How a fatal allision exposed unseen risks of complex docking

'Saipem 7000' with is cranes lowered (Peter Barker)

Inadequate tug power, poor communication, lack of joint risk assessment and a failure to coordinate simultaneous operations led to the death of a welder in Rotterdam’s Botlek harbour, a report has found.

The 59-year-old was trapped by the badly damaged scaffold until the crane vessel came free of the drilling rig and he fell into the sea. His body was not recovered for some weeks later.

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