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General Guidelines For Towage

1) This document provides general guidelines for barge towage, including requirements for barge trim and ballast, towline strength, shackle strength, bridle leg length, boarding ladders, towline material, spare gears, towline and emergency towline length, recovery wire, pennant strength, attachment strength, anchors, athwartship pulling prevention, workboats, tug certification, and certification of towing gears and winches. 2) It also lists requirements for vessels being towed, such as securing the rudder and propeller, deck gears, openings, tanks, having an anchor ready, and displaying draft marks, pilot ladder, and navigation/towing signals.

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General Guidelines For Towage

1) This document provides general guidelines for barge towage, including requirements for barge trim and ballast, towline strength, shackle strength, bridle leg length, boarding ladders, towline material, spare gears, towline and emergency towline length, recovery wire, pennant strength, attachment strength, anchors, athwartship pulling prevention, workboats, tug certification, and certification of towing gears and winches. 2) It also lists requirements for vessels being towed, such as securing the rudder and propeller, deck gears, openings, tanks, having an anchor ready, and displaying draft marks, pilot ladder, and navigation/towing signals.

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GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR TOWAGE

1) Barge to be trim by stern, minimum 0.005 times barge length and ballasted to a draft at
bow of minimum 0.15 times barge depth.
2) Breaking load of towline to be three times the bollard pull of tug
3) Shackles to have a SWL equal to bollard pull of tug or minimum 1/3 of main towline
breaking load.
4) All other arrangement to have a minimum breaking strength not less than the main
towline. [Breaking Load = 6 x SWL]
5) Length of each bridle leg shall be more or equal to breadth of the barge and not exceed
60o angle.
6) Boarding ladders to be rigged on either side of barge
7) For low power tow using vessel’s hook, the use of polypropelene rope is allowed.
8) Spare towing gears to be provided, particularly for offshore tow
9) Minimum tow line length for offshore tow = 2000 bollard pull / towline breaking load
in tons
10) Emergency tow wire rope length to equal barge length
11) A recovery wire rope should be fitted to the flounder plate and lead to a winch.
12) Fibre rope pennants should have a breaking load not less than 2.3 times the towline
BL for tugs with bollard pull less than 50 tons and 1.5 times for above 100 tons
13) Attachment such as brackets, bollard & foundation shall have capacity not less than
1.3 times the minimum breaking load of the tow line.
14) A barge should have at least one anchor available for emergency anchoring
15) The tug should have an arrangement to prevent athwartship pulling
16) A suitable workboat with propulsion should be carried onboard for transferring of
personnel and equipment.
17) Tug should have a bollard pull certificate not older than 10 years. Otherwise a factor
of 0.75 to be applied.
18) Certificates for towing gears & winch should be made available.
19) Towing winch to be operationally tested and inspection of at least first 50 meters of
tow wires to be carried out.
20) Securing items weighing more than 5 tons shall be verified by calculation.
21) Splice wire / rope is not permitted to be used. Socket or timber eye at end a must.

FOR VESSEL BEING TOW


1) Rudder & propeller to be secured & locked
2) All loose gears on deck, including cranes’ boom to be secured
3) All openings on deck, watertight doors, hatches etc. to be kept closed
4) All tanks to be empty or fully ballast with no slack tanks. Overboard valves to be shut
5) One anchor to be on standby for release in event of emergency
6) Yellow or white draught marks as per regulation to be painted on both sides fore & aft.
7) Pilot ladder to be rigged
8) Navigation lights and daylight towing signal to be displayed

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