Definition The Notice of Readiness (NOR) is the document used by the Ship Master, to notify his ship readiness, in every respect, to load and/or unload the goods during the period of his charter. NOR is an extremely important document as it triggers the commencement of laytime. "Laytime" is the term used to refer to the time allowed to the charterers to load/discharge cargo in return for payment of freight to the owners.In a case of invalid NOR, the vessel might not be considered as arrived ship and therefore all waiting time until berthing will be refuted in the demurrage claim.The … [Read more...]
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Hatch Covers – Function, Inspection, Tests, Precautions, Operation, Maintenance
Introduction It is generally accepted that leaking hatch covers are a principal cause of dry cargo wetting. Hatches leak for a variety of reasons, but mainly because of poor maintenance or failure to close them properly. Leaking or badly maintained hatch covers can lead to more serious consequences than wet cargo- flooding accelerated corrosion or even loss of the ship.A watertight hatch cover is a cover designed to prevent the passage of water in either direction under a head of water for which the surrounding structure is designed. A weathertight cover is a cover designed to prevent the … [Read more...]
SPM (Single Point Mooring) or SBM Operations
A Single Point Mooring Buoy consists of a buoy that is permanently moored to the seabed by means of multiple mooring lines/anchors/chains allowing cargo transfer of liquid petroleum products. The buoy contains a bearing system that allows a part of it to rotate around the moored geostatic part. When a Ship is moored to this rotating part of the buoy with a mooring connection, the vessel is able to freely weather-vane around the geostatic part of the buoy. Responsibility Master has the overall responsibility for the mooring operations of the vessel at the SBM.The officer-in-charge of … [Read more...]