Leaks in Ship Means Money Leaked

Businesses thrive with the proper planning and proper transportation of their products. If the products are delayed, the business opportunity is lost. Hence it is one of the biggest concerns while making offshore shipments because the transport ship also plays a huge role in this.

We are now in a race against time. The business world has moved into the fifth gear (or if there is any more gear faster than it). As every business organization tries to outdo its rivals, we see the senior management holding top level meetings daily and tallying the stats to see what they have gained or lost the previous day, week, month or year. Business executives are seen flying off to different countries to strengthen business ties to enhance exports and capture the biggest possible market share against their product. Everyone is busy on one way or the other to make sure their business flourishes.

While the world has been trapped in a race to beat rivals and earn the most in the shortest time, it all relies in the timely delivery of the products. While factories rarely meet deadlines with no fault products, there are many different kinds of limitations and hurdles that have to be cleared before the consignment can be readied for shipment. Once a consignment has completed all official clearances, the next phase it enters is to be loaded in trucks and be sent to the dock where it will then be again loaded but this time it won’t be another truck, but it will be a transport ship.

The transport ship of today makes any other transport ship of the past look like a twig floating on water. The massive size of even the smallest goods transporting ship of today is enough to burn your calories of a week if you take a walk of its complete perimeter. These giants floating on water not only carry the goods of one organization, but they have load from every corner of the country loaded on them and in their cargo holds. Managing the cargo of such enormous magnitude requires more than mere manpower. Only the most skilled people can ensure that nothing gets left behind and the balance isn’t tilted too.

If you ever have the chance to visit a dock during loading and unloading, the commotion there would reveal how busy the world really is in minting money. While it all seems organized and nothing can go wrong, one thing clearly scares the living daylights out of business people and that is a leaking transport ship. Years of planning and months of struggle and hardship would be wasted if the goods are water damaged on their way to their destination. While the goods are insured and businesses do get reimbursed for the loss, not reaching the target market is the greatest loss which cannot be repaid at any cost.

It is the obligation of every transport ship owning company to make arrangements for proper hatch cover maintenance and watertight integrity testing of every ship under its flag on a routine basis. Leaks not only damage the business of transportation but it damages the business of its victims as well. Water leaking inside the body of a ship not only endangers the goods it is carrying, but it also puts the lives of the crew on it at high risk too. Some of the ships have known to crack from between while out at sea. The snapped ship could do nothing than to sink to the lowest depths of the ocean taking many precious lives with it.

Routine hatch cover testing highlights the leaks in the body and they can be repaired when they aren’t the greatest threat. Ignoring the task only allows the holes to become bigger and weaken the body that soon becomes useless and a threat to safety. Some of the debris covered by authorities of the ships that caused chaos in the past revealed improper integrity testing. Some of the metal plates were in such a bad shape it seemed they were nothing but a bee’s nest. The uncountable holes became the reason it snapped and took down the goods, the lives and the company’s goodwill with it.