Allianz perceives: even if the ships in disarmament are many, the level of risk for the shipowners at all is not dropped

The document explains that, for example, if the disarmament of the ships is not managed in adapted way, in lack of regulating maintenance, the problems can be realized when the ship will have to resume the sea. Moreover the turnazione of the crew has become more challenging because of the restrictions to the travels, that it means that the marine workers are more tire and the fatigue is one of the main causes of human error on board. An other problem is constituted by the delays in the maintenance and the inspections of the ships and their equipments of emergency that can prevent the location of deficiencies, so as the interruption of the supply chain that it can lengthen the times of lubricating and material oil delivery of consumption, with possible damages to the machinery in case are used not suitable alternatives. But - according to AGCS - also the innovative technologies for navigation from remote can involve risks: the specific publication in fact that, whereby the harbour authorities are adopting the resource to services of remote pilotage from to the aim protect the staff from the infection risk, this can involve an increase of the risk for safety of navigation.

The AGCS publication thwarts in particular the problems that the shipowners can have to face in putting again in activity own ships that currently are in disarmament because of the decrease of the question provoked from the pandemic. The document remembers that in the so-called "disarmament in the heat of the moment" (warm lay-up) the ships has still the crew on board and can be ready to return to navigate in times breviums relatively and that in the "disarmament to cold" (cold lay-up) it comes instead maintained a crew reduced for specific tasks as the maintenance, while the majority of the systems is returned inactive. The document emphasizes that to put again in service a ship it can demand time, previews groundbreaking tests in order to guarantee safety, and can be expensive and in the cases it gets worse to involve also expenses for million dollars. "Because of a lay-up not programmed - it has specified commander Rahul Khanna, global head Marine Risk Consulting of AGCS - it can be necessary a long period in order to put again in service of the ship, that it can last months and it can involve the necessity to even place the ship in a dry dock. The mass in existence of total plans is therefore essential that include risk assessments that they hold account of the arrest warrant and the disarmament in order to guarantee safety of the ship during the inactivity and the next return in service".

An analysis of this type of the problematic ones with which the industry of the shipping it must be confronted because of the sanitary emergency can be read in various ways. To wanting to be prevented, since the source of these appraisals is a insurance group, it could be interpreted as a turned warning the shipowners to that they do not expect a reduction of the insurance prizes because their ships are temporary in disarmament.