The
Commission considered reasonable submitting to the Newa Owners,
Reederei Erwin Strahlmann, the following safety recommendations forming
the proposal of actions which may contribute to prevention of similar
accidents in the future.
The State Commission on Maritime Accident Investigation has recommended to:
1) develop and include in the ship’s manager’s Security
Management Book the procedures to ensure constant supervision on the
part of the technical department of the ship’s manager over the repairs
in the shipyard, anticipating, inter alia, situations similar to the
case of Newa, when during the renovation several chief engineers have
successively been embarked;
2) make systematical controls by
technical inspectors of the ship’s manager the conformity of set values
in the ME security systems with the technical and motion control
documentation; changes of settings of the ME parameters by the crew
should be agreed with the technical inspector responsible for the vessel
and documented by entries in the engineer’s log book, and the
information on the changes should be recorded in the duty transfer form
(CL-012) filled in during the exchange of chief engineers;
3) inform the chief engineer
regularly of the need to comply with the annual schedule of testing
physical and chemical properties of the ME circulating oil, according to
the Li-030 procedure contained in the Security Management Book,
particularly when the vessel is in the yard undergoing ME repair;
4) include in the Security
Management Book the procedures concerning the conduct of the crew when
the vessel runs aground, including the obligation to probe depth around
the vessel, check the state of the bottom ballast and fuel tanks, bilges
in the holds, overboard oil spills, etc.