Whenever we talk about sending a consignment abroad, the first option that pops up within our mind is shipping via sea route. The reason why we get the idea without having the need to brainstorm for other options is the low rates as compared to sending via air cargo. But soon enough a doubt begins to cloud our hopes about the safety of the consignment throughout the voyage. Many people have experienced the bitter side of sending their goods through the sea route. There are many stories about people getting robbed of their profit because the consignment was damaged and the receiver refused to pay for the damaged goods which were soaking wet when unloaded.

Leaking ships are the biggest problem faced by this huge and highly profitable industry. There are many reasons for a leak to appear on a ship, but the biggest crime is ignoring to run the test of tightness of hatch with ultrasound. When ship owners or managers ignore the need to check for holes in the hatch covers, it creates a fair ground for holes where they can multiply easily and cause maximum damage to the goods onboard. As the advanced countries like the US and Europe provides safety to the customers who send their goods through the transport ships by providing insurance, many countries still lack this facility and a customer who has suffered damage to the consignment has nowhere to go bit to bear the entire loss himself. This is a serious blow to the industry because customers from such types of countries prefer to spend extra but choose the air cargo for safety of their goods.

It is not impossible to remove the holes that have taken place on a ship’s body or the hatch covers. It takes time to repair the holes but it is necessary to keep the ship in a working condition and to keep the industry rolling and growing. We live in an advanced age where everything is being converted to mobile. Gone are the days when there were huge machines the size of a room and could not be moved from their place. There is a plethora of portable devices that are used in many industries and among these devices; there exists the ultrasonic hatch cover tester which is handheld and completely portable.

The hatch cover ultrasonic tightness testing can be easily done with this portable device and any ship can be checked by the staff without calling any special teams to conduct the test. Owning the device is all there is needed to be done and anyone from the staff can be trained to run the tests. As the device is handheld and portable, the test can be successfully run by a single person and all the holes can be found out without any problem. The person running the test can mark all the areas of the holes and then report to the higher authority to decide when to apply the repairs.