SHIP’S DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATES (PART II)

In operating and for its commercial purpose, a trading vessel needs to be supplied with certificates issued by various institutions. The certificates will act as prove of a vessel’s worthiness to be used in a commercial activity. These certificates have various survey items and serve their own purpose. Below is some of the certificates owned by BLT’s vessels.

1. Classification Certificate
This certificate contains ship classification and issued by Classification Society. Vessel classifications described in this certificate are Classification Number, Vessel Ownership, Flag State, Ship Particular, Vessel Builder, and the compliance with the Society rules and regulation of the classification characteristics.
This certificate is valid for 5 years and annual survey will be held in 3 months prior or after its anniversary date.
The purposes of the certificate are commercial, vessel standard, insurance, and mandatory regulation from flag state. Commercial purpose is to inform the charterer of vessel type and types of cargo that vessel can carry. Vessel standard means that vessel is certified by Class for its quality and capacity. Insurance purpose means that vessel is insured by the Class. Flag State Control also demands for vessel to be under Class Society and this certificate is issued to serve the same

2. IAPP (International Air Pollution Prevention)
This certificate is valid for 5 years and annual survey will be held in 3 months prior or after its anniversary date. The purpose of this certificate is to ensure that vessel already comply with SOLAS regulation 5 Annex VI of air pollution prevention. Vessel fitted with this certificate means that vessel is fully complying of the requirement in terms of on board equipment, arrangement, and material used. IAPP certificate also has supplement that describe the Main Engine, Aux Engine, and the types of bunker to be used inside and outside ECA

3. ISPP (International Sewage Pollution Prevention)
This certificate is valid for 5 years and annual survey will be held in 3 months prior or after its anniversary date. The certificate is issued in accordance to SOLAS regulation 4 Annex IV of the marine pollution prevention of water. If a vessel is fitted with this certificate, means that vessel already comply in terms of structure, arrangement, system, and material used for preventing pollution. Inside this certificate, the sewage treatment plant installed on board is also described.

FUEL SAVING INITIATIVES

Oil Price is increasing each day. This is certainly becoming bad news for us; because operational cost of our vessels is highly depend on the increase of bunker price. But we don’t have any power over the bunker price in the market. So what can we do? Saving the fuel is the answer.
We are all well aware that all the activity in the vessel need some fuel. To be able to save, every officer and crew must realize and aware how important is to save the fuel. This fuel saving can be started by lowering our daily consumption on the vessel without burdening crew and moreover is not decreasing our service quality.
Below are some of encouraged behaviors in order to save the fuel:
1. Keep accommodation doors closed
a. Post a “keep closed” marking for all doors and windows
b. Implement a fire and security patrol for every period.
c. Brief all crew members that by not properly closed the door will cause the A/C working ineffectively

2. Turn off light in cabins and public areas when they are not being used
a. Turn off light/lamp that were not in use for example in the hospital/clinic, empty cabin, when leaving the cabin, crew/officer mess room on day time and night time after being used, all store, pump room etc. Including turning off the computer after finish using it.

REVISED INDONESIAN CABOTAGE PRINCIPLE FAMILIARIZATION

Since it was first emerged in the year of 2005, implementation of cabotage principle has been able to bring a breeze to the domestic shipping industries. As well as the BP migas (Indonesian government executive body to manage the upstream activity in oil and gas field) which has been fully supported this implementation of cabotage principle. As we know, President’s instruction No.5 year 2005 regarding the Empowerment of National Shipping Company has become an initiation point for the implementation of this principle. However in the course of time, just before the cabotage principle imposed to all commodities transportation on 7 May 2011, based on the mapping along with all the stakeholders, the cabotage principle can not be consistently implemented to the oil and gas exploration activity and the offshore exploitation of the oil and gas. This is happen because the unavailability or the insufficient availability of Indonesian flagged vessels to support oil and gas operation. This condition will lead to the disturbance in continuity of offshore oil and gas activity, which will have an impact to the national energy security and eventually will endanger the vialibility of ongoing national development.
In respond to this matter, the government issued The Government Regulation No.22/2011 and The Minister of Transportation Regulation No.48/2011 as a commitment from the government ensuring the continuity of exploration and exploitation of oil and gas while still giving the main priority to the national shipping industries.
As a good gesture of concern and ensure all the relevant aspect to aware and understand this changes of regulation for sure, The Department of Transportation, BP migas and The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of The Republic Indonesia held a briefing for this new regulation.

TRICKS OF BUNKER SUPPLY

Most of BLT Chembulk Group bunkering is taking place in Singapore. Singapore is the one of the most active and convenient port for bunker supply. In recent year Singapore bunker industry has been improving so much in term of quality and quantity compare to the old day. It is because of Singapore MPA’s effort and hard work to improve their bunker industry. The MPA has tightened the bunkering procedure; they have CP 60 as well as other regulation to ensure proper bunkering in Singapore. However, even though the procedure has been tightened, we may see some bunker tanker are still trying to play their tricks, therefore it is very important for Chief Engineer and vessel’s crew to know well their tricks.

Below are the Tricks of Bunker Supply, trust that most of our Chief Engineers might known the trick very well, or even know more other tricks. Hopefully by knowing these tricks we can do some prevention, counteract or countermeasure to protect our interest:

1. Manipulating the sounding result:
It is very easy for the bunker barge operator to manipulate the sounding result.

Counteract/Countermeasure: Chief Engineer or bunker surveyor appointed should sound the bunker barge tanks himself

How To Stay Healthy At Office

Lifestyle of modern society today, brings us to an unhealthy lifestyle, such as work pressure, indiscriminate eating habits, and don’t do sports. Minimum of ten hours we were in the office, not to mention the added time we spend on the road. This certainly brings a series of problems for us and also for the office where we work: fatigue and lack of fitness, obesity, incidence of various diseases and many more. It certainly will affect our work productivity.

Here are some simple tips that we can do together in the office to maintain our health.
1. Make your own lunch
Fast food, instant food, flavor, preservatives, food full of fat, and his friends are nice to be enjoyed, but the food was bad impact for our bodies. There are some things we can do to keep our food, among others, is to prepare your lunch in the morning, do not need luxury. Try to bring fruit, a sandwich of rye bread and some vegetables. You only need five minutes to make lunch and it was the same as you do the saving.

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2. Eat balanced meals every day (including breakfast and healthy snacks)
Many people are tempted to not eat breakfast because it takes a long time for breakfast or in effort to lose weight. It has been proven that people who have breakfast are healthier and are more likely to get a stable weight.
Good nutrition is the foundation for any healthy lifestyle and is not difficult to apply to work life. Try to make better decisions about your eating in the workplace and make sure you get a quality multi-vitamins than any of our food. Provide a healthy snack: snack of wheat, dried fruit, nuts, etc

SERVICE EXCELLENT

Lucky Charm Faucet
One day the boss of Mercedes Benz has a problem with the water faucet in his home. On the recommendation of his friend, he called a plumber to fix his faucet. When contracted, the plumber did not know that the caller is the boss’s biggest car company owners in Germany.

On the agreed day, the plumber came to the house boss Mercedes Benz to repair the damaged valve. After repair, the plumber came home and received the payment for his services.

About two weeks after that, the plumber called Mercedes Benz boss to ask whether the valves are already repaired have really good or is damaged. After a few months later, the boss’s Mercedes Benz is recruiting for a plumber working in his company, and the plumber is a Christopher L.Jr. Currently he is General Manager of Customer Satisfaction and Public Relation in Mercedez Benz.