North Club

New initiative helps owners prepare for IMO’s cyber security deadline

The North P&I Club announced a new platform, aimed to help ship owners and operators to better understand their vulnerabilities to cyber risk and to improve their cyber security processes and systems ahead of the IMO’s deadline for safety compliance in January 2021.

The HACyberLogix platform, resulting from cooperation with HudsonCyber, is a secure, cloud-based programme, designed specifically for the maritime industry, to help shipowners assess their cyber security capabilities and gain insight...

https://safety4sea.com/new-initiative-helps-owners-prepare-for-imos-cyber-security-deadline/

Ivory Coast taxes shipowners

The North P&I Club informs that the Ivory Coast have issued a notice on their intention to collect fees from vessels that are engaged on international voyages and are loading or discharging at Ivorian ports.

Namely, the country’s Secretary of State of the Minister of Transports has issued a note to shipowners whose vessels call at Ivory Coast, referencing the l’Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA) regulations in relation to the Rights of Maritime Traffic, which took effect on 1...

https://safety4sea.com/ivory-coast-tax-shipowners/

CO2 systems risk awareness crucial to prevent accidents

As the North P&I Club highlights, a recent incident that caused the deaths of ten people on board a vessel, has pinpointed the dangers of not fully understanding the operation of fixed CO2 systems.

The incident

The incident took place while the ship was in dry dock. Namely, a junior officer was tasked with getting details of the fixed systems CO2 bottles in the vessel’s CO2 room. While the junior officer was in the CO2 room, he discovered a leak from one of the cylinders.

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https://safety4sea.com/co2-systems-risk-awareness-crucial-to-prevent-accidents/

Safe working on CO2 systems

David Patterson, Loss Prevention Executive, North P&I Club discusses of a recent incident that resulted with the loss of ten people onboard a vessel, highlighting what the dangers are when not fully-understanding the operation of fixed CO2 systems.

The incident

This occurred whilst the vessel was in dry dock. A junior officer was tasked with getting details of the fixed systems CO2 bottles in the vessel’s CO2 room. While the junior officer was in the CO2 room, he discovered a leak from one of the...

https://safety4sea.com/safe-working-on-co2-systems/

Alvin Forster: Human error is not the root cause in accidents

Alvin Forster Deputy Director (Loss Prevention) of North P&I Club focuses on today’s common thought that 80% of accidents are caused by human error, highlighting that the industry has to further investigate behind the human error and see why someone did something wrong.

According to Mr Forster, it is of a great importance that after an incident or near miss, a proper investigation is carried out and lessons are learnt.

However, he highlights that some investigations rely on the immediate cause...

https://safety4sea.com/alvin-forster-human-error-is-not-the-root-cause-in-accidents/

Detentions for ‘illegal anchoring’ in Indonesia continue

Vessels continue to be detained by Indonesian authorities while at anchor in waters around the island of Bintan. The ships believed that they had anchored at OPL Singapore, but had in fact anchored within Indonesian territorial waters.

Earlier in the year, North Club had informed that an increasing number of vessels are being detained by Indonesian authorities while at anchor in the waters around the island of Bintan.

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Bintan is a popular place for vessels to...

https://safety4sea.com/detentions-for-illegal-anchoring-in-indonesia-continue/

Factors to match a BWMS with vessel’s operational demand

North P&I Club focuses on the various types of ballast water treatment systems that are currently on the market or are being developed; The second guide that the Club launched discusses the different systems, the methods and operations conducted and factors that a shipowner should keep in mind to match the BWMS with the vessel’s operational demands.

In its first guide ‘Regulation’ the Club highlighted that from 8 September 2019, existing vessels have up until its next IOPP Certificate renewal...

https://safety4sea.com/factors-to-match-a-bwms-with-vessels-operational-demand/

Four challenges hiding in BWMS

Ballast Water Management Systems aim to ocean protection; Nevertheless, these systems hide many operational and commercial risks. Given that from 8 September 2019, the Convention will apply to existing vessels, shipowners should face the existing challenges and find solutions.

North Club issued its third guide on BWMS focusing on the operational and commercial risks, and how shipowners can deal with them.

Specifically, the organisms that survive from the treatment process can be found in...

https://safety4sea.com/four-challenges-hiding-in-bwms/

North Club receives SAFETY4SEA Initiative Award

SAFETY4SEA is pleased to announce that The North of England P&I Club has received the 2019 SAFETY4SEA Initiative Award at a prestigious award ceremony which successfully concluded on October the 1st at Yacht Club of Greece in Athens, the evening ahead of the SAFETY4SEA Conference.

The North of England P&I Club received the SAFETY4SEA Initiative Award, sponsored by Minerva Marine Inc, for launching SCORA which is an on-line Safety Culture Organisational Assessment tool, developed in collaboration...

https://safety4sea.com/cm-north-club-receives-safety4sea-initiative-award/

US launches Red Sea maritime security advisory

The North P&I Club informed that the US Maritime Administration (MARAD) has issued a maritime security advisory for the Red Sea. This comes after a maritime threat has been reported in the Red Sea near Yemen.

Namely, a maritime threat has been reported in the Red Sea, in the vicinity of Yemen, whose nature could lead to possible increased hostilities that threaten maritime security.

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As the North Club says, ships operating in this area are advised to review US...

https://safety4sea.com/us-launches-red-sea-maritime-security-advisory/

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