FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin The American P&I Club has published the latest installment of their Good Catch series, presenting an incident where a general cargo vessel struck a river pier due to bank suction and insufficient Master-pilot communication. Description A general cargo vessel was outbound from a river port. The Master-pilot exchange had been cursory. It was daytime with clear skies and good visibility, and no other vessel traffic was in the area or expected. The pilot had the conn. While negotiating a bend in the river, the vessel experienced bank suction, or “bank effect.” As a result, the vessel did not respond to its rudder as expected. RelatedNews Marine lubricants: A hidden seaworthiness risk DNV: How to document PFOS-free fire-extinguishing foam on board var jnews_module_21367249_0_6a03ea18229c7 = {"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":"21367249","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"689,263,201,3364","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","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads_positio