and because it was not yet secured& <ach one needed to be lifted nine centimetres from dec" and $uided into the rac" for stowa$e& crew member s-uattin$ on the dec" beside the cylinder rac"s is in a %ulnerable situation and can be hit by a tiltin$ cylinder& )o 4afe 3ob nalysis was laid down for this specific tas", e%en thou$h a lar$e amount of $as cylinders used to be e9chan$ed at each port call& The wor" was not planned and or$anised to ensure safe wor"in$ conditions& The cylinders were not secured one by one because no instruction to do so was $i%en&
R!%OMM!N#"TION&
The In%esti$ation 0i%ision recommended to the shippin$ company to in%esti$ate how to handle and store lar$e amounts of *82 and o9y$en cylinders in a more safe and easy way& 4ource= 0M I:
Meanwhile, the London PBI *lub has issued news alert to pro%ide information on the new <@, @4 limited sanctions due to the situation in @"raine& 8perators whose %essels are due to load car$oes from 1erch and Theodosia, *rimea, howe%er, should be aware that customsClocal authorities may deny @"rainian car$oes customs clearance and may pre%ent andCor cause delays to loadin$& The <@ has issued 0ecision 2014C11'C*74P and *ouncil ?e$ulation )o 20DC2014 which relate to the free;in$ of funds and economic resources of desi$nated persons identified as responsible for misappropriation of @"rainian state funds and %iolence& In the @4, the President has si$ned a new <9ecuti%e 8rder imposin$ sanctions a$ainst any indi%idual or entity responsible for or complicit in actions that undermine the democratic process or threaten the peace, security and stability of @"raine, the London PBI *lub reported&
Piraeus port& 0oc" wor"ers, 4hippin$ Ministry ci%ilian staff, left#win$ politicians and trade union members were amon$ those demonstratin$ a$ainst the plans of the 6ellenic ?epublic sset 0e%elopment 7und to sell a ma.ority share of the port to pri%ate interests& The march be$an at 12=20 local time and reached the Jassiliadi coast rou$hly half an hour later, where a dele$ation of wor"ers and left#win$ MPs met with 4hippin$ and e$ean Minister Miltiadis Jar%itsiotis, who warned that len$thy stri"es would be a 5serious mista"e5 at a difficult period for the producti%e process, ) reported& The port/s pri%atisation was also opposed by Piraeus Mayor Jassilis Michalolia"os, who said the port should stay in the hands of the municipality, which would also allow central $o%ernment to e9ercise strate$ic policy by appointin$ the board chairman of the port&
ccordin$ to IM:/s Li%e Piracy Map, one %essel has been hi.ac"ed and si9 ha%e been boarded in West frica since the be$innin$ of the year& In 3anuary, )i$erian pirates hi.ac"ed the Liberian#fla$ product tan"er, spar"in$ fears that these $an$s were now %enturin$ further south& <i$ht days later after the car$o was ille$ally transferred in a ship#to#ship operation alon$ the West frican coast, the pirates released the %essel& The IM: said that since pirates had ne%er attac"ed so far south, it is li"ely that %essels in the area are not aware of the dan$er&
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