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原文传递 Vessel Stability, COI Rules At Issue For Unmanned Barges On Lakes

题名：	Vessel Stability, COI Rules At Issue For Unmanned Barges On Lakes
正文语种：	eng
作者：	DAVID MURRAY
摘要：	Over the past decades, the inland barge industry has become used to having to respond to Coast Guard regulations adapted from blue-water contexts and applied to the brown-water operating area, sometimes in a blanket fashion. Those regulations may not apply or be relevant in a brown-water context, where conditions can differ from deep-sea shipping. Instead, they may impose unnecessary burdens of cost, time or both. A frequently cited example is fire-fighting regulations. The inland barge industry has argued that while certain firefighting equipment may be necessary at sea, where help is not always near, on the inland waterways firefighting scenarios don't play out the same way or require the same equipment. An inland towboat is always close to a bank, and crews need not risk their lives to save property. Travis Martin, president of Bay Engineering of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., has drawn the Coast Guard's attention to another possible example of regulations applied out of context. In September 2021, Martin filed a Petition for Rule-making with the Coast Guard, asking that unmanned Great Lakes barges be excepted from vessel damage stability regulations designed for crewed vessels in the Great Lakes. The letter was sent as a follow-up to the Great Lakes Maritime Discussion held on August 31, 2021, at Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., , with Adm. Linda Fagan and Sen. Tammy Baldwin in attendance.
出版年：	2022
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	136
期：	12
页码：	21-21