FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin A recent article from UK P&I Club has examined how routine bulk cargo-handling operations can evolve into major financial, legal and regulatory exposure when established industry best practices are not followed. As explained by Costas Panoskaltsis, Senior Claims Executive, UK P&I Club, the simultaneous discharge of multiple cargo grades, to multiple receivers, across multiple ports, a practice frequently requested for commercial convenience, can create conditions in which quantity discrepancies are almost inevitable. Once detected, such discrepancies can lead to customs intervention, significant commercial claims and the emergence of complex multi-party disputes. RelatedNews NTSB investigation: Towing vessel collides with bulk carrier and sinks UKMTO reports vessel attack on bulk carrier off Doha var jnews_module_21365694_0_6a01e394061a4 = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21365694","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"471,1282,249,210","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagin