Year: 2021 Language: english Author: Bureau Veritas Genre: Guide Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 12 Description: GUIDANCE FOR STUDYING & PREPARING A BULK CARRIER FOR THE CARRIAGE OF CONTAINERS This document, divided in two parts, is compiled based on the recent experience of Bureau Veritas in handling such requests as well as on assisting in the successful completion of such operations. The first part summarizes the answers to frequently-asked questions that are posed by owners on the subject. The second part describes in more detail the two major options available to owners in order to successfully perform the operation as well as the relevant involvement of Class and the documentation that needs to be provided in each case. Unprecedented demand for the carriage of containers, exceeding the carriage supply in container ships has prompted charterers to explore the possibility of utilization of bulk carriers for that task. Bulk carriers, in general, are non-cellular vessels compared to container ships. Carriage of containers in bulk carriers is possible but only after extensive planning, assessment and scrutiny. Operators must liaise with their insurance carriers, Class society of their vessel(s) and corresponding Flag Administration for advice and guidance on the necessary modifications and/or additions to satisfy relevant requirements. :
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Loading Containers in Bulk Carriers
Year: 2021
Language: english
Author: Bureau Veritas
Genre: Guide
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 12
Description: GUIDANCE FOR STUDYING & PREPARING A BULK CARRIER FOR THE CARRIAGE OF CONTAINERS
This document, divided in two parts, is compiled based on the recent experience of Bureau Veritas
in handling such requests as well as on assisting in the successful completion of such operations.
The first part summarizes the answers to frequently-asked questions that are posed by owners on the subject.
The second part describes in more detail the two major options available to owners in order to successfully
perform the operation as well as the relevant involvement of Class and the documentation that needs to be
provided in each case.
Unprecedented demand for the carriage of containers, exceeding the carriage supply in container ships has
prompted charterers to explore the possibility of utilization of bulk carriers for that task. Bulk carriers, in
general, are non-cellular vessels compared to container ships.
Carriage of containers in bulk carriers is possible but only after extensive planning, assessment and scrutiny.
Operators must liaise with their insurance carriers, Class society of their vessel(s) and corresponding Flag
Administration for advice and guidance on the necessary modifications and/or additions to satisfy relevant
requirements.
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