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现代集装箱船携带成千上万的集装箱。航运公司只能依赖于正确的货物 申报。集装箱里到底是什么,又有多少重量。完全依赖客户方面的申报，以及可能的相管行政海关等监管。这种监管客观上讲很难100%覆盖。
从2013年一系列集装箱船火灾案例中。如“尤金马士基”,“汉萨Brandenberg”和“马士基坎帕拉”都遭遇了集装箱货物起火,而摩尔安慰轮,更是因火灾导致毁灭性的灾难。容器火灾尤为严重,很难控制,里面有极高的温度达到燃烧的盒子。最新火灾涉及“马士基坎帕拉”才被扑灭燃烧了六天开始最初在一个容器前两行,然后蔓延到另一个,除此之外。,在“尤金马士基”事故的丹麦公司报道中得知,2013年6月相关货物的集装箱被错误申报为家居用品。不管是故意还是无知,会有极其严重的后果。
近年来有许多货箱船因寄货人在申报货箱之内容和重量时颇有不实导致货箱爆炸引起火灾或因货箱超重导致船体发生裂缝等等海难. IMO己开始起草法例要求每个货箱在装船之前必需过磅. 这是一宗非常迫切的事件, 因它影响到海员之生命和货物的安全……….
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A burning issue: boxship fires and overweight containers
Monday, 09 September 2013 | 00:00
The question of what is in the box is a vexing one for container shipping. Modern containerships carry many, many thousands of boxes stuffed with a huge variety of cargoes. Most times the shipping line is simply
reliant on the cargo being correctly declared both in terms of what it actually is and how much it weighs. Very few containers are actually checked and the very nature of large, sealed metal boxes, means the nature of the cargo is not remotely visually apparent.
The last three months have seen a series of containership fires and in one case a vessel splitting in two as well. The ‘Eugen Maersk’, ‘Hansa Brandenberg’ and the ‘Maersk Kampala’ all suffered container fires, while the ‘MOL Comfort’, split in two and later suffered a container fire that
destroyed the remaining fore section of the vessel.
Container fires are particularly nasty and very difficult to bring under control, with extremely high temperatures reached inside the burning boxes. The latest fire involving the ‘Maersk Kampala’ burned for six days before it was put out having started initially in one container in the first two rows, then spreading to a second and more beyond that.
With the fire only just extinguished it is not clear what caused the fire on the ‘Maersk Kampala’. However, in the case of the ‘Eugen Maersk’ in June the Danish company reported that the cargo in the containers involved had been misdeclared as household goods.
Misdeclaring of dangerous goods by shippers, whether deliberate or through ignorance, can have extremely serious consequences with the containers being incorrectly stowed. Fortunately no one was killed or injured in the recent fires, unlike the fire on the ‘MSC Flaminia’ last year where two seafarers died while fighting the blaze.
Another issue with misdeclared containers is weight. Experts we have talked to who have studied photos from the ‘MOL Comfort’ splitting in two say it was likely caused by overweight containers stowed in the wrong positions. Overweight containers was one of the causes of the ‘MSC Napoli’ casualty in 2007 where the vessel’s hull cracked.
Indeed yesterday a joint release by Bimco, International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the International Ports and Harbours Association, and the World Shipping Council highlighted the need tackle over weight containers.
“Misdeclared container weights present safety hazards for ships, their crews, other cargo onboard, workers in the port facilities handling containers, and on roads. Incorrectly declared weights lead to incorrect ship stowage and accidents,” they said.
As boxships get ever bigger, and figures from insurers put that 10% of containers carried contain hazardous goods, real action is required over the misdeclaration of cargoes before an even more serious casualty and tragedy unfolds.
从2013年一系列集装箱船火灾案例中。如“尤金马士基”,“汉萨Brandenberg”和“马士基坎帕拉”都遭遇了集装箱货物起火,而摩尔安慰轮,更是因火灾导致毁灭性的灾难。容器火灾尤为严重,很难控制,里面有极高的温度达到燃烧的盒子。最新火灾涉及“马士基坎帕拉”才被扑灭燃烧了六天开始最初在一个容器前两行,然后蔓延到另一个,除此之外。,在“尤金马士基”事故的丹麦公司报道中得知,2013年6月相关货物的集装箱被错误申报为家居用品。不管是故意还是无知,会有极其严重的后果。
近年来有许多货箱船因寄货人在申报货箱之内容和重量时颇有不实导致货箱爆炸引起火灾或因货箱超重导致船体发生裂缝等等海难. IMO己开始起草法例要求每个货箱在装船之前必需过磅. 这是一宗非常迫切的事件, 因它影响到海员之生命和货物的安全……….
RESOURCE:
A burning issue: boxship fires and overweight containers
Monday, 09 September 2013 | 00:00
The question of what is in the box is a vexing one for container shipping. Modern containerships carry many, many thousands of boxes stuffed with a huge variety of cargoes. Most times the shipping line is simply
reliant on the cargo being correctly declared both in terms of what it actually is and how much it weighs. Very few containers are actually checked and the very nature of large, sealed metal boxes, means the nature of the cargo is not remotely visually apparent.
The last three months have seen a series of containership fires and in one case a vessel splitting in two as well. The ‘Eugen Maersk’, ‘Hansa Brandenberg’ and the ‘Maersk Kampala’ all suffered container fires, while the ‘MOL Comfort’, split in two and later suffered a container fire that
destroyed the remaining fore section of the vessel.
Container fires are particularly nasty and very difficult to bring under control, with extremely high temperatures reached inside the burning boxes. The latest fire involving the ‘Maersk Kampala’ burned for six days before it was put out having started initially in one container in the first two rows, then spreading to a second and more beyond that.
With the fire only just extinguished it is not clear what caused the fire on the ‘Maersk Kampala’. However, in the case of the ‘Eugen Maersk’ in June the Danish company reported that the cargo in the containers involved had been misdeclared as household goods.
Misdeclaring of dangerous goods by shippers, whether deliberate or through ignorance, can have extremely serious consequences with the containers being incorrectly stowed. Fortunately no one was killed or injured in the recent fires, unlike the fire on the ‘MSC Flaminia’ last year where two seafarers died while fighting the blaze.
Another issue with misdeclared containers is weight. Experts we have talked to who have studied photos from the ‘MOL Comfort’ splitting in two say it was likely caused by overweight containers stowed in the wrong positions. Overweight containers was one of the causes of the ‘MSC Napoli’ casualty in 2007 where the vessel’s hull cracked.
Indeed yesterday a joint release by Bimco, International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), the International Ports and Harbours Association, and the World Shipping Council highlighted the need tackle over weight containers.
“Misdeclared container weights present safety hazards for ships, their crews, other cargo onboard, workers in the port facilities handling containers, and on roads. Incorrectly declared weights lead to incorrect ship stowage and accidents,” they said.
As boxships get ever bigger, and figures from insurers put that 10% of containers carried contain hazardous goods, real action is required over the misdeclaration of cargoes before an even more serious casualty and tragedy unfolds.
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