Loss Prevention Advice
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Over the past week, 1-7 April, four incidents of armed robbery against ships in Asia (one CAT 2 incident, one CAT 3 incident and two CAT 4 incidents) were reported.
All incidents occurred onboard ships while underway in the Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) of Singapore Strait (SS). The crew members were not injured in all four incidents. Engine spares and some items were stolen in three incidents, while nothing was stolen in one incident.
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Lessons learned from an explosion on a chemical tanker caused by unnoticed heating of styrene monomer cargo, leading to a thermal runaway and tank rupture.
A chemical tanker was moored alongside waiting for another vessel on its offshore side to finish purging its cargo tanks with nitrogen. Without warning one of the cargo tanks exploded, sending a large fireball skywards towards a major road bridge. Remarkably, just one crew member on each ship was injured.
The tanker had loaded a multiple parcel cargo some weeks before.
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A fire on an oil tanker caused by a failed fuel connection, which led to a serious blaze in the engine room but was quickly contained thanks to swift action from the crew.
On a chilly but calm autumnal morning, an oil tanker was approaching its destination berth to discharge a cargo of naphtha, a flammable hydrocarbon mixture used to manufacture fuels and solvents. The bridge team worked together to bring the vessel into position alongside the berth on schedule.
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On 8 April, the cargo vessel Hosei Crown, collided with a Vietnamese fishing boat in the Gulf of Bắc Bộ, Vietnam, resulting in four fatalities.
The cargo ship struck the fishing boat, causing it to capsize and upon receiving distress signals, the Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center (VMRCC) instructed the Hosei Crown to deploy buoys and initiate an immediate search and rescue operation. The VMRCC also dispatched its SAR 411 rescue ship to the scene to assist with the operation.
However, the collision resulted in the sinking of the fishing vessel and the tragic loss of four lives.