Course details

Course Outlines:

  • The stresses experienced by containers, and the forces and motions creating them
  • The necessity for and functions of container securing systems
  • The main features of cell guide systems and how they secure containers
  • The main types of non-locking container securing devices and how they are used
  • The main types of locking connectors and how they are used
  • The three types of lashing materials; attachments and tensioning devices
  • Lashing plans and safe securing patterns for above-deck stowage
  • Securing systems for below-deck stowage in non-cellular holds
  • Container securing systems, devices and patterns for RoRo vessels
  • Securing systems for non-containerized and difficult stows.

Course Objectives:

This Unit is designed:

  • To explain why containers need to be secured during the sea voyage.
  • To describe the main types of securing devices used on container vessels.
  • To explain how container securing devices are used.
Updated on 08 November, 2015

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Port Training Institute (PTI) was established on 26th of July 1982 as an affiliated institute to the Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport (AASTMT). A committee of the Chairmen of Port Authorities & subsidiary companies of The Holding Company for Maritime Land Transport (17 authorities and companies) defined the focal mission of the Institute as follows: “TRAINING AND UPGRADING THE MARITIME SECTOR PERSONNEL”
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