Cargo Cooling
We are all familiar with the IBC Code requirement 16.1.3: “Tanks carrying liquids at ambient temperatures shall be so loaded as to avoid the tank becoming liquid-full during the voyage, having due regard to the highest temperature which the cargo may reach.” However, there are many times when a chemical tanker has been diverted such that the vessel now finds the voyage route passes through temperatures at which the load calculation were not foreseen. The Panama Canal for example. Or,…