Cargo Handling Instructions Version 1.3
Back to Home
Introduction Safety Requirements Terminal Cargo operations During sea voyage Prevention and damage handling Appendix Updates
  • Supervision
  • Documentation
  • Vessel responsibilities
    • Cargo hold
      • External ramps
      • Hoistable/liftable panel/deck arrangements and internal ramps
      • Unused lashings
      • Preventing theft
      • Cargo hold ventilation and lighting
      • Emergency escape routes
      • Portable cargo securing devices
    • Rubber mats handling during cargo operation
    • Fire prevention
  • Stevedore responsibilities
    • Rubber mats handling during cargo operation
    • Tally
  • Operational process
    • Pre-operations meeting with stevedore
    • Pre-operations alignment with vessel
      • Vessel confirmation (Vessel to local port)
    • Ramp meeting
      • CSI responsibilities
      • Vessel focus area
    • Post-operational meeting
  • Loading/ discharging
    • Parking instructions
      • Disconnecting battery on used units
      • Battery pole protection against sparks on disconnected battery
    • Breakout
    • Stowage standards
      • Stowage distances
      • Height clearance
      • Flow stow system
    • Vehicle instructions
      • Factory new vehicles
      • Used units
      • Non-starter
      • Refueling
      • Battery charging (jump start)
      • Towing (of units)
      • Snow, ice or water on cargo
      • Locked units
      • Key handling and locking instructions
      • Motorcycles
    • High and heavy (H&H) instructions
      • Rubber tracked units and wooden wheels.
      • Steel tracked units or steel spike wheels.
      • Spread load calculation of tracked units
      • Chassis (without cabin)
    • Breakbulk (BB) instructions
      • Unitising
      • Securing arrangements of unitised cargo
      • Forestry products
      • Paper rolls
      • Guidelines to limit/avoid condensation/water damage to deep frozen paper rolls
      • Baled wood pulp in units
      • Plywood
      • Veneer
      • Steel products
        • Steel coils
        • Wire rope coils/reels
        • Steel pipes
        • Unitising of steel pipes
        • Metal plates
      • Rubber products
      • Other break bulk cargo
        • Cable reels
        • Packed liquid cargo
          • General
          • Handling instructions of packed liquid cargo
          • Documentation
    • Containers, bolsters and roll trailer instructions
      • Loading/discharging containers/bolsters
        • Container seal and inspection
        • Verified gross mass (vgm) of a container carrying cargo
        • Under deck stowage of containers
        • Unitising of bolsters
        • Empty bolsters
      • Roll trailers
        • Loading/discharge of a roll trailer
        • Operation of Roll trailers exceeding 30-ton gross weight
        • Stacking of empty roll trailers
    • Specialized cargo instructions
    • Heavy lifts
    • Multipurpose bogie (MPB)
    • Manoeuvring/ handling of mpb
    • Heavy lifts by samson trailer
    • Manoeuvring of samson platform
    • Heavy lifts by "jack-up" trailer
    • Typical heavy project cargoes
    • Heavy lifts by crane
    • Weather deck cargo
    • Loading/discharging weather deck cargo
    • Stowage of windmill blades on weather deck
    • Request of arranging power supply to cargo
  • Alternative fuel vehicles/units (AFV)
    • Instructions for ocean carriage of AFV
      • The shipper/ OEM is required to categorize each AFV unit into one of the following categories:
    • Stowage of CGV/LPG (Vehicle/High and heavy)
    • International regulation and recommendations
      • Vehicles with installed Lithium Batteries
      • Vehicles fueled by compressed hydrogen or natural (methane) gas
      • Vehicles fueled by CGV, LNG or LPG
      • State of Charge requirements (SOC level)
    • Used alternative fuel vehicles
      • General customer instruction for shipping of used AFV (both cars, trucks and H&H)
      • Additional requirement for [BEV]
      • Additional requirement for [PHEV]
      • Additional requirement for [HEV]
      • Additional requirement for [CGV/LPG]
    • In the event of damage to an AFV new or used
  • Cargo securing instructions
    • Uniform, axle, and bogie loads
    • Securing guideline
      • Stowage on fixed ramps
      • Rule of thumb for none-self-propelled cargo below 10 mt
      • Rule of thumb for cargo above 10 MT
      • Portable securing devices
      • Fixed securing device limitations
      • Types of portable securing devices
    • Securing of vehicles
      • Car, vans, small trucks up to 2,5 mt- longitudinal stowage
      • Car, vans, small trucks up to 2,5 mt - athwartships stowage
      • Car, vans, small trucks between 2.5 mt & 3mt "longitudinal stowage"
      • Car, vans, small trucks between 2.5 mt & 3mt "athwartships stowage"
      • Rim lashing
    • Securing of high and heavy (H&H)
    • Securing of break bulk (BB)
      • Securing of forestry products
      • Securing of steel products
        • Wire rope coils/reels
        • Steel pipes
        • Securing of steel plates
          • Securing in the transverse direction
          • Securing in the longitudinal direction
        • Calculation example
      • Securing of rubber product
      • Securing of other breakbulk products
    • Securing of high and heavy (H&H)
    • Securing of bolsters and roll trailers
      • Bolsters
      • Roll trailers
    • Securing of specialized cargo
      • Securing of heavy roll trailers or other cargo transport units
        • Securing of samson trailer
        • Attachment of portable securing devices to the vessel
        • Attachment of portable securing devices to the cargo
        • Composition and application of portable securing devices
        • Maintenance of securing arrangements
        • Cargo securing calculation
      • Securing of mega containers on weather deck
        • 120 ft containers (max load 24 mt)
        • 140 ft containers (max load 43 mt)
        • 160 ft containers (max load 48 mt)
      • Securing on weather deck
        • Securing of yachts on weather deck
        • Securing of iso containers on weather deck
    • Weather dependent lashing (only applicable to some specific vessels)

No recently viewed pages

Feedback

Securing of specialized cargo

29 May 2025
Securing of bolsters and roll trailers Weather dependent lashing (only applicable to some specific vessels)

Recently viewed pages

No recently viewed pages