Carriage of Steel

 

Carriage of Steel Cargoes

Guidelines for Members, Masters and Surveyors

INTRODUCTION

PART 1 TYPES OF STEEL CARGOES

  • Category A - Packed or wrapped
  • Category B - Not packed or wrapped

PART 2 CARGO CARE

Section 1 - Loading and stowage

  • Planning
  • Loading wet cargo
  • Rain during loading
  • Incompatible cargoes
  • Strength of tank tops
  • Stowage and lashing of different types of products
    - Steel coils
    - Steel slabs
    - Hot and cold rolled steel in packages and bundles
    - Single plates
    - Structural steel
    - Sheet pilings
    - Pipes
    - Wire rods
    - Stowage certificates
  • The golden rules of stowage

Section 2 - On the voyage

  • Supervision of loading, stowing and discharging
  • Maintenance of the vessel
  • Watertightness
  • Ventilation  

PART 3 SURVEYS

Section 1 - Pre-shipment survey - cargo

  • Information for the Surveyor
  • When to instruct the Surveyor
  • The Surveyor's duties
  • Preliminary report
  • Final report

Section 2 - Pre-shipment survey - the vessel

  • Cargo holds
  • Steel hatch covers and other deck openings
  • Checklist
    - General
    - Panels
    - Rubber packing (gaskets)
    - Retaining channels
    - Compression bars
    - (a) Transverse guttering and (b) Hatch rims
    - Steel to steel contact points
    - Snugs
    - Crutches
    - Quick-Acting cleats, rods, nuts and washers/Other cleating arrangements
    - Cross wedges (cross joint cleats)
    - Inboard drainage system
    -Wheel tracks (guide rails)
    - Wheels
    - (a) Panel side chains (b) Hinges (c) Hydraulics
    - Access hatches
    - Access doors
    - Bilge sounding caps
    - Sealing tape
  • Testing for watertightness
    - Ultrasonic test
    - Hose test
    - Chalk test
  • The survey report
    - Preliminary report
    - Final report

Section 3 - Discharge survey

  • Instructions to Surveyor
  • The survey
    - Copy documents which should be obtained
  • Contents of the Surveyor's report - Relative to the cause of any damage
    - Non-return valves on Bilge Lines
    - Tank tops
  • The survey report
    - Preliminary
    - Final
  • Stevedores' outturn report
  • Who should be authorised to board the vessel and examine the cargo?

Section 4 - Cargo/commodity survey

  • The survey
  • The survey report
    - Preliminary
    - Final
  • Silver nitrate testing and sampling 

PART 4 THE BILL OF LADING

Section 1 - The legal position

  • A "clean" Bill of Lading
  • Letters of Indemnity
  • Claused Bills of Lading

Section 2 - Cargo condition clauses  


  • - "Rust stained"
    - "Partly rust stained"
    - "Rusty"
    - "Partly rusty"
    - "Rust spots apparent"
    - "Rust spotted"
    - "Wet before shipment"
    - "Rust with pitting"
    - "Covered with snow"
    - "Areas of steel surfaces reacting to silver nitrate solution tests"
    - "Stained by an Unidentifiable Powder"
    - "Rust streaked" "Evidence of contact with free moisture - drip down rust streaks"
  • Mechanical (handling) damages
    - Unwrapped material
    - Hot rolled steel sheeting in coils
    - Hot rolled steel plates in bundles
    - Single steel plates
    - Large steel beams
    - Merchant iron
    - Pipes and tubes
  • Wire rods
    - Unwrapped goods
    - Wrapped goods
    - Sheet pilings
  • Wrapped material
    - Steel coils
    - Packages
    - General 

PART 5 RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER CHARTERPARTIES

  • Types of contracts
  • The owner's obligations under the Hague or Hague-Visby Rules
  • Loading, stowage and discharging operations
    - Time Charterparties
    - The NYPE Inter-Club Agreement
    - Voyage Charterparties
    - Conclusion