在国际安全管理规则(ISM Code)中，船长在许多特定情况下拥有做出指挥决策的绝对权力。协会提请所有船东认真考虑他们的既定程序是否足以支持船长做出撤离锚地的决定。
协会曾经处理过一个案件：一艘船舶独自锚泊在离岸1海里的锚地，强劲的向岸大风导致船舶走锚。同时，由于船舶主机未能及时被启动，最终船舶搁浅，船上的燃油舱破裂。
详细信息请参阅附件。
Anchor dragging: Master’s authority and responsibility
Under the ISM Code, the Master has an overriding authority to make command decisions of this nature and in many other situations. The Club asks all Owners to consider their own procedures and whether these fully support the Master when the decision is made to vacate the anchorage.
The Club has experienced a case where a solitary ship, left in an anchorage one nautical mile off the coast in an onshore gale, dragged her anchor and was unable to start her engines in time and found herself grounded with ruptured bunker tanks.
See attached file: Anchor dragging: Master’s authority and responsibility.pdf
