TRANSPORT insurer TT Club has revealed that as many as two thirds of accidents that involve the loss of containerised cargo are caused by poor packing and securing of loads.
Ocean carriers' Cargo Incident Notification System (CINS) also finds that a third of accidents they investigate has the cause, resulting in direct expense, operational disruption, management distraction and, not to mention litigation or insurance costs.
"It is important to take account not only of financial losses but also in too many cases serious bodily injury to operators, even death," said TT Club risk management director Peregrine Storrs-Fox.
"Increased levels of training to maintain and improve the expertise of those employed by shippers, consolidators, warehouses and depots to pack containers and other transport units is now essential," he said. "This is why TT Club has commissioned the expert e-learning course designer Exis Technologies to develop the CTUpack e-learning course."
The aim of the course is to focus industry attention on the significant and dangerous implications of bad packing and provide guidance consistent with current good practice. The course takes account of the recent revisions to the International Labour Organisation/International Maritime Organisation/United Nations Economic Commission for Europe guidelines, anticipated to be approved as a non-mandatory, but enforceable, code of practice later this year.
Said Mr Storrs-Fox: "CTUpack e-learning follows the well-established IMDG Code e-learning training course from Exis, which is also sponsored by TT Club. Both courses fit closely with the risk management approach that the Club has always fostered among the global freight transport community."
WORLD SHIPPING
07 February 2014 - 20:42
Industry pays millions in damages due to poor box packing: TT Club
TRANSPORT insurer TT Club has revealed that as many as two thirds of accidents that involve the loss of containerised cargo are caused by poor packing and securing of loads.
WORLD SHIPPING
07 February 2014 - 20:42
Industry pays millions in damages due to poor box packing: TT Club
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