Marine Loss Prevention Services

VTS Shipping is providing Cargo and Marine loss prevention services. Our professional controller's and expert's actions are to assist P&I members, Ship-owners and underwriters to manage and reduce risk exposure and to contribute towards an enhanced safety culture.

VTS Shipping marine and cargo loss control is not only to the hull & machinery, full condition survey, draft survey, on-off-hire condition surveys, loading & unloading tally supervision, lasing and securing survey and protection & indemnity insurance, underwriters but also vessel issues as fire & explosion, navigation as grounding, salvage, pollution & collision, carriers as liquefaction, tanker and in break bulk & bags, containers, RoRo & dangerous cargo, human issues as stowaways, Illness, personal injury, pirate . . . risk assessment and loss control prevention f for the purpose of reducing the risks at sea.

VTS Shipping appointed by project underwriters, cargo underwriters, P&I clubs, ship-owners, carriers, assured, brokers, maritime lawyers, claim handlers, settling agents, freight forwards, oil & gas offshore companies, reinsurers, charterers, S&P agents, multimodal transport companies, etc…as their correspondent for all of ship & vessel carrier, all type of cargo at ports and at sea.

Loss Prevention & Control description in details is consisted of (But not limited)

Cargo

-Bulk/General cargo (Wetting, shifting and contamination, shortage, ex: rice)

-Liquefaction of Cargo (nickel ore and iron ore fines)

-Container (falling overboard and wet damage to cargo)

-RoRo (Cargo shifting in adverse weather conditions)

-Tanker (Contamination, Shortage, Ex: Gas and Oil)

-Dangerous cargo

-Break & super project cargo (ex: heavy lifting)

Cases

- Fire / Explosion (almost of Engine Room, Machinery spaces and cargo holds)

- Machinery (Bunkers / Fuel quality, Cracks, girders/columns, Main engines, Turbo chargers, Other machinery, Boilers, Crane damages, Propeller blades, Rudders, Slow Steaming)

- Grounding (heavy weather, dragging of anchor, evasive actions to avoid collision, Navigational errors)

- Pollution (A common cause of pollution is ruptured oil pipes in ballast tank, the majority of spills occur during operational procedures)

- Illness (medical care and repatriation, diseases)

- Personal Injury (slips/falls, fires and explosions, machinery or equipment hazardous atmosphere)

-Human Related Issues

- Stowaways (financial, a threat)

- Navigational Issues

- Collision/RDC ( lookout or unsatisfactory radar watch, weather, VHF, Overtaking in narrow passages)

- Damage caused by vessel coming into direct contact with, for example, a dock, pier, jetty, buoy or crane, or the damage caused by the vessel's wash

- Anchor-loss or other Anchor issues (Loss of anchor and anchor chains are among the root causes of many groundings and collisions)