European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), on March 16th, 2023, published a study titled CARGOSAFE.
Fires on containerships, in particular originating in containers, have gained increasing visibility in recent years.
Cargo fire safety onboard container vessels can be considered a topic with two essential dimensions requiring due consideration in any safety risk analysis. The first is related to the ship systems for detection and response to fires, and the second on the carriage, handling, declaration and segregation of dangerous goods (DGs).
The objective of CARGOSAFE is to identify cost-effective risk control options for cargo fires, dealing with both dimensions of the problem both for existing ships and newbuilds, based on a safety risk study on containerised cargo fires.
The study follows the structure of Formal Safety Assessment, as described in IMO’s MSC-MEPC.2/Circ.12/Rev.1 in a way that can be proposed and considered in the context of the relevant discussions at IMO.
Read more HERE:
CARGOSAFE Executive Summary.pdf
Annex for executive summary report.zip
Related News
EMSA has released a report on the potential of wind-assisted propulsion systems as a power source in the shipping sector
Nov 28, 2023
EU has adopted a regulation referring to monitoring plans, emissions reports, and documents of compliance
Nov 27, 2023
ECSA welcomes the outcome of the EP vote on the new CO2 standards for heavy-duty vehicles and the rejection of the CCF for trucks
Nov 23, 2023