A liferaft refers to a boat with no self-propelled capability for lifesaving on a ship. As one of the important lifesaving equipment, any defect that affects its normal use will be judged as a major defect and may cause the ship to detain. According to the righting method, liferafts are divided into ordinary non-self-righting and self-righting or two-sided usable types.

The management requirements for both ship and shore have addressed the lack of operating experience and improper operating strategies of the crew/terminal when the danger occurred. It is hoped that readers can learn corresponding lessons through the occurrence of dangerous situations and combine with the management requirements of MEG4 to avoid similar accidents.

Because "the shipyard is affected by the COVID-19" Royal Caribbean Cruises plans to deploy the world's largest cruise ship in China next year, the "Marvel of the Seas", had to postpone the delivery time.

With the approval of the State Council, July 11th is the "China Maritime Day" every year, and it is also the implementation date of "World Maritime Day" in my country. Transportation department announced of the Ministry of Transport on ships flags and fog whistle on nautical day!

On June 30, the 180,000-ton Capesize bulk carrier "Derui" built by Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Shipbuilding Corporation, was signed for delivery. So far, Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding has delivered a total of 14+1 ships (seats)/2.2262 million deadweight tons in the first half of the year, and has received orders for 9 ships/1.426 million deadweight tons. Both of the two indicators are ranked before the major shipyards in China in terms of deadweight tons. Mao has achieved the "double victory" of the epidemic prevention and control battle and the scientific research and production battle, and has achieved the established goals of "more than half of the time and more than half of the tasks", laying a solid foundation for the full completion of the 2020 production and management tasks.

On June 30, 2020, the Shanghai International Shipping Research Center released a report on China's shipping prosperity in the second quarter of 2020. The report shows that in the second quarter of 2020, China's shipping prosperity index was 89.37 points, a slight increase to a relatively sluggish range; China's shipping confidence index was 64.79 points, up 25.73 points from the previous quarter, entering a relatively sluggish range, although the Chinese shipping industry It is still below the dividing line of the economy, but the impact of the new coronavirus epidemic on China's shipping industry has greatly weakened.