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Enhanced Risk Assessment for Ports
01 Apr 2006
The Salvage Association, which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, is placing increasing emphasis on serving other sectors of the maritime industry while remaining fully committed to its core business of marine casualty surveying and investigation. Now a subsidiary of BMT Ltd, the Salvage Association is attracting old and new customers with marine risk assessment operations.
Salvage Association chief executive John Lillie said, 'Our well recognised expertise in all aspects of shipyard risk has been expanded into the whole area of shipyard improvement and we have now inspected 140 yards in all geographical areas.
'The success of our ShipShape brand of shipyard risk assessment surveys has gone far beyond the JH143 warranty that brought it about in 2004. A growing proportion of these surveys is either outside the warranty or only loosely related.'
PortShape is a new product intended to leverage the knowledge gained in yards and apply it to port and terminal risk assessment. It would be used by port and terminal operators ahead of policy renewals as a tool to show underwriters they had taken steps to mitigate the risks to their operations, rather than as a response to an underwriter's warranty. It would also be useful to terminal users such as cruise lines, whose exposure to bad practice by ports was substantial.
MJ Information No: 21703
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