[spunkets]

"The cargo owner is ultimately responsible."

Whoever owns and runs the transfer equipment and the barge's captain is. They loaded it all on one side and tipped it over. IOWs it's the transport company's fault, not the owner of the matl's.

[Eva]

You are wrong, the company who owns the cargo has dock workers who oversee the loading of the cargo because they're financially responsible. I know, my husband is a Port Captain.