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Product Code: # 0827

Cargo Handling and Stowage

  • 33 minutes
  • E-learning module

Nitrogen cannot be seen or smelled, but inhaling high concentrations of nitrogen can lead to asphyxiation. So it's essential to keep strictly to your company's procedures at all stages of every operation, to help ensure the safe use of nitrogen as an inert gas.

It deals with all aspects of using nitrogen as an inert gas. It starts by examining why inert gas is used. It continues in detail with how nitrogen is generated and stored on the ship. It states that nitrogen is easy to use and can replace other types of inert gas with only minor alterations to procedures.


This e-learning module is aimed at personnel on chemical tankers fitted with nitrogen generating systems. Regulations introduced for oil and chemical tankers of eight thousand tonnes deadweight and above built on or after the first of January 2016 make nitrogen generating equipment more common on new ships. The hazards associated with the use of nitrogen may be unfamiliar to some seafarers so it’s essential to keep strictly to the company’s procedures at all stages of every operation, to help ensure the safe use of nitrogen as an inert gas.

  • The Purpose of Inert Gas
  • The Types of Inert Gas
  • The New Regulations
  • Nitrogen Generating Equipment
  • Safety with Nitrogen
  • Cargo Specific Considerations
  • Cargo Procedures
  • LANGUAGES
    • English
    • Chinese
  • TARGET GROUPS
    • Engine - Management
    • Electric - Operational
    • Deck - Operational
    • Electric - Support
    • Engine - Operational
    • Engine - Support
    • Deck - Support
    • Deck - Management
    • Electric - Management
  • REGULATIONS

    • SOLAS Chapter II-2 Part E Regulation 16 as amended by MSC.365(93)
    • FSS code Chapter 15 as amended by MSC. 367(93)
    • IBC Code as amended by MSC.369 (93)

CREDITS

The Producers would like to acknowledge the assistance of: 

  • The Master, Officers and crew of MT Jo Larix
  • Chemical Distribution Institute (CDI)
  • Columbia Shipmanagement Ltd
  • Epic Gas (UK) Limited

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