Summary of ship-terminal reporting in 2017

In 2017: –

• Totally 282 ship-terminal interface related reports were added to the INTERCARGO database, with most of them coming directly from the masters of members’ fleet, with appreciation.
• There are entries of 318 ports in 71 countries/regions in the database, as attached “Update on ship-terminal reporting, v.10.1, IC17144, 19Dec 2017”.

The database also records following aspects of negative experiences:

• Inadequate port reception facilities
• Anchorage,
• Cargo shortage,
• Ports and corruption behaviour of authority officials
• Crew shore leave,
• Depth of berth,
• Length of berth,
• Loading/unloading,
• Mooring.

In addition to the port by port entries, the attached excel database contains a sheet named “special cases” – it is believed that members would find it useful to assist voyage planning in some countries and regions.