Providing a quality shipment is what
revolves around the shipping industry today. As the entire world screams
for quality in products and services, the shipping industry is asked to
reduce its damage rate to as near as zero. Because there are more
incidents of damaging goods during the transportation, hatch cover
maintenance and watertight integrity testing is being pressed upon.
While this is not the complete solution to get free from leaks in the
hatch covers and the other parts of the ship’s body, it is the first
step towards treatment and betterment. Without it we cannot be sure to
have a ship which is completely leak free.
Due to the leaking
hatch covers not only goods have been affected but there have been a lot
of reports about damage to the ship itself. Many times water has
entered in sensitive areas of the ship such as the wire and cables. In
one incident the leaking ship had to suffer a loss of power and it was
left stran
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