After completing a survey of a barge and analysing the causes and nature of the damages alongside estimating the possible costs of repairs; it is beneficial to discuss barge stability as well as proper procedure following the damage circumstances. According to Towmasters, (2009) there exist 3 common collision scenarios for barge damage where the vessel […]
Henderson International has been operating from Dubai, UAE for 29 years and with a back catalog of successful maritime operations and vessel designs it is worth looking back and describing what went into each of them; giving insight to our approaches and attitudes towards our work and contributions towards the international maritime sphere. Along with […]
Damage control is an aspect that determines the success of a maritime operation; where a professional marine survey is where it all begins where a vessel is looked at in great detail. To understand damage and its consequences as well as how to avoid it one must understand safety first therefore our discussion starts here. […]
A ship’s stability can be defined as its ability and tendency to return to its original state as it completes its tasks and occasionally used to extremes of its capabilities. The stability factor plays a part when a vessel interacts with external forces when they are applied and removed; making the vessel, at first sustaining […]
Management is a practice commonly applied to the usage of variables to solve a problem concerning a given situation depending on the skills and the variables themselves present at-hand. Management, with respect to maritime, breaks down into 2x types; risk and sovereignty management where the former addresses identification and mitigation of threats in order to […]
This build was designed by us and used for transportation of different goods such as vehicles and other types of cargo; with a dead weight/ship’s loading capacity which includes bunkers and propulsion supplies of 400 tonnes and a trial speed of 11 knots. The build holds 350 tonnes having a deck area of 350 m2 […]
June 28th 2014 in the Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, a pirate skiff approached the vessel TORM SOFIA only to be successfully repelled by the ship’s crew and thus reaching its destination, New York, safely. Piracy is a common obstacle within the maritime industry with many vessels falling victim to this very obstacle, making entrance […]
17th July 2014 marks the outbreak of the Chikungunya virus in the French West Indies and Guyana; no vaccine or cure is present as if now. The virus is characterized by abrupt fever and joint pain along with fatigue and bodily rashes; however the virus is not fatal but still detrimental to the maritime scene altogether. Oceans […]
“Human and organisational influences on maritime safety and system performance ” US Coast Guard. The global maritime scene is a big part of globalisation and therefore attracts international attention; becoming one of the driving forces behind the global expansion of businesses. However, with the economic situations being of varied stability and prices rising; employers/marine operators turn […]
“Flag of any country allowing registration of foreign-owned, controlled vessels.” Boczek, 1962. Cambridge-Harvard. The landscape of maritime changes in terms of legal and human rights aspects and not only associating with piracy and terrorism; though relating to both in some ways; FOC/Flags of Convenience vessels. As defined above, these are vessels registered in […]
