Schedule

This course is intended to provide participants with an understanding of a vessel’s critical structural areas for the purposes of periodic surveillance. This course is intended to help shipowners in developing an effective maintenance program for their vessels as well as complying with current statutory and classification requirements.

• Zoning methodology
• Fore peak and forward void tanks
• Side tank
• Double bottom tank
• Aft peak void tank and passage way
• Cargo hold
• Inspection criteria
• Coating condition
• General corrosion
• Pitting & grooving corrosion
• Deformation
• Fractures
• Cleanliness
• Inspection of critical areas
• Upper deck structures 
• Cargo hatch covers and coaming
• Cargo holds
• Side tanks
• Double bottom regions
• Fore and aft regions

Superintendents, port captains, technical managers and inspection team members who have a responsibility for hull structure maintenance of bulk carriers.  This course meets the requirements of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects and the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology for continuous Professional Development.