Dry docking with full cargo onboard:

Vessel is subjected to more severe stress and strains than normal dry dock.

Uneven distribution of weight.

Additional weight of the vessel

Unable to achieve required draft for entering

Certain extra precautions to be taken.

Discharge cargoes at port facility

Transship cargo

Press up the DB tanks beneath the holds.

Distribute the weight of the cargo evenly over the inner bottom.

Avoid local loading.

Inform yard about cargo's characteristics, cargo plan and weight distribution in respective holds.

All cargoes onboard properly lashed, secured.

Communicate with yard with respect to extra shores or keel/bilge blocks.

Vessel upright, minimize free surface effect, adequate stability, trimmed as per yard's requirement.

Stand-by and prepare fire fighting equipments for repair and adjacent areas.

Not possible for normal dry docking.

Damage or repair works in a suitable position.

Possible to pump out some of the dock water sufficient to expose the affected area.

Leave the vessel partly waterborne.

Reduce the reactions on the blocks.

Reduce the tendencies of hogging.

Reduce the tendencies of sagging.