The container revolution of the 1960s was deemed to be the solution to limiting cargo damage, but has experience proved otherwise?<\/p>\n
A considerable proportion of the Insurers time is taken up handling container cargo claims where 25% of the damage is physical, 14% temperature related, 11% containers lost overboard, 9% theft and 8% shortage.*<\/p>\n
It is worrying that one of the biggest contributory causes of container cargo damage is bad stowage \u2013 causing nearly 20% of the claims. It would seem that we have merely shifted the cargo damage problem further back up the transit chain.<\/p>\n
Shore error now accounts for around 27% of large container cargo claims compared with 19% for all types of cargo claim, tie this in with bad stowage statistics and it seems to point to problems originating at the time of stuffing.<\/p>\n
We seem to have substituted problems in one large container (the ship) to problems in a lot of smaller containers (the container). With around 12,000,000 containers in circulation and 95,000,000 loaded container movements each year, this seems to be a real problem for the industry.<\/p>\n
Although it is a major cause of container cargo damage, it would be wrong to lay the origin of all container cargo claims on bad stowage alone. Listed below are many other reasons for damage:<\/p>\n
\u25a0 Lack of export packaging.
\n\u25a0 Increased use of weak retail packaging.
\n\u25a0 Inadequate ventilation.
\n\u25a0 Wrong choice of container.
\n\u25a0 Poor condition of container.
\n\u25a0 Lack of effective container interchange inspection.
\n\u25a0 Ineffective sealing arrangements.
\n\u25a0 Lack of clear carriage instructions.
\n\u25a0 Ineffective internal cleaning.
\n\u25a0 Contaminated floors (taint).
\n\u25a0 Wrong temperature settings.
\n\u25a0 Condensation.
\n\u25a0 Overloading.
\n\u25a0 Poor distribution of cargo weight.
\n\u25a0 Wrong air flow settings.
\n\u25a0 Wrongly declared cargo.
\n\u25a0 B\/L temperature notations misleading\/unachievable.
\n\u25a0 Lack of reefer points.
\n\u25a0 Organized crime.
\n\u25a0 Heavy containers stowed on light.
\n\u25a0 Stack weights exceeded.
\n\u25a0 Heat sensitive cargoes stowed on\/adjacent to heated bunker tanks or in direct sunlight.
\n\u25a0 Fragile cargoes stowed in areas of high motion.
\n\u25a0 Damaged, worn, mixed securing equipment.
\n\u25a0 Poor monitoring of temperatures.
\n\u25a0 Wrong use of temperature controls.<\/p>\n
As an insurer finding and highlighting the problems and where the money goes is easy. rectifying those problems unfortunately is not.<\/p>\n
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