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March 2025
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Dear Subscriber...
Welcome to the March edition of ICHCA Insights, where we bring you stories of innovation, leadership, and collaboration shaping the future of cargo handling safety. As an industry, we continue to push boundaries, embrace new technologies, and work together to ensure safer operations worldwide.
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This issue is packed with inspiring developments and opportunities for engagement—let’s dive in!
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We start with an exciting celebration of safety pioneers in Innovators in Cargo Handling Safety Honoured Once More. The TT Innovation in Safety Award has expanded to highlight even more groundbreaking solutions, with four winners and four highly-commended entries unveiled at the recent ceremony in London. Find out how these innovations are making a tangible difference in reducing accidents and operational risks.
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For those eager to explore safety breakthroughs in more depth, we are delighted to present the TT Club Innovation in Safety Award – Digest of Safety Innovator Entries. With 27 remarkable submissions from 11 countries, this digest showcases cutting-edge advancements transforming training, making operations safer, segregating people and machines, and leveraging data for enhanced safety. Any one of these entries could inspire your next major safety improvement!
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Speaking of proactive safety leadership, ICHCA Member G2 Ocean Says ‘Safety Intervention is Welcome’ reminds us that small actions can have a big impact. Learn how a quick decision to stop crane operations due to a potential hazard demonstrates the power of speaking up and sharing lessons across ports and companies globally. At ICHCA, we stand fully behind this approach to fostering a safety-first culture.
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Looking ahead, we are excited about our upcoming ICHCA Technical Panel Meeting in Barcelona on 19 May 2025. This in-person gathering will offer members the chance to network, collaborate, and participate in discussions that shape the future of our industry. Plus, attendees will receive complimentary registration for the Mediterranean Port & Logistics 2025 event, including site visits, conferences, and exclusive networking opportunities. Don’t miss this chance to connect with industry peers!
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Finally, we highlight the crucial work of the IMO in Dangerous Goods Safety. As a recognized NGO at the International Maritime Organization, ICHCA ensures that the cargo handling industry has a voice in regulatory developments. The upcoming Editorial and Technical Group meeting will focus on amendments to the International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code. Members are encouraged to participate—either in person or virtually—to stay informed and contribute to this essential work. If you want to stay up to date with IMO developments, don’t forget to check out the latest Current Awareness Bulletin, now available on our website.
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We hope you find this issue informative and inspiring. Thank you for being part of our shared mission to improve safety and efficiency in cargo handling.
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Let’s keep raising safety standards together!
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IN THIS ISSUE...
- Innovators in Cargo Handling Safety Honoured Once More
- TT Club Innovation in Safety Award – Digest of safety innovators entries published
- ICHCA Member G2 Ocean says 'safety intervention is welcome'
- ICHCA Technical Panel Meeting, Barcelona 19 May 2025
- The work of the IMO - Dangerous Goods Safety and the latest Current Awareness Bulletin
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1. Innovators in Cargo Handling Safety Honoured Once More
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The TT Innovation in Safety Award has been expanded to recognize the depth and variety of projects and products which abound in the industry to meet the challenge of reducing accidents and damaging losses. Four winners and four highly-commended entries were announced at last night’s presentation in London.
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Over the past ten years since its inception the ICHCA hosted TT Club Innovation in Safety Award has seen entries marked by a significantly increased diversity of innovative products, services and processes aimed at improving safety in the cargo handling industry.
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As a result TT and ICHCA decided to divide the numerous entries into four distinct categories, each of which is represented by a winner and a highly-commended entrant.
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To read the full news post, please click Read More
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2. TT Club Innovation in Safety Award - Digest of safety innovator entries published
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This year’s Innovation in Safety Award saw entries from 11 countries. All of them deserve recognition for their passion to do the right things right. Each of them has a vision, has refused to accept that where we were yesterday is the best that it could ever get and has done something about it.
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The Digest of all 27 entries is available from our web site. You will have heard that this year we are delighted to be able to award a winner in each of four categories.
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Starting with learning and engaging, here technology meets traditional safety training including digital & ‘learning psychology’ solutions. The aspiration here is no less than to transform how you think about cargo training and safety management. Making Operations Safer groundbreaking ways of making cargo handling physically safer from advanced cargo securing to automated systems that can reduce human exposure to risk. Segregating People & Machines innovations are all about keeping pedestrians and moving equipment apart. In this category we see state-of-the-art collision avoidance, remote operation & AI driven safety monitoring systems designed to manage out the person/machine interface risk. Turning Data into Insight, here, entries uncover the power of data for cargo safety with cutting edge testing, software and intelligence gathering solutions, reflecting the pinnacle of data-driven safety. Any one of these entries could lead you to your next major health and safety breakthrough.
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To access the digest, please click Read More
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3. ICHCA Member G2 Ocean says 'safety intervention is welcome'
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In the latest edition of G2 Ocean’s Safety Bulletin, the focus is on positive safety action, empowering everyone to be a safety leader and to speak up if they see something going array.
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In this case a person showed leadership and stopped crane operations, when they noticed that wire lifting rope was rubbing against the ship structure during cargo operations. G2 Ocean note that they "…work with stevedores all over the world. By sharing lessons learned on safety between companies and ports, we believe we can reduce the number of incidents and personal injuries in our industry.” A view that we in ICHCA wholly co-sign!
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To access the full Safety Bulletin, click Read More
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4. ICHCA Technical Panel Meeting, Barcelona, 19 May 2025
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Our next in-person ICHCA Technical Panel and Annual General Meeting will take place in Barcelona on 19 May 2025.
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This meeting will give ICHCA members the opportunity to meet face to face, to network, share and learn together. Our meeting is in partnership with ICHCA member Transport Events. All ICHCA members attending our meeting will receive a complimentary delegate registration for the full three days of ‘Mediterranean Port & Logistics 2025’ with the chance to participate in a Port de Barcelona technical site visit, networking reception, international ports and logistics conference, exhibition and networking dinner.
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5. The work of the IMO - Dangerous Goods safety and the latest Current Awareness Bulletin
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ICHCA is proud to be a recognised Non-Governmental Organisation at the International Maritime Organisation. It means that the cargo handling industry has a voice when amendments to international regulations and codes of practice are being made.
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The next important meeting for cargo concerns is the forty-second meeting of the Editorial and Technical Group considering the next round of amendments to the International maritime Dangerous Goods Code from 17 to 21 March 2025. ICHCA members can attend in person or virtually, to observe the processes and contribute to our work at IMO on industry’s behalf. For more information, contact secretariat@ichca.com.
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If you want to know what has been happening recently at IMO, one of the helpful options is the Current Awareness Bulletin. The December 2024 issue is now available on our web site along with back issues.
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To access the latest CAB click Read More
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