Codifying coal cargoes to save the lives of seafarers

摘要

It is a shocking statistic that an estimated half of all the seafarer lives lost in dry bulk shipping over a 10-year period were due to cargo failure. In its most recent report covering 2008-2017, Inter-cargo, a trade body for dry cargo shipowners, points out that 101 lives and nine bulk carriers were likely lost due to cargo failure, compared with a total of 202 lives lost in 53 vessel casualties. Of the nine bulk carrier losses, six were vessels loaded with nickel ore from Indonesia, two with laterite (clay) iron ore from India, and one with bauxite from Malaysia.