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DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2006 – 251
Number 251** COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS ***Tuesday 05-12-2006
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EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS
They saying "the best things in life are free". That may not always be true, BUT one of the best things in life that IS
free is a trip on the Staten Island Ferry on the New York waterway. This is the JOHN F. KENNEDY heading from her
Manhattan terminal to Staten Island with the Statue of Liberty in the background.
Photo : Tommy Bryceland, SCOTLAND ©
Master May Be Charged
The Japan Coast Guard sent files to prosecutors Friday (01 Dec) on the captain of a Panamanian-registered cargo ship
that ran aground two months ago in waters off Ibaraki Prefecture in an incident that killed eight crew members and
left two others missing.
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The 49-year-old captain, Mascarenhas Melroy, is suspected of professional negligence resulting in death and
endangering traffic by stranding the 98,587-ton "Giant Step" on Oct 6, JCG officials said.
An Indian national, the captain allegedly failed to deal properly with the ship's broken anchor-hoisting gear and
delayed evacuating his vessel as it prepared to set off from near Kashima port amid stormy weather.
Rokia Delmas total loss verklaard
CMA CGM heeft het containerschip Rokia Delmas total loss verklaard. Dat melden de Franse autoriteiten.
Boven : Een lid van het bergingsteam word door een Super Frelon helikopter van de Franse marine aanboord van de
NOKIA DELMAS neergelaten
Foto : Alexander Gorter ©
Het schip van dochterrederij Delmas, dat in oktober in stormweer vastliep op de Franse westkust, is nog steeds niet
geborgen. De berger is het Franse bedrijf Les Abeilles International.
EDDINGTON STUDY CALLS FOR UK BOX
PORT BOOST
THE newly published Eddington Transport Study, advising the UK on policy decisions argues for more investment in
ports.
Sir Rod Eddington writes: “The evidence on future challenges demonstrated looming capacity problems at our
international gateways, and there are significant measured and important unmeasured benefits to facilitating
investments in ports and airports and their surface access routes.”
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He says: “Adding deep-sea port capacity in line with projected demands could reduce international delivery costs by up
to £140m (US$277m) per annum by 2030, with additional feeder port capacity also likely to deliver significant benefits.
Expanding roll-on roll-off capacity, particularly in the South East, would also offer economic benefits.”
He concedes: “Such expansions can involve adverse environmental impacts on coastal habitats, air quality and
emissions.”
“However,” he notes, “recent port capacity planning approvals demonstrate that cases with net overall benefits are
possible, even after accounting for environmental impacts.”
More On The Russian Ro-Ro Row
Maritime Union, The RMT has joined Irish sister union SIPTU in calling for an urgent investigation into all ferry and roro vessels trading in the Irish Sea after an international Transport Workers' Federation inspector today discovered
workers on rates as low as €2 an hour.
ITF Inspector Ken Fleming boarded the ro-ro ferry "Merchant Bravery" in the port of Dublin, at the invitation of
ratings who said they had not been paid for more than four months.
The ITF has gathered evidence that 'double bookkeeping' was employed on the vessel, operated by Maersk subsidiary
Norfolk Line between between Heysham and Dublin, and is acting to recover all the crews' wages and report its
findings to the appropriate maritime authorities.
The 22 crewmembers on the Jamaican-flagged vessel are a mixture of Polish, Ukrainian and Russian seafarers.
The ITF found one able seaman who should have been earning around $3,200 a month, in accordance with his first
contract of employment, was only being paid around $1,000 for 365-plus hours a month - or just over €2 an hour - on
a second contract of employment.
Another rating who should have been earning $1,984 on one contract of was being paid only $850 on his second
contract. "This is what we call 'double book-keeping'," said ITF inspector Ken Fleming.
"It appears that the hours of work regulations are being abused on a daily basis and there is also a question mark over
false certificates of competency. Further investigation by the ITF will follow." He added that the ITF was considering
the lawful arrest of the vessel on behalf of the crew members to reclaim wages in accordance with their first contract.
SIPTU and RMT, who have been campaigning jointly against 'social dumping' in the Irish Sea, are demanding the
fullest investigation by the Irish and UK maritime authorities on all ferry and ro-ro vessels trading in the Irish sea.
"This is the shocking reality of social dumping, with crews employed in UK waters being paid at rates well below the
minimum wage, and that is why we need urgent action to ensure that shipowners can no longer evade minimum
employment standards," RMT general secretary Bob Crow said today.
"This is another example of the detrimental impact of unfettered global capital on weak and vulnerable people," said
SIPTU general president Jack O'Connor, who also called for immediate action in accordance with international law to
rectify the injustice and ensure that at the very least a minimum threshold of decency is applied in the case of these
seafarers.
Mission's Dubai Christmas Evening
The Mission to Seafarers in Dubai has organised a Christmas evening of carols, poetry and seasonal cheer at the
Fairmont Hotel on Tuesday 12th December 2006.
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The aim of the event is to raise funds to build and equip a boat appropriately named 'Angel' to support some of the
estimated 140,000 seafarers using the East Coast Anchorages of the UAE each year. Reverend Stephen Miller of The
Mission to Seafarers in Dubai, said, 'We are hoping that everybody attending the evening donates to this worthy
cause. We still need to raise at least US$ 200,000 to hit our US$ 1 million target, so every little helps'
The Fairmont Dubai has once again supported the Angel Appeal by providing their auditorium on the 33rd floor free of
charge and Rolls Royce International has agreed to generously sponsor the event. The money raised will contribute to
the construction of the customised boat, which will provide an Internet Café, a library with both educational and
fictional DVDs and books, a medical clinic with a fully trained paramedic, access to telecommunications and pastoral
and spiritual support with a dedicated Welfare Officer.
The service will operate every week for 72 hours at a time, by sailing out to the ships using the East Coast Anchorage,
allowing seafarers to step off their ships for a period of rest and relaxation. The 'Angel' will offer many seafarers
support and help to those who are unable to come ashore.
The East Coast is the second largest Bunker Anchorage in the world with up to 150 ships anchored off shore at any
given time. As many as 2,000 seafarers maybe unable to communicate with family and friends at home for weeks,
sometimes months, leading to isolation and loneliness, which the 'Angel' is designed to alleviate
Freedom" Struck Down
Royal Caribbean’s 160,000-gt "Freedom of the Seas" (built 2006) has been struck by a norovirus outbreak during a
cruise in the Caribbean. Some 384 passengers and crew are recovering after the world’s largest cruise ship was struck
by an outbreak the contagious stomach illness.
The norovirus outbreak took place during a seven-day cruise to Mexico, the Cayman Islands, Jamaica and Haiti.
Royal Caribbean said it was likely that a passenger brought the illness on board when the cruise sailed from Miami on
26 November. Despite the outbreak the ship was able to complete the cruise itinerary and returned to Miami on
Sunday as scheduled.
Affected passengers and crew received over-the-counter medication to relieve the symptoms, Royal Caribbean said.
The Freedom of the Seas’ departure for another seven-night Caribbean cruise was delayed a few hours on Sunday
for extra cleaning.
Top : The FREEDOM OF THE SEAS – Photo : Jan Tiedeman ©
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Noroviruses, characterized by stomach flu-like symptoms, affect about 23m Americans annually, according to the US
Centers for Disease Control. An outbreak struck more than 700 passengers and crew aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise
last month on the 110,320-gt "Carnival Liberty" (built 2005).
Indian court delays decision on whether
former cruise ship can be broken up
India's Supreme Court on Monday delayed for at least a month a decision on whether an asbestos-laden ship that was
once a legendary ocean liner can be broken apart here for salvage.
The SS Norway, disabled by a boiler room explosion in the port of Miami in 2003, has become the latest high-profile
vessel targeted by environmentalists. They allege that primitive conditions at ship-breaking yards in India and
neighboring countries expose workers and the environment to asbestos, PCBs and other hazards.
They also charge that the ship, which was christened the SS France when it began trans-Atlantic service in 1962,
never should have left Germany, where it had been towed from Miami after the explosion. European law bans exports
of ships with hazardous waste to poor countries, and activists claim that officials of the Norway's parent, Star Cruise
Lines, lied to German officials about renovation plans before the ship was towed to Malaysia and then to India.
A letter obtained by McClatchy Newspapers indicates that at least one German parliamentarian complained in March
2005 that the Norway's owners planned to scrap the ship and he asked whether the asbestos would be removed
before the Norway left Germany. The ship was towed to Malaysia two months later.
Since mid-August, the Norway, one of the largest passenger ships ever built, has remained aground about 4,000 feet
offshore from the ship-breaking yards at Alang in the west Indian state of Gujarat, awaiting the outcome of a legal
challenge to its demolition. A two-judge panel of the Supreme Court ordered the Gujarat Pollution Control Board to
review a demolition plan submitted by a scrap yard, Priya Blue Industries, to see whether the plan meets the shipbreaking requirements spelled out by a court-appointed technical committee.
The justices gave the board four weeks to complete the review, though they didn't schedule another hearing until
March. Priya Blue could request an earlier hearing, but that would be at the judges' discretion.
Environmentalists, who'd been hoping that the court would declare the effort to scrap the ship in India illegal,
nonetheless welcomed the decision to study the issue more closely.
"I think it's a good order, because now at least they will hear us out," said Gopal Krishna, a New Delhi-based
environmentalist who's involved in the case. "The outcome is neutral," said Mahesh Agarwal, an attorney for Priya
Blue. Sanjay Mehta, the chairman of Priya Blue, described the order as "OK," noting that he now can expect a
conclusion in four weeks.
The Norway was the flagship of Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line until the boiler room accident, which killed eight
crew members. Environmentalists have campaigned for several years to stop old ships from being sent to developing
countries such as India for breaking. Working conditions and the handling of hazardous waste have improved at
Indian ship-breaking yards, but environmentalists say the changes are insufficient.
"It is fundamentally clear that the Alang yards currently and for the foreseeable future cannot operate in an
environmentally sound manner," said Ingvild Jenssen, a Europe-based activist.
Norwegian Cruise Line says that its parent company, Malaysia-based Star Cruises, didn't intend to scrap the ship when
it left Germany for Malaysia, even though the company had decided in late 2004 that scrapping was the most likely
option and correspondingly had reduced the value of the Norway on its books, according to a letter sent by its
attorneys to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Norwegian, in a written statement in response to e-mailed questions, said the write-down of the ship's value was for
accounting reasons and didn't reflect a decision to scrap the Norway. Still, at least one German parliamentarian, a
member of the Green Party, was suspicious. Rainder Steenblock wrote a letter to port officials in Bremerhaven in
March 2005 asking that the asbestos be removed before the ship was allowed to leave.
Officials say they can do nothing if an owner maintains that a ship isn't going to be scrapped. The Norway case is a
"textbook example of the urgent need for more stringent regulations," said Holger Bruns, a spokesman for the
construction and environment minister in Bremen, Germany, which oversees Bremerhaven port.
"As long as a ship does not appear beyond repair and the owner has not unambiguously declared an intent to scrap it,
authorities cannot rule against the stated will of the owner," he said. "If the owner takes a decision after a ship leaves
territorial waters, the authorities are powerless."
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The Spanish (museum) submarine S 61 DELFIN seen moored in the port of Torrevieja
RN Looks To Quality
The UK Royal Navy's (RN's) most senior officer has argued that the service should accept sacrificing quality for
quantity if it is to maintain a surface fleet of sufficient size to contribute to maritime security operations on a global
scale.
Speaking at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) 'Future Maritime Operations' conference in London on 22
November, Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Jonathon Band said that while the RN had previously
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insisted on configuring its forces for high-intensity warfighting, the "financial and security" realities had persuaded him
that there was a case for a larger number of less capable units for tasking in support of maritime interdiction and
constabulary operations. Adm Band's comments come as staff in the Ministry of Defence and the RN assess capability
and force-mix options for a projected Future Surface Combatant (FSC) to enter service in the 2017-20 timeframe.
The size of the RN's frigate/destroyer force has seen a significant decline over the past decade, falling from 35 ships in
1996 to 25 today. Admiral Sir Alan West, Adm Band's predecessor as Chief of Naval Staff and First Sea Lord, was
public in his opinion that this level is too small to meet the full spectrum of taskings, noting that the figure of 25 was
based on analysis of high-intensity warfighting tasks alone and did not address wider maritime security needs, or make
any allowance for attrition.
CATTISTOCK VISITED AMSTERDAM
The British HMS M 31 CATTISTOCK seen departing from Amsterdam
Photo : Cor van Niekerken ©
Indian Navy set for war games on foreign shores
The Navy now wants to take the 'battle' to the American, Russian and French shores. No, the Navy is not invading
these countries. Instead, it's going to conduct intensive combat manoeuvres with their navies in their own backyards.
"After exercising with them off Kochi, Mumbai and Goa over the last few years, we thought we should send our
frontline warships near their shores in 2007," said Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta.
Six Indian warships, including Delhi-class and Rajput-class guided missile destroyers, will be deployed towards 'east'
from March onwards. Apart from 'touching' Japan, South Korea and China, they will take part in the Indo-US 'Malabar'
exercise off Guam in the western Pacific Ocean in April, said Admiral Mehta.
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The same warships will undertake combat exercises, code-named 'Indra', with Russian warships off Vladivostok. Then,
in August-September, another group will head for the Gulf region and beyond, rounding it off with Indo-French
'Varuna' war games off the Red Sea.
This unprecedented overseas deployment by Navy blends in perfectly with its philosophy of building 'interoperability'
and 'bridges of friendship' with foreign navies. "It will help if we need to operate against a common enemy in the
future," said a senior officer.
The Navy, which now increasingly acts as a diplomatic instrument to further the country's political and geo-strategic
objectives, will also use the opportunity to project power much beyond Indian shores.
"Constructive engagement is the Navy's principle weapon during peacetime. The idea is to enhance security, stability
and tranquility in the entire Indian Ocean Region through constructive engagement of regional and extra-regional
maritime states," said a senior officer.
Take US, for instance. The naval combat exercises with the American Navy have undergone a quantum jump in recent
times, especially after the 9/11 terrorist strikes in 2001. Indian warships, in fact, even provided "escort" to over 20
American and other coalition ships carrying "high value" cargo across the Strait of Malacca between April and
September 2002 in an operation code-named "Sagittarius".
Since then, the bilateral military cooperation has been on an upward trajectory. In the Malabar series, the Indian, US
navies regularly practice aggressive interdiction manoeuvres and VBSS (visit, board, search, seizure) operations
towards counter-terrorism actions on the high seas.
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TENSE SITUATION AT POLISH SHIPYARDS
SSG-KOLOBRZEG. The situation at the Polish shipyards is tense. The trade unions and the boards of the two most
important production yards, Gdynia and SSN in Szczecin, have demanded an immediate meeting with the Polish
prime minister. One of the reasons is widespread disappointment at the government´s privatisation policy, which is
being implemented by the industrial agency ARP (Agencja Rozwoju Przemyslu). Via ARP, the State wants to sell 27 per
cent of the shares in SSN, but the yard´s management feels that this is too small a number to attract the interest of
potential buyers. The shipyard in Gdynia is also facing financial problems and has old debts of about PLN 515 million.
The unions are protesting and threatening to go on strike. The situation is further complicated by the fact that the EU
Commission´s examination of Polish privatisation is taking time.
LITTLE INTEREST IN COMMON
SHIPYARDS FOR DISMANTLING
SSG-GOTEBORG. A proposal to establish common European shipyards for the dismantling of old ships has been met
with scepticism at the organisation Shiprepair´s conference in Amsterdam at the beginning of the week. The proposal
is part of a project called Shipmates, which is a joint project between the Community of European Shipyard
Associations, Interyard and Shiprepairs. In Shipmates, one of the questions being studied is the establishment of six
joint facilities for dismantling. The potential market in Europe is said to be worth EUR 1.5-2 billion per year. By way of
comparison, the scrap market in Asia generates 600,000 jobs in India Bangladesh and Pakistan alone.
However, a large number of delegates in the organisation Shiprepair are against any joint European shipyards for this
purpose on the grounds that it is simplest and most profitable if the shipping companies themselves see to the
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The tug BRITOIL 64 arrived with the HYUNDAI 1000 in the port of Cape Town
Photo : Aad Noorland ©
Maersk and Teekay Establish Swift Tankers
A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S and Teekay Shipping Corporation announced an agreement to form Swift Tankers, a Pool of
Intermediate Product Tankers. The management company, named Swift Tankers Ltd (Swift Tankers), will provide safe
and flexible solutions to customers by offering a large, homogenous fleet of double hull, ice class Product Tankers of
10,000 to 20,000 dwt. Swift Tankers will undertake all daily commercial and operational tasks, including fixing vessels,
voyage execution, post-fixture operations, and demurrage and claims procedures. Swift Tankers will be managed and
staffed jointly by employees from A.P. Moller - Maersk and Teekay. The Pool will be headquartered in Copenhagen,
Denmark at Maersk Tankers’ existing premises supplemented by a regional office at the Teekay offices in Stavanger,
Norway. It is expected that Swift Tankers will be fully operational in January 2007. The Managing Director of the Pool
will be Mr. Kristian Lohmann.
STOLT-NIELSEN US$200M BUY-BACK COMPLETE
STOLT-Nielsen Transportation Group (SNTG), a 100% owned subsidiary of transportation and fish-farming group StoltNielsen has bought another 67,000 of Stolt Nielsen common shares on the Oslo Børs at an average price of NKr 189.14
(US$30.7) per share, bringing the total value of shares bought back to about US£200m.
This meets the company’s buy-back target of US$200m set in last year. It now owns about 6.85m shares representing
10.4% the total.
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Maersk orders again at ASENAV
Maersk Supply Service has signed a contract for the construction of two PSVs at ASENAV shipyard in Chile.
The two vessels are of UT-745L CD design with DP2, a double hull and are ice-strengthened. The first vessel will be
delivered during the third quarter of 2009 and the second vessel will be delivered during the third quarter of 2010.
As part of the contract, Maersk Supply Service has options for an additional two vessels.
The newbuilds will have a deck area of 900m2, deadweight of 4,400 tonnes, and 10,445bhp. They will be 90.15m with
a breadth of 18.8m.
The TAKLIFT 7 seen in Curacao
Photo : Kees Bustraan ©
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Ook Maersk staakt lijn op NoordAtlantische Oceaan
Na CSAV Norasia staakt nu ook Maersk Line een dienst over de Noord-Atlantische Oceaan. De Deense rederij schroeft
haar capaciteit op de route naar eigen zeggen met 5 tot 6 procent terug. Dat percentage is niet hoger, omdat in een
andere dienst grotere schepen
worden ingezet.
Dat meldt de rederij in een
persbericht. Maersk Line kondigde
eerder al het einde aan van zijn
Oceania Pendulum, waarvan
schepen nu nog de Altantische
Oceaan in beide richtingen
oversteken onder de naam TA6.
Foto : Piet Sinke ©
Behalve die TA6 wordt begin
volgend jaar ook de TA3 gestaakt,
een sneldienst tussen Felixstowe,
Bremerhaven, Rotterdam en Le
Havre en het Amerikaanse
Newark.
Beide diensten worden opgevolgd
door een nieuwe dienst. In feite
wordt een bestaande lijn over de Stille Oceaan (TP12) doorgetrokken naar Noord-Europa. Deze dienst zal onder de
naam TA3 aan Europese kant dezelfde havens aandoen als de oude TA3 en in de Verenigde Staten ook weer onder
meer Newark.
With reference to the article in yesterdays newsletter about the ferries which are running towards the Venezuelan
Island Margarita, reader Paul Hopson send a picture just before closing time for this newsletter from one of the
ferries which is effected, at the picture the 2006 built LILIA CONCEPTION seen docking at Puerto La Cruz.
Photo : Paul Hopson ©
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Dubai Ports drops bid to manage
Gwadar port
The UAE's DP World has dropped a bid to manage Gwadar port due to commercial reasons, a local newspaper said on
Friday. “We have looked carefully at this opportunity and have decided not to pursue it,” Gulf News quoted a Dubai
Ports World official as saying.
The deep-sea port, built with Chinese assistance, is on the Arabian Sea, about 120km from the Iranian border.
The UAE company, the world's third-largest container port operator, was one of the bidders for the project alongside
PSA International of Singapore, Globe Marine Services of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan International Container Terminal.
APL aims to cut fuel emissions from
ships to combat air pollution
Cargo shipping line APL said Monday it has begun using cleaner-burning fuels and will begin testing technology to
reduce harmful emissions from its ships.
APL, a unit of Singapore-based
Neptune Orient Lines, said 23 of
its ships that make regular
stops at the ports of Los
Angeles and Oakland now carry
low-sulfur diesel fuel to run
auxiliary engines, which
generate power for the ship
while it is docked.
Photo : Alain Dooms ©
The move coincides with an
approaching deadline for a new
law that goes into effect Jan 1.
It requires vessels to use
cleaner-burning fuel while they
near California ports or while
berthed.
"It's a major way to clean up
your ship," said Martin
Schlageter, spokesman for the
Coalition for Clean Air, a California environmental advocacy group. "If you're not using a lower sulfur fuel, then you are
just unnecessarily polluting."
Beginning in February, the ocean carrier will also begin participating in a three-year project to test three
environmentally friendly modifications on an engine aboard the 863-foot-long cargo ship APL Singapore.
The ship travels monthly to Los Angeles and Oakland from ports in the Far East.
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Among the features being tested is a process that injects water into burned fuel to cut back the emission of nitrogen
oxides and particulate matter, both contributors to smog and ozone.
By some estimates, every 1 percent of water mixed with bunker fuel translates into a 1 percent reduction in nitrogen
oxide emissions, the company said.
The second modification involves placing side valves in the engine's cylinders to prevent fuel leaks, which can result in
harmful emissions being released. The third feature centers on a lubricating system that the company said can cut
cylinder oil consumption by as much as half, also reducing engine emissions.
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, will monitor the project. If the tests are successful, APL said it
could retrofit other ships with the technology.
"As leaders in this industry, we have a responsibility to address the impact we have on the environment," John Bowe,
president of APL in The Americas, said in a prepared statement.
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, several environmental groups and county air quality control agencies
contributed $1.3 million toward the cost of retrofitting APL Singapore's engine and conducting the test.
In May, Maersk Line, a unit of Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, opted to switch its cargo ships to a cleaner
burning fuel when they are in close proximity to California's coast.
Norksan Flamengo gets three-year
charter with Shell Brazil
DOF in Norway says its subsidiary Norskan Limitada in Brazil has been awarded a time charter contract with Shell
Brazil for its PSV Norskan Flamengo for a period of three years with a start date in August 2007.
DOF said the day rate is approximately 35 per cent higher than the current day rate that the vessel is earning.
Drie consortia in race voor gasterminal
Gate terminal, een joint venture van de Gasunie en Vopak, denkt in het tweede kwartaal van volgend jaar een
aannemer aan te wijzen voor de aanleg van LNG-importterminal op de Rotterdamse Maasvlakte. Er zijn drie consortia
in de race voor de aanleg. De beoordeling van hun offertes begint in
januari.
Voor de terminal voor geïmporteerd Liquified Natural Gas hebben zich
acht potentiële klanten gemeld, met wie voorcontracten zijn getekend.
De contractonderhandelingen bevinden zich in een afrondende fase,
melden Nederlandse Gasunie en Koninklijke Vopak in een gezamenlijk
bericht. Tot algemeen directeur van Gate terminal is de van de Gasunie
afkomstige Ulco Vermeulen benoemd.
Voor de bouw van LNG-opslagtanks en verdampingsinstallaties heeft de
provincie Zuid-Holland inmiddels een definitieve milieuvergunning
afgegeven. Medio volgend jaar denken de initiatiefnemers een definitieve
investeringsbeslissing te nemen. De terminal zal op z'n vroegst in 2010
gaan draaien.
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New OOCL Boxship Named
Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) announced that on November 30th
christening of its second 4,583-TEU vessel built by the Hudong-Zhonghua
Shipbuilding (Group) Co., Ltd. The newbuilding was named the m.v. "OOCL
Australia" at Wharf Five, Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, in Shanghai, China.
The OOCL Australia will be deployed on the Australia China Express route,
serving the Asia-Australia trade.
"The OOCL Australia is the
second of the two 4,500-TEU
ships the company ordered here
at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard.
The OOCL Australia's route has a port rotation of: Kaohsiung / Hong
Kong / Shanghai / Chiwan / Hong Kong / Sydney / Melbourne / Brisbane
and back to Kaohsiung for a 35-day round trip.
Zeeuwse havens breken met Rotterdam
Zeeland Seaports, beheerder van de havens van Vlissingen en Terneuzen, wil alleen nog met de haven van Rotterdam
samenwerken bij de aanleg van de Westerschelde Container Terminal. Voor het overige bedankt het Zeeuwse
havenschap voor samenwerking met de Maasstad.
Dat heeft het dagelijks bestuur van Zeeland Seaports besloten. Wat het havenbestuur betreft komt er een einde aan
de Exploitatiemaatschappij Schelde Maas (ESM). Het volgt het advies van Carel van der Driest en Arie van der Hek.
De samenwerking in de ESM dateert van 1995 en werd in 2003 uitgebreid met de gezamenlijke exploitatie van een
aantal Zeeuwse haventerreinen. Beide partners in de ESM vinden dat de resultaten van hun samenwerking
achterblijven bij de verwachtingen.
Ontbinding van de ESM, waar Rotterdam overigens tegen is, kost het Zeeuwse havenschap enkele tientallen miljoenen
euro's, schat directeur Van der Hart. Een groot deel van dat geld kan worden terugverdiend met de uitgifte van
gronden aan bedrijven.
TMT to Order VLCC Double
Taiwan Maritime Transport (TMT) is believed to be behind an order for two VLCCs at South Korea's Daewoo
Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DMSE).
The Korean yard announced on Monday that it had received an order valued at $265m for 2 tankers from a Liberianregistered company.
But one broking source has indicated that they believed the Taiwanese giant is behind the order which also includes an
option for one more vessel.
The ships are believed to be around 310,000-dwt in size and are set to be delivered in 2010 or the beginning of the
following year. The broking source could not say when TMT was due to declare its option for a third vessel which
would be of the same size.
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The EUROPA arrived at the Azores island Faial (Horta) - Photo : Miguel Noia ©
The MSC TOGO seen at the Westerscheldt river - Photo : Richard Wisse ©
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The VEDREY HEDEN seen passing Maassluis outward bound from Rotterdam - Photo : Frits Janse ©
AIRCRAFT / AIRPORT NEWS
Discovery on power trip to space
Confident after two nearly flawless launches, NASA will send the
Discovery shuttle Thursday on what it calls the most complex mission
yet, to give the International Space Station a new electricity system.
In two spacewalks the astronauts will rewire the orbiting station,
replacing its eight-year-old temporary power cable system with a
permanent one, made possible after the previous mission in
September installed two huge electricity-generating solar array panels
on the space station.
Discovery will also transport a new US$11 million (HK$85.8 million)
truss segment weighing two tonnes for the ISS that will be installed
during a spacewalk. The mission, one of the hardest ever for NASA's
astronauts, the agency says, is key to getting ISS construction back on
pace. Building the station is years behind schedule after long safetyrelated delays, and NASA is in a race to complete the ISS before its
aging shuttle fleet is retired in 2010.
Photo : Piet Sinke ©
The US and international partners Russia and Europe eye using the
orbiting laboratory as a base for further exploration of the solar system
once construction is completed. US President George W Bush
announced in 2004 a vision of a manned mission eventually to Mars,
with the short-term goal of sending astronauts back to the moon by
2018.
But ISS construction was stalled by the devastating accident of
February 2003, when the Columbia shuttle disintegrated while
returning to Earth due to breaks in its heat shield, killing all seven
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astronauts aboard.
That put a halt to the shuttle program, only resumed last year with a mission that showed that NASA still had not put
to end worries over crucial insulation tiles being damaged during liftoff - the problem that led to the Columbia disaster.
But two successful missions this
year left the space agency's
engineers confident they have
overcome the problem and could
resume a hectic schedule of 14
more flights by the three-ship fleet
by 2010 to complete ISS
construction.
Left :
Cockpit of the Space shuttle
Photo :
Piet Sinke ©
The Discovery launch from Cape
Canaveral, Florida, will carry seven
astronauts on a 12-day mission.
The crew includes six Americans two of them women - and
Sweden's first-ever astronaut,
physicist and mission specialist
Christer Fuglesang. One of the women, former US Navy test pilot Sunita Williams, will stay behind on the ISS while
one of the three current station inhabitants, Fuglesang's European Space Agency colleague Thomas Reiter of Germany,
will return to Earth on the shuttle.
After the Discovery mission, NASA is planning 13 more shuttle flights to complete the ISS by 2010, when the shuttle
fleet is to be retired. Both NASA shuttles and Russia's Soyuz spacecraft are used to carry the ISS astronauts back and
forth.
When the shuttles were grounded after the Columbia accident, the Soyuz exclusively ferried the astronauts.
A Soyuz spacecraft is docked permanently in reserve at the ISS in case of emergencies. US astronaut Bill Shepherd
and Russians Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev were the first to live at the station as Expedition 1.
Two of the current onboard team, Russia's Mikhail Tuyrin and Michael Alegria of Expedition 14, moved in on
September 20. If the launch goes ahead as planned, it will be the first night launch in four years.
Because of the worries about foam breaking off at launch and damaging the shuttle's protective heat shield, NASA
restricted the last three missions to daylight launches, to better observe and record what happens at liftoff.
The shuttle combines the duties of a city bus and a freight truck for space, capable of carrying a crew of eight and a
heavy cargo. But keeping the NASA workhorse going a quarter century after it was first deployed has required a huge
amount of technological sophistication together with more than a dash of risk- taking.
The first almost entirely reusable space vessels, the shuttles went into service on April 12, 1981, exactly 20 years after
the first manned space flight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
Since then five shuttles - Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour - have undertaken 115
missions, allowing more than 600 men and women to earn the title astronaut.
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The shuttles have also collectively carried more than 1,500 tonnes of supplies and materials into space, making
possible the launch of the Hubble telescope, the first space-based telescope, and the construction of the ISS, which
began in 1998.
While it looks as solid as a simple bus or 18-wheeler truck, the shuttle is a complex and fragile machine of more than
two million pieces. Two of the shuttles never returned after launch: Challenger exploded moments after its launch on
January 28, 1986, and Columbia disintegrated on February 1, 2003, during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. In
total 14 astronauts died in the tragedies.
In each of the last missions the liftoff was recorded by scores of cameras so that engineers could be sure no crucial
damage was incurred. If weather or technical difficulties force NASA to postpone Thursday's launch, the space agency
has set a window for rescheduling the liftoff that lasts until December 17.
After that the agency will have to wait until January for another chance to get the mission under way.
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Spectacular photo’s of the grounding of the fishing vessel BONITA at the Peruvian coast, as can be seen the crew was
lifted off by an Peruvian navy helicopter, 3 crew members lost their live in this accident
Photo’s : Miguel Hermoza – OBRAMAR ©
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