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In ship management

Lifeboat overboard...

24/04/2018

Lifeboat overboard...

A lifeboat was discovered to be missing by the crew at 07.00 one morning. It had evidently fallen overboard during the preceding night. The Master reported the lifeboat as missing and it was eventually found drifting off the port of Naze in Japan.

27/09/2017

Very Taxing

A crew manager acted for an owner operating in Norwegian waters. The crew manager arranged for crew from the Philippines. The crew manager was required, on behalf of the owners, to report the presence of the crew in Norway.

27/09/2017

Devil in the detail

The commercial manager of a tanker arranged a voyage charter. The fixture was recorded in a recap message and was based on the BP Voy 4 form of charterparty with a large number of amendments and additional clauses.

27/09/2017

Manager’s maintenance matters

A ship manager was responsible for the technical management of a bulk carrier which called regularly at an Australian port to load iron ore.

13/04/2017

Employment terms

A commercial manager fixed a ship that had been under his management for several years for a project voyage to Finland.

13/04/2017

An unacceptable tanker

A pool manager misdescribed a tanker as being acceptable to a specific oil major, even though he had received an email from the head owners prior to fixing that stated she had been rejected by them. This email was overlooked by the pool manager when the tanker was fixed for a spot voyage to load ULSD (ultra low sulphur diesel).

20/09/2016

Reports alone are not enough

Ship managers acted as managers of a vessel for a number of years until it was sold. When it was delivered in Northern Europe to the buyers, Class suspended the vessel’s approvals due the state of its ballast tanks.

20/09/2016

Insufficient Blanking

A layup manager arranged the blanking of sea valves for a vessel going into cold layup.

10/03/2015

Safety Management System (“SMS”) failure

An inspector of CARB - California Air Resources Board (the clean air agency of the state of California) – boarded a ship in July 2011 managed by an ITIC Member at the Los Angeles Terminal.

18/09/2014

Expensive expenses

A ship was fixed on a charterparty form containing a time bar clause that provided that all claims, charges and expenses had to be submitted within 90 days of the completion of the discharge or otherwise would be deemed waived.

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