The shipping and cargo industry has faced the major dilemma since it has been established, is the unanticipated and rampant leakages inside the cargo hatches. It still exists even after so many years. The water that finds the way through the leakages or through unseen cracks or holes, enters the cargo's, and results in the destruction of the valuables and things which are worth millions of dollars. The destruction of the goods in just one cargo is enough to render huge losses and set back the company into debt and in some cases even bankruptcy. This not only contributes towards decreased profits to the company but also cause significant injury to the credibility and reliability of the company among the clients and the insurance companies. The leakage and seepage is a major threat to the shipping companies.

For all these reasons, different companies have been trying to devise different methods and techniques to control these unexpected leakages, for past many years. Many different methods were devised for this purpose, but most of them were extremely expensive and required lots of time for surveying. The size of the ships is getting bigger and bigger with the passage of time, which means lots more expenses and much more time required to do complete analysis and investigations, before clearing the ship. All such lengthy, tiring and costly procedures required weeks and even month to complete which results in the ships missing their deadlines. The missing deadlines results in different penalties by the dock industries and also by the clients.

To handle and address, all such issues and other related issues, the shipping companies diverted towards making use of hatch cover ultrasonic tightness testing devices. They are meant to test and check any leakages, holes or cracks for the prevention of any type of leakage. This magical device enables the companies to cut down on both cost and time required to inspect the cargo. The only cost which is required is purchasing of the ultrasonic device. Once you have bought the device, you can easily conduct the checking of tightness of hatch with ultrasound, all by yourself. The time required to conduct the scan of the entire ship is just few hours, or it can be up to one or two days to the maximum depending on the size of the ship, if it’s extremely huge and severely damaged as well.

The checking of tightness of hatch with ultrasound devices and technique has gained extreme popularity among the shipping industry due to its convenience of use, cost reduction and time reduction. The companies, who have completely inculcated the use of the ultrasonic devices for checking tightness of hatch, are enjoying big time profits and credible reputation in the industry among the clients. They are able to establish themselves, as reliable and credible companies who are never late in delivering their shipments on time. This has enables them to escape the penalties from the authorities as well as from the clients.