Ship downtime is decreasing

High-speed ship handling methods are already being used in many ports. But the fleet suffers losses from downtime that even high-speed methods are not able to cover. Over the past 6 months, the dry cargo and bulk fleet has lost 600 ship-days just waiting for the cargo, which was not presented by the client in a timely manner. And what has been done to influence the clientele?


The shipping companies of Glavdalflot and Glavnefteflot alone received over 5 million rubles in dead freight for 5 months of this year and for the delay of ships under loading and unloading operations. But after all, these fines were paid by the clientele out of the state pocket. The specific perpetrators of downtime, for the most part, remain unpunished.


It is also impossible to ignore the downtime of ships, which, along with shipping companies (if not to a greater extent), are responsible for our ship repair enterprises. In total, in the first half of 1948, fleet downtime during repairs beyond the established deadlines amounted to a loss of more than 970 ship-days, and for Sovtanker, for example, these downtime reached 65 percent. The Azov Shipping Company has 43 percent of all downtime, and the Caspian Shipping Company has 40 percent. and Kasptanker has 29 percent. Disruption of the fulfillment of the transportation plan for the first half of the year by the Azov Shipping Company (87.8 percent by tons and 82.5 percent. by tonne-miles) and by Kaspflot (72.0 percent. by tons and 74.7 percent. tonne-miles) is mainly a consequence of the huge number of ship downtime during repairs beyond the established deadlines.


Considering unproductive downtime of ships as an unused reserve of the fleet, it is interesting to consider the data characterizing the share of downtime to the total (in %%).


From these data, it can be seen that this year the navigation conditions are more favorable than last year's conditions and the proportion of ship downtime has decreased significantly due to meteorological reasons. Also, the share of downtime decreased due to the lack of wagons, cargo, electricity and other reasons that are not directly dependent on shipping companies and ports. But along with this, the proportion of unproductive downtime of ships has increased significantly for reasons mainly dependent on shipping companies, ports and ship repair plants. This indicates that the fight against downtime has been weakened, and therefore the fight for unused fleet reserves has been weakened.


The third quarter is crucial for the successful implementation of the state annual plan for the navy. There are very important tasks to be solved. First of all, the operators of shipping companies and ports are obliged to put an end to the organizational problems that cause large unproductive downtime of ships. It is necessary to make full use of the equipment currently available at our ports, continuously improve the skills of longshoremen, and make extensive use of high-speed methods of loading and unloading ships.


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