Ship and equipment
Sailing at sea has always meant exposing not only the lives of officers and crew but also ship and equipment to marine perils. Fortunately, vessels have become safer and navigational aids and other tools for their safe operation have become far more reliable and sophisticated. Typical casualties seen from Gard’s perspective are related to machinery problems, groundings, contacts and collisions. This topic aims to help by highlighting ship and equipment issues commonly encountered by Gard.
General issues
Hull and machinery incident - consequences of using off-specification bunkers
Onboard verification of fuel sulphur content
P&I incident - how not to do it - bunker operations
Preparing for low sulphur operation
Prevention of engine damage due to catalytic fines
Some technical aspects of marine fuels testing
Vessel manoeuvring affected by the use of ultra-low sulphur fuel
Warning - fuel oil quality might be at stake
Alerts
06.12.2023
13.09.2023
15.08.2023