TT Club/ICHCA Safety Awards: Working to put safety first for all
NewsProducts to arrest stevedore falls, to stop containers going overboard, and to ensure safer mooring were the finalists at the 2024 annual TT...
Cosco lashing row at Hamburg Tollerort
NewsA feeder vessel due to arrive at Hamburg Tollerort terminal today from a port in the Eastern Baltic will be lashed and unlashed by the ship...
New STS cranes arrive at VICT Melbourne
NewsVictoria International Container Terminal (VICT) in Melbourne, an International Container Terminal Services Inc (ICTSI) concession, is addin...
Sharp decline in boxes overboard
NewsThe World Shipping Council reports that 661 containers were lost overboard during 2022, a sharp reduction on the 15-year average of 1,566 co...
Lashings-free containership design from HHI
NewsHyundai Heavy Industries has obtained design approval for a containership with cell guides on deck but no lashing bridges....
‘Lashing-free’ box ship design from HHI
NewsHyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has obtained design approval from the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for a container ship with cell guides...
Navis & DNV partner to address boxes overboard
NewsNew software combination aims to “minimise the risk of container incidents at sea by combining DNV’s Anti-Roll Assist with the Navis...
TEC lashing gondolas for Itapoá
NewsPorto Itapoá is understood to be the first container terminal operator in Brazil to introduce a lashing and unlashing safety cage attached ...
The London P&I Club releases secure stowage guidance for general and project cargo
NewsNew operational guidance for carrying and securing non-standardised cargo released in a bid to reduce stowage risks and the number of seriou...
K LINE tests IoT system for lashing equipment management
NewsCarrier conducts field trial for locating and managing lashing gear on a PCC....
More on Maersk ESSEN and boxes overboard
NewsWill new vessel stability criteria force lines to limit the intake of container vessels?...
ONE APUS update
NewsIt is expected to take over a month to remove containers from the collapsed stacks on the ONE APUS....
Unions taste defeat in Rotterdam Dockers’ Clause shortsea/feeder ship dispute
NewsA Rotterdam court has turned down trade union demands for crew lashing/securing and unlashing on shortsea and feeder ships under 170m long t...
Lashings support for unions
NewsRotterdam city council has passed a motion calling on the city to pursue abolition of the Dockers’ Clause exemption for seafarers on ships...
European shortsea – docker’s lashing clause challenged
NewsSix European shortsea and feeder ship operators have filed an official complaint with the European Commission, claiming that International T...