Leak Free Ship Means Safety to the Goods

Opting for the sea route to send merchandise has been the oldest business tradition known to man. Owing to the modern technology this task has become even more easy and safe. If you need to send out something huge, bulky and extremely heavy, simply place it on a transport ship and within a matter of days it will reach safely to its destination.

The world trade is growing bigger everyday and there are more profits to reap in everyday than was possible ever before. There’s no limit to how much a business can earn in one day, a week, month and year. It all depends on how much the business owner is willing to invest and how much does he plan to gain from it. You never know where your fortunes lay because most of the times your product does not sell well in your home country but when they are exported, they become a massive hit. Hence every business owner eyes the opportunity to look ahead and aim for exports as much as he wants to sell in his home country.

Without having a medium to take the goods offshore it would be impossible to trade globally. Hence this task is a specialty of the shipping industry. Modern science has played wonders with our lives and today the gigantic transport ship, capable to lift an entire city are playing the awesome role of not only transporting the goods from one country to another, but they are also doing it in affordable rates. A simple airmail costs ten times more than can be sent through a ship. But the only drawback in sending through sea way is that it is slower than the air mail plus, there is a risk of getting the goods damaged.

By damage it does not mean that the goods are tossed around carelessly. But in most cases goods are damaged by water when a ship’s hatch covers or other body parts are leaking. The humid air is harmful enough to soak the cartons inside the ship and if there is any sea storm, the leaks give way to the water coming from all directions and the merchandise inside gets wet. This is not something that cannot be rectified. Hatch cover maintenance and watertight integrity testing and sealing the leaks would allow the ship to prevent any kind of soaking to the merchandise and the goods will reach their destination safe and sound.

Owing to the huge size of the ship, checking every corner is not totally possible because if the crew is assigned to do it, it would take months and probably even a year if it is being done manually. I’m sure no ship owner would be willing to pay his crew for a year without sailing just to hunt for leaks. This is why modern technology was again called out and now there are ultrasonic devices that allow the crew to get to the crack wherever it may be. Most of them are already well hidden where no human eye can detect them. It is the reason why despite a ship looking too clean and perfect still gets the merchandise wet during the voyage.

The processes of hatch cover testing with the modern ultrasonic device have become easy and speedy. The matter that would have been solved in months or years can be easily done in weeks or even days, but it certainly depends on the ship’s size. If the deadline isn’t pressing and the crack isn’t in too deep, it can be easily repaired and a lot of goods can be saved from damage. The implementation of the safety standards across the globe has pushed ship owners to keep their ships as dry as possible and failing to do so implicates to huge fines and obviously sends a bad image in the industry. That is why this issue is now almost obsolete. So if any business owner wants to send a massive consignment abroad without the need to rush it, choosing the sea route is the best option for him.