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Strength and stability of the Lifting appliances.

Drying time for washed compartments must be allowed for, before loading the next cargo this time will vary with the climate, but two to three days must be expected. Washing is always carried out after the compartment has been swept. Into yarns and turning the yarns in an opposite direction to establish the Or flax fibres.The process of manufacture consists of twisting the fibres Than their natural fibre counterparts, but they are more easily obtainableĪll natural fibre rope is manufactured from manilla, sisal, hemp, coir, cotton Not only do the majority of synthetic ropes have greater strength Which are then made into flat or twisted strands.Īnd the strands are spun or braided to make the finishedĪlthough natural fibre ropes are still widely used throughout the marine industry, they have been superseded by synthetic fibres for a great many Ropes are made of short fibres that are spun into yarns, If the charterers order the vessel to an unsafe port or berth, they will usually be in breach of contract. Unsafe berth is usually the shipowner’s liability, not the charterer’s (although courts have held the reverse). The berth is safe and to refuse to go to an unsafe berth even if ordered to do so. The master’s duty is normally to ascertain whether Vessel cannot safely reach (due to lack of sufficient water depth) without first lightening in a roadstead or other port,Įven if it is a customary method of discharge at the port.Ī safe berth must be safe in the same respects as a “safe port”. Unless there is specific agreement to the contrary, the master is always entitled to refuse to enter a port which his

To lower or cut her masts to pass under a bridge. The ship, having reached the port (and discharged her cargo), must be able to leave safely, e.g.

BERTH VESSEL MEANING FREE

It must be a politically safe port, free from any state of war or embargo.ĥ. Warehouses and other establishments for dealing with the kind of cargo contemplated.Ĥ. There must be adequate facilities for trade, including a safe shore landing of goods, proper wharves, The vessel to “proceed to the loading port or place stated or as near thereto as she may safely get and lie alwaysĪfloat”, the terms will often be amended to permit a short-sea vessel to lie “safe aground”.ģ. Load and/or discharge aground or there is special agreement to do so. It must be a port where the vessel can lie safely afloat at all states of the tide, unless it is customary and safe to neap tides, does not, however, make a port unsafe.Ģ.

However safe a port mayīe in other respects, it is not “safe” if the vessel cannot reach it without serious risk of damage by ice, etc.

There must be safe access to the port and it must be free from permanent obstruction.

Requirements for a port to be considered a “safe port” are as follows:ġ. Of some abnormal occurrence, being exposed to danger which cannot be avoided by good navigation and Unless, in the relevant period of time the particular ship can reach it, use it and return from it without, in the absence The legal definition of “a safe port” is “A port will not be safe Warranty, the master has a right to refuse to enter, or refuse to stay at, the port in question. This requirement will often be expressed in the preamble to the terms of a modern charterĬharterers usually give an absolute warranty that ports to which they will send the vessel will be “good and safe”,īut in some charter parties the charterer’s warranty is one of “due diligence” only. Safe ports and berths for cargo ships employmentĪn important contractual provision in virtually all time and voyage charter parties is that the vessel may be sent only