Cleaning the Ship's Cargo Hold | Seaman Vlog
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- Опубликовано: 31 мар 2019
- A ship's main purpose is to transport cargo, so naturally one of the most important tasks is to make sure that the cargo holds are clean and ready to receive cargo.
Cleaning the Ship's Cargo Hold
Chief MAKOi Seaman Vlog
Hey guys! Sorry it took a while to upload. Long voyage plus no internet on our first port = late upload! Anyway, I hope you like this one. I have a few episodes I'm working on and hopefully I will have one episode every week this April. So stay tuned!!!
Great videos chief. Greetings from North Carolina USA.
Chief MAKOi
No worries 😉
Chief magkano na $$$ hatch cleaning sa mga deck ratings?
Its okay sir :) Hope will see ur next vlog sir ..Hehhee Proud marino here 🤟🤟🤟⚓🛳️..
Pinas malamang yun tinukoy ni sir na may padulas o lagay ganun pa rin kaya kalakaran ng custom
Great video. "The Argentina Cargo Hold Bribe" also applies in my industry. When we shoot TV commercials in Argentina, the locations that were supposed to be locked off for filming are suddenly unavailable, until we pay the special fee and then everything gets locked off as it was supposed to. Many people shoot in Chile now instead to avoid this nonsense.
I had that country in mind when the question came up ,,,,,,,,,,,,
@@williampankratz600 I was sure it was my country. Goverment officials are the worst. :(
OH GOD ITS US?!? damn, I feel so bad for living here😆
Que lindo mi pais...
Russia is just as bad when filming movies people need to be bribed to close off an area and or bribes need to be paid to just to allow a camera to be turned in the direction of some buildings.
Concise, informative narration.
Background music that isn't obnoxious adrenaline-pumping rock.
No artificial suspense.
This video is a great example of how a documentary vid should be done, thank you sir! Subscribed!
Completely agree on all counts. Perfect.
craZivn exactly !!!!! I feel like i learned so much
y'cuda
I have to agree. Very professionally done. It does remind me of actual discovery channel stuff from a few years back.
Totally agree luv! ✌💗😊❣
Hello Chief MAKOi, I'm impressed by your videos. I am a farmer in Germany. Sometimes we get food from ships for our cattle. We know these works you describe on a much smaller scale. I never thougt about, why so many seafearer are from the philippines. I learned, how well educated you are. So we continue to serve the people of the world with our daily work. Thanks for your calm, informing and nice videos. J.Behrens
👍🇵🇭
Danke für eure Arbeit und unsere Nahrung 🇦🇹☺️
Cheap labour
@@younessmghinia5225 what do you mean by this? Do you think, this work should not be done? Or you would not do it for the actual wages?
Biggest naval training centre is found in Philippines..
Bribery not only raises prices for the consumer, it lowers quality. The shipper knows acceptance doesn't actually depend on cleanliness and so they could probably skip the cleaning, or at least be much less fastidious about it, and pay the same bribe and pass. Sad state of affairs in keeping poor corrupt places poor.
Obscuring this corrupt port & country allows this crime to continue - Truly sad in the year 2021 that this still happens
@@CubbyTech "grease" happens everywhere in all types of industries.
@@BangBangBang. indeed, but not even just financial incentives, for example the company i work for charges more for the same product than the competitor, but the customers like me, so they buy from us so that i deliver to them, as the driver from the other supplier is impatient and not helpful when unloading.
@@CubbyTech Argentina.
He is talking about the ports of Argentina.
@@Colt45hatchback That totally makes sense : we buy for the people behind the product, not just the product itself.
I buy most my products from my selected, favorite sellers, because I trust them, and as experience showed me, if I have an issue, they will find a solution. It's stress free and more pleasing. Business is not all about money, that's not grease, that's the price for quality customer service, and I hope you get your fair cut!
I've been in the position of being the trusted person the customer rely on and it's a great feeling too. And it drives client service up.
It is unfortunate that it is becoming a lost skill.
Cargo ship: we're all clean for inspection
Argentina: let me hold $5000
I was thinking Argentina!
i knew i am not the only one who is thinking that it is Argentina. I have been in that country and also my fellow crew and they were also telling the same story about that country.
It's the money that's dirty, not the hold
This video brought back some happy memories for me, I was in the British merchant navy (deckhand) for 28 years (1962-90). I would have stayed in the merchant navy until I retired, or die, preferably the later. But, shipping companies replaced us for cheaper eu seamen. Cleaning the holds looked simple, but it was hard work, especially if you were working through all night and the next day trying to get the hold clean for inspection by the harbour master and the people who's cargo was going into the hold. Some of the inspectors were okay, and some were very persnickety about a little dirt or dust still left, which meant we had to do it all again. Even then, I loved every minute at sea, through the good, the bad, and scary times. The merchant navy was the BEST job in the world, and even to day at 73 years of age, I still miss it. Thank you for this video.
Michael Hastie
Hi sir! Much respect for you. One question though. How do you learn to love this profession? Im 4 years seafarer now and each time pass by I gradually losing interest/hating my job now. I like more my passion when I was just starting. Im slowly losing motivation to continue this profession and I dont like taht to happen.
@teriyaki when you are not accepting and learning to love your work, facing the hardwork and factors affecting the life of a seafarer at sea the motivation you are looking for your self will not be found. As a seafarer for almost 21 years my little piece of advice for you is to accept with pride and love the job that you have. goodluck.
It was a very good video.
@@teriyaki_9inety9ine27 If it is making you tat sad and disinterested maybe it is time to leave . It is a dangerous place and you need your wits about you all the time otherwise something bad is going to happen . If you work on deck you could be going into port and stand in the loop of a rope or wire rope , not a good place to be .
Hope you are o.k and have found a solution to your dilemma .
Take care
Ya do know that the Philippines a not yet a part of the EU?
I'm Loading Master in a Brazilian port and I also had been Agent years ago. Unfortunately we see very frequently trouble people representing local authorities figuring out how to get some money from the crew and I've been very embarrassed and angry about that. Even more when crew is philippine, cause they're such a hard working and good heart people, when I'm on board of a phillipine ship I feel like at home, they treat everyone like family.
My best regars to all phillipine seamen.
Hard laborer filipinos with low cost salary. Business is really unfair 😞
Cara imaginei muito que se tratava do Brasil. KkkKkkK não sei se é aqui a que ele se referia mas é triste pensar no quanto isso deve acontecer por aqui.
@@eudesrafael3029 nah e a argentina brother
@@eudesrafael3029 to zuando n procura no google
@@johnflorita7969 Filipino seamen make a kings wage in the Philippines. That's why there's no shortage of Filipino seamen in the world.
You deserve your own TV show .
The work in cleaning the holds may appear to be 'menial', but I consider it essential for food safety and I appreciate the work done by the sailors in cleaning the holds. We are all consumers of foods that are shipped and having a safe food supply is something we take for granted. Contamination can occur anywhere so mitigating risks everywhere is important. I would, therefore, encourage sailors to take PRIDE in getting the holds clean so that we can ALL eat safe food.
Now theres just the Glyphosate and other chemicals shellacked all over our staple crops that we need to worry about.
Well said sir. Agree with you
That's right. Not long ago, just a couple hundred years, ships were constantly docking in ports with smallpox.
Bill Crowell shut up Bill 🤣
I wonder what they had in the cargo bays when they have the excavator down in there, that's not very clean
Production quality better than most television channels and it's only done by 1 man. I salute you sir.
Next time, lock the inspectors in the hold until they pay you $3k.
Thaaats fucked up
😂
Hahaha!!
Lock up inside the cargo hole. Hahaha
They'll be dead in just 2mins.
it is argentina .every voyage my ship pays 5k for holds
Get me a job
Worst trade deal in the history of trade deals
you need a better captain to negotiate it down to 3k :P
Thesoorma How do u actually get a job doing what you do or going with you and maintaining the ship
Ukraine is the same
Wow I'm glad RUclips recommended this video
It's a good video Joyy.
Lol I searched for this. I’m still young and would like to learn more about ships. Would you recommend a book or something similar to help with my learning process?
Joyy I know right ❤️
There is a 50% chance this is sarcastic, I can't tell as its a message.
Imagine in fire this cargo will be a giant popcorn machine :)
But still be are going to finish popcorn before starting the movie
I wonder if the ship will expand like a popcorn bag?
Grain can explode violently if you're not careful!
If they forgot to rinse out the seawater before picking up the corn, it will be salted popcorn.
As a cleaning professional myself, I appreciate all the hard work that goes into what we do, be it different fields.
No one:
Literally no one:
RUclips Recommended: *Wanna see how to clean a cargo ship?*
You clicked on it so why are you complaining
@@cranemechanic2479 I don't think he is complaining. But it's funny what RUclips recommends sometimes
and now I have got an answer if someone asks me whether a cargo ship needs to be cleaned or not.
Me: hey that's an odd recommendation but I'm game!
RUclips: boring? Let see some nasty job in the world
It’s Argentina- look up “Argentina Cargo Hold Bribe”
I have heard that Nigeria is even worse. They do all kinds of inspections demanding bribes for everything.
Buenos Aires!
argentina is full of pricks and actual nazis
@@MylesAwayAgain yup, I'm talking about you francis.
@@MylesAwayAgain im argentinian and thats a bold statement. There are a lot of bad people but common folk is great, friendly and always welcoming. Its just that our authorities are corrupted to the bone sadly
Ha, it’s Argentina. Everyone in the business knows this.
So.... uh, just how does someone get a job inspecting Cargo Holds in Argentina... Asking for a friend.
@@Dreadnaught1985 LOL
@@Dreadnaught1985 You need to be friends of a polititian.
I want to thank you, Chief - you and your shipmates - for keeping the global supply chain moving during these dark days. You are taking extraordinary risks to your health to keep everyone fed, heated, and supplied. Stay healthy; stay safe.
Thank you Chief for a brilliant and very interesting look at cleaning operations on a bulk carrier. Hard work actually, that I now appreciate much better. Mariners don’t get enough attention for the tough working conditions which they must endure for weeks at a time. You are doing a great job in educating us landlubbers about the very important work that you and your colleagues do each day.
Thanks Burton!
Yes, RUclips, I actually would love to learn about cleaning a cargo hold on a ship! How ever did you know!?
Haha, great video. Sorry about the shady business practices in this unknown country *cough cough* Argentina *cough cough*
But you still watched it R sole.
Thanks for exposing what country extorts cargo companies. I'll be checking 'made in' labels to avoid supporting this.
Marcus I heard they clean juice carriers with ultra sound. I was hoping Captain might touch on that.
These are wonderful relaxing videos. I'm 65 now. Makes me wonder what a life at sea would have been like. The mystic lure of the sea was the work life of many of my ancestors. I imagine these videos get a lot of young men interested in a life at sea too.
I'm in Winnipeg Canada, as far from the sea as you can get. (Also a city with a 78,000 Filipino immigrants out of 800,000 total, mostly working in healthcare.) On my dad's side I had many ancestors from the UK (Portsmouth and Chatham/Rochester) who were in the Royal Navy.
On my mother's side, her father's family has lived in Newfoundland Canada since the late 1700s. The men in the village were fishermen. My grandfather was the youngest of 14, and by the time he was born his two eldest brothers had been lost at sea.
Sea faring is definitely a lot safe now than in the old days. But as you point out, there are dangers inherent when humans dare to go up against the force of the ocean.
Nice to see your crew clean cargo holds in an organised and systematic manner. You must be one of the rare Chief Engineers that gives good pressure on the fire line, so that the crew can reach all the way up with the fire hose. Other Chief Engineers stamp all sorts of dates on the fire line, but don't deliver more than 4kg pressure. Good job.
Captain
I really enjoy and appreciate your videos. Brings back good memories from my days on bulk carriers working with Filipino crew. Greetings from Norway to all my Filipino friends out there. 🇳🇴🇵🇭
I never realized all the work that you men do its very time consuming and seems difficult and very hard work thank you for sharing this maybe people will appreciate all the work you do now !!!
I thank you, you unsung heroes of the shipping industry! We will always need your work.
Thanks for sharing this. Informative and entertaining at the same time. My Father was a Chief Engineer too, although he retired, he will always be the best Chief Engineer in the world for me. I am proud of my Dad. He is living in Texas, USA for 21 years now and counting.
Thanks again Cheif, I really enjoyed that one. Often what a crew might see as routine is fascinating and no exception here. Your cargo hold inspection protocol story was also interesting, and I've seen similar things in the international construction and oil and gas industry, and one company I worked for often succeeded where other general contractors failed as the owners had "Fixers" who could fix just about anything, including eliminating some stubbornly undesirable obstacles, if you get my drift.
Quite an eye opening video: how hard you all work in a dangerous job and the “closed door meeting” in that notorious port. Had no idea about the food grade cleaning standard. Great educational video as always, Chief!
Chuck Farley
I find this to be very satisfying; it is good to see that cleanliness and concern for food safety is paramount. Very good!
Thank you chief. As someone working in international banking and also dealing with shipping documents, it's always good to get a different perspective and understanding on what goes on out there.
Thousand times I made clean the cargo holds as an A/B..Thanks for share what we are doing at ships...Also Argentina is worst place for pass the cargo hold inspections,money(bribe) talks in there..
Yes we have also faced this i was o.s on bulk cargo ship our last cargo was coal and had to load grain from argentina we took almost a month to clean it from india to argentina the passage was quite .Rough seas but still we did our very best whole crew even ch/engg &capt also participated in challenge we were very sure the hold will pass because we did very best but still people who came for inspection they were desperately finding dirt even small black patches which were very hard to find they still pointed out them and told us we will fail the holds if not cleaned again eventually we gave them 5000$ bribe which made us disheartened 😕 .
You got heart from chief, it's official then it was Argentina
I'll bet the fish love it when you rinse the corn out of the ship
A lot of my uncles went are seamen and seeing this i gained another level of respect for them.
All of us come from seamen
I watched a video about cleaning corn out of a cargo hold while eating a corn dog. The circle is complete.
Such a simple, honest and well presented breakdown.
Corruption and bribery anywhere around the globe......God bless you all chief makoi ..
A big hug to everyone in your crew. Thank you for sharing all of this.
I'd love to see this whole series assembled into a movie. Very informative and entertaining
Getting a heart for this comment as a aspiring 3rd year Marine Student will truly inspire me 🔥 a big salute ChiefMakoi
Inspire you to do what? You’re already doing it, as a student.
Your videos are fantastic!! You have a very clear and straight-forward way of narrating your videos. We could watch them all day. Thanks and keep up the great work!!
My dad was in the Merchant Marine in the 50's. People don't appreciate how much they depend on these sailors. Thanks for a great video. Stay Strong.
Marine Surveyor, here! It's great to see the other side of the coin when it comes to Hold Inspections. Vessel crews have some of the most difficult yet necessary jobs on earth, I tip my hat to you guys. Great video!
(Also, great shot of Astoria there near the start of the video)
A really good video! Very clear narration, good grammar, non-obnoxios background music.
Some very cool shots of my home town (Astoria, Oregon) in this video. Glad I stumbled upon this channel. Thank you for sharing!
Cinematic feast. You deserve a Oscar.
Perfectly informed in simple explanation. I believe rookie in shipping desk especially in bulk management team could able to learn much by watching this video
As we used to say Chief.......”If you can’t take a joke, you shouldn’t have signed on!!”
Rod
Thanks for sharing Chief! Godbless. I like watching your videos. I learn so much from it.
In my time I've done a fair bit of hold cleaning. About 50+ years ago now. Recall cleaning the bulges and strum boxes of fermented grain (disgusting !!) Great to see a traditionally rigged paint stage at 5.28. Recall discharging bulk cargo using a dump grab on union purchase rigged derricks.
Great videos Chief ...keep them coming.
Very close to the situations on board, your videos made the people at home undertand clearly about the life on board, thank you
Ahoy Chief Makoi, good way to watch your vlog once again. Positivity all the way. God Bless Chief.
Nice to see you back, Chief. I really enjoyed your vlog.
I miss sea life,been 5 years since I finished up with Australian Navy I spent 7 years on 4 different ships..Its routine Displined & sometimes jobs like cleaning helping out with cooks dish wash is just part of life..Thanks Chief Makoi.Safe travels hope to see you guys in Sydney one day..
Glad to see this in my recommendations. My hubby who is a Chief officer in a bulk carrier often talks about the cargo hold; how it needs to be cleaned and his fears that they wouldn't pass especially when their cargo is coal.
Morning Chief ! I discovered your channel couple days ago , and it has been an absolute pleasure tagging along , on your journey! My only experience at a seaman's life is from my military career serving on a tugboat for something over 12 months. Love your videos , hope you're doing well !
Mabuhay Chief! Thanks for the video. A lot of memories comes to my mind LOL. Yes its hard to clean the cargo holds even if you have complete gear and stuff. Your main concern is cold whatever clothes you wear you will still get wet. You start cleaning by morning and you will not stop until all the cargo holds are done. Yes you will get paid extra $$$ for the work but i can tell you its really hard labor. I have slipped many times trying to hold that fire hose lol. I experience this first hand. Cheers from ex-bilge rat :)
I salute all of you. Mabuhay kayo kabayan , real hero for our country and your family. You guys are the backbone of our economy for bringing dollars back home.God bless you all.
Love the honesty in the video on the surveyors who fail the inspections . but it’s a hard fact of today’s time !
Hahahah. We had to standby a few bottles of whiskey and some Playboy magazines to give away every time we pull into Indonesia, in a 58ft sailing yacht just to pass the customs. That was 10 years ago, and I believe it's still is now. Your is much much bigger, so it's going to be in dollars! Safe journey chief!
Huge job. Sounds like money talks everything else fails corruption at it's finest. Thanks for posting...……….
I smiled at your diplomacy in the language you used to explain this situation. It's corruption, but nothing you don't expect. It's why you carry a war chest of money. The skills of the Master's negotiating can save the company a lot of money. I find it really interesting how the seafarer learns an unofficial parallel skill set without which the job wouldn't get done. I've been on a multitude of ships and witnessed these experiences first hand. It's more than just this one country, as you know, lol. Great vdos, thanks for posting. 👍.
Great channel. Calming of the nerves. I could watch this on a Sunday all day
Excellent videos, informative well shot with great narrative, beautiful cinematography...loving them 👍👍
Another Awesome video! thanks for all you do!
I love your videos chief, very informative and very well put together and narrated. I've never been to sea but spent many years on a steam cleaning bay, cleaning and sterilizing road tankers, plus, working in a power plant, running steam boilers, steam turbines and huge diesel engines. Keep up the good work and please keep posting.
Thank you for making these videos! Appreciated!
This is beautifully done.. amazing!
Love the story about your ship "failing" its cleanliness inspection, where the situation was resolved by paying some baksheesh (in effect). I had a similar thing happen when I was running ships here in New Zealand, but the Captain claimed that one cargo hold had been damaged so much by loading operations that the ship was unsafe to go to sea. Problem was solved when a case of Johnny Walker was supplied........
baksheesh is arabic word?
I really enjoy your vlogs, Chief. Really very informative. I'm probably too old now, but if I was 20 years younger, I think merchant marine would be my calling. Wishing you the wind on your back and always safety to you and your crew.
you are a great story teller! you will be a great grandfather
Another excellent video! The way you narrate your videos makes me want to hone my english speaking ability! Always a fan chief!
wow it really puts into perspective how big the cargo area is when you have people standing in it
Hey great vid!! Had no idea how much work went into these ships. Honestly I thought you guys just sat around at sea. Definitely have tons of respect for you now. Keep up the hard work
Learn something new everyday! I really enjoyed seeing this light into your world, your career. God Bless 🙂
Nice video! But I would have liked to understand more of the technical stuff... For instance, when you have to clean after some dirty cargo, do you have to scrub the holds? If so, with what, how, how long does it take? How does the wash water get taken out of the holds and what happens to it? Does it get dumped in the sea even after transporting scrap iron or bauxite? If you carry scrap iron, do the hold-walls get scratched? If that is the case, do the scratches rust? If really dirty wash-water filled with rust, fertilizers or petroleum residue... get's stored, where and how does it get discharged and what happens to it?
Would you consider doing a follow-up addressing these questions? Thanks! Your videos are a great hands-on insight into this essential industry that is so efficient that we don't even notice it most of the time!
Every ship needs a brig so that once the extortion money has been paid....the Captain can lock the criminals up until they pay for their release.
Too much sea of thieves
Any guesses which country is it?
@@crapp0 It's Argentina. The price tag gives it away pretty easily. I have also encountered similar problems in some Brazilian ports like Santos. The biggest problem a captain has is dealing with goverment officials corruption in many ports around the world. So many different criminals in uniform, so many stories I DO NOT WANT to remember...
@@antoniskalakonas1876 Oh, south America, I thought it would happen in third world countries where corruption was common and rampant like in Bangladesh, India or certain African countries.
@@crapp0 Every country has it's own corruption problems. Baglandesh, India and Pakistan usually go after your bonded store (cigaretes and alcohol). India is SO corrupt that they have double customs boarding parties in order to take double the amount. This of course, after they present you with a document to sign which states that you have been visited by customs and they DID NOT take any bonded store items as "gifts"...
Thank you for your excellent videos, Chief. Really enjoy all them. (I was a junior engineer on tankers in the early 1970s)
Chief! You do an amazing job at telling sea stories. If you ever find yourself in the San Francisco Bay area, please let this old sea captain know so I can offer you a beer.
Fair winds and following seas,
Captain Holmgren
Like the way you said closed door meeting. I won't say the country, but I'm not surprised. Your getting really good with that drone chief.
Argentina, I'll say it for you :)
Also Russia, if you dont have pribes, good luck leaving tje port on time.
Congratz Mr Makoi! Good job. I really liked the video!
Hi Chief. Your videos are truly awesome. I chartered BELISLAND once loading Grain in Paranagua to China. Cleaning the cargo holds always being a difficult task especially after coal shipments. Looking forward to having you back on RUclips.
So this is the YT channel that will help me understand the life of a seafarer? I'm so glad I found it! Kudos to Chief MAKOi. Your vids are so informative. This is what I've been looking for. ❤ Expecting for more videos! 😊🚢⚓
it's more like documentary than just a vlog, lot of informations i can get....
Taufiq Rizal this is a real documentary by someone with firsthand experience... all those shows out there love to make stuff over dramatic or just get everything wrong.
Awwwwwe my previous vessel! Biglift Happy Buccaneer ♥️
Every episode warms my heart.
God bless the seafarers!
Hallo chief. lm from south Africa. l love ur channel. Please tell me The ship that u work on is registered as a transport ship. No are u allowed to fish from the ship if it is not registered for fishing?
Very interesting look at an industry that a lot of people never seen. Thank you for posting this video
Didn't realize how much i needed this in my life. Thanks for the videos; I'll definitely sub and check out more!
Another Good video Idol Chief, can't wait for the next episode :)
Awesome channel Chief Makoi. You are a natural story teller!! Keep it coming!
such a great personality he has ! We really need more like him in this doomed world
You make something I had no interest in totally fascinating. Amazing job and thank you so much for the first hand knowledge.
I hope all future Merchant Marines have someone like you aboard the ship.
As always, another interesting vid Chief. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!
I love getting this kind of insight, thank you so much
Thank god, now I know how to clean my bulk carrier. thanks guys. 👍
I love how you narrate your vids sir chief((:
I hope to meet with you soon
I like your vlog
Im officer from Egypt. So happy to watch you every time
Iam a truck driver in the USA.Love watching your content.
Those holds are friggen huge! And theirs like 7 or 8 of them! Amazing, amazing ships