Shipment of Dangerous Goods

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Shipment of Dangerous Goods Shipowners
Perspective
Elisa Mikkolainen Chartering Crystal Pool Oy
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Crystal Pool Oy Cargoes Traffic

• IMO 2 and 3 - type bulk liquid chemicals
• 1,8 million tonnes per year (2006)
• main products
• Methanol, Ethanol, Caustic Soda, Baseoils,
  Lubeoils, Xylenes, Paraffins, Acetic Acid,
  Sulphuric Acid, Phosphoric Acid, Vegetable Oils
• main traffic areas
• Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean,
  Cross-Atlantic

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Crystal Pool Fleet
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Crystal Pool Oy

• 1992 Founded as a Joint Venture between Hollming
  Oy and Neste Oy
• 1995 Neste Oy stepped out of chemical shipping
• 1994 first set of Crystal vessels built in
  Belgium
• 2006 second set of Crystal vessels built in South
  Korea
• 2007 Crystal Pool Oy becomes part of Euroceanica
  Ltd, fleet expanded by six vessels
• 2007 presently employing 18 persons in Helsinki,
  2 in Moscow and 1 in Antwerp

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Shipments

• one shipload can consist of 1-20 different
  products
• compatibility of parcels, complicated stowage
• complete segregation between parcels / ships
  tanks
• different terminals, charterers, shippers
• transshipments into/from barges, coasters,
  exporters/importers
• simultaneous loading/discharging/cleaning

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Safety Requirements

• Rules and Regulations
• Authorities
• Major Oil Companies
• Charterers
• Terminals
• Insurance
• Classification Society

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Rules and Regulations

• SOLAS
• MARPOL
• IBC
• ISM
• ISPS
• REACH

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Oil Companies Charterers

• OCIMF
• CDI
• SIRE
• TMSA
• Vetting procedures
• Screening procedures
• Questionnaires

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Safety Culture

• Four components
• Design
• Procedures
• Risk Assessment
• Behaviour
• Not only ships, but the whole organization!

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Safety Culture 1. Design

• Ships dedicated to specific trade
• Sophisticated equipment
• Regular maintenance
• First class officers
• Motivated crew
• Shore personnel to support sea-going personnel

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Safety Culture 2. Procedures

• Manuals prepared and updated
• Crew trained to implement manuals
• Shore personnel used together with outside
  specialists
• Drills
• Incident/Near miss reporting

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Safety Culture 3. Risk assessment

• Hazardous cargoes
• Large number of different products
• Short steaming time, lot of port calls
• Terminals not able to handle increasing volumes
• Transshipments to/from other vessels
• Busy traffic area
• Challenging navigation

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Safety Culture 4. Behaviour
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Development of Safety Culture
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