Bulk carriers are required from time to time to carry cargoes which are secured with lashings. Steel coils carried below decks and sawn timber and logs on deck are cases in point. When cargoes are lashings daily, or more frequently, is essential. The lashed a regular frequency of the inspections must be increased early in the voyage before the cargo has settled, in bad weather and at any time when each inspection finds noticeable looseness in the lashings.