Abstract
Many vessels capsized in the passed few years when carry nickel ore, this make many shipowners and crewmembers fear to carry nickel ore . This paper based on the special properties of nickel ore, analysis the root cause why nickel ore are easy to liquefaction when carried on board, demonstrated nickel ore's liquefaction produce large amount of free surface and make vessel loss stability and cause harmful to vessels and crewmembers, summarized additional difficulty vessel encountered when carry nickel ore, based the requirements from IMSBC Code point out the key point of safe transport nickel ore is keep its moisture content below TMP, also represent some useful precautions on nickel ore safe shipment.
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