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A PIL vessel (Photo: Vessel Finder)

 

Dangerous goods (dangerous cargoes) that are misrepresented are a serious problem for container shipping, leading to ship fires causing total property damage, loss of life and injury to crew. Last year, the X-Press Pearl sank after a cargo fire, while the Maersk Honam fire in 2018 killed five crew members.

Shipping lines are increasingly turning to software solutions to try to prevent the mis-declaration of dangerous goods being loaded on board in the first place.

NCB Group - a commodity inspection company - based in New York said that PIL is the fourth company to register to use the Hazcheck Detect tool.

Hazcheck Detect screens cargo reservation details for keywords and includes an industry library to enable the identification of suspicious bookings that may be misrepresented or undeclared dangerous goods.

PIL says it has achieved results in just a few weeks on stopping the loading and unloading of falsely declared cargo. Bojarajoo Subramaniam, Assistant General Manager, Operations and Procurement of PIL, said: “In just a few weeks of using the tool, we have been able to prevent over 100 containers from being loaded onto our ships that should have been subject to IMDG Code checks."

Ian J Lennard, President of NCB commented: “Our software division, Exis Technologies has over 35 years of dangerous goods knowledge and experience of high volume IT applications for large container lines".

“As more lines begin using the tool, we can make further improvements like adding additional rules to the tool’s industry rules library from which all container lines can benefit.”

 
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Source: Phaata.com (According to ContainerNews)

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