Being in a shipping transport business is no less than a dream comes true. The huge profits reaped by the shipping companies can easily drive any business person crazy and would surely want to own a transport ship. Some call it the business of the elites and they might be correct because it is never too easy to purchase a transport ship. The gigantic ship can cost a fortune and when put in business, the profits fall in the cash registers not just like rain, but like thunderstorms. Isn’t it lucrative? But let us discuss the factor where all this dream bubble bursts. The leaking hatch covers and the leaking body parts of a transport ship.

Yes it’s true that even the tiniest hole can be the biggest disaster of a profitable voyage. No matter how good or expensive hatch covers you have installed in your transport ship, sooner or later there will be a hole in it and it will be needing a repair. When in this business, the Hatch cover maintenance and watertight integrity testing plays a very important role. Unless the hatch covers are maintained perfectly, the leaks in them can do a huge damage to the goods inside the cargo holds. At this point the company starts generating losses rather than profits because as per the global laws about shipping, the goods are insured when handed to a shipping company. And if anything goes wrong during the shipping process, the shipping company has to reimburse the cost of the product to the customer.

Now coming out of the cargo holds, let’s discuss the other damages caused to a ship due to the leaks. The compartment doors of a ship, it may be a transport ship or a luxury ship, are always made watertight. There are several reasons for it to be watertight and the most important reason is to block out all types of water from entering the ship’s compartments. The highly humid air is present everywhere when out in the open seas and oceans. It is impossible to block it out but as the ship can (and it does) encounter a storm during the voyage, the high tide and the rain can splash the ship highly with water. And if the compartment doors are leaking, there is no way this extra water can be kept out and the ship would soon be filled with water making it unstable and causing it to turn turtle, lean over one side or even sink entirely. Hence there is no denying that a ship or every kind also requires watertight compartment doors testing on a regular basis.