MAERSK and Hapag-Lloyd have agreed
to cooperate in increasing the safety of transporting dangerous goods with
Maersk saying it is considering adopting Hapag-Lloyd's "Watchdog"
detection software.
The
"Watchdog" programme together with Hapag-Lloyd's FIS (Freight
Information System) continuously monitors cargo data and flags
suspicious data combinations.
It chiefly
identifies anything conspicuous. It has a database of more than 6,000
keywords that is constantly being added to and refined.
Dangerous goods that are
declared imprecisely, incorrectly or not at all have the potential to pose a
major risk to crews, ships, the environment and other cargo on board, said the Hapag-Lloyd release.
"By
implementing a system similar to Hapag-Lloyd's 'Watchdog' programme, we will be
able to increase safety on board of our 600 vessels and at the terminals we
call," said Maersk Line COO Soren Toft.
"We will
also improve our risk profile and in the same time we will be sending a strong
message to the shippers, who put safety at risk," he said.
Hapag-Lloyd
has been developing the watchdog programme since 2011. With their many years of
experience, Hapag-Lloyd's dangerous goods and IT experts played a key role in
creating effective search routines.
The dangerous
goods department was established almost 50 years ago and was the first in the
shipping industry. Since then, Hapag-Lloyd's internal specifications on
dangerous goods have repeatedly formed the basis for statutory regulations and
have thus become mandatory for the entire industry.
Said Hapag-Lloyd
COO Anthony Firmin: "The cooperation with Maersk Line is a very
important step forward for increased safety and security of our entire
industry."
Last year, he
said, Hapag-Lloyd discovered 2,620 cases of incorrectly declared
dangerous goods that were prevented from being shipped. Dangerous goods experts
at Hapag-Lloyd investigated over 162,000 suspicious cases, which were flagged
by the newly developed Watchdog software.
Source :
HKSG.
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