Safety Flash
Vessel hull damage due to quayside contact
Vessel hull damage due to quayside contact
- IMCA
- Safety Flash
- IMCA SF 07/21
- Marine OperationsVessel and Mooring
- Structural and asset integrityVessel collision
- Mooring operations
- Safety communication
- Marine industry
- Port and quayside
Summary
Two incidents at Great Yarmouth involved vessel hull and fender damage at quaysides. One involved a displaced Yokohama fender and penetration by a pad eye; the other involved unsuitable rubber-faced steel plate fenders. Weather contributed to both. Recommendations address berthing appraisal, pre-arrival briefings, unsuitable berths and monitoring conditions alongside.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Vessel collision; ship collision; marine allision.
Classifications: Mooring operations; berthing; unmooring.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Marine industry; shipping industry; maritime sector.
Classifications: Port and quayside; quayside; harbour; harbor.
Summary
In two separate incidents at Great Yarmouth in the UK, two vessels have sustained damage to hull plating and hull fenders through contact with damaged, missing or misaligned jetty fendering arrangements.
IMCA SF 07/21. Themes: marine operations, vessel and mooring.