
Steel PreShipment Surveys: A Guide to Good Practice (Second Edition)
This illustrated guide is designed to help surveyors and Masters ensure that shipping documents accurately describe the apparent order and condition of steel cargo when loaded. It recommends a set of 18 standard surface condition clauses and 16 mechanical damage clauses.
This publication provides detailed guidance on the inspection of weather deck openings. The second edition has a revised layout and minor updates, but the core clauses remain the same. Imagery has been included to illustrate practical application of clauses. The book also includes checklists that show the extent of information to be provided in survey reports.
Most steel products rust and bend easily, particularly when carried at sea. Shipowners and operators – and ultimately their P&l insurers – are therefore usually first in the firing line when bent and rusty steel arrives at its destination.
As a result, shipowners, carriers, operators and P&l Clubs now regularly commission independent pre-shipment surveys of steel cargoes to ensure that bills of lading and/or mates’ receipts accurately describe the apparent order and condition of the cargo when it was taken on board the ship. As a further precaution against rust claims, surveyors are now asked to look at the weathertightness and ventilation of the holds in which steel cargo is carried.
The primary objective in producing this guide is to ensure correct and consistent usage of the P&I Club clauses, therefore enfranchising them with the status of an international standard method for describing steel cargoes.
Guidance is also provided on the conduct of weather deck opening surveys, which should form an integral part of every prudent pre-shipment survey. This includes details of the items that should be checked and a review of the advantages and disadvantages of the main types of weathertightness test.
Checklists are included in Appendices 1 and 2 to show the extent of information that should be provided in reports. This is as much to foster a consistent and professional approach among the international surveying community – which is increasingly exposed to negligence claims – as it is to eliminate misunderstandings between the world’s ports with regard to the clausing of shipping documents.
Chapter
1
Introduction
1.1
The
need
for
pre-shipment
surveys
1.2
Problems
with
implementation
1.3
The
purpose
of
this
guide
Chapter
2
Appointing
a
Surveyor
2.1
Allowing
sufficient
time
2.2
Give
clear
terms
of
reference
Chapter
3
Describing
Surface
Condition
of
Steel
Cargo
3.1
Surface
condition
clause
3.2
Examples
of
applying
surface
condition
clauses
Chapter
4
Describing
Mechanical
Damage
to
Steel
Cargo
4.1
Mechanical
damage
clauses
4.2
Examples
of
applying
mechanical
damage
clauses
Chapter
5
Inspecting
Weather
Deck
Openings
5.1
Allow
time
for
proper
repairs
5.2
Check
all
components
of
all
openings
5.3
Carry
out
weathertightness
tests
- Number of Pages:
- 33
- ISBN:
- 9780955825736
- Binding Format:
- Paperback
- Book Height:
- 210 mm
- Book Width:
- 140 mm
- Weight:
- 0.1 kg
- Published Date:
- August 2019
- Publication Date:
- August 2019