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Shipyard News DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 048 Number 048 *** COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS *** Tuesday 19-02-2008 News reports received from readers and Internet News articles taken from various news sites. The FLINTERMAAS seen enroute Rotterdam Photo : Fred Vloo © IF YOU HAVE PICTURES OR OTHER SHIPPING RELATED INFORMATION FOR THE NEWS CLIPPINGS ?? PLEASE SEND THIS TO : [email protected] Distribution : daily 3800+ copies worldwide Page 1 2/18/2008 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 048 EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS SVITZER OCEAN TOWAGE Jupiterstraat 33 Telephone : + 31 2555 627 11 2132 HC Hoofddorp Telefax : + 31 2355 718 96 The Netherlands E-mail: [email protected] The ALCEDO seen enroute Rotterdam Photo : Lenie Kleingeld © Study rejects Port of Melbourne's claims of dredging benefits The economic benefit of deepening Port Phillip Bay's shipping channels is A$407 million less than the Port of Melbourne Corporation originally estimated, according to an analysis from one of its opponents. A report in The Age newspaper said that, with the Queen of the Netherlands dredger already working on the bay, the study commissioned by the Australian Conservation Foundation "fires a fiscal shot across the bow of the contentious project." The economic critique, by Melbourne-based firm Economists at Large, is based on the Port's first business case for dredging. It listed the cost of dredging at A$590 million, and found the net economic benefit of the project would be about A$1.3 billion. But since that first business case was put forward, the cost of dredging has grown to A$969 million — thereby dropping the net benefit to A$967 million. Economists at Large founder Francis Grey said an additional A$26 million spent on trial dredging, and A$1.75 million in delays to the project, had further diminished the economic case for dredging. Distribution : daily 3800+ copies worldwide Page 2 2/18/2008 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 048 "This is not a commercially viable project," Mr Grey told The Age. Source : Dredging News Online REDWISE MARITME SERVICES B.V. Amersfoortseweg 12-E 3751 LK Bunschoten-Spakenburg The Netherlands Phone : +31 (0) 33 42 17 860 (24 hr) Fax : +31 (0) 33 42 17 879 - [email protected] www.redwise.com The UNION CORAL seen assisting the EUGEN MAERSK in the port of Zeebrugge Photo : Tony Hylebos © Distribution : daily 3800+ copies worldwide Page 3 2/18/2008 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 048 The CELESTINE RIVER has been seen at the anchorage off Sea Point Cape Town for the last couple of months. Photo : Aad Noorland © [email protected] www.nexumcm.nl Contact : Ad de Kock M: +31 .653.813178 K-Line opens Manila training centre Japanese ship operator K-Line has set up its own training centre in the Philippines as part of a reliance on Filipino seafarers for its expanding fleet. The $11M K-Line Maritime Academy (KLMA) in Pasay City, Metro Manila, can train 10,000 seafarers a year, which the company hopes will ease the shortage of ships' officers. The Manila facility is a major step toward the line's aim for a world-wide academy to continually train its seafarers, says Katsue Yoshida, K- Line senior executive officer. The Manila school can accommodate 110 trainees at a time, and the programme includes operational skills, understanding culture and 'mental training'. The 3,380m² facility has a full-mission simulator with six desktop-version 'bridges', engineroom simulator, GMDSS simulator, main engine manoeuvring control and ECDIS. It also uses real training equipment for subjects from AIS to LNG carrier cargo handling and from electric welding to cookery. Source : Lloyd's Register - Fairplay Distribution : daily 3800+ copies worldwide Page 4 2/18/2008 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 048 Unit 9 rescue to get new lifeboat Small group acquires almost-new vessel from United Kingdom Ferries sailing on the Tsaw-wassen-Swartz Bay run occasionally, you know that the open waters between the Lower Mainland and the Gulf Islands are often dotted with boats and ships of all shapes and sizes. Add to this eclectic fleet the strong ocean currents in Georgia Strait, an equally strong Fraser River outflow, powerful westerly winds, treacherous shoals and sandbars and you have the raison d'etre for the voluntary Roberts Bank Lifeboat Society. Officially, the small group is known as Unit 9 -- Robert Banks -- of the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary (Pacific). Its primary purpose is to help all of us have a safer time on the water. But Unit 9, whose lifeboat "station" is a construction trailer amid the massive container cranes, huge freighters, trucks and tugboats at Deltaport, is also unique. Because its patrol area contains extremely high marine traffic and very nasty winds, Unit 9's rescue vessel is much larger than most on the coast, where it's also aligned with the Rescue Coordination Centre in Victoria. "Our location is really the nexus of a lot of marine activity, and that's why a few years ago it was recognized that we had to establish a full lifeboat station here," explains Robin Gardner, president of the Roberts Bank Lifeboat Society (www.robertsbanklifeboat.ca). That's also why the Roberts Bank crew has been using a U.K.-designed-and-built all-weather, self-righting 131/2-metre lifeboat, the White Rose of Yorkshire, for the past nine years. It's the kind of vessel made famous by the U.K.'s legendary Royal National Lifeboat Institution, the 184-year-old charity organization that operates hundreds of lifeboat stations responsible for saving many thousands of lives over the years in the U.K's turbulent seas. The 34-year-old White Rose of Yorkshire was bought by the Roberts Bank Lifeboat Society in 1999 after 25 years' service in the U.K., where it was directly responsible for saving 60 lives. "But she's getting old now and huffs and puffs at her top speed of 15 knots," Gardner adds. Replacing the vessel, which has also participated in many local rescues, would have cost close to $1 million. Then Unit 9 got lucky. It found a near-new, 111/2-m all-weather, self-righting lifeboat in the U.K. It has recently been refurbished and was up for sale because its owner lost a contract to transport workers to and from oil rigs in the North Sea. The vessel, aptly named Ready, is powered by twin 400-horsepower Cummins diesel engines and is propelled by jet drive to a top speed of 35 knots, which is more than twice as fast as the old boat. Distribution : daily 3800+ copies worldwide Page 5 2/18/2008 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 048 It also draws just half a metre of water compared with 1.8 m for the White Rose, so the Ready will be much more effective working near shoals and sandbars. The price? Just $200,000. Now that U.K. sea trials by a Unit 9 member have been successfully completed and the boat has been bought, the society is looking for a shipping line to bring the Ready to its new home. And once she's been modified to meet Canadian Coast Guard standards, the Ready will be ready for search-and-rescue duties in the spring. Source : The Province The new lifeboat for the KNRM station Scheveningen seen under construction at the Aluboot Shipyard in Hindeloopen Photo : Jan van der Sar © Distribution : daily 3800+ copies worldwide Page 6 2/18/2008 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 048 CASUALTY REPORTING The Anglian Monarch seen towing the AEGEAN PRINCESS to Dunkirk after total machinery failure and towing on the anchor cable after recovering the anchor. Cable and anchor redelivered to vessel on arrival Dunkirk. Photo : Capt John Reynolds © 26 Chinese rescued from sinking vessel Emergency crews have rescued 26 Chinese crew members whose boat began taking on water off the northern Philippines Sunday night, the state-run Chinese news agency reported. The crew members were rescued after their Panamanian-registered cargo ship started to sink, the Xinhua news agency reported Monday. A passing Japanese vessel picked up the crew members, but the ship's captain and a technician remained aboard to try to rescue goods, the news agency said. Their fate is unknown, the news agency said. The Philippine Coast Guard told CNN that the boat sunk around 5 p.m. Sunday (0900 GMT). It said Monday morning that it has dispatched a helicopter and at least one search-and-rescue vessel and that the operation was ongoing. Source : cnn.com Russian Navy Ship in Distress Greek coastguard officials rushed to send rescue helicopters to assist a Russian navy ship after it was caught in strong winds and engine problems in the Aegean Sea. According to news reports, the Russian navy ship with 88 crew was reported to have issued distress signals in international waters, approximately 15 nautical miles south of the island of Ikaria after it was caught in rough seas. Distribution : daily 3800+ copies worldwide Page 7 2/18/2008 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 048 Two super puma helicopters, a coast guard frigate and a C-130 rescue plane were on their way to the ship, reports EarthNews. Coastguard officials said the ship was an auxiliary vessel that was carrying fuel and was sailing out of control due to engine problems. Heavy snowfall, gale force winds and freezing temperatures have hit Greece for the past two days, forcing ships to ports across the country, and paralyzing air and land transport.
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