CARGOSAFE

by Anders V. Kristensen, Sr. Project Manager - Maritime & Aqqalu Ruge, Project Manager DBI – The Danish Institute of Fire and Security Technology

 Presentation of all the aspects including the final results and conclusions of the CARGOSAFE safety study performed for EMSA.

The objective of CARGOSAFE is to identify cost-effective risk control options for cargo fires, dealing with both dimensions of the problem both for existing ships and newbuilds, based on a safety risk study on containerized cargo fires.

The study followed the IMO Formal Safety Assessment MSC-MEPC.2/Circ.12Rev.2 which also includes a review of the study by FSA experts.

In addition to presenting the study, DBI will share the experiences and knowledge gained from the FSA Experts Group review, which took place at IMO during late October this year.

This session is from the meeting: "Fire (safety) at Sea".

Fire at sea is a hot topic - especially now with both the use of battery power for propulsion and with the  carriage of batteries at sea, as the emerging risk of a battery fire is becoming an increasing concern for the maritime  community.

The potential danger which lithium-ion batteries can pose, whether in battery rooms for propulsion, inside electric vehicles or transported as standalone cargos, including the risk of a battery fire if they are not handled, stored, or transported correctly, is a very relevant hazard and even more so while at sea onboard ships.  

The above challenges plus many others have considered in the recently published reports of DBI’s ELBAS (Electric Vehicle Fires at Sea) and the CARGOSAFE study (addressing how to develop new proposals to reduce the risk of fires on container ships) carried out by DBI. Regulators and class are also working on new guidance, recommendation, and regulations for best practices in the area, such as the Lloyd’s Registers Rules for Ships . 

Come and hear about the conclusion and recommendations of ELBAS and CARGOSAFE, how battery projects are handled by Class as well as hear latest developments in battery fire safety in maritime industry and gain insight into this challenging area.