The Swedish Club launches Passage Plan+ guide to enhance safe navigation
Marine insurance specialist, The Swedish Club, today announced the launch of its Passage Plan+ Guide, an essential resource designed to support shipowners, operators, and navigational officers.
Voyage/Passage planning is something that must be carried out for every vessel before departure. Every company has its own procedures and there are many guides defining how it should be handled.
“As an insurance company, we handle many claims every year and issues regarding Voyage/Passage planning are a recurring theme”, said Joakim Enström, Senior Loss Prevention Officer, The Swedish Club.
“This is something every bridge officer should be familiar with, but the quality of planning can differ greatly from officer to officer. As such we wanted to launch the Passage Plan+ Guide to enhance our members existing plans.”
The Passage Plan+ Guide includes several suggestions to provide a more resilient Voyage/Passage Plan including:
- Port cards: Used for port-specific information about each vessel
- Voyage/Passage planning in confined waters
- Route, manoeuvring, mooring and towing plans
- Sharing pilotage plans before the pilot boards
- Bridge team set-up including officer monitoring
- Communication
- Due diligence
A robust and efficient Voyage/Passage Plan can help the bridge team detect anomalies, errors, and faults that could otherwise lead to grounding, contact, or collision. Whilst no system is perfect, a prepared bridge team is better at detecting an issue before it is too late. A flexible system allows all bridge team members to contribute and analyse new information that will have an impact on the vessel’s safety.
A robust and efficient Voyage/Passage Plan can help the bridge team detect anomalies, errors, and faults that could otherwise lead to grounding, contact, or collision. Whilst no system is perfect, a prepared bridge team is better at detecting an issue before it is too late. A flexible system allows all bridge team members to contribute and analyse new information that will have an impact on the vessel’s safety.
Passage Plan+ is available to download now from this link or visit our Loss Prevention publications site.
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About The Swedish Club:
The Swedish Club was founded by shipowners in 1872 and is today a leading and diversified mutual marine insurance company, owned and controlled by its members. The Club writes Protection & Indemnity, Freight, Demurrage & Defence, Hull & Machinery, Hull Interests, Loss of Hire, War Risks, and any additional insurances required by shipowners or charterers. It also writes Hull & Machinery, War Risks and Loss of Hire for Mobile Offshore Units and FPSOs.
Its head office is located in Gothenburg, Sweden, with branch offices in Athens, Oslo, London, Hong Kong and Singapore.
More information about The Swedish Club is available at: www.swedishclub.com
For further information please contact:
Lisa Jacobs – Tel: +44 (0)1296 682356 Email: ljacobs@elaboratecomms.com
Sally Butler – Tel: +44 7961 730303 Email: sbutler@elaboratecomms.com