Eemslift Hendrika report

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Investigation report from the Dutch Safety Board has been issued:

Shifting cargo causes emergency. Lessons learned from the occurence involving...

PDF of full report attached.

For the voyage from Bremerhaven to Kolvereid, several options were possible. There was an option to use pilotage when navigating the Norwegian Fjords. Such a route almost always runs across inland waterways requiring only a small number of passages across open water. The main advantage of this option is that a ship will be better sheltered from wind and waves. The ship’s owner advised the relief captain in several ways to choose an inland route as he found it unwise to take unnecessary risks while there was an alternative available. Costs and arrival times were no issue. With that the choice lay with the relief captain. The operator and owner did not forbid the captain to commence the voyage and neither did they instruct the relief captain to choose an alternative route.