The SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) Chapter II-2 on SRtP, as well as on the ability of systems to remain operational after a fire casualty, applies to passenger ships constructed on or after 1st of July 2010,  with a length of 120 meters or more, or having three or more main vertical zones as defined in SOLAS regulation II-1, regulation 2. M/S SPIRIT OF BRITAIN was the very first passenger ship to be built and delivered according to this rule in January 2011 from the shipyard in Rauma, Finland.

The purpose of the regulation is to establish design criteria for a ship’s safe return to port under its own propulsion after a casualty, as well as to provide design criteria for systems that are required to remain operational in order to support the orderly evacuation and abandonment of a ship.

On AURORA BOTNIA there are two separate engine rooms, two bridges and there is only fast rescue boat and one rescue boat onboard with four MES for evacuation but the goal in the emergency situation is that ship can sail to port even other engine room is full of water and main bridge on fire.

 

AURORA BOTNIA moored at the port of Vaasa

 

Procedures for LNG bunkering in the port were tested several times before the first bunkering operation. Training, manning, safety signs, communication are the base for a safe operations.

LNG bunkering in the port of Vaasa

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