Preparing Your Vessel for Dry Bulk Cargo with Proper Cleaning

Proper vessel cleaning is the backbone of long-term success in dry bulk shipping. The more diligent and thorough you are, the healthier your bottom line and continuing growth. 

So what does proper vessel cleaning look like? It involves choosing the right formulas for cargo hold cleaning, training your crew to high-standards, ensuring they have everything they need to properly do their jobs, and avoiding shortcuts that jeopardise time and increase expenses.

Proper vessel cleaning

• Use high-quality, modern solutions
• Train crew members to high standards
• Ensure adequate resources
• Avoid shortcuts

These steps combined, allow for maximum effectiveness and efficiency, supporting quick turnaround times and voyages uninterrupted by issues related to crew, inspections, contamination, and compliance.

Use high-quality, modern solutions

Using inferior products leads to poor performance which only ends up costing more time and money. However, thriving in dry bulk shipping requires shaving time down to the thinnest margins. To achieve this, invest in premium vessel cleaning solutions and marine barriers proven to get the job done quickly and as expected.

Train crew to high standards

People work their best when they have the skills and confidence to do their jobs. Ensure each member is suitably trained to use the solutions, tools and equipment. Focus on thoroughness, diligence and safety.

Ensure adequate resources

Running out of products and having to switch solutions slows efficiency. As does fighting with or being unable to use broken equipment. Have enough on board for the voyage or confirm availability at upcoming stockpoints.

Avoid shortcuts

The effects of short-term thinking have devastating effects on dry bulk carriers themselves as well as running a profitable business. By taking short-cuts instead of engaging in proper vessel cleaning you increase a number of risks, including cargo contamination, failed inspections, off-shore hires, non-compliance, extra maintenance costs, crew injury or death, and structural damage that vastly shortens the life of the ship. 

Prepare your vessel properly for dry bulk cargo by using high-quality solutions, a trained crew, and regularly following orderly procedures. It saves you time and money today and into the future.

Understanding that costs are always changing with the condition of the vessel, the cargo, and the ability of the crew, the RBM Team works hard to provide the best solutions to protect and clean your vessels. We’d love to answer your questions and help with your order. Call 1-604-531-8333 today.