it becomes wet a rubber rots and emits heat, it inflames easily and burns intensively. The natural rubber surface firmly retains the dirt. Being soiled with sand, wood chips, cement, flour and other material, rubber loses its quality. Very harmful for natural rubber is contact with oil products, oils and solvents, which makes it softened and swollen. Direct sunlight exposure causes the loss of rubber resilience.loading the rubber holds should be dry cleaned, deleting dirt completely, but if the previous cargo was dust-forming heavy, than holds to be washed thoroughly and dried. The natural rubber is able to adhere firmly to metallic surface what impedes the ship unloading. Therefore all metallic parts of the hold, where the rubber is to be loaded, should be separated with dry wooden panel or boards.the rubber blocks are loaded to a vessel without sheeting by fabrics, but only wrapped in rubber sheets then prior loading all wooden panels and boards, as well as all rubber stacks are sprinkled with the talcum.as natural rubber is a very flammable cargo, prior loading all firefighting equipment should be ready for immediate use. The crew members assigned for receiving the cargo, thoroughly check the rubber being loaded and don t allow loading wet, dirty stacks, as well as stacks covered by mildew and not having marking.is forbidden to put the rubber close to sources of the heat. The hot pipes, passing the hold, or heat bulkheads to be insulated the dry wooden boards. While unloading it can turn out that lower rows of the rubber were firmly stuck and cannot be handled manually for stowage on cargo platforms, slings or nets. If it is a case than special grabbing tools can be required.
6.4 Tobacco sheets in bales
The tobacco and tobacco products have a sharp scent and are able to absorb and firmly hold the extraneous scents so them should not be stowed in close proximity of cargoes, which absorb and emit scents. The tobacco and tobacco products are hygroscopic. In hold must be supported Moderate air moisture and the ambient temperature around 15 В° С must be maintained. Then exposed to high moisture tobacco becomes moldy.low-grade tobacco leaf, designated to producing of the low-grade tobacco, is pressed in stacks, paneled by matting. Yellow fermented tobacco leaves are pressed in stacks, paneled by thick packing fabrics, or packed in bales with paper packing and covered with sackcloth.loading tobacco product cargo holds should be cleaned thoroughly and aerated. If the carriage of the big parcel of high-grade tobacco leaf in stacks or bales is expected then after thorough cleaning cargo holds to be washed, oil stains to be removed and holds to be ventilated until dry and scentless.hold must not contain a cargo , having specific scent, or food products, which being carried jointly with tobacco can absorb its sce...
