Maritime Nigeria

Main Menu

  • Home
  • News
  • Interviews
  • Maritime Info
  • Photo Gallery
  • Fact
  • Profiles

logo

Header Banner

Maritime Nigeria

  • Home
  • News
    • IMO Secretary General Visits Nigeria, Dazed By Facilities

      Oct 2, 2025
      0
    • Nigeria's Blue Economy Minister Bemoans Maritime Financing Deficit

      Sep 27, 2025
      0
    • NIMASA Calls For Urgent Action To Reduce Maritime Funding Gaps

      Sep 27, 2025
      0
    • WMD 2025: "We Are Beneficiaries of The Oceans"-Dantsoho

      Sep 27, 2025
      0
    • WMD 2025: "We Are Proud"

      Sep 26, 2025
      0
    • Nigerian Shippers Celebrate Seafarers, Commits to Efficient Regulation

      Sep 26, 2025
      0
    • "Nigerian Ports Automated, Globally Competitive and Ready"-Dantsoho

      Sep 24, 2025
      0
    • Nigeria Joins Maritime Nations For World Maritime Day

      Sep 23, 2025
      0
    • Revenue/Trade: Oshoba Reconnects The Pipes, Link Cables

      Sep 23, 2025
      0
  • Interviews
    • Nigeria Takes Leadership Of MOWCA

      Nov 18, 2021
      0
    • APM Participates in UK Trade Expo

      Oct 31, 2021
      0
    • Reps Seek Admission at MAN

      Dec 7, 2020
      0
    • NIMASA URGE SHIP OWNERS TO RENEW CABOTAGE LICENSES

      Oct 5, 2020
      0
    • FG Sacks Aboloma As NAIC Gets New EDs

      Aug 28, 2020
      0
    • Britain Celebrate Nigerian In Covid Efforts

      Jul 26, 2020
      0
    • Zuckerberg Backs Trump Against Twitter

      May 28, 2020
      0
    • NAFDAC DG Sheds Light On Chloroquine, Herbals, Masks and Covid19

      May 12, 2020
      0
    • Reps Threaten MDAs

      Feb 24, 2020
      0
  • Maritime Info
    • 2023 POP: Minister Task Cadets On Blue Economy

      Dec 15, 2023
      0
    • Rector, Trainees Excited, Laud FG On Modern Academy

      Jan 26, 2023
      0
    • Buhari Redeploys Minister As NPA, NIMASA, MAN, Others Get New Boards

      Apr 7, 2022
      0
    • World Bank Endorse Nigerian Ports, Partners Navy On Capacity Building

      Mar 19, 2022
      0
    • NIMASA Commend Nigerian Navy, Reassures On Floating Dock

      Feb 9, 2022
      0
    • MAN Unveils Lighthouse For Training of Cadets

      Jan 27, 2022
      0
    • shipping

      Singapore Strait Dangerous To Shipping-ReCAAP

      Jan 24, 2022
      0
    • Lekki Deep Sea Port Will Increase Port Efficiency-Amaechi

      Jan 24, 2022
      0
    • Fair Competition: NSC Partners FCCPC For Effectiveness

      Jan 21, 2022
      0
  • Photo Gallery
    • SERAP Calls for Probe of Entire Privatization Processes 1999-2011

      Dec 4, 2017
      0
    • IMO Election: South Africa, Kenya, Liberia, Morroco and Egypt Make Category C

      Dec 2, 2017
      0
    • Maersk Ship on Fire as Coy Launches Six Container Lifting Tech

      Nov 2, 2016
      0
    • Captured Seafarers Languish In Captivity without Ransom

      Nov 1, 2016
      0
    • Niger Delta: Militants Ask FG to Include Former Agitators in Negotiations

      Nov 1, 2016
      0
    • Self-Audit: NIMASA Set to Review 3% Freight Charge

      Nov 1, 2016
      0
    • Recession: Japanese Shipping Companies to Merge

      Oct 31, 2016
      0
    • NSC Partners ICS on Capacity Building

      Oct 31, 2016
      0
    • AGAIN, APAPA CUSTOMS SURPASS MONTHLY TARGET WITH N33B COLLECTION

      Oct 5, 2016
      0
  • Fact
    • Maritime Police Boss Celebrate Workers

      May 1, 2025
      0
    • “VIN Is A Trade Tool, Not Punitive”-Customs

      Mar 2, 2022
      0
    • Blackmailers, False Publishers and Their Agents: Court Clears Rector

      Feb 18, 2022
      0
    • MAN Unveils Lighthouse For Training of Cadets

      Jan 27, 2022
      0
    • "APM Terminals Is Beyond Moving Boxes Around"-Laursen

      Jan 24, 2022
      0
    • MWUN: Welfare, Safety Our Priority-Adeyanju

      Dec 27, 2021
      0
    • Reversing the Trend: Koko Breaks Record at NPA

      Dec 24, 2021
      0
    • Minister Demands More From MAN At Passing Out Parade

      Dec 20, 2021
      0
    • MARITIME NIGERIA TASK NIMASA ON MARITIME DEVELOPMENT

      Dec 15, 2021
      0
  • Profiles
    • CMA CGM Brings AI Onboard

      Jun 5, 2018
      0
    • Customs Notify 577 Officers of Retirement by Eguono Odjegba

      Jan 12, 2018
      0
    • Over 100 Persons Feared Dead in Mediterranean Ship Wreck

      Nov 3, 2016
      0
    • Ballast Water: Panama Signs Up

      Oct 24, 2016
      0
    • Ist Half Report: Customs generate N385.7bn revenue

      Aug 15, 2016
      0
    • Minister/MD Speeches at the Launch of NPA's CCCIS

      Jul 23, 2016
      0
    • Face off Imminent as Dakuku Warn IOCs to Sit Up or Stay ...

      Jul 22, 2016
      0
    • Hadiza, Welcome to NPA

      Jul 16, 2016
      0
    • Habib Abdullahi Sacked Again from NPA

      Jul 12, 2016
      0
  • IMO Secretary General Visits Nigeria, Dazed By Facilities

  • Nigeria’s Blue Economy Minister Bemoans Maritime Financing Deficit

  • NIMASA Calls For Urgent Action To Reduce Maritime Funding Gaps

  • WMD 2025: “We Are Beneficiaries of The Oceans”-Dantsoho

  • WMD 2025: “We Are Proud”

News
Home›News›Overconfidence, Complacency led to Ship Grounding

Overconfidence, Complacency led to Ship Grounding

By Editor
Nov 1, 2017
2694
0
Share:

Ultra-large container vessel CMA CGM Vasco de Gama

 

The United Kingdom’s Marine Accident Investigation Board, MAIB,  has released its report on the grounding of the ultra-large container vessel CMA CGM Vasco de Gama, citing that onboard navigation standards did not meet the expectations of the port involved.

“It was apparent that complacency and a degree of overconfidence on the part of the master and port pilots contributed to this accident,” states the report. “However, it was also apparent from recent similar incidents and the findings of previous MAIB reports that many of the practices evident in this case were not specific to this single pilotage act or to CMA CGM Vasco de Gama.”

MAIB has embarked on a study into the human factors associated with the use of modern electronic navigation aids and the implementation of mandated navigation standards.

The Incident

In the early hours of the morning on August 22, 2016, the 399-meter (1,309-foot) CMA CGM Vasco de Gama grounded on the western side of the Thorn Channel whilst approaching the Port of Southampton. The ship ran aground on a rising tide and on a flat shingle/sand sea-bed. A combination of tugs and ship’s engines enabled it to be re-floated soon after grounding.

The grounding occurred because the vessel was too far north of the intended track when the turn into the Thorn Channel was commenced. This reduced the sea room available for the maneuver and, given the environmental conditions, CMA CGM Vasco de Gama was unable to sustain the rate of turn required to remain in the dredged channel. The execution of the vessel’s turn by the lead pilot was not in accordance with the port’s guidance for large inbound vessels.

The vessel was the largest U.K.-flagged vessel at the time and had two of the port’s specialist container ship pilots on board. The investigation found that the vessel’s bridge team and the port’s pilots had the experience, knowledge and resources available to plan and execute the passage effectively. However, the standards of navigation, communication and effective use of the electronic charting aids on board did not meet the expectations of the port or the company.

A detailed plan had not been produced; the lead pilot had not briefed his plan for the turn round Bramble Bank; the bridge team’s roles and responsibilities were unclear. There was an absence of a shared understanding of the pilot’s intentions for passing other vessels or for making the critical turns during the passage.

Neither the ship’s ECDIS nor the pilot’s Portable Pilot Unit functionality were fully utilized and resulted in each system not providing adequate cross checks or alarms.

Recommendations

The increasing size of vessels within restricted waterways, is leading to reduced margins of operational safety, and therefore the importance of proper planning and monitoring of the passage cannot be overemphasized, stated the MAIB report.

ABP Southampton has been recommended to improve bridge resource management for its pilots; to consider the provision of provisional pilotage plans to vessels prior to pilot embarkation; to review its implementation of procedures and to improve standards of communication.

CMA Ships has been recommended to review implementation of company procedures for passage planning and use of ECDIS and to include pilotage and bridge team/pilot integration in its internal audit process.

 

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)

Related

Previous Article

Maritime Safety: Amaechi woo stakeholders

Next Article

Revive Eastern Ports, Stakeholders task FG

0
Shares
  • 0
  • +
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Related articles More from author

  • Maritime InfoNews

    APM Acquires More Operational Equipment

    Apr 6, 2021
    By Editor
  • NIMASA
    Maritime InfoNews

    NIMASA: 595 Workers Elevated

    Aug 20, 2020
    By Editor
  • Maritime InfoNews

    MSC Takes Responsibility for Zoe Incident

    Jan 6, 2019
    By Editor
  • FeaturedNews

    Sambo, Maritime CEOs, Stakeholders, Journalists Mourn Folarin

    Nov 11, 2022
    By Editor
  • Maritime InfoNews

    Govt Policies Are In National Interest-Customs

    Apr 19, 2019
    By Editor
  • News

    PMB Celebrates GEJ At 60

    Nov 20, 2017
    By Editor

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

  • News

    Regional Maritime Security is Crucial-Dakuku

  • News

    Hundreds Of Migrants Perish Off Greece-Report

  • FactFeaturedNews

    Covid19 Funds: Somalia Send Govt. Officials to Jail

Looking For Something?

Read From

  • Agriculture
  • Customs Operations
  • Fact
  • Featured
  • Interviews
  • Maritime Info
  • News
  • One Question
  • Photo Gallery
  • Profiles
  • sports

Just In

News

IMO Secretary General Visits Nigeria, Dazed By Facilities

As Academy Rector, Cadets Engage With Arsenio Dominguez The Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Mr. Arsenio Domínguez, who is on a working visit to Nigeria,  has lauded the ...
  • Nigeria’s Blue Economy Minister Bemoans Maritime Financing Deficit

    By Editor
    Sep 27, 2025
  • NIMASA Calls For Urgent Action To Reduce Maritime Funding Gaps

    By Editor
    Sep 27, 2025
  • WMD 2025: “We Are Beneficiaries of The Oceans”-Dantsoho

    By Editor
    Sep 27, 2025
  • WMD 2025: “We Are Proud”

    By Editor
    Sep 26, 2025
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
© 2013 Maritime Nigeria | All Rights Reserved