Lloyd’s Casualty Week contains information from worldwide sources of Marine, Non-Marine and Aviation casualties together with other reports Lloyd's relevant to the shipping, transport and insurance communities CasualtyWeek October 7 2005 Energy sector counts toll of Katrina and Rita carnage Norton reveals three quarters of platforms in Gulf of Mexico were in path of Katrina or Rita, writes Martyn Wingrove — Thursday October 06 2005 P to 108 oil and gas platforms “We are currently working to determine has called for a conference on November were destroyed by Hurricanes whether the damage was a result of the 17 to address this issue. U Katrina and Rita, plus 53 storm or whether another facility collided Gulf of Mexico operators are beginning platforms were significantly damaged, with it.” to bring their production back on-stream. said US Interior Secretary Gale Norton. She was talking about Chevron’s Shell said it was ramping up production Fortunately the industry suffered no Typhoon tension-leg platform, which was at the Brutus TLP, Bullwinkle platform, loss of life or major oil spills from the two found floating upside down after Rita, and plus the Glider, Enchilada, Popeye, storms that crashed through the US’s most some have suggested it was hit by a free- Fairway and North Padre Island fields, but important hydrocarbon producing region floating drilling rig. a rupture to the gas line from the Auger in September. But in her statement, Ms Norton does deepwater platform will keep this TLP closed down for weeks. Of the 4,000 platforms operating in the not take into account the serious damage US independent Anadarko said it had Gulf of Mexico, around 3,050 were in the to Shell’s Mars TLP, where the derrick brought all its production back on-stream path of at least one of the two hurricanes collapsed. including the Marco Polo and K2 with the oldest platforms suffering the deepwater oil fields. most damage. Evacuated Schedule Destroyed According to the latest MMS figures, 342 platforms and 17 rigs remain But the Houston-based firm said evacuated and a vast volume of the The Minerals Management Service, damage to rigs Noble Paul Romano and region’s hydrocarbon production is shut- part of the Department of Interior said 108 GlobalSantaFe’s Celtic Sea, working on in. platforms, all of them known as ‘end of the K2 field means this development is life’ facilities were destroyed and 53 The MMS said production of 1.3m behind schedule and full year production suffered significant damage. barrels of oil and 10bn cu ft of gas per day will be down 2.2m barrels this year and These platforms, built prior to 1988, were closed down up until Tuesday night. 2m barrels in 2006. account for 1.7% of the region’s 1.5m Cumulative oil production closures Apache Corp said it had started one barrels per day of oil production and 1% since August 26 due to Katrina and Rita is third of its oil and half of its gas of its natural gas output. heading towards 50m barrels and 10% of production, but lost one platform during “Those offshore facilities that the region’s annual output. Rita. withstood the storms best were those A major concern of the MMS is the - Mexican state oil firm Pemex had to constructed to the 1988 MMS upgraded number of mobile drilling rigs that break evacuate staff and close down production design standards,” Ms Norton said. their moorings or are detached from their platforms in the Gulf of Mexico off “Of all of the facilities constructed legs to end up grounded or floating Veracruz due to Hurricane Stan that after the 1988 upgraded standards, only uncontrolled around the region. crashed into Latin America this week. one platform was significantly damaged. Ms Norton said 19 rigs were torn from Workers are expected to return to work by their moorings by the two hurricanes and the weekend.

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Vessel Type Flag Class GT DWT Blt Casualty

ACOR B. container PRT GL 3,981 5,003 1997 Reported Sep 26 adrift due main engine damage about 140 miles NW St. Michael's Island. Owners contracted tug to tow her to Ponta Delgada. In tow and ETA Ponta Delgada Sep 29.

CANADIAN bulker CAN LR 18,045 28,260 1967 Had blackout & grounded off buoy D38 in lat LEADER 46 33 41N, long 72 07 56W, Deschaillons, Sep 26. Taking water in forepeak & double bottom tanks. Tug on scene. Refloated Sep 28 and proceeding Quebec.

EVONTIM general DMA — 597 930 1963 Reported capsized after taking on water in lat 13 12N, long 60 24W, Sep 26. Crew abandoned vessel. Sank in lat 13 18.3N, long 60 38.4W, Sep 26.

GRETA R. bulker MMR LR 37,519 68,772 1989 Aground vicinity of Mile 53, lower Mississippi River in lat 29 36 02N, long 89 50 29W, Sep 23. Had lost starboard anchor & punctured fuel tank when grounding. Gash in hull above waterline. Refloated Sep 23 & anchored Wills Point.

MAIKE-C. general GBR — 5,581 7,601 2005 Towed to Salalah port, where arrived Sep 23, due engine problems. Repairs in progress & ETD Sep 28.

MELISSA general PRK — 1,591 2,020 1962 Sank off Sinop Province, northern Turkey, Sep 23. Crew abandoned ship after water started to come in through a hole.

PATRIZIA bulker PAN NK 39,727 76,633 2004 Refloated by Smit Salvage Sep 1 after D’AMATO grounding during hurricane "Katrina". At anchor in lat 30 40. 21N, long 88 02.14W, Sep 27.

REGINA passenger EST LR 18,345 2,830 1980 Had blackout and grounded in the Stockholm BALTICA archipelago Sep 27. Refloated under own power. Damage sustained to bulb and forepeak. Some ingress. Proceeded to Kapellskaer. To drydock Turku Sep 30.

RUNGHOLT ferry DEU GL 2,268 331 1992 In collision with ro/ro Schleswig-Holstein off Dagebuell Sep 24. Sustained damage but back in service.

SCHLESWIG- ro-ro DEU GL 1,743 349 1988 In collision with ferry Rungholt off Dagebuell HOLSTEIN Sep 24. Sustained damage. Repairing at Husum. ETC one week.

SIGAS lpg SGP LR 1,552 1,648 1985 Anchored in lat 50 47N, long 00 48 49E, 220 MONARCH deg Dungeness Point 9.8 nm Sep 25 with main engine failure. Crew unable to effect repairs & being towed to Flushing for repairs. Entered Hook of Holland in tow.

TRANSOCEAN drilling PAN AB ABS 20,461 27,764 1979 Reported Sep 27 forced off drilling location MARIANAS platform during hurricane "Rita" and grounded in at Eugene Island block 133. Damage to mooring system believed significant.

XIANG TU general CHN CS 3,948 5,206 1986 On fire & adrift in lat 33 58.5N, long 129 11.6E, Sep 26. All crew rescued. Coast Guard vessel in vicinity & tug ETA Sep 27.

(ii) CONTENTS The following reports are reprinted from Lloyd’s List Reports appear in alphabetical Blue Hawk arrived at Ghent at 1515 order under the following hrs and sailed at 1929, same day for headings and relevant page Bremerhaven. number: CANADIAN LEADER (Canada) London, Sept 27 -- Bulk Canadian Marine, including Overdue Leader (18045 gt, built 1967) had a & Missing Vessels 1 "blackout" and grounded off Buoy D38, lat 46 33 41N, long 72 07 56W, off Piracy 7 ACOR B. (Portugal) Ponta Delgada, Sept 26 -- C.c. Acor B. Deschaillons, St. Lawrence River, at (3981 gt, built 1997) is presently adrift 0118, EDST, Sept 26. Vessel is taking Port State Control 8 due to main engine damage reportedly water in the forepeak and double about 140 nautical miles north-west of bottom tanks. Awaiting next tide. London, Sept 27 -- Following received Seizures & Arrests 8 St. Michael's Island. Understand the owners have contracted local harbour from St.Lawrence Alerting Network, Quebec, timed 2255, UTC, Sept 26: tug Pero de Teive to proceed to the Bulk Canadian Leader, Seven Islands Pipeline Accidents 9 area in order to tow the vessel to the for Hamilton (Canada), cargo iron ore, port of Ponta Delgada. -- Lloyd's is still aground and taking water in Pollution 9 Agents. (Note -- Acor B. sailed Leixoes No.1 hold and water is spreading Sept 24 for St.Michael's.) internally to the vessel's other five Weather & Navigation 10 Ponta Delgada, Sep 29 -- C.c. Acor B. holds. A tug has been on scene all day is presently under tow of local tug Pero and tried to pull the vessel back into de Teive and expected to arrive at Earthquakes 19 the channel without success. Another Ponta Delgada by this evening for tug is enroute from Quebec. Divers are repairs. -- Lloyd's Agents. also on scene. Volcanic Activity 20 London, Sep 28 -- Following received ADRIATIC VII from St.Lawrence Alerting Network, See "Hurricane 'Rita'" under Political & Civil Unrest 20 Quebec, timed 2340, UTC, Sep 27: "Weather & Navigation." Bulk Canadian Leader is still aground. An attempt to refloat the Kidnappings 27 AEGEAN BREEZE (Singapore) vessel is to be made at 0500, local London, Sep 28 -- Vehicle Aegean time, Sep 28. Breeze arrived Vigo Sep 27. Labour Disputes 27 London, Sep 28 -- Following received from St.Lawrence Alerting Network, ALLIANCE Quebec, timed 1512, UTC: Bulk Awards & Settlements 30 (St. Vincent & Grenadines) Canadian Leader was refloated at Torshavn, Sep 26 -- General cargo 0445, local time, today. The vessel is Railway Accidents 31 Alliance (1751 gt, built 1980) is currently proceeding to Quebec, ETA presently under repair at Torshavn, later today. and is expected to complete repairs at Robberies & thefts 32 the end of this week. -- Lloyd's Agents. CHIEN-HSING (China) (Note -- Alliance arrived Torshavn Taipei, Sep 28 -- General cargo Kin Computer Systems 32 around Sep 20 and was reported to Hsing (also reported as Chien-hsing) have sustained reduction gear was refloated Sep 20 with tug damage.) assistance. The The vessel sustained Miscellaneous 33 scratching/denting to bottom plating. ARION (Greece) Immediate repairs were not needed, Fires & Explosions 33 London, Sep 23 -- Lloyd's Casualty and the vessel had sailed on its normal representatives in Piraeus report: coastal route among Taiwanese ports. During the afternoon of Sep 22, Aviation 35 It is presently berthing at Kinmen and passenger ro/ro Arion, that had will sail Sep 29 for Kaohsiung. -- grounded on Feb 11 at Cape Korakia, Lloyd's Agents. Product Recalls 38 Chios, was refloated on Sep 16. The vessel then departed under tow of tug CHIOS BEAUTY (Panama) Port Conditions 39 Megas Alexandros bound for Aliaga, See "Hurricane 'Katrina'" under Turkey, for demolition. "Weather & Navigation."

Port Conditions charts 40 BALTIMAR VENUS (Bahamas) COMAR PRIMO (Italy) Durban, Sep 27 -- General cargo Ancona, Sept 27 -- Floating crane Baltimar Venus sailed Durban Sep 27 Comar Primo: Salvage operations were for Mossel Bay. -- Lloyd's Agents. completed Sept 25. Comar Primo is now floating in the port of Ortona © Lloyd’s Marine Intelligence Unit 2005 BARKA (Turkey) where it should be lifted and stored on These reports may not be reproduced, London, Sep 28 -- General cargo the pier of local shipyard for repairs. -- stored in a retrieval system, or Barka was reported passing through Lloyd's Agents. transmitted in any form or by any means the Dardanelles, in a westerly electronic, mechanical, photographic, direction, on Sep 21. CONCORDE (Luxembourg) recorded or otherise without the prior London, Sep 26 -- Product tanker written permission of the publisher. BLUE HAWK (Liberia) Concorde sailed from Vigo on Sep 22, London, Sep 29 -- Vehicle Blue Hawk bound for Bilbao, where it arrived on (40711 gt, built 1978) on voyage from Sep 24. The vessel departed from Sagunto to Ghent, with a cargo of cars, Bilbao on Sep 25. struck the entrance of the Terneuzen lock, on the north side, while entering CORA (Germany) the main lock at about 1330, local London, Sep 23 -- Information time, Sep 28. Because some damage received from Kiel, today, states: was caused the authorities held the Product tanker Cora was successfully vessel for about half an hour until the refloated on one of the next tides and insurance papers had been signed and is, after inspection, back in service as the ship could then proceed to Ghent. it sustained no severe damage.

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CRYSTAL RUBINO (Italy) (597 gt, built 1963) is report to have Fowairet. The discharging of the London, Sep 25 -- Following received capsized after taking on water in containers has to be done very careful from Gothenburg MRCC, timed 1003, approximately 13 12N, long 60 24W. and the stability of the containership UTC: At 0739, UTC, chemical/oil The 16 crew members have abandoned is monitored all the times. The salvors carrier Crystal Rubino (5045 gt, built the vessel to a liferaft. expect to have completed the 1992), ICCR, Rotterdam for Porvoo, London, Sep 26 -- Following received unloading of the containers on deck by laden with 5,000 tons of chemicals, from Coast Guard San Juan, timed tomorrow evening or Wednesday (Sep reported it was in lat 56 14.5N, long 1435, UTC, today: General cargo 28.) morning. They are being 17 10.5E, and had a fire in the engine- Evontim reported sank in lat 13 transported by barge in the Sloe room. The fire was subsequently 18.3N, long 60 38.4W. harbour to Verbrugge Terminals and extinguished and the vessel has since are stored there. After having removed resumed its voyage, under its own FOWAIRET (Qatar) the deck cargo, Zeeland Seaports and power. (Note -- Crystal Rubino sailed London, Sep 23 -- After grounding the salvors will submit another plan from Rotterdam at 0630, Sep 22.) near Buoy 53a in the River Scheldt on for the discharge of the containers in London, Sep 28 -- Chemical/oil Sep 20, c.c. Fowairet has been towed the holds, to the crisis team. They will carrier Crystal Rubino, now named by several tugs back to Flushing. The also review the condition of the Rubino arrived at Skoldvik on Sep 26 vessel was bound for Antwerp from containership, in particular to assess and sailed on Sep 28, for Paldiski. London with a cargo of about 1200 whether it can be shifted to the quay containers, of which about 10 percent for further discharged there. DEEPSEA NAUTILUS (Panama) contain dangerous and inflammable London, Sep 28 -- The salvor See "Hurricane "Rita" under goods. Last night a decision was made combination of Multraship and the "Weather & Navigation". on the discharge of the containers Unie van Reddings-en Sleepdienst will from the vessel, which is now moored today start to discharge the containers DISHA (Malta) on the buoys in the Sloe harbour at from the holds of c.c. Fowairet. Last London, Sep 28 -- Lng Disha was Flushing, between the salvage night, the unloading of the 600 reported arriving at Fujairah company Multraship at Terneuzen and containers from the decks of the Anchorage on Sep 22, departing later the shipowners. In the mean time the containership onto barges was the same day, bound for Dehej. port authorities Zeeland Seaports, completed. Also yesterday part of the Rijkswaterstaat and the regional fuel oil onboard the vessel, was DOCTOR HOOK firebrigade have accepted the plan of unloaded from the fuel tanks. The See Quickcat. how to discharge this damaged ship. plan for the discharging of the holds, This morning they started to drawn up by the salvors, together with DONGJIN PHOENIX discharge the containers with the Zeeland Seaports, the regional fire (South Korea) floating crane Ovet 9 onto a barge. It brigade and Rijkswaterstaat, was London, Sep 22 -- Following received has not been decided yet where and approved yesterday by the deputy- from Japan Coast Guard, timed 1920, how these containers will be mayor of Flushing. At 0800 hrs, this UTC, today: General cargo Dongjin transported from Flushing. There is morning Fowairet was towed from the Phoenix remains aground in the same still an oil boom around the ship and buoys in the Sloe Harbour to the quay position. salvage vessels are on standby in case at Verbrugge Terminals. There an oil of emergencies. boom was laid around the vessel. The EAST EXPRESS (DIS) London, Sep 25 -- After making a unloading of the containers was Cadiz, Sep 23 -- The Cadiz Fire start to discharging the containers immediately started. About 60 Brigade were called to a fire which from c.c. Fowairet using floating crane personal from the salvors team are broke out on board general cargo East Ovet 9 onto a barge on Sep 23, the currently involved in the operation. It Express (3504 gt, built 1983) at 0845 crisis team of the municipality of is estimated it will take another 10 yesterday while the vessel was under Flushing gave an emergency order to days to unload all 1300 containers repair in dry dock at the Navantia stop the discharge of the containers on from the holds. It has not yet been Shipyard. Staff from the shipyard the mooring buoys in Flushing Sloe decided where the vessel is going to assisted the fire brigade in fighting harbour. The deputy-mayor of go, after the discharge of her cargo has the fire, which was extinguished by Vlissingen wanted to wait for the been completed. 1200 hrs. The cause of the fire is still discharge plan of Zeeland Seaports, unknown, although an electrical fault which will garantee that the vessel FREY (Malta) has not been ruled out, as the source will be discharged in such way that no Helsinki, Sep 27 -- General cargo of fire was close to an electrical panel harm will be done to the environment. Frey is still in port at Tallinn. -- in the engine-room.As a preventive However, the salvors Multraship Lloyd's Agents. measure, the vessel's lower deck was protested and went to the court in flooded with foam. No injuries were Middelburg, saying that the situation GAS BAUHINIA (Liberia) reported. -- Lloyd's Agents. of the vessel was not stable and that London, Sep 25 -- Following received Cadiz, Sep 29 -- Before the fire on the sooner the cargo had been from Coast Guard San Francisco, board general cargo East Express, the removed, the sooner the vessel can go timed 1815, UTC: Floating storage vessel was expected to complete to a repair yard. The judge of the Gas Bauhinia (47048 gt, built 1977) repairs in about eight to 10 days. The Middelburg court ruled yesterday reported at 1612, UTC, with steering current estimated completion date is morning that the discharge of the problem in lat 19 19N, long 111 28E, not known. -- Lloyd's Agents. vessel was allowed again under strict 40 miles west of Hainan, and drifting safety rules. The discharging of the towards approaching typhoon and in ESTEFOX (Antigua & Barbuda) containers was restarted at about danger of grounding. London, Sep 27 -- General cargo 1300 hrs with floating cranes Ovet 9 London, Sept 26 -- Following received Estefox sailed from Piraeus port at and Ovet 10 onto barges. The deck from Hong Kong MRCC, timed 0100, 1700, local time, Sep 26, bound to cargo of containers will be removed UTC: Master of floating storage Gas Italy. -- Lloyd's Agents. first. Thereafter a new discharge plan Bauhinia reports the eye of the has to be made and approved by the typhoon has passed and everything is EUGENIO authorities. The total discharge of the OK and the vessel is proceeding south (St.Vincent & Grenadines) vessel could take a long time. at five knots. At 0600, local time, London, Sep 28 -- As of yesterday London, Sep 26 -- When the today, vessel was in lat 19 08N, long general cargo Eugenio was at the discharge of the containers 110 53.7E. Dormac repairyard, Durban. recommenced last Saturday, the London, Sept 26 -- BP was sending a salvors brought a third floating crane task force today to examine the extent EVONTIM (Dominica) named Anna 4 to damaged c.c. of damage sustained by its floating London, Sept 26 -- Following received Fowairet. Yesterday night, Sep 25, storage Gas Bauhinia at the weekend. from Coast Guard San Juan, timed about 200 of the 600 containers had The vessel was blown off track by 0308, UTC: General cargo Evontim been removed from the decks of the typhoon "Damrey" in waters close off

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Hainan Island BP said. The ship HANSEATIC (Bahamas) Lorient, Sep 26 -- Fishing Iseran which is employed as an LPG floating London, Sep 27 -- Passenger arrived in Concarneau on Sep 17 and storage facility off the province of Hanseatic departed from Hamburg at having completed the repairs, is now Zhuhai in southern China was taking 1835 hrs, Sep 26. awaiting the Port State Control, to shelter in the South China Sea when it check the repairs. Departure is was hit by the worse typhoon in the HELIO expected on Sep 28. -- Lloyd's Agents. province for thirty years. While a full London, Sept 25 -- A press report, (See issue of Sep 26.) inspection of the vessel is yet to be dated Sept 24, states: Egyptian Lorient, Sep 29 -- Fishing Iseran is undertaken it seems certain there passenger Helio, owned by Travco still alongside at Concarneau due to were no injuries and no cargo leakage travel agency, caught fire this propeller shaft problems. The vessel is according to a source at BP morning, but 86 Irish tourists on the expected to sail on Oct 3. -- Lloyd's boat were rescued safely, the official Agents. GC 55 MENA news agency reported. The See Kiperousa. incident took place in Aswan in JAMES PRIOR (U.K.) southern Egypt where the Luxor- London, Sep 26 -- Following received GENERAL MEHMANDAROV Aswan Nile cruise docked. The fire from the Port of London Authority, (Azerbaijan) broke out in the end section of the dated today: General cargo James Baku, Sep 22 -- Product tanker vessel. Six fire brigades rushed to the Prior has been towed to Acorn General Mehmandarov is still under scene, and all tourists were rescued Shipyard, Rochester. repair, ETC not presently known. -- and moved to a nearby hotel, said Lloyd's Agents. MENA. Initial losses were estimated JETFERRY 1 (Greece) at Egyptian pounds one million London, Sep 27 -- Lloydøs Casualty GEORGE T. (US$175,438), but there were no losses representatives in Piraeus report: (St. Vincent & Grenadines) in human lives or luggage, Travco Ro/ro Jetferry 1 (4423 gt, built 1995) London, Sep 26 -- Bulk George T. Director Ashraf Mokhtar said. The fire sustained port main engine damage arrived at Tees on Sep 10, and sailed damaged the kitchen, the restaurant, while sailing from Skiathos to Agios on Sep 15, bound for Tubarao. eight cabins and the boat's power Konstantinos during the evening of engine, he added. The Egyptian Sep 25. Following the incident the GLOBAL EXPLORER (Myanmar) Ministry of Interior has opened an vessel arrived safely at Agios London, Sep 26 -- Bulk Global immediate investigation into the Konstantinos, where departure was Explorer arrived at Niihama, Japan, causes of the fire, according to the prohibited pending inspection of the on Sep 10. report. repairs by the Marine Inspectorate of Stylidas. GRETA R. (Myanmar) HERA (NIS) London, Sep 24 -- Following received Dubai, Sep 24 -- Understand lpg Hera JUPITER 6 (St. Vincent & from Coast Guard New Orleans, sailed from Dubai Drydocks to Dubai Grenadines) timed 1815, UTC, Sep 24: Bulk Greta Anchorage on Sep 14 and understand See Satsang. R. (37519 gt, built 1989) reported at from the port that the vessel is 1000, local time, Sep 23, aground in awaiting orders. -- Lloyd's Agents. KHUDOZHNIK KUSTODIYEV vicinity of Mile 53, lower Mississippi (Russia) River, in lat 29 36.02N, long 89 HIGH ISLAND III See "Netherlands" under "Port State See "Hurricane 'Rita'" under 50.29W. Vessel had lost starboard Control." "Weather & Navigation." anchor and punctured fuel tank while grounding. Vessel had one KIEFERNWALD metre gash in hull about 4-6 metres HOHEBANK (U.K.) (Antigua & Barbuda) Gothenburg, Sep 29 -- General cargo London, Sep 27 -- Information above waterline. Around 10 barrels Hohebank (1687 gt, built 1977), bound received rom Kiel, dated today, of fuel oil spilled. Fuel oil lightered Varberg, ran aground outside Varberg states: General cargo Kiefernwald is and leakage stopped. Tugs on scene at around 0430, this morning. Vessel still lying in the Kreishafen in and refloated vessel at around 1415, sustained a hole in a ballast tank Rendsburg, where it arrived shortly local time, Sep 23. Vessel now at containing water, no outlet of oil after the collision with general cargo Wills Point Anchorage at Mile 66, noted. The grounding occurred at Michelle. lower Mississippi River. (Note -- "Skrivareklippan" located 600 metres Greta R. sailed Belfast Sep 4 for north of Getter island outside Varberg. KIPEROUSA (Malta) Santos.) The vessel was empty and hole in London, Sep 26 -- A press report, ballast tank did not cause any major dated today, states: Salvage experts GRETE THERESA (Singapore) alarm. No injury noted and vessel are fighting a race against time to Noumea, Sep 23 -- Chemical/oil arrived Falkenberg yard where it remove logs onboard the stricken bulk carrier Grete Theresa is moored at arrived this morning. Vessel will go Kiperousa. Giant logs on board the Noumea TERMINA. The repairs have into drydock this afternoon. The cause disintegrating vessel have started commenced and are expected to be of this incident is under investigation. spilling into the sea. The vessel ran completed during the second fortnight -- Westax Marine Services AB. aground in June when the 15 000 of next month. -- Lloyd's Agents. tonne log carrier hit a reef off the INGWENYA (South Africa) East London coast in the Eastern GSF ARCTIC I (Vanuatu) See Umfolozi. Cape. Strong winds and a powerful See "Hurricane "'Katrina'" under surf over the weekend have caused "Weather & Navigation". ISERAN (France) some of the logs to discharge from the Falmouth, Sep 23 -- Fishing Iseran vessel. Terry Taylor, East London port GSF CELTIC SEA (Vanuatu) arrived at Newlyn at 1213 hrs, Sep 15, spokesperson, says salvage experts See "Hurricane "'Katrina'" under in tow of the Penlee lifeboat. The are fighting a race against time to "Weather & Navigation". ingress of water into the engine-room remove the logs from the was traced to a leak in a stern gland disintegrating vessel before they turn GSF DEVELOPMENT DRILLER I and was duly stopped. The water in into hazards to other vessels. The (Vanuatu) the engine-room was pumped out and log's total value is estimated to be See "Hurricane "'Katrina'" under repairs were made to the electrics. The around R250 million. "Weather & Navigation". vessel departed Newlyn, in tow of its London, Sept 27 -- A press reeport, sistership fishing Tourmalet at 0200, dated Sept 26, states: Storms and GSF DEVELOPMENT DRILLER II Sep 16, bound for Concarneau, strong winds in East London have (Vanuatu) arriving on Sep 17. The vessel is caused the hull of stranded bulk See "Hurricane "'Katrina'" under understood to be currently in dry dock Kiperousa to break up, sending about "Weather & Navigation". at Concarneau. -- Lloyd's Agents. 800 giant logs into the sea. Terry

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Taylor of the East London Ports arrived Salalah at 1800, Sep 23. grounded on rocks and subsequently Authority, said weekend storms Engine repairs in progress and vessel sank off Limassol at about 1700, UTC, accompanied by strong winds and surf expected to sail from Salalah Sep 28. - yestersday. All crew safely rescued. had opened the hull up to the sea. - Lloyd's Agents. Limassol, Sep 29 -- Yacht Naussicaa, "About half of the logs will sink and reportedly of English ownership, half will stay afloat," he said. MELISSA (North Korea) Atlamonte Ltd, after hitting a hard "Attempts are being made to secure London, Sept 23 -- A press report, object and sustaining an ingress of the logs and get them to shore." dated today, states: North Korea water off Cape Zevgari, south-east "These logs do pose a navigational general cargo Melissa (1591 gt, built Cyprus, sent an SOS which was hazard and a warning has been sent 1962), Russia for Istanbul, sank off responded to by the Limassol Port out to all ships. "There is a danger to northern Turkey today, the semi- Authority. A rescue boat was sent to anyone using the sea at this stage," official Anatolia news agency the scene. All persons on board were said Taylor. He said salvors were reported. The cargo ship was found rescued and brought to Limassol. -- hoping for favourable winds which half-sunken in the middle of the sea Lloyd's Agents. would see currents washing the logs off Sinop province. Eight crew ashore. SvitzerWijsmuller's senior members were rescued and brought to NCC MADINAH (NIS) salvage master, Captain Nick Sloane, Sinop. The crew members, including a London, Sep 26 -- Chem.tank NCC said all salvors were there, Turk, were all hospitalized in Sinop Madinah sailed Singapore Sep 18. investigating the situation. He could and they were in stable condition, not say what measures would be taken doctors concerned were quoted as NOBLE AMOA RUNNER to speed up the removal of the logs to saying. The survivors said that water See "Hurricane "Rita"" under prevent further spillage into the sea started to ooze due to a hole in the "Weather & Navigation". until the investigation had been ship, and they had to leave the ship completed. since it was impossible for them to NOBLE JIM THOMPSON London, Sep 27 -- A press report, repair it. (Panama) dated today, states: A warning has See "Hurricane "Rita"" under gone out to shipping along the Eastern MICHELLE (Antigua & Barbuda) "Weather & Navigation". and Southern Cape coasts of South London, Sep 23 -- Following received Africa to maintain a sharp lookout for from Den Helder RCC, timed 1247, NOBLE JOE ALFORD (U.S.A.) logs in the sea after an estimated 800 UTC, today: General cargo Michelle: See "Hurricane "Rita"" under logs were lost overboard from the Salvage operations are continuing, "Weather & Navigation". grounded bulk Kiperousa at the understand vessel will be moved to a weekend. The hardwood logs were safe area away from ship navigation NOBLE LORRIS BOUZIGARD released from No.2 hold on Sunday for the winter months. (Liberia) night (Sep 25) as the crippled ship London, Sept 23 -- SvitzerWijsmuller See "Hurricane "Rita"" under began breaking up during a severe Salvage BV reports state: Dated Sept "Weather & Navigation". storm. About 250 of these have 22: This morning the washed up along the shore nearby but SvitzerWijsmuller salvage team had NOBLE MAX SMITH (Liberia) the majority of the others are removed some 160 m3 of fluids, some See "Hurricane "Rita"" under unaccounted for, leading to the 150 m3 of which were heavy fuel oil, "Weather & Navigation". warning issued yesterday by the South from the three double bottom tanks of African Maritime Safety Authority. A the semi sunk general cargo Michellel. NOBLE PAUL ROMANO (Liberia) large barge (GC 55) brought to the Pumping continues on the last two See "Hurricane "Rita"" under "Weather & Navigation". area from the Middle East to assist main tanks in the double bottom and with the salvage was damaged in further access to other tanks is being transit and is undergoing repair at prepared. Dated today: At 2300, local NOBLE THERALD MARTIN East London. time, yesterday pumping of heavy fuel (Liberia) See "Hurricane "Rita"" under London, Sep 29 -- As of yesterday oil from Michelle was completed. In "Weather & Navigation". barge GC 55 was still at East London total 180 m3 of fluid was recovered by under repair. the SvitzerWijsmuller team of which NORASIA TAURUS an estimated 165 m3 was heavy fuel (Antigua & Barbuda) LOK RAJESHWARI (India) oil. Further operations continue on the London, Sep 23 -- C.c. Norasia Tunis, Sep 23 -- Bulk Lok Rajeshwari vessel. Taurus (now renamed Norasia has has undergone necessary London, Sep 28 -- A Balkans) arrived at Hong Kong on Aug temporary repairs to enable it to be SvitzerWijsmuller Salvage BV report, 28. The vessel sailed on Sep 2, bound sold. However it is still under arrest dated Sep 27, states: The for Port Klang, arriving on Sep 6. It by local cargo receivers, in respect of a SvitzerWijsmuller salvage team sailed later the same day for claim over cargo damage. -- Lloyd's succeeded in lifting general cargo Damietta, where it arrived on Sep 19, Agents. Michelle from its original position in sailing on Sep 20, bound for the deepwater route off the Dutch Constantza. LOLA 1 coast at 1535, local time, Sep 23, in (St. Vincent & Grenadines) order to move the vessel out of the NORTRANS (NIS) London, Sep 28 -- General cargo Lola fairway. The vessel was kept afloat as Trondheim, Sep 27 -- Fishing 1 sailed from Aalesund on Sep 2, far as necessary to move it and once Nortrans arrived Fosen Gjenvinning bound for Bergen, arriving on Sep 6. out of the deepwater route, it was on Sep 23, (in tow), from Harstad. -- The vessel departed later the same allowed to settle again. Lloyd's Agents. day. MIKE (Antigua & Barbuda) ORIENT BRILLIANCE (Panama) LONG XUYEN (Vietnam) London, Sep 23 -- General cargo Mike Lima, Sept 26 --Bulk Orient See "Typhoon 'Nabi'" under "Weather arrived at Rotterdam at 0620 hrs, Sep Brilliance arrived Callao yesterday & Navigation". 20. It sailed at 2205 hrs, Sep 21, escorted by a navy vessel, where it is bound for Amsterdam, where it now anchored five miles in front of MAERSK BARCELONA (Bahamas) arrived at 0445 hrs, Sep 22 and Callao and full repairs will be carried See "Brittany, France" under departed later the same day, at 1905 out later. -- Lloyd's Agents. "Pollution." hrs, bound for Bilbao. ORUBA (Panama) MAIKE-C. (U.K.) NAUSSICAA (Italy) London, Sep 23 -- Chem.tank Oruba Muscat, Sep 26 -- General cargo London, Sep 28 -- Following received was reported passing through the Maike-C. (5581 gt, built 2005), from Larnaca RCC, timed 1215, UTC: Straits of Gibraltar, in an easterly Singapore to Rotterdam, towed to Yacht Naussicaa, 12 metres, Marmara direction, at 0814 hrs, Sep 22, Salalah port by tug Seaways 2. Vessel to Cyprus, five persons on board, destination Vasto.

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OUR LADY OF FATIMA unravelled in "less than two minutes the pilot and after an (Philippines) in an otherwise unblemished career", inspector/surveyor had checked the Manila, Sep 24 -- Ro/ro Our Lady of defence counsel Michael McCarthy vessel, it managed to refloat under its Fatima was cleared to sail by the told the court at an earlier hearing. own power. However, the vessel Philippine Coast Guard yesterday (Sep Williams was sailing the 10am sustained damage in bulb and 23) after undergoing repairs to its Waiheke-bound ferry Quickcat on Jan forepeak and took in some water. The engine. The vessel left Cebu at 2400 4 when it and a chartered fishing boat Regina Baltica had departed Freeport hrs, yesterday, for Ormoc in Leyte collided. On board the fishing boat terminal Stockholm at 1730 hrs, island and returned to Pier No.4, were Gisborne woman Moira (known bound for Tallinn, but due to Customs Cebu, the following day. -- Lloyd's List as Margaret) Newman and six procedures was required to make a Correspondent. members of her family, who all short stop at Mariehamn. However, suffered some injuries. Mrs Newman after the vessel refloated, it proceeded PACIFIC RAINBOW (Cambodia) had head and internal injuries and to Kapellskaer where passengers could London, Sep 23 -- Following received died in hospital three weeks later. choose to proceed to Estonia with from Hong Kong MRCC, timed 0445, Williams pleaded guilty to two charges other Tallin ferries, or return to UTC: General cargo Pacific Rainbow under the Maritime Transport Act Stockholm. -- Westax Marine Services (3847 gt, built 1980) sustained engine relating to careless operation of a ship. AB. failure in the South China Sea and He failed to use an extra lookout Stockholm, Sep 28 -- Passenger ro/ro reported adrift in lat 17 31N, long 113 despite visibility from the bridge being Regina Baltica grounded outside 44E at 0850, UTC, Sep 22. All crew restricted by a cargo crane. "You were Kapellskar while on voyage to Tallinn. evacuated by Cambodian general the master of a large vessel, with a lot The vessel sustained a hole in its cargo Sea Champion, which headed for of passengers on board, travelling at bottom and proceeded to Kapellskar to Saigon. Pacific Rainbow reported by high speed through a narrow channel disembark the passengers. -- Lloyd's general cargo Chelyabinsk in lat 17 known to be hazardous, and with a Agents. 23.8N, long 113 53E at 0001, UTC, Sep significant number of vessels around," London, Sep 29 -- Tallink passenger 23. NUC light on , deck lighting, AIS said Judge Anthony Fitzgerald at ro/ro Regina Baltica was on its way to working, one liferaft alongside on port yesterday's sentencing. But he said Turku for repairs after running side. Wind 300 deg, 12-14 metres per that Williams, who is married with aground five miles east of Kapellskaer second. two children, was "remorseful and in the Stockholm archipelago late on Vladivostok, Sep 23 -- The crew has obviously of good character". "No Tuesday night. The vessel, which had left general cargo Pacific Rainbow penalty that I impose can bring back 373 passengers and 169 crew on board which was drifting in the South China Mrs Newman or restore the loss to her at the time of the incident, had a total Sea and have been taken on board family," the judge said. "I've no doubt power failure. The ferry was general cargo Seachampion which was you are truly horrified that Mrs subsequently refloated as power was proceeding to the port of Bangkok. Newman's death was caused by your restored. The ship sustained forepeak According to information obtained actions." Williams was disqualified damage in the grounding, although a from the Vladivostok RCC the main from operating a vessel for three spokesman for Tallink said this was engine of Pacific Rainbow was months and ordered to pay a $5000 not believed to be serious as the ship disabled. The vessel was abandoned by fine and $11,000 reparation. The 456- was only travelling at four knots at her crew according to shipowner tonne ferry was carrying eight crew the time the accident took place. There orders, as a typhoon, threatening the and 377 passengers when the accident were no injuries to passengers. The safety of the crew/vessel, was happened. None was injured. The 8m ship is due to be drydocked in Turku approaching the distress area. -- charter boat Doctor Hook was also for repairs tomorrow. It was too early Lloyd's Agents. carrying Mrs Newman's husband Rex, to say how long the repairs were London, Sept 25 -- Following daughter Christine, son-in-law John expected to take, the spokesman said. redceived from Hong Kong MRCC, Rutherfurd and their three children. timed 0340, UTC: General cargo They were on a fishing trip to RICKMERS GENOA Pacific Rainbow was last reported in celebrate Mr Newman's 75th birthday. (Marshall Islands) lat 17 23.1N, long 113 56.7E, at 0330, After Williams left court yesterday, London, Sep 28 -- Following received UTC, Sept 24. Mrs Rutherfurd said it was time for from the operators of general cargo the family to move on. "I've no bad Rickmers Genoa, dated today: PASCAL PAOLI (France) feelings [towards Williams] and I wish Rickmers Genoa is still under repair at See "France" under "Labour him well," she said. Since the accident Shanghai, ETC unknown. Disputes". a separate fast lane has been introduced into the busy Motuihe ROGER BLOUGH (U.S.A.) PATRIZIA D'AMATO (Panama) Channel to avoid the risk of similar London, Sep 23 -- Bulk Roger Blough See "Hurricane "Katrina"" under collisions. Maritime New Zealand, arrived at Two Harbors (from Gary "Weather & Navigation". which brought the case, said the Hbr.) on Sep 19 and sailed on Sep 20, sentence send a clear message to all bound for Conneaut. Bulk Walter POLYHRONIS (Malta) skippers. The organisation is also J.McCarthy Jr. arrived at Duluth on London, Sep 26 -- Bulk Polyhronis prosecuting the skipper of Doctor Sep 19 and sailed on Sep 20. was reported to have arrived at Puerto Hook, Bruce Newbury, on similar Quetzal, Guatemala on Sep 25. charges. He has pleaded not guilty. ROTA (Belize) Liverpool, Sep 28 -- General cargo QUICKCAT (New Zealand) REGINA BALTICA (Estonia) Rota has been detained pending London, Sep 23 -- A press report, Gothenburg, Sep 28 -- At receipt of insurance documents from dated today, states: A "role model" approximately 2140 hrs, Sep 27, Russia. The damaged lock gates are ferry captain has been banned from passenger ro/ro Regina Baltica (18345 currently being inspected. -- Lloyd's skippering a vessel for three months gt, built 1980), Stockholm for Tallinn, Agents. and ordered to pay $16,000 for his ran aground in the Stockholm part in an Auckland Harbour boat archipelago. Weather conditions at the ROWAN FORT WORTH (U.S.A.) collision that claimed the life of a 74- time: winds force seven to eight. See Hurricane "Rita" under "Weather year-old woman. Wayne Williams According to the local news and & Navigation." privately met the family of his victim various statements, the vessel had after being sentenced at the Auckland experienced problems with the ROWAN HALIFAX (U.S.A.) District Court yesterday. He wept as electricity power on board and the See Hurricane "Rita" under "Weather he left the court building. The court grounding was caused by a total & Navigation." was told the 32-year-old was a role "black-out" on board. No injuries were model after working his way up from reported and there was no immediate ROWAN LOUSIANA (U.S.A.) kitchenhand to master in 15 years danger to any of the 373 passengers See Hurricane "Rita" under "Weather with Fullers Ferries. All that and 169 crew. With the assistance of & Navigation."

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ROWAN ODESSA (U.S.A.) SEA HARVEST (Liberia) However, this has not yet officially See "Hurricane "Rita" under London, Sept 26 -- Understand bulk been confirmed by the owner. -- "Weather & Navigation". Sea Harvest (17859 gt, built 2000) Lloyd's Sub-agents. arrived in Tauranga Aug 21 and RUNGHOLT (Germany) commenced discharging coal at No.9 SILVA (Cambodia) See Schleswig-Holstein. berth Mt Maunganui. On Aug 22, a Esbjerg, Sep 29 -- General cargo grab weighing 12 tonnes lifted Silva is still in port at Esbjerg. -- SATSANG (Panama) approximately 15 tonnes of coal from Lloyd's Agents. London Sep 26 -- Following received the No.1 hold using the No.1 crane, from Cape Town MRCC, timed 0822, SWL 30 tonnes). As the load was SKS TAGUS (NIS) UTC, today: Following Navitagional swung over the deck on the port side, Tallinn, Sep 28 -- Bulk/oil SKS Tagus Warning issued: Salvage tug Jupiter 6 the hoist wire parted, dropping the (63515 gt, built 1997), with a pilot (323 gt, built 1975), towing bulk load onto the deck of the vessel. There onboard, touched the ground while Satsang (16066 gt, built 1971) from were no injuries. (Note -- Sea Harvest entering Muuga at 1915, Sep 27. No Walvis Bay to India. Owner of Jupiter subsequently sailed Tauranga Aug 26 damage was noted by the underwater 6 has had no contact with Jupiter 6 and arrived Incheon Sept 14.) survey. The loading of the vessel since Sep 6. Cape Town Radio also commenced at 1230, local time, today. tried to contact the vessel, but with no SEA WAAL (Gibraltar) -- Lloyd's Agents. response. Last known position, as of London, Sep 23 -- Understand that Sep 5: lat 35 52.1S, long 23 25.9E. All general cargo Sea Waal (1843 gt, built SM 88 (Singapore) vessels are requested to keep a sharp 1985), St. Petersburg for Hull, has See "Philippines" under "Political & lookout and are requested to report sustained engine trouble and has Civil Unrest." any sightings of Jupiter 6 and Satsang entered a Polish port, probably to Cape Town Radio or Hydrosan. Szczecin to effect repairs. SOUTHERN TIARE (New Zealand) Following received from master of Poznan, Sep 23 -- General cargo Sea Wellington, Sep 28 - General cargo bulk Poseidon, SVIU, dated Sep 25: Waal is berthing at 1700 hrs, today, in Southern Tiare (1185 gt, built 1988), Have altered course at 1645, UTC, Sep a shipyard at Szczecin. Stay should Napier for the Chatham Islands, broke 25, and proceeding to the unknown last 24 hours. Some measurements down this morning. Apparently it has vessel (drifting not under command) in have to be made. -- Lloyd's Agents. gearbox/clutch problems on the position: lat 38 00.2S, long 28 57.4E, Poznan, Sep 27 -- General cargo Sea propeller shaft. At 0500 hrs it was 40 in order to render assistance. ETA to Waal sailed from Szczecin on Sep 24, nautical miles south-east of Cape the aforementioned position: 0505, bound for Hull. -- Lloyd's Agents. Kidnappers (lat 39 39S, long 177 06E), UTC, Sep 26. about 38 nautical miles from the Following received from master of SEMLOW (St. Vincent & nearest coast, and drifting east-north- bulk Poseidon, SVIU, dated today: At Grenadines) east at 1.5 knots. Eastland Port Ltd 0450, UTC, have arrived close to the See "Somalia" under "Piracy." may be able to send a tug. -- Lloyd's vessel (not under command) in Agents. position: lat 37 48S, long 25 59E. After SHAN HAI (China) London, Sep 28 -- Following received a complete turn arround the above London, Sep 28 -- As of yesterday from Maritime New Zealand, timed vessel, have observed the following: bulk Shan Hai was still at Durban. 0230, UTC: A tug, name not known, is Name: Ithomi. Port of proceeding form Gisborne, to assist Registry:Valetta. Hull:grey, without SIGAS MONARCH (Singapore) general cargo Southern Tiare with an any external damage. Weather London, Sept 26 -- Following received ETA of 2030, local time, today. The conditions: north-westerly, force six. from Coastguard Dover MRCC: Timed vessel is drifting away from the coast, Swell west-south-west, four metres. 2337, Sept 25: Lpg Sigas Monarch, and was last reported about 45 miles Cloudy. Due to heavy rolling and 9V6674, (1552 gt, built 1985), off. pitching of both vessels, it is Grangemouth for Fawley, cargo 948.7 London, Sep 29 -- Following received dangerous to use life boat to search tonnes raffinate, anchored in lat 50 from Maritime New Zealand, timed Ithomi. Is the tow unmanned? 47N, long 00 48.49E, 220 degrees 0250, UTC: General cargo Southern At 0822, UTC: Bulk Posiedon has been Dungeness Point 9.8 nautical miles, Tiare is now alongside at Napier. released to proceed on its passage, as it with main engine failure and has been established Ithomi is attempting to identify problem. Timed STURDY FALCON (Vietnam) unmanned. (Note -- Ithomi is on break- 0315, UTC: Vessel awaiting technical London, Sep 29 -- As of yesterday up voyage from Cuba for Bangladesh, advise from owners, which expected general cargo Sturdy Falcon was still under tow of Jupiter 6. Vessels departed this afternoon. at East London. from Cuba "about eight or nine months London, Sep 27 -- Following received ago". Jupiter 6 was reported arriving at from Coastguard Dover MRCC, timed TMM OAXACA Port of Spain on Jan 6, 2005. The vessel 1405, UTC: Lpg Sigas Monarch: (Antigua & Barbuda) was next reported arriving Fortaleza on Understand crew are unable to effect Veracruz, Sep 22 -- C.c. TMM Oaxaca Mar 18, sailing on Mar 19. Vessel was repairs and awaiting a tug from completed repairs Sep 14. A number of next reported arriving at Walvis Bay on Dieppe. adjustments were made Sep 15-16, the Jul 1 for repairs, sailing on Aug 9. London, Sep 27 -- Following received vessel's main engine was started for While the tug was in Walvis Bay Ithomi from Coastguard Dover MRCC, timed dock trials at 1300, Sep 16, and it remained at anchorage outside the 0748, UTC: Lpg Sigas Monarch, under underwent sea trials Sep 17-18. The port.) tow of firefighting tug Chambon vessel loaded a cargo of containers and Sirocco, now on passage to Flushing, departed for Puerto Cortes Sep 19, SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN for repairs. ETA Sep 22. After cargo operations (Germany) London, Sep 28 -- Lpg Sigas Monarch are completed at Puerto Cortes, the London, Sep 28 -- Information is currently anchored near Europoort, vessel is due to sail for Puerto Limon. received from Kiel, dated today: Ferry in lat 51 58 47N, long 04 07 12E. -- Lloyd's Agents. Rungholt (2268 gt, built 1992) in Maassluis, Sep 29 -- Lpg Sigas collision with ro/ro Schleswig-Holstein Monarch entered the Hook of Holland, TRADER (Antigua & Barbuda) (1743 gt, built 1988) off the Northsea under tow of firefighting tug Chambon Valencia, Sep 28 -- General cargo port Dagebuell on Sep 24. Both vessels Sirocco, at 1420 hrs, yesterday. At the Trader is still at Cartagena. Repairs were severely damaged, Schleswig moment, the vessel is moored at buoy have commenced and are expected to Holstein went to the Husum shipyard 85 in Europoort. First it has to unload be completed next week. -- Lloyd's for repairs which are estimated to last its cargo of raffinate. The problem is Agents. one week. The Rungholt is already that the main engine gearbox is out of back in service. Both vessels connect order. According to its agents, it is TRADEWIND SUNRISE (Panama) the islands Amrum and Foehr with likely that the vessel will have to go London, Sep 23 -- Chemical/oil the mainland. into a dock for approximately four-six. carrier Tradewind Sunrise sailed

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Chaguaramas on Aug 26, bound for VASSILIKI T. (Greece) ZWERVER (Belgium) Curacao. London, Sep 29 -- Lloyd's Casualty Zeebrugge, Sep 29 -- Fishing Zwerver representatives in Piraeus report: is still berthed at Ostend, and repairs TRANSOCEAN MARIANAS During the afternoon of Sep 27, bulk are under way. -- Lloyd's Sub-agents. (Panama) Vassiliki T. (1636 gt, built 1982) See "Hurricane "Rita" under grounded in shallow waters next to "Weather & Navigation". the rocky islets of Bourtsi Naflion. On board were eight crewmembers and UMFOLOZI (Cyprus) one passenger. All are in good health. London, Sep 22 -- A press report, The vessel was subsequently refloated dated today, states: Twenty per cent with the assistance of a tug. of the oil spilled in Walvis Bay Harbour when c.c. Umfolozi was in collision with trailing suction hopper VOC GALLANT dredge Ingwenya last weekend, still (Antigua & Barbuda) Dubai, Sep 28 -- Bulk VOC Gallant is SOMALIA has to be cleaned up. This is expected Nairobi, Sep 22 -- Somali pirates took to be done in the next two to three still under repair at Dubai Drydocks. - a hijacked U.N. aid ship out to sea weeks if good weather prevails, - Lloyd's Agents. according to a spokesman for the again today, dashing hopes for an end Namibian Ports Authority. Eighty WALTER J.MCCARTHY JR. to the three-month saga and release of cubic metres of heavy fuel oil and (U.S.A.) their ten hostages. The gunmen have marine diesel oil have successfully See Roger Blough. been holding general cargo Semlow -- been recovered from the sea. with 10 crew members from Kenya, According to a marine researcher at WARALEE NAREE (Thailand) Tanzania and Sri Lanka, plus 850 Swakopmund, the remaining oil See "Hurricane "Rita" under tonnes of food aid sent by the U.N. pollution is more difficult to clean "Weather & Navigation". World Food Programme -- since Jun up, since the oil is spread in a thin 27. In what appeared to be a deal to layer on top of the water. A larger WILLOW (Bahamas) end the stand-off, the militiamen on percentage of water is now being Maassluis, Sep 29 -- General cargo Monday (Sep 19) brought the vessel sucked up along with the oil. At the Willow is expected to complete repairs into El Maan port, north of oyster farm Beira Aquaculture and within two weeks. -- Lloyd's Sub- Mogadishu. However, today, the ship Walvis Bay Salt Refiners near the agents. (See issue of Sep 2.) left again with the food and hostages harbour, executives are satisfied that on board after the pirates apparently their businesses aren't under XIANG TU (China) issued new ransom demands to the immediate threat from the oil spill. London, Sept 26 -- Following Kenyan shipping agent leasing the NamPort authorities yesterday said navigation warning issueed today: vessel. WFP spokesman Robin Lodge the cause of the accident has not been determined because an General cargo Xiang Tu, 3948 gt, told Reuters in Nairobi. "They have investigating team is yet to be (built 1986) on fire and adrift in lat made new financial demands...The announced by the Directorate of 33 58.5N, long 129 11.6E at 0800, port authorities said they would not Maritime Affairs. South African UTC, Sept 26. allow the ship to stay, so they left this company Smit Salvage has been London, Sept 26 -- Following received afternoon, in the direction of appointed to salvage the remaining from Coast Guard Japan, timed 2215, Mogadishu it seems." Inayet Kudrati, 121 containers on board the UTC: All 20 crew have been rescued director of Mombasa-based Motaku Umfulozi. The containers are from general cargo Xiang Tu, loaded Shipping Agency which leased the believed to hold products such as containers. A Coast Guard rescue ship, said he was extremely worried copper, salt, plastics, granite, vessel is in the vicinity of the vessel for the eight Kenyan crew, Sri Lankan hunting trophies and fishmeal. and a tug is due on scene later this captain and Tanzanian engineer on Thirty-five of the containers are morning (Sept 27). board. The latest development was empty. Salvaging is expected to last London, Sep 28 -- Following very confusing, he added. "She sailed about four weeks. Navigation Warning, dated today, out from the port. Where she is going London, Sept 23 -- A press report, states: General cargo Xiang Tu adrift we don't know," he told Reuters by dated today, states: A cleanup in lat 33 34.9N, long 129 20.6E at telephone from Mombasa. "They want operation to remove about 100 tonnes 1350, UTC, Sep 27. ransom. They haven't set a figure. I of fuel oil spilled when c.c. Umfolozi don't know now why they left when was holed and subsequently sank at its YASA AYSEN (Turkey) they were supposed to discharge the berth in Walvis Bay is underway and London, Sep 28 -- Bulk Yasa Aysen is by yesterday it was being reported that cargo. I don't know which direction reported to have arrived at Fujairah they're going." The militiamen had about three quarters of the spilled oil Anchorage on Sep 25, from Bahrain. had been cleared. The salvage initially demanded a $500,000 ransom, operation to recover the remainder of then demanded the rice for their home the containers remaining under deck YIOMARAL (Liberia) area in northern Somalia, before this on the vessel flooded holds has been London, Sep 23 -- Following received week agreeing to a face-saving deal awarded to Smit Salvage. Eighty-six of from Aarhus RCC, timed 1310, UTC: whereby the new Transitional Federal these boxes contain a variety of cargo Crude oil tanker Yiomaral (156408 gt, Government (TFG) would distribute while the balance of 35 are empties. built 1993), bound China, had a the aid. -- Reuters. The other vessel involved in the crankshaft explosion Sep 17 and is London, Sep 25 -- A press report, collision outside the port, trailing anchored in lat 57 48, long 17 14E. dated today, states: Somali pirates suction hopper dredge Ingwenya has Repairs have been effected but vessel who have been holding World Food damage above the waterline although is awaiting class inspection. (Note -- Programme general cargo Semlow in it is also believed the vessel has Yiomaral sailed Gdansk Sep 12 for central Somalia since June have damage to the bow thrusters. China.) captured another vessel. The identity Cape Town, Sept 27 -- C.c. Umfolozi London, Sep 26 -- Following received of the second vessel is not known yet is still partly submerged at the berth from Aarhus RCC, timed 1100, UTC, but witnesses in the area, where both in Walvis Bay with main deck awash today: Crude oil tanker Yiomaral has vessels are being held, said it is likely at high tide and that all compartments resumed its voyage to China. and the engine-room are flooded. a freighter. Hijackers boarded it on Further understand that Smit have their way back from Mogadishu, where ZIEMIA GORNOSLASKA (Liberia) negotiation with WFP fell apart. The been appointed as salvors and that the London, Sep 23 -- Bulk Ziemia hijackers agreed last week to free the salvage is being planned. -- Lloyd's Gornoslaska arrived at Duluth on Sep Semlow after intense and long Agents. 16 and sailed on Sep 20. Receive immediate notice as soon as a Casualty occurs. For further information please contact Andrew Luxton on +44 (0) 20 7017 4625.

7 Piracy/Port State Control/Seizures & Arrests negotiations with WFP and officials. substandard tonnage. They have However, negotiations broke down responded to that and have also after the vessel was moved to subjected themselves to an ISM Mogadishu area port for unloading. compliance order at our request." Reports say El Ma'an port authority However, at the time of writing, ordered the vessel to leave the port reports came to hand c.c. MSC Paola after the armed men onboard (20295 gt, built 1978) was being produced new demands and the WFP detained for MNZ inspection at the nullified all agreements with them. NETHERLANDS port of Napier after experiencing Maassluis, Sep 28 -- Bulk WFP Somalia deputy country director, engine failure on arrival. MSC New Khudozhnik Kustodiyev (16228 gt, Leo van der Velden said "It is now Zealand general manager Kevin built 1978) is currently detained at Cooper said MSC Paola had a "slight clear that the hijackers are not Rotterdam. -- Lloyd's Sub-agents. mechanical issue" and that MNZ had demonstrating any meaningful actions (Note -- Khudozhnik Kustodiyev been advised "out of courtesy". He said towards finding the necessary arrived Rotterdam Sep 25 from Milos.) the recent tonnage deficiencies were resolution of this problem." In a no longer an issue. "That stuff is statement issued yesterday, WFP said NEW ZEALAND almost close to a month old," he said. the hijackers failed to comply with a Wellington, Sept 26 -- A press report, "These ships have gone off to deal to end the three month saga and dated Sept 24, states: Maritime New Singapore and been repaired, prior to release the vessel, its 10-man crew Zealand (MNZ) is cracking down on their class surveys and being fully and 850-ton humanitarian cargo of deficient tonnage entering local refurbished." Trans-Tasman shippers rice. "In the light of their failure to waters as the global capacity shortage appear to have been the most affected comply with the deal reached this drives shipping companies to operate by the recent detentions and other week and the earlier agreement to end older vessels. MNZ monitoring and reported vessel breakdowns. For the crisis on Aug 5, we have no choice compliance deputy director Bruce example, having been away in but to declare that from our Maroc said there have recently been "a drydock for three months, the Chief standpoint, the agreements reached so number of incidences" with such Container Service (CCS) general far are null and void," Mr. Velden said. vessels involving different shipping cargo Tauranga Chief (6030 gt, built Nairobi, Sep 28 -- The United companies. "We have made it 1992) had an engine failure on its Nations World Food Programme abundantly clear to the operators of return to operations. Although, CCS (WFP) today blasted Somali pirates this tonnage that substandard ships trans-Tasman trade manager Stuart will not be tolerated," he said. "We are who seized general cargo Semlow Craker said this only added a "couple looking at going beyond our normal carrying its food aid three months ago of days" delay. The joint P&O port state inspection routine -- which Nedlloyd-ANL trans-Tasman service for reneging on a deal to free the involves looking at documentation and vessel, its crew and cargo of food. has been significantly affected by the safety aspects -- and also looking at untimely drydocking of both vessels in Gunmen have been holding the vessel structural issues, load-line issues and June. The service has subsequently -- with 10 crew members from Kenya, ISM (International Safety operated on a fortnightly basis via Tanzania and Sri Lanka, plus 850 Management) issues. If we are finding just the c.c. P&O Nedlloyd Wellington, tonnes of food aid sent by WFP -- since deficiencies we will either treat them with the arrival of a new ANL vessel Jun 27. The pirates had agreed to as repair before sailing, detain until expected later this month. -- Lloyd's release the vessel at the port of El fixed or detain and temporary repairs Agents. Maan, just north of Mogadiscio but it for permanent repairs overseas." Mr sailed from there last Thursday (Sep Maroc said MNZ was also taking the 22). WFP said residents of the coastal proactive stance of advising the town of Harardheere had reported it relevant maritime authorities in other was anchored some 50 km offshore. countries of such deficient tonnage. Harardheere residents say the Semlow The new Kiwi service introduced by is close to another vessel, which they Mediterranean Shipping Company believe was hijacked last week near El (MSC) appears to have been the most Maan by the same pirates, WFP said, afflicted, with Mr Maroc expressing the personal view that some ships adding that the second vessel was AGIOS ARSENIOS (Greece) were being used "at the end of their believed to be laden with cement from See under "Tsoukalas Naftiki commercial life". "The vessels are in Egypt. "I'm deeply worried for the Eteria". crew and their families who have been the age group of 25 to 30 years, which are very old for converted general waiting more than 90 days for this AGIOS DIONYSSIOS (Greece) cargo ships into container vessels. See under "Tsoukalas Naftiki ordeal to be over," WFP executive There is such a worldwide shortage of Eteria". director James Morris said in a tonnage, that MSC made the strategic statement. "Besides being a violation decision to operate these ships in this AGIOS SPYRIDON K. (Greece) of international law, it's especially trade because they can't get other London, Sep 23 -- A report in the shameful as this food was intended to tonnage. We started getting concerned today issue of "Newsfront" states: assist the victims of the tsunami." The with c.c MSC Immacolata (17304 gt, After being having been seized on WFP said it condemned the pirates' built 1979, which was last reported to several previous occasions, in pursiut backtracking on an agreement with have arrived Singapore Sept 6). But of a Euros 5,628 claim against the Somalia's transitional federal the worst one was c.c MSC Federica registered owners, ro/ro Agios government and community leaders to (21296 gt, built 1974, which was last Spyridon K. has been again been release the vessel. "WFP demands the reported to have sailed Auckland Aug listed for auction. The new scheduled 27)) about a month ago. We discovered unconditional release of the vessel, its date for auction is Oct 5. Lying at problems with the transfer of ballast, crew and its cargo," the agency said in Salamina, the vessel carries a start-up load lines, structural issues and ISM an advertisement placed in price of Euros 350,000. newspapers in Somalia. The pirates compliance and it was detained for about 12 days in Auckland. It ended initially demanded $500,000 from the AQUARIUS MATSAS III (Greece) up going directly to repair berths in vessel's agents in Mombasa and have London, Sep 23 -- A report in todays China where it is undergoing made various demands for money edition of "Newsfront", states: Tug extensive repairs. We have required, since then. WFP says it does not pay Aquarius Matsas III (165 gt, built and MSC management did, come ransoms for the return of food aid. The 1982) has been seized by the Piraeus down from Hong Kong to New agency has resumed food shipments to Port Authority in pursuit of a Euros Zealand and we told them in no Somalia after suspending them 52,976 claim against the registered uncertain terms do not bring in following the hijack. -- Reuters. owners.

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8 Seizures & Arrests/Pipeline Accidents/Pollution

HERKULES II (Poland) RED POINT (Italy) Mravok, a village of 300 people some London, Sep 26 -- Tug Herkules II Maassluis, Sep 28 -- Chemical/oil 400km southwest of the capital, sailed from Dordrecht at 1720 hrs, Sep carrier Red Point (27001 gt, built Teheran, and burned down dozens of 19, bound for Flushing. 1984) is currently under arrest at buildings, in which several people Rotterdam. -- Lloyd's Sub-agents. were trapped, witness Mahmoud MERWEDESTROOM (Netherlands) (Note -- Red Point arrived Rotterdam Chaharmiri said. øGasoline was Maassluis, Sep 28 -- C.c. Sep 25 from Le Havre.) flowing in the allies of our village Merwedestroom (7713 gt) is under when I got up in the early morning. arrest in the Rotterdam area. -- TSOUKALAS NAFTIKI ETERIA Several buildings were burnt down Lloyd's Sub-agents. London, Sep 23 -- A report in todays and the heavy smoke filled the village issue of "Newsfront" states: After air,ø he said. Chaharmiri said he saw MICRONESIAN NAVIGATOR being been previously seized a number the bodies of at three people pulled out (Marshall Islands) of times, general cargo Agios of several houses. State-run radio also London, Sep 22 -- C.c. Micronesian Dionyssios and general cargo Agios quoted local officials as saying at least Navigator, chartered by the Arsenios have again been seized in three people were killed. Rescue Philippines, Micronesia and Orient pursuit of respective claims of Euros workers were still trying to douse the Navigation Company has been stuck 5,859 and Euros 21,550 against the flames and find survivors, while at Honolulu Harbour with its cargo vessels' owners, Tsoukalas Naftiki investigators are probing for the cause aboard since last month because of a Eteria. Both vessels are presently of the accident. Village council payment dispute between the lying at Larimna and both are member Mohammad Chaharmiri said shipping company and stevedoring scheduled to be auctioned on Oct 5. an electric spark from a local water firm McCabe, Hamilton and Renny Agios Dionyssios carries a reserve pump may have ignited gasoline Co. Ltd. PM&O Line president Robert price of Euros 500,000 and Agios leaking from a nearby pipe that had Colson said the it was arrested under Arsenios has a reserve price of Euros broken, he told the official Islamic a maritime lien from McCabe, 600,000 Republic News Agency. The pipeline Hamilton and Renny. He estimated transfers fuel to northern Iran from a the vessel has slightly more than 100 TURAMAN (Panama) refinery in southwestern Iran and 20-foot containers from Asia and London, Sep 29 -- A press report, passes next to the village. Micronesia that need to be unloaded dated today, states: Two senior crew here. The U.S. Marshals Service members of a Cambodian-flagged SINDH-BALOCHISTAN PROVINCE, seized the vessel on Aug 23, state vessel have been charged with PAKISTAN illegally fishing for Patagonian transportation officials said. "We are See "Pakistan" under "Political & toothfish in Australia's sub-Antarctic Civil Unrest". trying our very best to diligently waters. The master and fishing master proceed to get the ship running, just were among crew arrested earlier this coming to some solution about who TOCCATE AREA, PERU month aboard the fish factory London, Sep 23 -- A press report, owes what," Colson said. "Right now Turaman under suspicion of operating dated yesterday, states: A district they're working as diligently as they illegally in the Macquarie Island mayor threatened yesterday to sue the can, both sides, to see if they can get exclusive economic zone. They each operators of a pipeline that transports this thing with the arrest lifted so we face a maximum penalty of natural gas liquids from the Camisea can discharge the cargo and continue Aus$825,000 and the vessel, catch and gas fields in the country's southern on to the West Coast." Kraig Kennedy, fishing gear could also be forfeited. Amazon after it sprang a leak in one of executive vice president of McCabe, Federal Fisheries Minister Ian his villages. Transportadora del Gas Hamilton and Renny, said the lien on Macdonald said yesterday the del Peru, or TGP, which runs the the vessel, which is currently at Pier Australian Fisheries Management Camisea liquids pipeline, said today 1, "has to do with money owed to Authority had laid charges of illegal that it had evacuated about 200 people McCabe" and that Stevedoring fishing against the two crewmen. from the village of Toccate and Services of America on the West Coast Senator Macdonald said the 76m temporarily closed a highway and another stevedoring firm have vessel, which weighs 2145 tonnes, had following the spill. joined in the dispute against PM&O. been escorted to Hobart for further Both Kennedy and Colson would not inquiries by AFMA. "Investigations specify the amount of money involved revealed the vessel was carrying 143 or other details of the dispute. Colson tonnes of Patagonian toothfish," only said the amount "is not Senator Macdonald said. monumental; it's relatively small in relation to the costs that we've UGO FOSCOLO (Greece) incurred." Kennedy said arresting a London, Sep 23 -- A report in today's vessel under a lien is rare and that if issue of "Newsfront" states: Passenger the dispute is not worked out, "then ro/ro Ugo Foscolo (12798 gt, built ASSAM, INDIA we move forward to sell the ship, and 1986) was seized in the second half of London, Sep 22 -- A press report, at that point I think the owners of the September by private creditors in dated Sep 21, states: The oil well fire ship will step in." "We certainly respect of claims of Euro 147,964.94 in Assam continued to rage for the recognize the problem this has and Euro 12,644.17 against the seventh day today with an estimated created for all of the small-business vessel's registered owners. production loss of about 54,000 barrels people particularly who are waiting of crude, officials here said. A for cargo," Kennedy said. spokesperson for state-owned exploration firm Oil India Limited QIANG RONG 1 (Panama) (OIL) said efforts were on to put out Kolkata, Sep 26 -- Bulk Qiang Rong the fire and then cap the well at 1 (12897 gt, built 1980) has been Dikom, 520 km east of Assam's main arrested and detained at Haldia port city Guwahati. The cause of the oil by Admiralty suit No: 341/2005, spill was yet to be ascertained as the passed by the High Court of Kolkata. intense heat from the well fire was It has been learnt that vessel was MRAVOK, IRAN preventing workers from moving supposed to discharge her cargo at London, Sep 25 -- A press report, closer. "The Dikom oilfield with 30 Haldia Port, but instead discharged dated today, states: A gasoline producing wells has been shut down her cargo at "anchorage port Diamond pipeline explosion possibly caused by since the oil spill began on September Harbour into barge". -- Lloyd's an electrical spark killed at least three 13," OIL group general manager J K Agents. (Note -- Qiang Rong was people yesterday in western Iran, an Talukdar told IANS over the phone reported to have arrived at Haldia on eyewitness and state-run radio from the company headquarters Sep 17.) reported. The explosion happened in Duliajan in eastern Assam. "We are

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9 Pollution/Weather & Navigation yet to assess the actual damage and waste oil spilled from a petroleum India's eastern coast on Monday (Sep caused by the fire. Our priority now is storage depot of the Pacific Fleet. Most 19), and they feared a spike in cases of to control the fire," the spokesperson of the oil leaked into the Pervaya malaria, diarrhea and other diseases. said. Oil India authorities tried to Rechka River. About a tonne of More than 75 people have been killed douse the flames but gave up and petroleum products reached the Amur due to electrocution, house collapses summoned experts from the Texas- Bay contaminating beaches of and drowning in Andhra Pradesh after based Boots and Coots International Vladivostok. According to the city the storm caused heavy rains and Well Control. About 600 fire-fighters commission for emergency situations, flooding. In western Gujarat state, under the supervision of four US over 100 tonnes of mixture of water heavy rains, lighting strikes and experts from Boots and Coots were with petroleum products have been flooding had killed 12 people since working round the clock in shifts to collected. At present specialists are yesterday and thousands had been douse the flame. "The final assault to cleaning up the Amur Bay water area evacuated to higher ground, officials extinguish the fire might take another with the use of special adsorbents. said. In Andhra Pradesh, flood waters six to seven days as we are yet to get had largely receded and rains had some heavy equipment and a special eased, but thousands of people were variety of sand required by the US still homeless or stranded in experts to start their operation," waterlogged villages and in several Talukdar said. "Some machinery has towns. Across the 12 flood-hit districts, arrived and we are expecting some helicopters were dropping medicines as more, being transported by road, to well as food packets and water to flood reach the site in the next few days. All victims. Aid was also being distributed the equipment and sand are being by boats, officials said. About 150,000 brought from various parts of the BAY OF BENGAL people are crammed into schools, country." The US team was planning London, Sep 23 -- A press report, government buildings and community to spray water at a high pressure dated today, states: Thousands of centers which have become relief accompanied by a 'sandstorm' to put Bangladeshi fishermen have begun camps. -- Reuters. out the fire and then start capping the returning to their homes in coastal leaking oil well. Some 5,000 people, areas after riding out a deadly storm EUROPE most of them tea plantation workers, in the Bay of Bengal earlier in the London, Sep 29 -- A press report, were evacuated soon after the oil spill week, officials said today. The storm dated Sep 28, states: Severe flooding as a precautionary measure, but most swept across the bay on Monday (Sep in the Alps has caused 2.6 billion have since returned to their homes, 19)before lashing coastal areas of Swiss francs ($2 billion) in damages, the OIL spokesperson said. India and Bangladesh and leaving a more than earlier thought, Swiss London, Sep 27 -- A press report, trail of destruction. In Bangladesh a insurers said today, making it their dated today, states: Firefighters tidal wave caused by the storm forced country's second most costly natural battling a massive 12-day blaze at a 12,000 people out of their flooded catastrophe on record. The damage burst oil well in Assam will take homes. At least 9,000 Bangaldeshi estimate for the August floods -- from another five days to launch a final fishermen from 600 boats had now an organisation of state insurers -- is assault to douse the fire, officials said reported back to their landing stations up from an earlier estimate of 1.8 yesterday. A spokesperson for the in the southern coastal district of billion francs. Of the 2.6 billion franc state-owned exploration firm Oil India Barguna, sub-district executive officer total, 1.85 billion was insured and the said an estimated 200 workers were Abdul Bari told AFP. Around 85 men remaining 800 million was trying to put out the fire and then cap on board six boats were still infrastructure costs that were not the well at Dikom. A four-member US unaccounted for, said Bari adding that covered, the state insurers said. The team of experts from Boots and Coots it was too early to say if they had increase comes one day after International Well Control was perished. They would not yet be listed Switzerland's private insurers raised supervising the operations. as officially missing as it was possible their estimate for total claims to 1.335 they had anchored off the Indian coast billion francs, from 800 million earlier. BRITTANY, FRANCE or were not yet due back, he said. The estimate by the state insurers Brest, Sep 23 -- Understand c.c. "From what the fishermen have told includes the 1.335 billion figure Maersk Barcelona was authorised to us we believe that 15 to 20 boats mentioned by the private insurers. depart Brest today following the capsized in the storm and the crews The sums make the floods the second- payment of a guarantee of euros were rescued by nearby boats," he costliest catastrophe Switzerland has 500,000 required by the French court added. Barguna is one of several ever witnessed. Several Swiss insurers in respect of the pollution observed districts used as a base by thousands have given their forecasts for claims Sep 20. -- Lloyd's Agents. of fishermen in southern Bangladesh. from the floods, which followed days of Abdus Salam Talukder, president of torrential rainfall. Zurich Financial PERVAYA RECHKA RIVER, the fishing association in neighbouring Services has said it expects to pay RUSSIA Patuakhali district, said they had no aggregate claims of around $100 London, Sep 26 -- A press report, reports of any deaths although the million, while Baloise had to give up a dated today, states: The dwellers of situation could change as more financial target after it took a 100 the dolphinarium of the Pacific fishermen returned with eyewitness million franc hit from the floods. Scientific Research Fisheries Centre accounts of the storm. "Fishermen who (TINRO Centre) may suffer from the have returned so far told us that no HURRICANE "JOVA" oil spill in Vladivostok. The fishermen has died in the storm. We dolphinarium where eight white London, Sep 23 -- Following received are expecting that some of the missing from the Meteorological Office, dated whales are currently living is located fishermen were rescued in the Indian in the Amur Bay at the embankment today, states: Tropical storm "Jova" part of the ocean," he said. The storm centre located near lat 22.2N, long at Sportivnaya Harbor of Vladivostok. killed at least 64 people in the east Clots of petroleum products mixed 149.9W at 0900, UTC, today. Position Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and accurate within 60 nautical miles. with adsorbent that is used to clean Orissa and displaced tens of up the spill are now getting into the Present movement toward the north- thousands. (See issue of Sep 23.) west or 325 degrees at 10 knots. dolphinarium. So far this has caused Hyderabad, Sep 23 -- Helicopters and no visible damage to the dolphinarium Maximum sustained winds 55 knots boats distributed food, water and with gusts to 65 knots. Forecast inhabitants, however, scientists are medicines today to hundreds of people worrying about possible hazardous position lat 23.3N , long 151.0W at stuck on rooftops in an Indian state 1800, UTC, today. Maximum winds 50 effects of contacts with petroleum after a storm caused severe flooding, products on the health of white knots, gusts 60 knots. Forecast officials said. Large areas of the position lat 24.9N, long 152.4W at whales. The large oil spill occurred in southern coastal state of Andhra Vladivostok on the night of Saturday, 0600, UTC, Sep 24. Maximum winds Pradesh were still inundated after the 40 knots, gusts 50 knots. (Sep 24). A total of 48 tonnes of fuel oil powerful Bay of Bengal storm crossed A complete online archive covering the last 10 years of Lloyd’s Casualty Week. 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10 Weather & Navigation

HURRICANE "KATRINA" Radius of 50-knot winds 20 nautical remain in port must arrange safe London, Sep 26 -- A press release miles. Radius of 34-knot winds 70 mooring and shall contact the COTP from GlobalSantaFe, dated Houston nautical miles. Radius of 12-foot seas in writing for approval, within 24 Sep 14, states: GlobalSantaFe today 130 nautical miles. Forecast for 0001, hours of Hurricane Condition Whiskey provided a preliminary estimate for UTC, Sep 27: Position lat 15.4N, long being set. It is expected that all the expected start of operations for its 141.1W. Maximum sustained winds 60 commercial vessels and barges greater four offshore drilling rigs damaged by knots with gusts to 75 knots. Radius of than 500 gross tons discontinue cargo Hurricane "Katrina." Most of the 50-knot winds 20 nautical miles. operations and depart the port within damage to the four rigs was to their Radius of 34-knot winds 70 nautical 24 hours of Hurricane Condition mooring systems. Three of these rigs, miles. Whiskey being set. Vessels bound for crane ship GSF Arctic I, semi-sub London, Sep 27 -- Following received the Port of Lake Charles are advised pontoon GSF Celtic Sea (24125 gt, from the Meteorlogical Office, dated to seek an alternative destination. built 1982) and drill ship GSF today: At 1200, UTC, today, the centre PORT: Houston, Texas: The Port of Development Driller II (30236 gt, of hurricane "Kenneth" is predicted to Houston Authority has advised that built 2005), are projected to begin be near lat 15.8N, long 142.4W, with the Barbours Cut Terminal gates will normal operations in the U.S. Gulf of maximum winds of 60 knots and gusts be closed today and tomorrow. They Mexico during the fourth quarter of to 75 knots. The radius of 50 knot are due to reopen on Monday (Sep 26), 2005. Drill ship GSF Development winds: 20 nautical miles in all four depending on conditions at that time. Driller I (30270 gt, built 2003), which quadrants. Radius of 34 knot winds: Houston Pilots have advised that that also sustained water damage to some 70 nautical miles in all four no more vessels will be boarded of its thruster control systems, is quadrants. At 0000, UTC, Sep 28, the inbound. Once vessel operations are projected to start work in the first centre is predicted to be near lat complete today at BCT, everything will half of 2006 due to longer delivery 16.4N, long 143.6W, with maximum be secured and the terminal closed. times for critical replacement parts. winds of 55 knots and gusts to 65 (See issue of Sep 23.) All of the damaged rigs are covered knots. London, Sep 23 -- Following received under a hull and machinery London, Sep 28 -- Following received from the Meteorological Office, dated insurance policy with a combined from the Meteorological Office: today: Hurricane "Rita" centre located deductible of $10 million for this Tropical storm "Kenneth": Storm near lat 26.8N, long 91.0W at 0900, event. In addition, GSF Arctic I, GSF centre located near lat 17.1N, long UTC, today. Position accurate within Development Driller II and GSF 144.2W, at 0900, UTC, Sep 28. 15 nautical miles. Present movement Development Driller I are insured Position accurate to within 45 nautical toward the north-west or 305 degrees under a policy that provides miles. Present movement towards the at eight knots. Maximum sustained reimbursement to the company for north-west, or 315 deg, at 10 knots. winds 120 knots with gusts to 145 100% of each rig's contracted dayrate Maximum sustained winds 45 knots knots. Forecast position lat 27.6N, following 60 days of lost revenue, up with gusts to 55 knots. Radius of 34- long 92.2W at 1800, UTC, today. to a maximum of 270 days per rig. knot winds 70 nautical miles north Maximum winds 125 knots, gusts 155 London, Sep 28 -- A SMIT Salvage semicircle, 30 nautical miles knots. Forecast position lat 28.9N, BV report states: With wind speeds of elsewhere. Radius of 12-foot seas 100 long 93.6W at 0600, UTC, Sep 24. 280 kilometres an hour hurricane nautical miles north semicircle, 60 Maximum winds 120 knots, gusts 145 "Katrina" struck the US Gulf Coast nautical miles elsewhere. Forecast for knots. and caused havoc across Louisiana, 0600, UTC, Sep 29: Position lat 19.0N, London, Sep 23 -- A press report, Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. long 147.7W. Maximum sustained dated today, states: More than a The expertise of SMIT Salvage was winds 40 knots with gusts to 50 knots. million people are fleeing towns and called upon to provide assistance for Radius of 34-knot winds 60 nautical cities in Texas and Louisiana as the two grounded bulk carriers in the miles north semicircle, 25 nautical US Gulf Coast prepares for the arrival Mississippi. Salvage teams from miles elsewhere. of Hurricane "Rita" today. Their flight Rotterdam and Houston were inland has been slowed by traffic jams dispatched to the disaster area. SMIT HURRICANE "RITA" stretching up to 100 miles, with fuel Salvage obtained Lloyd's Form London, Sep 23 -- Hurricane "Rita" shortages reported. Texas is due to contracts for bulk Patrizia D'Amato located near lat 25.4N, long 88.7W at bear the brunt of the storm but (39727 gt, built 2004) and bulk Chios 1500, UTC, about 460 miles south-east forecasters say its path may shift east, BeautyM (see issue of Sep 15). These of Galveston Texas and about 445 increasing the risk heavy rains may vessels were in ballast when the miles south-east of Port Arthur Texas. test New Orleans' flood defences. hurricane struck. Using local hired "Rita" is moving toward the west- Texas has called on the federal tugs, the two ships were refloated on northwest near 9mph. A gradual turn government to put 10,000 troops on Sep 1 and 3. (Note -- Patrizia D'Amato to the northwest is expected during standby for search and rescue work. was at anchor lat 30 40 21.78N, long the next 24 to 36 hours. Maximum The Gulf Coast from Louisiana as far 88 02 14.88W, Mobile area, at 1635, sustained winds have decreased to west as Mexico is on alert, with Sep 27.) near 165mph with higher gusts. "Rita" officials warning "Rita"'s course is a Category Five hurricane on the remains unpredictable. In other HURRICANE "KENNETH" Saffir-Simpson scale. Some slight developments: About 1,000 state London, Sep 24 -- Following received weakening is forecast during the next troopers and 5,000 National Guard are from the Meterological Office, dated 24 hours but "Rita" is expected to already making preparations for the today: Tropical storm "Kenneth" remain an extremely dangerous storm in Texas; National Guard lorries located near lat 16N, long 138.3W, at hurricane. are taking badly-needed fuel to petrol 0900, UTC, today. Position accurate to PORT: Port Arthur, Texas: The US stations and stranded motorists within 45 nautical miles. Present Coast Guard has requested all vessels around Houston and Oil companies movement towards the west, or 270 in the Port Arthur/Beaumont port are closing refineries in Texas and deg, at 3 knots. Maximum sustained areas to plan to depart 12 hours prior moving workers from offshore rigs. winds 40 knots with gusts to 50 knots. to Hurricane "Rita" making landfall. According to the National Hurricane London, Sep 26 -- Following received PORT: Lake Charles, Louisiana: The Centre, "Rita" weakened yesterday to from the Meteorological Office: US Coast Guard Captain of the Port a Category Four, but was still carrying Hurricane "Kenneth": Hurricane yesterday (September 21) set winds of 140mph this morning. The centre located near lat 15.6N, long Hurricane Condition Whiskey for the storm remains "extremely dangerous", 140.0W, at 0300, UTC, Sep 26. Port of Lake Charles. All commercial being at least as powerful as "Katrina" Position accurate to within 30 nautical vessels and barges greater than 500 and threatening 370 miles of coastline. miles. Present movement towards the gross tons must immediately advise Houston's busy airports will close at west-south-west, or 240 deg, at three the Captain of the Port of their intent noon local time (1700, UTC) ahead of knots. Maximum sustained winds 65 to remain in port or to depart. "Rita"'s expected landfall late today. A knots with gusts to 80 knots. Radius of Commercial vessels and barges mandatory evacuation order in the 64-knot winds 10 nautical miles. greater than 500 gross tons desiring to island city of Galveston was rapidly

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11 Weather & Navigation observed and 90% of the city's 57,000 with a 20ft storm surge into low-lying might have seemed devastating. It residents had left by yesterday areas along the Texas-Louisiana knocked out power for than a million afternoon. The escape from Galveston border, prompting fears of flooding. customers, sparked fires across the has been gruelling, with those who left The towns of Sabine Pass in Texas and hurricane zone and swamped spending much of the past 24 hours Cameron in Louisiana took the initial Louisiana shoreline towns with a 15- stuck in traffic jams in stifling fury of the hurricane. It is not yet foot storm surge that required daring humidity. Many have been left clear what damage has been done to boat and helicopter rescues of stranded on the roadside, out of petrol, the oil refineries and facilities near hundreds of people. But the new storm low on water and food, waiting for Beaumont and Port Arthur. There was came in the wake of Hurricane help from the police or the Texas however renewed flooding in New "Katrina", with its 1,000-plus death National Guard. In Houston low-lying Orleans. A surge of water flowed over toll, cataclysmic flooding of New areas at risk from flooding were also one of the protective levees which had Orleans and staggering destruction in emptying. To the north of the city, a been patched up after the floods Mississippi. By contrast, "Rita" spared traffic queue up to 100 miles long was caused by Hurricane "Katrina" last Houston, New Orleans and other reported as people headed inland in month. The storm following the violent major cities a direct hit, and by temperatures reaching 37C. Scores of winds was also expected to dump up to midafternoon today federal officials hospitals along the main evacuation 25in of rain. Heavy rains fell in Lake said they knew of no storm-related routes out of Houston closed their Charles and powerful winds are fatalities. "The damage is not as doors to new patients today after reported to have caused considerable serious as we had expected it to be," being swamped by people suffering structural damage to property. As well said R. David Paulison, acting director heat exhaustion, AFP news agency as ripping off rooftops, the storm of the Federal Emergency reports. In neighbouring Louisiana, knocked a container vessel from its Management Agency. "The evacuations Governor Kathleen Blanco urged moorings in Lake Charles and the worked." Damage to the vital people to leave the south-western vessel threatened to hit a highway concentration of oil refineries along coast, already battered by Hurricane bridge, news reports said. Hotel the coast appeared relatively light, "Katrina". She estimated that between worker Rainey Chretien, of the although industry officials said it was 300,000 and 500,000 people would go. Elegante Hotel in Beaumont, Texas, too early to assess whether there Engineers have been seeking to said the storm blew out windows, would be an impact on oil prices. bolster the floodwalls in New Orleans, brought down a chandelier and ripped Valero Energy Corp. said its 255,000- which were overcome by "Katrina"'s the roof off another section of lobby. barrel-per-day Port Arthur refinery storm surges. Some estimates say Chief Micky Bertrand, of the sustained significant damage to two even a few inches of rain would Beaumont Fire and Rescue, said it had cooling towers and a flare stack, and overcome the weakened flood defences. been a rough night with a number of would need at least two weeks for Mexico has not evacuated its coastal house fires and power lines down repairs. "The petrochemical industry state of Tamaulipas where tropical across the region. Flood waters and is looking good," said Texas storm conditions are predicted. winds had prevented some emergency Emergency Management State However, the state is on a "yellow services from reaching the fires. But Coordinator Jack Colley. "We're alert" in case "Rita" should veer west, they are now starting to to get out to working to get power restored." He away from Texas. assess the damage, officials said. said the total number of power London, Sep 24 -- Following received There were 16 arrests for burglary in outages in the state dropped to from the Meterological Office, dated Houston overnight but few reports of 800,000 as of 1500, CDT, today in the today: Hurricane "Rita": A hurricane lawlessness in other areas. affected areas, after an initial warning remains in force from London, Sept 25 -- A press report, estimate of more than one million. The Sargent, Texas, to Morgan City, dated Sept 23, states: Transocean Inc Coast Guard reported there was minor Louisiana. At 0900, UTC, tropical said that its drill platform Deepsea damage at most to Houston-area storm warning discontinued south of Nautilus broke free of a tug and is crude-oil ports and to the docks of Port Port O'Connor, Texas. Tropical storm floating about 40 miles south of Grand Arthur, Texas. "Rita" roared ashore at warning remains in effect for the Isle, La., said company spokesman 0330, EDT, close to the Texas- south-eastern coast of Louisiana, east Guy Cantwell. It is east of the eye of Louisiana border as a Category 3 of Morgan City to the mouth of the Hurricane "Rita", but in an area being hurricane with top winds of 120 miles Pearl River, including metropolitan lashed with heavy winds and waves. per hour and warnings of up to 25 New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain, Before "Rita"'s arrival, the Houston- inches of rain. By midafternoon, it was and from south of Sargent to Port based company was repairing the rig downgraded to a tropical storm with O'Connor. Hurricane centre located at sea to fix minor damage it top sustained winds of 50 mph as it near lat 29.6N, long 93.9W, at 0900, sustained during hurricane "Katrina" moved slowly through east Texas UTC, today. Position accurate to last month. It was being towed away toward Shreveport, La. Before it within 15 nautical miles. Present from the storm when the tow bridle weakened, "Rita" showed its strength movement towards the north-west, or broke in rough seas. Fourteen people across a broad region between 325 deg, at 10 knots. Maximum on Deepwater Nautilus had to be taken Houston and New Orleans. In sustained winds 105 knots with gusts off by helicopter, but as of 1700 Friday Beaumont, trees of all sizes and power to 130 knots. (See issue of Sep 26.) (Sept 23), the evacuation was lines were down, street signs were London, Sep 24 -- A Press report, complete. Deepwater Nautilus is now shredded, and one brick wall of an dated today, states: Hurricane "Rita" essentially at the mercy of the storm. office building had collapsed. In Port has pounded the US Gulf Coast with The multiple story structure is at risk Arthur, which is virtually a ghost driving wind and rains, leaving a trail of being blown into one of the 4,000 town, a number of neighbourhoods of destruction. Electricity stations platforms that dot the Gulf Coast or suffered minor flooding, with about a exploded and fires erupted as power even into shore. The company is foot to two feet of water rising near lines came down, resulting in the loss tracking its position by transponder, doorsteps in some areas. . Some of power for about a million people in says Mr. Cantwell. storefronts were torn apart, and bricks the region. The cities of Houston and London, Sept 25 -- A press report, from those buildings litter several Galveston, which were braced for dated Sept 24, states: Hurricane streets. Some of the worst flooding severe weather, escaped a direct hit, "Rita" pummeled east Texas and the occurred along the Louisiana coast, as the storm strayed east from its Louisiana coast today, triggering where transformers exploded, roofs original path. "Rita" has weakened to floods and demolishing buildings, yet were torn off and trees uprooted by a Category One hurricane but heavy the dominant reaction was relief that winds topping 100 mph. Floodwaters rains continue. The US National the once-dreaded storm proved far less were nine feet deep near town of Hurricane Center said winds of up to fierce and deadly than "Katrina". Abbeville; farther west in Cameron 120mph were recorded when the Authorities pleaded with the roughly Parish, sheriff's deputies watched hurricane hit land at about 0600, three million evacuees not to hurry appliances and what appeared to be UTC, but winds had since dropped to home too soon, fearing more chaos. In parts of homes swirling in the waters around 75mph. "Rita" crashed ashore any other hurricane season, "Rita" of the Intracoastal Waterway. The

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12 Weather & Navigation region was largely evacuated ahead of information came in, including the Aggregates. Of the 38 Mobile Offshore "Rita", but some residents stayed condition of the energy infrastructure, Drilling Units (MODUs) reported in behind and were rescued by helicopter. which is included in his calculations. the path of Hurricane "Rita", eight are New Orleans, devastated by "Katrina" "My only concern is that there may be reported adrift. Assessments to barely three weeks ago, endured a some offshore energy issues, damage critical infrastructure continue but second straight day of new flooding to oil platforms, that we just don't preliminary reports indicate major that could seriously disrupt recovery know about," he said. Another refineries in the area sustained only plans. The Army Corps of Engineers company that calculates storm minor damage. Of the 819 manned oil said it would need at least two weeks damage, Eqecat, put the number at $3 and gas facilities in the Gulf of to pump water from the most heavily billion to $6 billion. Souch of Risk Mexico, 745 remain evacuated. At this flooded neighbourhoods, notably the Management said the estimates of $5 time, no major pollution incidents impoverished Lower Ninth Ward, after billion or less were "in line with what have been reported as a result of crews plug a series of levee breaches. we're seeing." damage from "Rita". The Coast Guard As Rita's winds swept past, several London, Sept 26 -- A Coast Guard St. received a report of approximately 24 fires broke out in and around Houston, Louis press release, dated Sept 25, oiled birds in Calhoun County, Texas. including one in a two-story states: More than 4,000 Coast The source of the oil was attributed to apartment building that damaged at Guardsmen continue to save lives and runoff from streets where vehicles least eight units. Several buildings assess the damage to waterways, aids were caught in floodwaters. The Coast were damaged or destroyed by fire in to navigation, the environment and Guard has received 143, 96-hour, Galveston, and a blaze broke out maritime transportation system advanced notices of arrival for vessels before dawn at a shopping complex in infrastructure in the wake of calling on ports in the Houston and Pasadena. As the sun came up in hurricane "Rita". Todate, the Coast Galveston areas of responsibility. At downtown Beaumont, a port city of Guard has rescued 120 people this time there are no delays 114,000, the few people who stayed imperiled by flood waters and has associated with these vessel arrivals behind emerged to find some blown- medically evacuated two others from as a result of "Rita". The Coast Guard out windows, damaged roofs, signs hospitals in the hurricane-impacted is working in concert with the twisted and lying in the street and area. Coast Guard rescuers continue maritime industry, state and local scattered downed trees. There was to work closely with local and state officials, U.S. Navy, Minerals some standing water, but no officials as well as the Department of Management Service, U.S. Army significant flooding. In Beaumont's Defense, to determine the number of Corps of Engineers and the oil and gas nine-story Elegante Hotel, wind blew people in need of rescue and to ensure exploration and production industry to out massive windows in the lobby, help is delivered as swiftly as possible. open waterways and facilitate bringing down a chandelier and Two Disaster Response Units (DRUs) maritime commerce as soon as safely ripping part of the roof off. were dispatched to the Lake possible. London, Sep 25 -- A press report, Livingston, Texas, area while three London, Sep 24 -- Coast Guard is still dated today, states: Damage caused by more DRUs were deployed to Port trying to get damage information on hurricane "Rita" as it swept across Arthur, Texas, to aid in relief efforts. the Mississippi River, at this time the parts of Texas and Louisiana DRUs are equipped with flood punts River remains closed. NOAA reported yesterday, was perhaps only one- that are able to navigate through that Tropical Storm and Tornado seventh as severe financially as the flooded areas to rescue people and Warnings would be in effect for most devastation that hurricane "Katrina" assist in recovery efforts. Waterways of the area until 1600 hrs or so today. inflicted on Mississippi and eastern assessment continues today as the Bulk Waralee Naree (15282 gt, built Louisiana, according to initial Coast Guard works with the maritime 1982) broke free from the St. James estimates by insurance experts. The industry to safely restore commerce. Buoys. This vessel was reported to be early estimates suggested that there In Texas, the ports and waterways of in danger of colliding with another had been property damage of about $5 Houston, Galveston, Freeport, Texas vessel in a buoy system, and posing a billion or less from "Rita", not City, Port Arthur, Beaumont, Victoria danger to the Sunshine Bridge. including the effects of flooding and Barge Canal and Port of Orange Attempts were being made to the impact on offshore oil rigs, which remain closed to vessel traffic, while maintain this vessel and get a Pilot on are not covered in most of the the ports and waterways of board and more tugs to assist. There calculations. The storm struck less Brownsville, Corpus Christi and Port were 40 mile an hour sustained winds heavily populated areas, with less Lavaca are open. In Louisiana the in this area at the time. The Coast force than "Katrina", mostly bypassing ports and waterways of Sabine Pass, Guard reported that the Port Allen Galveston and Houston, where Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, Morgan and Old River Locks were believed to damage of up to $30 billion had been City, Fourchon, Houma, New Orleans, be operational, though there was a feared. Claire Souch, a senior analyst Venice, Plaquemines, St. Bernard report that one of the bridges near the and manager at Risk Management Parish, Grand Isle and Port of Port Allen Locks was locked in a down Solutions, a company that calculates Shreveport remain closed. The Lower position. The Bar Pilots reported storms' effects, said that her company Mississippi River is open however sending boats and Pilots down to was still assessing the flood damage, deep draught vessels are limited to assess the damage at Pilottown and but that so far, "From the wind, from daylight operations only below Head of the SWP Pilot Station. The Bar Pilots the storm surge, we're not seeing the Passes (mile marker 0.0). The Red are hoping to be set up to resume devastating effects, the catastrophic River and Atchafalya River are now service tomorrow afternoon. The pilot damage that we saw in "Katrina"." open. Facility and vessel operators are boats were instructed to report Early estimates indicate that reminded to check for updated port damage on their voyage down river. Hurricane Rita would still be one of and waterway information via Coast The NOBRA Pilots reported that the the 10 most expensive storms in Guard Broadcast Notice to Mariners vessel, which is believed to have history. AIR Worldwide, another and Marine Safety Information allided with the Gramercy water hurricane-tracking company, in Bulletins, as port conditions continue intake, is anchored in the channel in Boston, said its first computer-based to be updated. Several barge the Gramercy area. There was also calculations indicated losses from breakaway incidents were reported in another vessel anchored in the "Rita" of $2.5 billion to $5 billion. conjunction with Hurricane "Rita" channel near Burnside. There were Robert P. Hartwig, the chief economist including one in which barges reports being made by harbor tugs for the Insurance Information reportedly allided with the I-10 bridge that many anchored vessels' sterns Institute, a trade group in New York, in Port Arthur and came to rest were also over or near the channel in estimated Rita's damage at perhaps $4 against the West Lake Railroad this reach of the river. The Corps billion to $5 billion. Hartwig said: Bridge. Damage to the bridges was reported their dredge Mcfarland "Every passing hour seems to indicate being assessed at release time. Among would be arriving at SWP tonight and that the storm is not as severe as had the reports of damaged vessels are: A was to survey on the way up the river originally been anticipated." He said Cameron Ferry assist tug sinking at enroute to station at Venice. There he might revise his estimate as more the Bulk Terminal No.4 at Port were reports from Lake Charles that

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13 Weather & Navigation the Port and City had flooded. The London, Sep 26 -- A press report, appear to have sustained little or no was also a report that a container dated today, states: Houston Pilots damage, although personnel have not vessel or barge had broken free, the were due to start inbound ship traffic yet been able to board most of the rigs latest word was that this vessel was beginning at 0600 hrs, this morning. to complete detailed assessments. The now secure. There will be several more All transits are currently daylight- Company's deep drilling barge rig 300, telecons today and SALA will continue restricted, but it is hoped that this which was operating in inland waters to keep our members updated. The restriction may be lifted soon. Due to just east of Cameron, Louisiana was Coast Guard Helicopters had not been many offshore buoys being off position, submerged but remained on station able to flyover the river yet because of only vessels with a draft of 34 ft fresh and sustained water damage to the the high winds still in the area. water are being accepted. This draft electrical, power, mud pump and other Indications were that once the winds limitation is expected to be lifted in systems. The rig will be moved to a died down and more surveys could be due course. US Coast Guard offshore shipyard as soon as possible for completed by air and water that assets are expected to arrive by repairs and the company hopes to certain stretches of the river may be tomorrow morning to begin have it back in service within weeks. opened either later tonight our at first repositioning navigational aids. Nabors also had five Jackup rigs in light tomorrow. London, Sep 26 -- A press release Sabine Pass with at least two London, Sep 26 -- A press report, from GlobalSantaFe Corporation, sustaining damage; a cursory dated today, states: Rescue teams are dated Houston today, states: Offshore inspection of the other rigs indicates resuming their search for victims in oil and gas drilling rigs GSF Adriatic little to no damage. The Dolphin 111 coastal communities of the US states VII and GSF High Island III, could had windows in the pilot house and of Texas and Louisiana, two days after not be found on their drilling locations quarters blown out, resulting in water Hurricane "Rita" struck. Only two during a search by fixed-wing aircraft damage to control systems and the people are so far reported dead in the yesterday. There were no signs of any quarters. The mast on Jackup rig 54 region, after the storm missed major major damage from Hurricane "Rita" was blown over but the company has a population centres, but low-lying to the company's other rigs in the Gulf substitute mast available and should towns and villages in the immediate of Mexico. All of the company's rigs be able to return the rig to service in a path of the hurricane have been are insured under a hull and few weeks as well. There is a devastated, and hundreds are still machinery policy subject to a total possibility that some damage was been feared stranded. New Orleans deductible of $10 million for this incurred to components of other rigs residents were told they could return event. The two missing jackup rigs stored at a yard proximate to the Port to some areas of the city. According to had a combined net book value at Jun of New Iberia that incurred flooding, a plan drawn up by city Mayor Ray 30, 2005, of $22.2 million and are but our nearby offices are dry and still Nagin, residents can return to the insured for a total of $125 million. The functioning. Nabors land operations Algiers district and workers to the rigs contributed $5.3 million of the had nearly 40 rigs proximate the business district, four weeks after company's total $135.3 million of net storm's path and has determined that Hurricane "Katrina" caused massive income for the first six months of all but one are without any significant devastation and flooding. The plan 2005. damage. The remaining rig, Rig 409 was delayed for a week by Hurricane London, Sept 27 -- A Rowan located in Jefferson County Texas, Rita, which overcame some flood Companies Inc press release, dated remains inaccessible. However, prior defences for a second time. Meanwhile Sept 26, states: Rowan Companies, Inc to the storm Nabors had removed all people have already begun to return to announced today that, in the of the engines, mud pumps and Houston. Military helicopter crews, aftermath of hurricane "Rita", its jack- electrical distribution equipment from coastguards and volunteers have been up drill platforms Rowan Odessa the site and lowered the mast. scouring the worst-hit areas, where (7221 gt, built 1977) and Rowan Although the full extent of any many people are thought to have Halifax (6456 gt, built 1983) were not economic loss net of insurance still is defied evacuation orders. In some at their pre-storm locations. In not known, Nabors does not expect it communities, 90-100% of buildings addition, the hull of the jack-up to have any material adverse effect on were destroyed by the high winds, Rowan Louisiana (7222 gt, built 1975) its operating results or financial while many low-lying areas in the apparently detached from its legs and position. The information above Louisiana wetlands were under 9ft of is aground offshore Louisiana. The includes forward-looking statements water. Only stilts to hold buildings up Company was also unable to account within the meaning of the Securities were left standing in Holly Beach, for drill platform Rowan Fort Worth Act of 1933 and the Securities Louisiana, the Associated Press said, (6627 gt, built 1978), via a high- Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward- while in nearby Cameron almost all altitude aerial survey conducted looking statements are subject to homes were destroyed. Meanwhile yesterday. Each of the Company's certain risks and uncertainties, as Texas Governor Rick Perry, touring the other Gulf of Mexico rigs was disclosed by Nabors from time to time worst affected areas, said his state had identified, though an assessment of in its filings with the Securities and got off relatively lightly. "Even though their condition will depend upon closer Exchange Commission. As a result of the people right here in Beaumont and inspection. The Company will conduct these factors, Nabors actual results Port Arthur and this part of Orange more extensive aerial surveys as soon may differ materially from those County really got whacked, the rest of as weather conditions allow. Rowan indicated or implied by such forward- the state missed a bullet," he said. One Odessa, Rowan Halifax and Rowan looking statements. For further man was reported killed by a falling Louisiana were operating under information, please contact Dennis A. tree in Texas, while a person died in a contracts that provided for total Smith, Director of Corporate tornado in Mississippi caused by the revenues of approximately $210,000 Development of Nabors Corporate hurricane. No deaths have been per day. The rigs are collectively Services, Inc. at 281-775-8038. To reported in Louisiana. Mr Perry insured for an amount that exceeds request Investor Materials, call our estimated that the state had sustained their aggregate carrying value. The corporate headquarters in Hamilton, around $8bn of damage, but predicted Company does not maintain insurance Bermuda at 441-292-1510 or via email that most of the vital oil refineries had against loss of revenue. at [email protected]. been spared and could resume London, Sept 27 -- A Nabors CONTACT INFORMATION Nabors production soon. In Houston, special Industries Ltd press release, dated Corporate Services, Inc. Dennis A. routes have been set up to let people Sept 26, states: Nabors Industries Ltd Smith, 281-775-8038 enter section by section, as power today announced the results of its London, Sep 27 -- A press report, remains down in parts of Texas, and preliminary assessment of damage dated Sep 26, states: The Houston schools and courts remain closed. Local incurred during Hurricane "Rita". Ship Channel was reopened today to sources report that residents are Nabors had a number of rigs in the vessels with a draft of less than 35 returning, but to order. While it is a immediate path of the hurricane. The feet, according to the U.S. Coast slow process, it is so far running Company has confirmed that all rigs Guard, but it is only for daylight tug smoothly though the city is still on various sites on the Outer and barge traffic, however. The effectively closed for business. 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45 vessels back into the Port of direction indicator data from Noble's significant damage to the unit's Houston by the end of today, said GPS technology on board. Principal mooring system, but a more complete Capt. Mike Morris, presiding officer of damage to Noble Joe Alford comprised rig inspection is ongoing. The well was the pilots. However, larger vessels, bent or broken support members below secured and all personnel were safely such as tankers carrying crude, will the hull. Based on the limited and evacuated before the arrival of the not be able to enter under the preliminary investigations conducted storm. Also, the company reported restrictions imposed by the Coast to date, the company believes it will that the moored semisubmersible drill Guard, since those vessels, at least need to make repairs to Noble Max platform Deepsea Nautilus (see issue when they are fully loaded, need a Smith and Noble Joe Alford in a of Sep 27), which sustained damage to deeper channel. Tomorrow tankers shipyard, while it may be possible to its mooring system during hurricane carrying crude and other large vessels complete an investigation and damage "Katrina" and was undergoing repairs, will probably be allowed to enter the assessment, and make any necessary was set adrift following the failure of a Port of Houston. About 20 or so vessels repairs, of the other units without tow line utilised by a vessel engaged in are scheduled to enter tomorrow taking them to a shipyard. The towing the rig to a location away from morning, Morris said. Plans call for company has secured slots for the the projected path of the storm. A the Houston Port's facilities to be units if necessary in shipyards in partial crew on board Deepwater reopened tomorrow for commercial Sabine Pass, Texas, and Pascagoula, Nautilus utilised the rig's thruster- trucks assigned to transport cargo in Mississippi. The company is not able assist capabilities to navigate the unit and out of the facilities. The Port of to make a complete assessment of the to a location approximately 40 miles Houston Authority's facilities condition of the units until additional south of Grand Isle, Louisiana, where sustained minimal damage from crew members and other technical the rig remains grounded. All crew Hurricane Rita, Port officials reported. personnel are able to conduct further members were safely evacuated. The Those facilities were re-opened today surveys. High levels of offshore company will provide more for Port employees and related drilling activity in recent periods have information on the condition of both personnel. An investigation of damage led to reduced availability and units, including an estimate of rig to the ship channel as a result of extended delivery times of some downtime, once damage assessment Hurricane "Rita" was ongoing today. offshore drilling equipment, materials efforts have concluded. The company's London, Sep 28 -- A Noble and supplies, which could result in two other active moored Corporation press release, dated Sugar delays in returning units to semisubmersible rigs in the Gulf of Island, Texas, Sep 27, states: Noble operational status. Latent damage to Mexico, Falcon 100 and Transocean Corporation reported that its offshore the units or delays in shipyard repair Amirante, were safely evacuated and drilling units located in the main path projects could also adversely impact remain on location in the aftermath of of hurricane "Rita" were safely schedules to return the units to the storm. Initial assessments of these evacuated prior to the storm's arrival operational status. In Noble's marine two rigs have not revealed any and that all the company's units in the package insurance program, the damage. The company's six U.S. Gulf of Mexico have been secured. company maintains retention (a dynamically positioned rigs Four semisubmersibles operating in deductible) of $10,000,000 per any one successfully moved out of the projected Green Canyon blocks, Noble Therald occurrence, with a $40,000,000 annual path of the storm prior to its arrival Martin (7339 gt, built 1975), Noble aggregate deductible. Based on the and are in the process of Paul Romano (13718 gt, built 1981), information currently available, the recommencing operations. Noble Amoa Runner (13780 gt, built company expects hurricane "Rita"- London, Sept 29 -- A BHP Biliton 1982) and Noble Max Smith (12852 gt, related claims under its insurance press release, dated Sept 27, states: built 1980) broke away from their program to exceed the company's An initial assessment of BHP Billiton mooring lines as "Rita" passed. The $10,000,000 retention. During assets in the Gulf of Mexico following company was able to track the location hurricane "Rita", drill platform Noble hurricane "Rita" has revealed that the of the units during the storm using Jim Thompson (13722 gt, built 1982) Typhoon tension leg platform,located global positioning system (GPS) was ballasted down in a designated in 2,000 feet of water in Green Canyon technology installed onboard each of anchorage location in the Sabine area Blocks 236/237, approximately the units. Noble Therald Martin, River, where it was undergoing 165 miles south-southwest of New Noble Paul Romano, Noble Amos inspection and repairs of damage to its Orleans, was severed from its mooring Runner and Noble Max Smith moved mooring systems sustained during and sustained severe damage during approximately 89 miles, 118 miles, 75 hurricane "Katrina". Our onboard GPS the storm. The facility has been miles and 123 miles, respectively, off technology noted no movement of the located and is being secured. Chevron, their original locations. Noble unit during the storm. Noble crews the operator of the Typhoon field, has assessment crews have been on board have not inspected the unit due to mobilised appropriate resources to each unit for preliminary evaluations restrictions on movement within address any environmental concerns. of condition. In addition, drill platform Sabine Pass and southeast Texas No employees are at risk as all were Noble Lorris Bouzigard (7339 gt, built following the storm. The company evacuated prior to the storm, and 1974) broke at least one of its 10 expects to have Noble personnel on production was shut-in. BHP Billiton mooring lines, with the remaining board the unit today. The company holds a 50% interest in the Typhoon lines holding the unit in position further reported, also based on limited field with Chevron holding the approximately 0.8 of a mile off its and preliminary investigations, that remaining 50%. The facility original location, and drill platform its other two submersibles and its two commenced production in 2001. Noble Joe Alford (6391 gt, built 1982) jackup rigs operating in the U.S. Gulf moved approximately 8 miles off its of Mexico appeared not to have INDIA original location. Principal damage to sustained damage of a material London, Sep 29 -- A press report, dated Noble Max Smith comprised a hole of nature. The company expects these today, states: A landslide in the Indian approximately 8 feet by 20 feet in its units to return to operations in due constituency of Rakhdong Tintek has starboard outboard column at the 96 course. caused extensive damage and foot level, a crossover deck on the London, Sep 28 -- A Transocean Inc, evacuations. Over 200 families have starboard side, and the main deck press release, dated Houston, Sep 27, been forced to leave their homes, as outboard of an anchor winch. An states: Transocean Inc today reported officials feared for their safety. Houses, industry publication has erroneously that its moored semi-submersible drill roads, power lines and agricultural land reported that Noble Max Smith was platform Transocean Marianas (20461 have all been destroyed by the mud and "blown off location and straight into gt, built 1979) was forced off its debris that hit the area following Chevron's Tension Leg Platform drilling location during hurricane torrential rains. Many residents have Typhoon. After its mooring lines broke, "Rita" and is grounded in shallow also been left short of food and other Noble Max Smith passed water at Eugene Island block 133 supplies as roads to the area remain approximately 2.5 miles to the south approximately 140 miles north-west of blocked off. Officials have stated that and west of the fixed location of the its pre-storm location. An initial the clean-up operation could take up to Typhoon TLP, based on the rig assessment of the rig indicates a month to complete.

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MEXICO Makgale. No flights were delayed or of two weeks, the Office of Civil London, Sep 28 -- A press report, diverted, but three pieces of Defense (OCD) said yesterday. Tropical dated Sep 27, states: Intense rains corrugated iron sheeting blew off the depression "Labuyo" (international throughout southern Mexico and parts multi-storey car park and 18 pieces of codename: "Damrey") blew out of the of Central America have caused rivers prefabricated acoustic ceiling panels country on yesterday, leaving two to overflow, killing at least three fell off during vibrations caused by the people dead due to drowning. Late last people and forcing thousands to flee storm. All areas affected by the storm week, a low pressure area dumped their homes, officials said today. In were repaired and operations heavy rains in Northern Luzon, southern Mexico, local officials continued unaffected, he said. At least triggering floods and landslides that declared a state of emergency in parts one person is known to have been killed 14 people, the report said. OCD of Chiapas state and some 2,000 killed by a tree felled by the winds in deputy administrator and spokesman people were living in temporary Zevenfontein informal settlement, Anthony Golez said the death toll was shelters today. In neighbouring north of Johannesburg, and many revised since casualties earlier Oaxaca state, more than 1,000 people homes are believed to have been attributed to "Damrey" were were evacuated from their homes and damaged. discovered to have been caused by the were staying in shelters. low pressure area. Damage to agriculture due to heavy rains brought NEPAL THAILAND by "Damrey" was estimated at 1.2 London, Sep 28 -- At least 15 people London, Sep 23 -- A press report, million pesos in Quirino province, 20 were killed when landslides and dated today, states: A big clean-up million pesos in Albay province, and floodwaters engulfed a village in began yesterday in Chiang Mai city, 34.6 million in Camarines Sur western Nepal, police said today. after floods caused one billion baht in province. Floodwaters forced 96 people However newspaper reports said at damage, as water in the Ping river in Nabua town, Camarines Sur least 25 people were missing in the dropped back to normal. However, province and six others in Solsona village of Sirsha in Dadeldhura water still caused problems for town, Ilocos Norte province. Flooding district after the landslides, which residents living near Suvarnabhumi was also reported in low-lying villages were triggered by several days of airport. Several low-lying areas in the provinces of Quirino, Cagayan, heavy rain. remained inundated, but the situation and Albay. At 1400, yesterday, was expected to go back to normal by "Damrey" was estimated to be 180 late evening. Deputy Interior Minister kilometres north northwest of Laoag ROMANIA Sermsak Pongpanit, who inspected the City, Ilocos Norte with maximum London, Sep 22 -- A press report, scene with the provincial governor and sustained winds of 95 kilometres-per- dated today, states: At least six people the mayor, estimated the flood caused hour near the centre and gustiness of died in floods which hit southeastern about one billion baht in damage. The up to 120 kph. It is forecast to move Romania overnight, damaging flood on Aug 13 which wrought havoc west northwest at 11 kph, the state hundreds of homes and disrupting in the city and other places in the weather bureau said in its latest traffic on the Black Sea shore towards northern province, caused damage of weather bulletin. Storm Signal Bulgaria, state agency Rompres five billion baht, said Mr Sermsak. number 2 remains in effect over the reported. Torrential rains have swept provinces of Cagayan, Ilocos Norte, across the Balkans for most of the TROPICAL STORM "KENNETH" Ilocos Sur, Abra, Kalinga, Apayao, and summer, killing dozens of people in See "Hurricane 'Kenneth.'" the Calayan and Batanes island Romania and its neighbour Bulgaria groups. Storm Signal number 1 and causing damage to houses, road TROPICAL STORM "NORMA" remains over the provinces of Isabela, bridges and crops. The victims London, Sep 26 -- Following received Ifugao, Mountain Province, Benguet, drowned in the swollen waters close to from the Meteorological Office: and La Union. the Black Sea towns of Costinesti and Tropical storm "Norma": Storm centre London, Sep 23 -- Following received Tuzla. Local police said a main road located near lat 19.4N, long 113.5W, at from the Meteorological Office, dated was closed linking Romania's biggest 0900, UTC, Sep 26. Position accurate today: Tropical storm "Damrey" near Black Sea port of Constanta with the to within 45 nautical miles . Present lat 20.2N, long 117.1E at 0600, UTC, Bulgarian port of Varna. movement towards the north-west, or today. Movement for the past six hours Meteorologists said more rain was 320 deg, at seven knots. Maximum 270 degrees at 10 knots. Position expected over the next few days. sustained winds 40 knots with gusts to accurate to within 60 nautical miles. Bucharest, Sep 23 -- The Sulina 50 knots. Radius of 34-knot winds and Maximum sustained winds 55 knots, Channel was closed at 1200, Sep 20 12-foot seas 75 nautical miles. gusts 70 knots. Forecast position lat due to bad weather, wind north north- Forecast for 0600, UTC, Sep 27: 20.0N, long 115.5E at 1800, UTC, east beaufort 6-7 (strong breeze- near Position lat 21.1N, long 115.3W. today. Maximum sustained winds 55 gale), sea five to six feet and it is still Maximum sustained winds 35 knots knots, gusts 70 knots. Forecast closed at present. -- Lloyd's Agents. with gusts to 45 knots. Radius of 34- position lat 19.8N, long 113.7E at Bucharest, Sep 26 -- The Sulina knot winds 60 nautical miles. 0600, UTC, today. Maximum sustained Channel was re-opened at 1400 hrs, London, Sep 27 -- Following received winds 55 knots, gusts 70 knots. Sep 24, but was closed again at 1230 from the Meteorological Office, dated Beijing, Sep 26 -- The strongest storm hrs Sep 25, due to bad weather: winds today: At 0300, UTC, today, the centre to hit China's southern resort island of north-north-east force six-seven. It of tropical depression "Norma" was Hainan in decades plowed along its was re-opened today at 0610 hrs, loacted near lat 21.0N, long 115.4W. coast today after killing two people today. -- Lloyd's Agents. The position is accurate to within 30 and forcing more than 170,000 from nautical miles. The present movement their homes. Typhoon "Damrey" had SOUTH AFRICA is toward the north-west or 315 degs caused casualties, flattened houses London, Sep 27 -- A press report, at seven knots. The estimated and damaged crops on an island often dated today, states: Two South African minimum central pressure 1006 mb. referred to as China's Hawaii since it Airways (SAA) aircraft and parts of The maximum sustained winds are 30 made landfall yesterday, but the full the Johannesburg International knots with gusts to 40 knots. At 1200, extent of the destruction was Airport's car park and arrivals hall UTC, Sep 28, the centre is predicted to unknown, a disaster relief official said. were damaged in a storm that whipped be near lat 21.5N, long 118.1W, with "The primary threat now is strong through parts of Gauteng on Monday maximum winds of 20 knots and gusts winds, but judging from our night, the Airports Company of SA to 25 knots. experience in recent years, river floods said on Tuesday. "Two SAA aircraft, are also possible if the heavy rains the size of a Boeing 737, were slightly TYPHOON "DAMREY" continue," he told Reuters. He said damaged when ground handling London, Sep 23 -- A press report, more than 170,000 people had been equipment was blown into the aircraft dated today, states: Sixteen people evacuated to safety. There was no during the high winds," said were killed after two weather immediate word of damage to hotels. communications manager Solomon disturbances battered Luzon in a span Two people were killed in Wanning, A complete online archive covering the last 10 years of Lloyd’s Casualty Week. For further information please call +44 (0) 20 7017 4779.

16 Weather & Navigation the coastal city where the typhoon quadrant, 60 nautical miles north- London, Sep 27 -- Following received made landfall yesterday, when their west quadrant, 65 nautical miles from the Meterorological Office, dated houses collapsed, Xinhua news agency elsewhere. today. At At 0600, UTC, today, the said. Some 5,000 people were left Hanoi, Sep 27 -- Typhoon "Damrey" centre of tropical storm "Damrey" was stranded at the airport in the coastal smashed into Vietnam today, tearing located near lat 19.7N, long 105.0E, city and provincial capital of Haikou into vital networks of sea dykes on a approximately 90 nautical miles after dozens of flights were canceled. long stretch of coastline after more south-southwest of Hanoi, Vietnam A Haikou official said power was cut than 300,000 residents had been and has tracked westward, or 280 to parts of the city as well as other evacuated. Prime Minister Phan Van degs, at 11 knots over the past six areas of Hainan. She did not Khai had ordered young people, police hours. The position is accurate to elaborate. The storm packed winds of and soldiers to stay behind to watch within 60 nautical miles and is based up to 200 km per hour, Xinhua news over dykes built to keep the sea out of on the centre being located by agency said, and state television rice fields, but the barriers were soon satellite. Present wind distribution: showed banana trees snapped in two. breached in some areas. "The waves maximum sustained winds 45 knots, Experts warned rice and rubber crops are high, rising across the dyke now," with gusts to 55 knots, but dissipating could sustain major damage. In Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat as a significant tropical cyclone over nearby Guangdong province, 16,000 told state-run Vietnam Television from land. Radius of 34 knot winds: 80 people were evacuated in Zhanjiang the northern province of Nam Dinh as nautical miles in the north-east and city, state television said, and a the typhoon whipped up sea surges south-east quadrants and 50 nautical fisherman has been reported missing made worse by high tides. Nguyen Van miles in the south-west and north- after three boats capsized in choppy Hop, head of the People's Committee west quadrants. At 0600, UTC, Sep seas. "The typhoon, with the wind in Nam Dinh's Nghia Phuc commune, 28, the centre is predicted to be be speed of 55 metres per second at the told Reuters that two km of dykes had near lat 20.8N, long 101.4E, with centre, dwarfs all those that have hit been damaged seriously in his area. maximum sustained winds of 20 knots Hainan since 1960," apart from a "We are not able to save the dyke but and gusts to 30 knots, but dissipated storm that struck the province on people are safe and we have our as a significant tropical cyclone over September 13, 1973, it quoted Cai rescue mission ready," he said. The land. This is the final warning on this Qinbo, deputy director of the Hainan sea dykes were built to withstand system by the joint typhoon warning Provincial Meteorological Station, as strong gales, but "Damrey" was centere (navpacmetoccen). However, saying. The west-moving typhoon blowing at 133 kph as it came ashore the system will be closely monitored swept down the island's southeastern in Thanh Hoa province, cutting for signs of regeneration. coast and was headed for Vietnam, electricity supplies and tearing up London, Sep 27 -- A press report, where state forecasters have warned trees.State forecasters said they dated today, states: China's south- the storm is expected to dump heavy feared sea surges of up to 5.5 meters eastern province of Hainan is cleaning rains on more than 10 northern and in six northern and central provinces. up after Typhoon "Damrey" tore central provinces. The typhoon Flash floods and landslides were other through the island, killing at least 16 should miss the Central Highlands possibilities. Vietnam Television said people and causing extensive damage. coffee belt, which lies further to the four people were injured and several The typhoon, packing winds of 200 km south. Vietnam is the world's second- hundred homes flooded in Thanh Hoa per hour, pummelled Hainan biggest coffee producer after Brazil. when powerful sea surges breached yesterday, uprooting trees, flooding The Defense Ministry-run Quan Doi sections of dyke. The typhoon had roads and causing an island-wide Nhan Dan newspaper said weakened slightly after hitting land power blackout. The Civil Affairs helicopters had been scrambled to and moving west, but still poured Ministry said that as of last night the tell more than 19,000 fishermen to down torrential rain, the national storm had caused nearly 8.5 billion return to port while soldiers were weather bureau said. Fears of yuan ($1.05 billion) in damage in dispatched to reinforce dykes and breached dykes had prompted the Hainan, Guangdong and Guangxi help evacuate several hundred mass evacuation by truck and bus from provinces, while 436,000 people had people. -- Reuters. vulnerable coasts to solid buildings, been evacuated. By today, the typhoon London, Sep 26 -- Following received such as schools, well before "Damrey" had slammed ashore in Vietnam, from the Meteorological Office: stormed ashore and headed inland. breaching a network of sea dikes and Typhoon "Damrey" near lat 18.4N, But traders said the typhoon missed forcing the evacuation of nearly long 110.0E, at 0600, UTC, Sep 26. the Central Highlands coffee belt 300,000 people along the coastal Movement past six hours 235 deg at further to the south.Vietnam is the region. Hainan Vice Governor Wu eight knots. Position accurate to world's second-biggest coffee producer Changyuan said that 20,000 homes within 40 nautical miles, based on after Brazil. Thailand also issued flash had been flattened on the island centre located by satellite. Maximum flood warnings for the north and province, while 380 km of roads had sustained winds 75 knots with gusts northeast, which forecasters said could been damaged and 704,000 hectares of to 90 knots. Radius of 64-knot winds expect three days of heavy rain until cropland ruined, Xinhua news agency 30 nautical miles south-east quadrant, the typhoon petered out. Parts of Laos said. By this evening, Xinhua put 20 nautical miles south-west were also likely to be hit, but drought- economic losses at 10 billion yuan and quadrant, 15 nautical miles north-east stricken Cambodia saw only benefit. the death toll at 16. Extensive damage quadrant and five nautical miles "We are on the tail of the typhoon, so to Hainan's electrical grid would also north-west quadrant. Radius of 50- there will be rain across our country require costly repairs, while the knot winds 50 nautical miles south- which is good for areas hit by drought," island's oil industry was facing east quadrant, 40 nautical miles said Mao Hak, a senior official at the damage to facilities and potential south-west quadrant, 30 nautical Water Resources Ministry. When it cutbacks in production, press reports miles north-east quadrant and 25 moved across Hainan in southern said. "Damrey," the most powerful nautical miles north-west China, "Damrey"'s winds were gusting typhoon to hit northern Vietnam in a quadrant.Radius of 34-knot winds 140 up to 180 kph, making it the strongest decade, injured nine people after it nautical miles south-east quadrant, storm to hit the island in 30 years. landed in Thanh Hoa province early 100 nautical miles south-west Major power grids could be fixed in on today, packing winds of up to 102 quadrant, 90 nautical miles north-east two to three days, but to repair the km per hour, said Le Van Thao of the quadrant and 80 nautical miles north- whole network would take a month, National Meteorology Centre. About west quadrant. Forecast for 0001, the official Xinhua news agency quoted 144,000 people from Thanh Hoa and UTC, Sep 27: Position lat 18.5N, long a Hainan official as saying. Sea water another 145,000 from three 106.4E. Maximum sustained winds 65 soaked low-lying areas and crops of surrounding provinces were evacuated knots with gusts to 80 knots. Radius tropical fruit and rice were damaged or from low-lying homes, schools and of 50-knot winds 10 nautical miles flooded, contributing to economic local government buildings before the south-west quadrant, 20 nautical losses from the storm estimated at 10 storm hit, said provincial disaster miles elsewhere. Radius of 34-knot billion yuan, the China Daily said. -- official Tran Quang Trung. Initial winds 50 nautical miles south-west Reuters. damage is estimated at $5.2 million in

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Thanh Hoa alone, disaster relief Nguyen Thi Nguyet, general secretary north, buckled under the power of officials said. Some 950 homes were of the Vietnam Food Association, said winds and sea surges. Sections completely destroyed while another the government was expected to take crumpled in four provinces, power 9000 had their roofs blown off. A food relief from national reserves and supplies and telecommunications were power blackout was reported in Thai would have no impact on exports. The hit and thousands of homes swamped. Binh and Thanh Hoa provinces. More northern region incorporating the Red The government said at least 180,000 than 25,000 soldiers have been sent to River Delta is Vietnam's second- hectares of rice in seven provinces help reinforce sea dikes and evacuate largest rice growing area after the were damaged. The government said it people, state media reported. Mekong Delta in the south. It was rushing emergency food and Hanoi, Sep 28 -- Flash floods produces about 36 percent of supplies to devastated areas to which spawned by Typhoon "Damrey" killed Vietnam's rice, which is used mainly 330,000 evacuees returned only to find at least four people in Thailand today for domestic consumption, and shrimp homes and rice fields under water. and hard-hit Vietnam reported 22 and fish farms in the area also Nguyen Thi Nguyet, general secretary swept away in similar torrents in its suffered typhoon damage. But the of the Vietnam Food Association, said northern mountains. The deaths took disruption to production in flooded the government was expected to take the known toll to at least 41 in areas will reduce supplies of food relief from national reserves and "Damrey"'s rampage across the main vegetables and seafood to regional it would have no impact on exports. Philippine island of Luzon, the markets, including Hanoi, home to "Rice from the region's warehouses southern Chinese island of Hainan -- three million people where prices have can be used to meet the food demand," where the economic damage was already started rising. -- Reuters. she said, adding that the region was estimated at $1.2 billion -- Vietnam, Hanoi, Sep 28 -- The death toll from harvesting a bumper crop this year. Laos and northern Thailand. Despite flash floods spawned by typhoon The northern region incorporating the waning after hitting land in Vietnam "Damrey" more than doubled today as Red River Delta is Vietnam's second- yesterday, "Damrey" was still the hardest-hit Vietnam said it had largest rice growing area after the pounding wide areas with heavy rain recovered the bodies of 33 people Mekong Delta in the south. It and a Thai official said water spilling swept away in the northern produces about 36% of Vietnam's rice, from a breached dam threatened the mountains. The deaths took the known used mainly for domestic consumption, northern city of Chiang Mai. "Heavy toll to at least 74 in the typhoon's and shrimp and fish farms in the area rain broke the reservoir and the water rampage across the main Philippine also suffered typhoon damage. will flow into Chiang Mai today. Right island of Luzon, the southern Chinese However, the disruption to production now, the city is throwing up walls of island of Hainan -- where the will reduce supplies of vegetables and sand bags," said Prasert Indee, a economic damage was estimated at seafood to regional markets, including senior official in the area. Vietnam, $1.2 billion -- Vietnam, Laos and Hanoi, home to three million people where five people are known to have northern Thailand. State-run Vietnam where prices have already started been killed, issued flood warnings Television said 38 people were swept rising. -- Reuters. after "Damrey"'s 130 kph winds and away last night as the worst floods in Hanoi, Sep 29 -- Vietnam widened five-meter sea surges shattered 40 years struck Yen Bai Province, 180 the search today for victims of flash sections of the network of sea dykes km north-west of Hanoi, and soldiers floods spawned by Typhoon "Damrey" protecting a key rice growing area. had so far retrieved 32 bodies. The which Prime Minister Phan Van Khai State television said soldiers had been broadcaster said another person was said had caused "extremely serious sent to the mountainous northern killed by landslides in neighbouring losses". With 54 people dead or province of Yen Bai to look for the 22 Lao Cai Province. Four died in similar missing in the north, a letter from people swept away. The area in torrents in Thailand while China and Khai read out on state television Vietnam most likely to suffer floods the Philippines each reported 16 asked the Fatherland Front, the was the province of Ninh Binh, 90 km deaths. Despite waning after hitting Communist Party's mass organisation, south of Hanoi, the government's land in Vietnam yesterday, "Damrey" to appeal to the nation for help. Khai Committee for Flood and Storm still pounded wide areas with heavy also urged provincial governments "to Prevention said. The lashing rains rain and water spilling from a cracked organise for the people living in the "Damrey" brought were swelling rivers dam threatened the northern Thai city areas with high risk of landslides and very quickly and it ordered five other of Chiang Mai. The city threw up flash floods to move to safety". So far, northern provinces to reinforce dykes walls of sandbags five metres high in soldiers had recovered the bodies of 25 yet further. The rains also struck vulnerable areas along the river but of the 51 people swept away in Yen Bai Laos, where the government said it the top official in the region said the province, 180 km northwest of Hanoi, had no immediate reports of major water was seeping relatively slowly a provincial official told Reuters. "The damage. "We've had heavy rain all from the reservoir, which has a search is still under way, so we have night and we are monitoring the capacity of two million cubic metres. no final toll yet," he said. State flooding situation closely, but there is "We are keeping eyes on the water television said 32 bodies had been nothing major so far. Just some level, but we are quite sure we can found while one person was reported roofing gone," government spokesman hold it," Chiang Mai Governor Suwat killed by a landslide in the Yong Chanhthalansy said. Vietnam's Tantipat said. Vietnam has issued neighbouring province of Lao Cai and dyke system, built to withstand strong flood warnings after the typhoon's two more died in Hoa Binh. The gales and protect rice fields in the 130-kph winds and five-metre sea television showed pictures of flattened north, buckled under the power of surges shattered sections of the houses, submerged schools and winds and sea surges. Sections network of sea dykes protecting a key rescuers searching for bodies along crumpled in four provinces, power rice growing area. Prime Minister rivers. Three people drowned as floods supplies and telecommunications were Phan Van Khai at a Cabinet meeting struck Phu Tho province and two died hit and thousands of homes swamped, today called on rescue missions to seal in Nghe An and Ninh Binh, state state media said. The government said off the broken dykes and pump out media said. Seven died in similar at least 180,000 hectares of rice in water to help farmers finish rice torrents in Thailand while China and seven provinces were damaged, but harvesting. The area in Vietnam most the Philippines each reported 16 the typhoon did not hit the Central likely to experience floods was the deaths. The deaths took the known toll Highlands coffee belt further to the province of Ninh Binh, 90 km south of to at least 84 in "Damrey"'s rampage south and had no impact on crude oil Hanoi, the government's Committee across the main Philippine island of output as Vietnam's offshore rigs are for Flood and Storm Prevention said. Luzon, the southern Chinese island of well to the south. The government It ordered five other northern Hainan -- where the economic damage said in a statement read out on provinces to reinforce dykes. The rains was estimated at $1.2 billion -- national television yesterday it was also struck Laos, where the Vietnam, Laos and northern Thailand. rushing emergency food and supplies government said it had no immediate In some areas of Vietnam hit by to devastated areas to which 330,000 reports of major damage. Vietnam's "Damrey"'s 130-kph winds and five- people evacuees returned only to find dyke system, built to withstand strong metre sea surges on Tuesday (Sep 27), homes and rice fields under water. gales and protect rice fields in the thousands of people were being

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18 Weather & Navigation/Earthquakes evacuated for the second time as rivers strong winds along the Pacific coast, touching places 'Ivan' never reached. swelled and breached sea dykes still the meteorology agency said. Typhoon In areas where 'Ivan' caused damage, posed danger. Emergency food aid has "Saola", which may pass by Tokyo by the spring flood "made the damage been distributed to areas hit by the Sunday (Sep 25) morning, was 300 worse," Mr. Dalton said. Portions of typhoon, mainly instant noodles and kilometres west of Chichijima island the park remain closed, including the bottled water. The government has yet in the Pacific at around 0600, UTC, towpath from Easton to Upper Black to come up with an estimate of the the agency said. Packing winds up to Eddy. From New Hope at Odette's overall damage, but power supplies 144 kilometres per hour, "Saola" was restaurant to Washington Crossing and telecommunications were hit and moving west-north-west at 15 Park also is closed. thousands of homes swamped. -- kilometres per hour, the agency said. Reuters. London, Sep 23 -- Following received VIETNAM / CAMBODIA from the Meteorological Office dated London, Sep 23 -- A press report, TYPHOON "LONGWANG" today: Typhoon "Saola" near lat 27.7N, dated today, states: Thirty-five people, London, Sep 27 -- Following received long 139.1E at 0600, UTC, today. most of them children, have perished from the Meteorological Office, dated Movement for the past six hours 305 in floods ravaging the Mekong delta in today: At 0600, UTC, today, the centre degrees at 11 knots. Position accurate Cambodia and southern Vietnam over of typhoon "Longwang" was located to within 30 nautical miles. Maximum the last several weeks, according to near lat 21.7N, long 140.1E. The sustained winds 90 knots, gusts 110 official tolls. The Vietnamese movement over the past six hours: 290 knots. Forecast position lat 28.8N, provinces of Dong Thap, An Giang and degs at nine knots. The position is long 137.7E at 1800, UTC, today. Long An, situated along the accurate to within 20 nautical miles Maximum sustained winds 90 knots, Cambodian border, were severely hit and is based on the eye being fixed by gusts 110 knots. Forecast position lat by the floods, which are an annual satellite. Present wind distribution: 30.1N, long 137.3E at 0600, UTC, Sep feature the authorities are at pains to maximum sustained winds: 85 knots, 24. Maximum sustained winds 90 combat. Nineteen people, all but one of with gusts to 105 knots. Radius of 64 knots, gusts 110 knots. them children, were killed as waters knot winds - 15 nautical miles in all London, Sep 26 -- Following received in the Mekong went above the danger four quadrants. Radius of 34 knot from the Meteorological Office: level in An Giang, a provincial flood winds: 100 nautical miles in the north- Tropical storm "Saola" near lat 37.0N, control official said today, adding they east and north-west quadrants and 80 long 147.2E, at 0600, UTC, Sep 26. would "continue to rise in the days nautical miles in the south-east and Movement past six hours 060 deg at 10 ahead." south-west quadrants. At 0600, UTC, knots. Position accurate to within 60 Sep 28, the centre is predicted to be nautical miles, based on centre located near lat 23.1N, long 137.0E, with by satellite. Maximum sustained maximum sustained winds of 100 winds 45 knots with gusts to 55 knots. knots and gusts to 125 knots. extratropical. Radius of 34-knot winds London, Sep 28 -- Following received 130 nautical miles north-east from the Meteorological Office: quadrant, 100 nautical miles south- Typhoon "Longwang" near lat 22.5N, east quadrant, 85 nautical miles long 136.7E, at 0600, UTC, Sep 28. north-west quadrant and 70 nautical Movement past six hours 285 deg at miles south-west quadrant. Forecast ETHIOPIA eight knots. Position accurate to for 0600, UTC, Sep 27: Position lat London, Sep 26 -- A press report, within 20 nautical miles, based on 40.0N, long 157.4E. Maximum dated today, states: An earthquake centre located by satellite. Maximum sustained winds 30 knots with gusts to measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale sustained winds 120 knots with gusts 40 knots. Extratropical. caused the eruption of a long-dormant to 145 knots. Radius of 64-knot winds volcano in northern Ethiopia at the 15 nautical miles south-west UNITED STATES weekend but there were no immediate quadrant, 20 nautical miles north- London, Sep 22 -- A press report, reports of damage or injuries, west quadrant, 25 nautical miles dated Sep 21, states: Flood damage to geologists said today. The quake, elsewhere. Radius of 50-knot winds 25 lengthy portions of the Delaware which struck the remote region of nautical miles south-west quadrant, Canal State Park could cost at least Afar, about 980 kilometres north-east 30 nautical miles north-west $23 million to repair, according to park of the capital on Saturday (Sep 24), quadrant, 35 nautical miles elsewhere. manager Rick Dalton. Damage to the was followed by the eruption of Mount Radius of 34-knot winds 95 nautical canal park from the September and Arteale, Ethiopia's only active volcano miles south-west quadrant, 105 April floods includes areas from which has been largely dormant for nautical miles north-west quadrant, Easton to Narrowsville as well as the past six decades, they said. "The 110 nautical miles elsewhere. Forecast Lumberville, Upper Black Eddy and magnitude of the earthquake, for 0600, UTC, Sep 29: Position lat from Point Pleasant to Centre Bridge. accompanied by a severe volcanic 23.2N, long 134.6E. Maximum In addition, trail repairs and erosion eruption, was measured at 5.5 on the sustained winds 130 knots with gusts also must be addressed in Washington Richter scale," Laeke Asfaw, the head to 160 knots. Radius of 64-knot winds Crossing near the David Library of the of physical observatory in seismology 30 nautical miles south-west American Revolution. A blowout of department of the Addis Ababa quadrant, 35 nautical miles elsewhere. stone walls occurred in Easton, and a University. Molten lava spewed from Radius of 50-knot winds 50 nautical blowout also occurred at Raubsville. A the volcano, covering large portions of miles south-west quadrant, 55 total of 15 projects must be put to its slopes and surrounding areas and nautical miles elsewhere. Radius of competitive bid. The initial $23 million thick blankets of ash and plumes of 34-knot winds 115 nautical miles estimate has been submitted for smoke were reported in the region, south-west quadrant, 125 nautical approval to the Federal Emergency another seismologist at the university, miles north-east quadrant, 120 Management Agency, but repairs are Gezahegn Yirga, said. nautical miles elsewhere. awaiting approval from the agency, according to Mr. Dalton, and no one HONDURAS TYPHOON "NABI" knows when that will come. "It will London, Sep 23 -- A report, dated London, Sep 27 -- General cargo Long probably end up being more than $23 today, states: A moderate earthquake Xuyen sailed from Pohang on Sep 23, million," Mr. Dalton said. The state occurred at 1348, UTC, today. The bound for Busan, where it arrived on must provide 25 percent of the repair magnitude 5.8 event has been located Sep 24. cost, according to Mr. Dalton. He said, offshore Honduras in lat 16 15N, long "It was bad after (Hurricane) 'Ivan'," 87 49W, depth 10 km. TYPHOON "SAOLA" but he added the damage from 'Ivan' London, Sep 23 -- A press report, does not compare to the current state INDONESIA dated today, states: A strong typhoon of the canal after the spring flood. In London, Sep 25 -- A press report, was headed toward the main Japanese the spring, the water crested three to dated today, states: A magnitude 5.6 island of Honshu today, bringing four feet higher than previous floods,

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19 Earthquakes/Volcanic Activity/Political & Civil Unrest undersea earthquake rocked eastern The worst damage occurred in the Indonesian today, but there were no nearby hilltop town of Lamas in the immediate reports of damages or San Martin region, where a 72-year- casualties, Indonesia's Meteorology old woman, a nine-year-old boy and a and Geophysics Agency said. The man were killed, Lamas Mayor Rafael earthquake struck in the morning and Saavedra told CPN radio. A woman in was centered beneath the Maluku Sea, the neighbouring La Libertad region about 115 miles east of Manado, a died when her house collapsed on top provincial capital on Sulawesi island of her, rescue workers said. A fifth in northeastern Indonesia, said unidentified person died in the San AFGHANISTAN Lukito, an official at the agency's Martin region, Peru's emergency London, Sep 20 -- Seven people were Jakarta office. The earthquake's disaster agency INDECI said and killed overnight in two separate epicentre was 20 miles beneath the warned of more deaths as rescue ambushes in southern Afghanistan in Earth's surface. Today's quake jolted workers search for victims. "In Lamas, the wake of parliamentary polls, Manado and North Maluku's we've got 102 destroyed homes and officials said. The first attack was at provincial capital of Ternate, added another 498 houses that are 1000, local time, in the Gizab district Lukito. uninhabitable, which leaves 3,000 of Uruzgan province when Taliban people homeless right now," Saavedra rebels attacked the district police chief JAPAN said. President Alejandro Toledo Haji Said Wali, wounding him and London, Sep 21 -- A press report, arrived in Lamas this afternoon to killing three of his colleagues. "He was dated today, states: An earthquake survey the damage and the central wounded with three other policeman. with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 government sent doctors, blankets, Three police and one Taliban were also jolted Japan's northern Hokkaido tents, food and medicine to the area, killed in the fighting," said Uruzgan province this morning, the Japan officials said. The quake was felt governor Jan Mohammad Khan. Three Meteorological Agency said. There strongly in Lima. In Moyobamba, Taliban were killed after a group of were no immediate reports of which is also a major flower and rebels attacked a police patrol in casualties or damage from the 1125 tobacco growing area, a police neighbouring Zabul province's Mizan hrs quake. No tsunami warnings were spokesman said the walls of some district today. issued. The quake registered four on buildings had collapsed, including Kabul, Sep 25 -- A U.S. military the Japanese seismic intensity scale of parts of the prison, but the inmates helicopter crashed during an anti- seven in some areas, the agency said. were accounted for. Radio reports said militant operation in Afghanistan residents in Moyobamba, afraid of today, killing all five American crew members, just days after President PERU aftershocks, slept in the streets. -- Hamid Karzai questioned the need for London, Sep 26 -- At least one person Reuters. military operations. The crash of the was killed and 20 were injured in CH-47 Chinook in the southern northern Peru late yesterday when a SAMOA ISLANDS province of Zabul came after a series strong earthquake shook the region, London, Sep 23 -- A 5.8 earthquake of clashes between U.S.-led forces and local authorities announced, struck in lat 16 02S, long 172 64W at Taliban insurgents following downgrading an earlier toll. The 0007, UTC, Sep 22. Depth 10 km. September 18 legislative elections that tremor measuring seven on the the guerrillas failed in their vow to Richter scale shook an area north of derail. U.S. military spokesman the city of Moyobamba at 2055 hrs, Colonel Jim Yonts said the helicopter according to the Geophysical Institute crashed in Zabul's Dai Chophan of Peru. US experts said the quake district while returning to base after had a magnitude of 7.5. Initial reports dropping off troops during an anti- put the death toll at between four and militant operation. He said it was too 10, but authorities acknowledged they early to determine the cause of the had been issued amid confusion in the crash, but all indications were that immediate aftermath of the tremor. COLIMA, MEXICO hostile fire was not to blame. "Five They also said they expected damage London, Sep 27 -- A small eruption crew members on board were killed," to be limited. The epicentre of the today of the Volcano of Fire in western he said. "People on the ground have quake was located about 115 Mexico scattered ash onto adjacent just started a preliminary kilometres underground and therefore towns, the Jalisco state civil defence investigation and recovery operations it did not produce significant damage, agency said. No injuries were are under way." Yonts said that while scientists said. The quake proved to be reported. Clouds obscured the plume militant forces were in the area of the strong enough to destroy at least 30 of gas and ash triggered by the operation, the aircraft, part of a flight houses in the community of Lamas, eruption at 0507 hrs. The towns of helicopters involved in the mission, officials said. The victims were found affected were to the west and south- came down in a rugged, remote area under the rubble of these homes. west of the volcano, the agency said. where there was no civilian Power was knocked out in most local population. "Indications are from crew communities. Residents of the town of MOUNT ARTEALE, ETHIOPIA members' ... reports that there was no San Martin converged on their central See "Ethiopia" under "Earthquakes". hostile file that caused this crash," he plaza, saying they would spend the said, adding that a mechanical problem may have been to blame. In night outside for fear of aftershocks, SHIVELUCH, RUSSIA local radio reported. The earthquake London, Sep 26 -- A press report, the past six months four Chinooks have crashed in Afghanistan killing 56 was also registered in southern dated today, states: Kamchatka's people, mostly American servicemen. Colombia, where authorities were Shiveluch volcano has steadied but In another incident early today, two checking on damage late yesterday. ash discharges of up to eight Lima, Sep 26 -- A powerful 7.5 guerrillas were killed and two kilometres are still possible, a source wounded trying to plant a roadside magnitude earthquake that shook in the Emergency Situations Ministry Peru's northern jungle over the bomb in Helmand province, provincial Kamchatka department said today. spokesman Haji Mohammad Wali said. weekend has killed five people and Local tremors and ash discharges of made several thousand homeless, -- Reuters. up to 6,500-7,000 metres lasted for London, Sep 27 -- A press report, regional authorities said today. The nearly 5.5 hours on Sep 22. Volcanic quake hit yesterday evening at 2055 dated today, states: Two U.S. troops fragments tumbled down to a were killed in separate militant hrs (0155, UTC, today) and its distance of 15 kilometres, and epicenter was 56 miles northeast of attacks in southern and eastern volcanic ash fell down on the village Afghanistan, just over a week after the coffee-growing town of of Klyuchi, nearly 30 kilometres away the country held landmark elections, Moyobamba, 445 miles north of Lima. from Shiveluch. the U.S. military said today. One U.S.

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20 Political & Civil Unrest soldier died during a "ground assault Algerians vote on Thursday (Sep 29) appreciates the offer from the operation" by Afghan and U.S. forces in a referendum on a partial amnesty Venezuelan government and its west of the southern city of Kandahar aimed at outlawed rebels fighting for people," said a statement posted on yesterday, when militants fired rocket- a purist Islamic state in clashes which the rebel group's Web site. Colombian propelled grenades and small-arms have killed between 50,000 and officials have not responded to fire at their vehicles, the military said 200,000 people since 1992. Two Venezuela's offer nor were officials in a statement. Another U.S. soldier municipal guards were killed and available to comment on the ELN's was wounded. The coalition forces another one was wounded in an statement, but Colombia's President returned fire, killing two militants ambush yesterday in a mountainous Alvaro Uribe has repeatedly shown and wounding a third. Also yesterday, area near Ain Defla, some 150 km interest in opening talks with the a U.S. forward operating base near the southwest of the capital Algiers, daily ELN. The main rebel group, the eastern city of Asadabad came under El Khabar said. Rebels also shot dead Revolutionary Armed Forces of mortar, rocket-propelled grenade and two military policemen and injured a Colombia, or FARC, has showed little small-arms fire, the statement said. civilian on Saturday in the western interest in talking peace. One U.S. Marine was killed. province of Saida, El Khabar and Le Kabul, Sep 28 -- At least nine people Quotidien d'Oran said. One soldier INDIA were killed and 27 wounded in a died and five others were injured in London, Sep 22 -- A press report, suicide attack today on buses carrying Boumerdes on Sunday, just east of dated today, states: Indian troops Afghan troops leaving a military Algiers, newspapers reported. The killed five militants and suspected training camp on the outskirts of the authorities say there are some 1,000 Muslim rebels killed a former capital Kabul, officials said. "Eight of rebels in the country but only a few insurgent and a soldier in revolt-hit those killed were national army hundred are armed. -- Reuters. Kashmir, an army statement has said. officers and soldiers; it was a suicide Four of the rebels were killed in Sugan attack but we don't know exactly how BANGLADESH in southern Pulwama district, Indian it happened," a Defence Ministry See under "Labour Disputes." army spokesman Vijay Batra told AFP. official said, speaking on condition of "The four were killed during a fierce anonymity. The other person killed CHAD gunbattle that erupted after soldiers was an Afghan civilian, he said. London, Sep 26 -- A press report, surrounded a hideout," he said, adding Mohammad Akbar, the police chief of dated today, states: Almost 50 people some arms and ammunition were also the eastern city district where the have been killed in a village in eastern recovered from the site of the blast occurred said it happened in the Chad during an attack by an armed encounter. The fifth militant was also car park of the army training base. He group from neighbouring Sudan, the shot dead during a raid on a suspected said he had reports of four dead and Chadian government said overnight. rebel hideout in Fidapora Panzulla that it was a suicide attack. -- The attack took place in the eastern village in northern Baramulla district, Reuters. Wadai region after clashes with Batra said. Separately, suspected Kabul, Sep 29 -- The United Nations Chadian forces, government rebels shot dead a former colleague said today it had restricted spokesman Hurmaji Musa Dumgor who was working with counter- movements of its staff in Kabul after a said. "Armed and uniformed horsemen insurgency police. The incident suicide bombing killed at least 10 from Sudan infiltrated Chadian occurred near the southern town of people, while the Taliban said it had territory and took to massacring Tral, 40km, south of the main city 45 more suicide attackers awaiting Chadian people and stole their Srinagar, police said. orders to strike. Yesterday's bombing livestock," he said. Agartala, Sep 25 -- Separatist rebels at a military training centre set up by killed eight Bengali-speaking settlers U.S.-led forces to train a new national COLOMBIA in India's remote and restive Tripura army was the worst suicide attack in London, Sep 23 -- A press report, state today, police said. National the capital since the Taliban's 2001 dated Sep 22, states: Suspected rebels Liberation Front of Tripura militants, overthrow. The Taliban claimed killed 10 police officers driving down a who are fighting for an independent responsibility and vowed more. U.N. remote highway today, ambushing tribal homeland, fired indiscriminately spokesman Adrian Edwards said U.N. their truck with gunfire and with automatic weapons when they staff in the city, already under night- homemade gas cylinder bombs, a raided several in Santinagar, some 70 time curfew, had been placed on government official said. The vehicle km east of the state capital Agartala. restricted movement as a precaution. was travelling on a narrow road in the "Seven people including three women "While we are assessing the situation, mountains outside of La Cruz, 290 were killed at the scene. Three were there is restricted movement on staff," miles southwest of Bogota, when it critically wounded and a woman later he said. The security office serving was attacked at about midday, said succumbed in a hospital," Nepal Das, a non-governmental organisations has Fabio Trujillo, lieutenant governor of police superintendent told Reuters. -- advised against unnecessary Narino state. There were no survivors, Reuters. movement and told staff to stay on he said. Colombia's two main rebel high alert. Taliban spokesman Abdul groups, the Revolutionary Armed IRAQ Latif Hakimi ha\s vowed more attacks Forces of Colombia, FARC, and the London, Sep 22 -- A press report, on foreign forces and said 45 suicide National Liberation Army, ELN, dated Sep 21, states: The bureau chief bombers were awaiting orders from operate in this region near Ecuador, of an Iraqi daily newspaper and a Taliban commanders. "American and and Trujillo said one of these groups woman working for Iraq's state-run British forces are our first target and was likely to have been responsible for television were shot and killed by then we will launch attacks on the attack. More than 300 members of assailants in separate attacks in the others," he said. The attack has again Colombia's armed forces have been northern city of Mosul, authorities raised fears that insurgents may be killed by rebels this year, many in said today. The deaths raised the importing Iraqi-style tactics into ambushes similar to the attack today. number of journalists and media Afghanistan. Newsweek magazine this London, Sep 24 --- A press report, workers killed in the country to at month quoted a Taliban commander as dated Sep 23, states: Colombia's least three over the past four days. saying he had been to Iraq for training second-largest rebel group today Firas al-Maadhidi, who headed the and wanted to make use of the accepted an offer from neighbouring Mosul bureau of al-Safir newspaper, expertise acquired there in Venezuela to host peace talks between was gunned down by unknown Afghanistan. -- Reuters. the guerrillas and the Colombian assailants yesterday night while on government. Venezuela, under his way home in the city, 225 miles ALGERIA President Hugo Chavez, said earlier northwest of Baghdad, said Ninevah Algiers, Sep 26 -- Algerian Islamic this month it was willing to host talks province police Brig. Gen. Saeed militants have killed five security between the National Liberation Ahmed al-Jibouri. Yesterday, gunmen force members as violence flares Army, or ELN, and Colombia's in Mosul shot to death Ahlam Youssef, ahead of a national referendum this officials, provided Colombia asked for an engineer who works for al-Iraqiya week, newspapers said today. its help. "The ELN accepts and television, and her husband, said

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Bassem al-Fadli, a manager at the were also wounded, police said. The in a car attacked an elite Iraqi police station's headquarters in Baghdad. bomb followed clashes overnight unit in Baghdad, killing 13 Their child, who was with them in between U.S. troops and Shi'ite commandos in the deadliest of a series their car at the time, was seriously militiamen loyal to cleric Moqtada al- of attacks. Iraq's al Qaeda wing wounded. On Sunday (Sep 18) night, Sadr in the eastern Baghdad district claimed responsibility for the attack, an Iraqi reporter working for The New of Sadr City. Police said eight militia according to an Internet statement on York Times was shot and killed in fighters were killed and five wounded a site used by militants. -- Reuters. Basra, 340 miles south of Baghdad. in the fighting. South of the capital, in London, Sep 27 -- A pressa report, Authorities said Fakher Haider, 38, Hilla, a bomber on a bicycle blew dated today, states: Al-Qaeda's second was taken from his home by men himself up in a crowded vegetable in command in Iraq has been shot dressed as policemen and found dead market, killing four people, including dead, reports say. Iraqi and US Monday (Sep 19) morning. a woman and child, and wounding 48, officials said Abu Azzam, described as London, Sep 22 -- A press report, police said. In western Baghdad, an aide to leader Abu Musab al- dated today, states: A bomb damaged gunmen held up an armoured Finance Zarqawi, had been shot dead in a joint an oil pipeline near the oil-rich city of Ministry convoy, killing two guards operation on Sunday (Sep 25) Kirkuk, sending plumes of black and wounding nine before making of morning. A US military official said smoke and fire up into the air, officials with $850,000 in cash, police said. The Azzam was killed at 0450 hrs, on said today. The bomb, which exploded string of attacks comes three weeks Sunday in a high-rise block in the late yesterday, was placed beneath the before Iraq holds a referendum on a Iraqi capital after a tip-off from an aboveground pipeline, which connects new draft constitution and amid a Iraqi citizen. "During the operation, the Bay Hassan oil fields with Kirkuk general increase in unrest both in which was held with the intent of in northern Iraq, said police Brig. central areas and in the southern city capturing him, he fired and he was Sarhad Qadir. Officials in Iraqøs of Basra, where Shi'ite militia have killed by return fire," Maj Flora Lee Northern Oil Company said the fought British troops. The U.S. said. Another spokesman said Azzam heavily damaged pipeline would be military has said it expects a surge in had been tracked for some time, and repaired within five days. violence in the run-up to the his death was a "significant London, Sep 22 -- A press report, referendum, set for October 15, with development". Zarqawi himself, is dated today, states: An Iraqi police Iraqis strongly divided over a currently thought to be hiding in the colonel and his driver have been shot document that was supposed to unite Euphrates River valley, where the US dead while driving on a highway near them and lay the foundations for a has carried out frequent operations Baquba, north of Baghdad. Police say more stable future. In Ramadi, west of aimed at capturing him. In a separate the attack was carried out by Baghdad, more than 1,000 people incident, at least 10 people died in an unidentified gunmen in a car. marched to protest against the attack on police recruits north of Meanwhile, gunmen in Baghdad have constitution, which they say will Baghdad. At least 26 people were opened fire on a truck carrying six divide Iraq along sectarian lines by injured in the suicide blast in Baquba security guards from the Ministry of giving too much autonomy to Kurds in - the third major attack on Iraqi police Immigration. Four have been killed the north and pro-Iranian Shi'ites in in the last three days. Today's attack and two others wounded. An Interior the south. The crowd in Ramadi was took place at 1000 hrs (0600, UTC) at Ministry official says the gunmen largely made up of Sunni Arabs, a centre for recruiting the elite Rapid escaped. Overnight, the owner of a tile whose leaders are strongly opposed to Reaction Force, in the city's al-Jadida making factory and two of his sons the constitution, but also included district. A US military spokesman said were shot dead in their home in the Shi'ite supporters of Sadr, a the bomber approached the police city's east by gunmen posing as nationalist young cleric who heads a station on foot, making no attempt to policemen. The man's wife was militia called the Mehdi Army. The conceal his suicide belt. The victims wounded and another son was march followed a rally in Basra are thought to include serving police, kidnapped in the attack. yesterday at which several thousand people queuing for recruitment and London, Sep 23 -- A press report, Shi'ites gathered in support of the passers-by. Police said the death toll dated today, states: A suicide bomber constitution, which was largely drawn was expected to rise. Yesterday at blew himself upin a minibus in up by the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led least five men queuing to join the Tayaran Square in central Baghdad government over Sunni Arab police and two serving policemen died toiday, killing a civilian and wounding objections. -- Reuters. when a suicide bomber targeted eight others, police said. "A suicide London, Sep 26 -- A press report, Baghdad's police academy. In other bomber, wearing an explosive-belt, dated today, states: A suicide bomber developments: Gunmen fire on a police blew himself up in a minibus in the drove a car into a bus carrying convoy taking detainees to Abu Ghraib busy Tayaran Square, killing a civilian employees of Iraq's oil ministry on jail killing two people and wounding and wounding eight others," Captain today, killing at least six people and at least eight. Five civilians were Ahmed Abdullah told Xinhua. The wounding 14. The bombing near the injured when a car bomb explodes in target of the attack was not clear as ministry was the bloodiest attack on central Baghdad, AFP news agency there was no US or Iraqi security Iraq's energy industry since reported. The AFP also reported that forces at the scene, Abdullah said."It insurgents began blowing up pipelines nn army officer was shot dead and a was apparently a premature blast," he and killing oil officials after the fall of police officer killed in a bomb attack in said. In another incident, one US Saddam Hussein in April 2003. "We Kirkuk. soldier was killed and another heard the blast. They died," a dazed London, Sep 28 -- A suicide attacker wounded when a roadside bomb struck survivor said, standing in a hospital detonated explosives amid a crowd of a US patrol west of Baghdad, the US as victims of the blast were wheeled in job applicants at an army recruitment military said in a statement today. on stretchers. He said the bus was center in northern Iraq today, killing The attack targeted a combat logistics carrying workers for a state oil at least six people and wounding 20, patrol at about 0900 hrs (1700, UTC) exploration company. police said. The attacker had the yesterday in an area, about 70 km Baghdad, Sep 26 -- A suicide bomber explosives hidden beneath his clothes west of Baghdad, on the main road rammed his car into a bus carrying and struck in Tal Afar, about 95 miles between restive cities of Fallujah and employees of Iraq's oil ministry today, east of the Syrian border and 260 Ramadi, thes tatement said. killing at least six and wounding 14, miles north-west of Baghdad, police Baghdad, Sep 25 -- A suicide car police said. A survivor told Reuters Brig. Saeed Ahmed Al-Jibori said. bomber attacked an elite Iraqi police Television the bus was carrying Najaf, Iraq, Sep 28 -- A bomb unit in Baghdad, killing 13 employees of a state oil exploration exploded outside the house of a commandos in the worst of several company. "We hope security forces will bodyguard of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al- outbursts of violence to hit the country take control of the situation," Oil Sadr in the southern Iraqi city of today. Iraqi police said the car bomber Minister Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum said. Najaf today, killing at least six people, targeted a patrol of police commandos "Unfortunately these terrorist an aide to Sadr said. Sahib al-Amiree as they travelled on a highway in the operations continue to target said the blast also wounded eight east of the capital. Ten commandos innocents." Yesterday a suicide bomber people. The holy Shi'ite city of Najaf

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22 Political & Civil Unrest has been relatively calm compared to faction said it held Hamas responsible Sharon's finance minister in August central Iraq, where a Sunni Arab for the explosion at Friday's rally, over Gaza -- has a slight lead among insurgency is raging. Sadr, a fiery when a truck carrying gunmen and central committee members in the cleric who has led fighters against US home-made weapons blew up. The run-up to the vote. -- Reuters. troops, is a popular figure in Iraq. Palestinian authorities said the blast, Gaza, Sep 26 -- Israel launched Najaf has been stable since his Mehdi which also injured 80 people, appeared multiple missile strikes in Gaza today, Army militia fought US troops in the to have been caused by the hours after the main Palestinian city last November. Sadr's supporters mishandling of explosives. Hamas militant group said it would stop recently clashed with fighters in the itself blamed Israel, but the Israeli attacking the Jewish state following Iranian-trained Badr Brigade army said it had had nothing to do Israeli air raids in response to rocket movement, which is linked to one of with the explosion. The Israeli attacks. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel the Shi'ite parties leading Iraq's US- military said it had fired one missile Sharon faced a vote in his Likud party backed government. -- Reuters. at a Hamas weapons warehouse in the that threatened his leadership because London, Sep 29 -- A press report, Jabaliya refugee camp, where of a rightist challenge to his dated today: A female suicide bomber yesterday's rally was held. Two more withdrawal of troops and settlers from disguised in traditional male robes missiles were fired at targets in Gaza Gaza. A stormy eve-of-vote session killed seven people and wounded at City. The missiles appear to have yesterday underlined party splits. The least 35 when she detonated caused little damage but Palestinians worst surge of violence since Israel's explosives outside a police recruitment said at least one person was injured. pullout from Gaza on September 12 center in the troubled northwestern Gaza, Sep 25 -- Israel launched a new after 38 years of occupation put city of Tal Afar yesterday, according to strike on the Gaza Strip and arrested pressure on a shaky ceasefire and on Iraqi authorities. The bomber was over 200 suspected militants in a Sharon at the weekend. While Hamas believed to be the first female to carry massive sweep in the West Bank today -- the most powerful Palestinian out a deadly suicide attack in Iraq after warning Palestinians of a militant group -- said it was halting since U.S.-led troops ousted Iraq crushing response to rocket attacks attacks, not all militant factions have President Saddam Hussein in April from Gaza. The worst surge of violence followed suit. Israeli aircraft attacked 2003. Iraq's most notorious insurgent since Israel's pullout from Gaza on at least five targets across the Gaza group, al-Qaida in Iraq, claimed September 12 after 38 years of Strip early tonday. One woman was responsibility for the attack in an occupation put pressure on a shaky lightly wounded by shrapnel in a Internet statement, saying it was ceasefire and on Prime Minister Ariel strike in the north of the territory. The carried out by a "blessed sister." The Sharon as he tried to beat off a army said the raids targeted buildings unusual attack came amid another rightist leadership challenge over the used for making or storing weapons by series of bloody episodes across Iraq. withdrawal. A helicopter fired two Hamas, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and Near the city of Safwan in southern missiles in northern Gaza early today. the Popular Front for the Liberation of Iraq, two American convoys struck A military source said the missiles Palestine. It said 50 Hamas and roadside bombs within the same hour targeted buildings used by militants. Islamic Jihad militants were arrested yesterday, killing two soldiers and an There were no immediate reports of in the West Bank. Hamas's most airman. Another soldier, assigned to casualties a day after similar strikes senior leader, Mahmoud al-Zahar, the 2nd Marine Division, II Marine killed two militants. In the West announced his group's decision to halt Expeditionary Force, died Tuesday Bank, Israeli troops arrested 207 attacks shortly after Israel killed an (Sep 27) after he was shot during suspected Islamic militants in the Islamic Jihad leader in an air strike in combat in Ramadi, officials said. toughest crackdown for months. a resumption of its policy of targeting Among those held were Hamas leaders militants for assassination. "The ISRAEL Hassan Youssef and Mohammed movement declares an end to its London, Sep 22 -- A press report, Ghazal. An Israeli army general said operations from the Gaza Strip dated today, states: Israeli troops shot the arrests were among measures against the Israeli occupation, which dead a Palestinian today near the chosen to discourage Palestinian came ... in response to the assaults by northern West Bank city of Jenin, rocket fire. Sharon's inner cabinet also the enemy," Zahar told reporters, witnesses and medics said. Alla agreed to resume assassinations of adding Hamas would abide by a Hantooli, 19, was shot in the chest as militant leaders, suspended since a ceasefire declared in March. The he was entering the Dotan military February truce, and gave an decision would ensure the safety of base, which the Israeli soldiers are unprecedented green light for the use Palestinians in Gaza, he said. A dismantling. Israeli army said the of artillery to stop rocket salvoes. "We senior Israeli government official, soldiers opened fire after their have taken the liberty to use all who declined to be identified, said warning shots went unheeded. weapons in order to remove this Hamas would prove it was serious Hantooli was declared dead in the city threat," said Major-General Israel Ziv. about ending violence by dismantling hospital, the medics said. Witnesses "This operation is not limited in itself. As long as Hamas remains an said Hantooli was to scavenge scrap time." Urging the United States to armed group and is sworn to the metal in the base. restrain Israel, top Palestinian destruction of Israel, it will remain London, SXep 24 -- A press report, negotiator Saeb Erekat said the an enemy and will be treated as dated today, states: Israeli helicopters attacks and arrests "lead in one such," said the official, without have fired missiles at targets in the direction and that is to the collapse of elaborating on whether Israel would northern Gaza Strip - the first such the ceasefire". The violence could have carry on targeting Hamas militants. raid since its military withdrawal an impact when Sharon battles today Likud's central committee began earlier this month. The pre-dawn to hold on to the leadership of his meeting in Tel Aviv yesterday before attack came after more than 21 ruling Likud party in a showdown today's vote on a motion by Sharon's rockets from the Gaza Strip hit Sderot triggered by rightist rival Benjamin rightist challenger, Benjamin in Israel, injuring five people. Israel Netanyahu's opposition to the Gaza Netanyahu, to bring the party's also sealed off both the West Bank and pullout. Netanyahu opposed the Gaza primary forward to November and Gaza Strip in response to the missile withdrawal and said that it would force a leadership contest. In what attacks. Islamic Jihad claimed bring more violence rather than could be a defining moment in Israeli responsibility for firing 10 home-made meaning the "disengagement" from politics, Sharon stormed out of the rockets into Israel yesterday, following conflict that Sharon said he sought. meeting after his microphone was cut the killing of three of its leaders by The vote by Likud's more than 3,000 off as he twice attempted to begin a Israeli troops in Tulkarm. Israel said central committee members speech to the rowdy forum. Aides the militants were killed after opening tomorrowy could turn Israeli politics accused his opponents of sabotaging fire on troops who were trying to on its head, and prompt Sharon to the sound system. Militants in Gaza arrest them. Yesterday evening an leave the party and form a new from the Popular Resistance explosion at a rally held by the centrist alliance. Opinion polls show Committees and al-Aqsa Martyrs Palestinian militants of Hamas left 15 the outcome is too close to call, Brigades, part of Palestinian dead. The ruling Palestinian Fatah although Netanyahu -- who quit as President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah

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23 Political & Civil Unrest group, fired several rockets into southern Israeli town of Sderot. London, Sep 22 -- A press report, Israel hours after yesterday's Likud Soldiers swept into the towns of dated today, states: King Gyanendra of session and after Zahar made his Tulkarm and Qalqilya where they Nepal has made a public appearance comments. -- Reuters. sealed the offices of at least two in the streets of the capital, Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip, Sep 27 -- Islamic charities accused of links to Kathmandu, for the first time since Israeli military aircraft struck two Hamas militants, witnesses said. staging a royal coup in February. Gaza Strip towns today, pressing an There were no reported arrests. The Large crowds greeted the 58-year-old offensive ordered by Prime Minister West Bank raids followed yesterday's monarch. Yesterday some 30,000 Ariel Sharon following cross-border release of a videotape and statement people attended a peace rally in rocket salvoes by Palestinian by Hamas, a group bent on Israel's Kathmandu, calling for an end to the militants. No one was hurt in the destruction, claiming responsibility for long-running Maoist insurgency that predawn strikes, which came hours slaying an Israeli man. Hamas said has left about 12,000 people dead. The after Sharon beat off a leadership initially it had kidnapped Sasson government has come under pressure challenge in Israel's ruling Likud Nuriel, 50, a candy merchant from at home and abroad to respond to a party. In Beit Hanoun, a town on the Jerusalem, to use him as a bargaining three-month ceasefire called by the Gaza border often used for Palestinian chip to free prisoners from Israeli Maoists this month. It refuses to rocket launches during five years of jails. Nuriel's body was found near the reciprocate the truce, saying that the fighting, Israeli missiles pulverized West Bank town of Ramallah on rebels cannot be trusted - a reference two bridges, witnesses said. The Monday (Sep 26). Nuriel was the first to two occasions in the past when the Israeli army said the bridges had Israeli killed since the Israeli troop rebels broke ceasefires after served as conduits for militants. "They withdrawal from Gaza. -- Reuters. unilaterally pulling out of peace talks. (Israel) aimed to make it difficult for London, Sep 29 -- A press report, The rebels have been insisting on an gunmen to transport rockets to Beit dated today, states: Israeli soldiers interim government and a constituent Hanoun," said townsman Ismail killed three militants during arrest assembly to draft a new constitution Ahmed. Minutes later, another air raids in the West Bank early today, which they believe will clear way for strike destroyed a money-changer's pressing on with a major offensive replacing the monarchy with a office and an academy in Khan Younis against Palestinian militants and republican regime. used by gunmen from the Palestinian casting a shadow over local elections London, Sep 26 -- Nepalese faction Fatah. The army accused the in dozens of Palestinian villages. government troops killed eight Maoist money changer of working with rebels over the weekend, some three Hamas militants, but locals said he KYRGYZSTAN weeks after a ceasefire was was from Fatah. Sharon's main Likud London, Sep 22 -- A press report, unilaterally declared by the rebels, the rival, Benjamin Netanyahu, asked the dated today, states: Gunmen in military said today. It said rebels party's Central Committee yesteray to Kyrgyzstan have killed an MP who opened fire on an army patrol in Palpa bring forward a primary election that was a driving force behind the protests district, about 300 kilometers might have unseated 77-year-old in March which led to the overthrow southwest of Kathmandu, on Saturday Sharon, but the motion lost by a vote of President Askar Akayev. Bayaman (Sep 24) afternoon and the patrol of 51.3 percent to 47.6 percent, Erkinbayev was shot in the neck and fought back, killing six rebels and averting the possibility of early chest as he arrived by car at his home capturing five more. In a separate national elections and of Sharon in the capital, Bishkek. Mr incident in Terathum district in the bolting the party he co-founded in the Erkinbayev, 38, was a wealthy east of the country, two rebels were 1970s to create a centrist bloc businessman in southern Kyrgyzstan, killed yesterday when they attacked capitalizing on broad support for the where the anti-Akayev protests an army patrol, the military said. Gaza plan. -- Reuters. began. He is the second parliamentary Gaza, Sep 28 -- Israel widened an deputy to be killed since the popular NIGERIA offensive against Palestinian militants uprising earlier this year. The country Port Harcourt, Sep 22 -- Hundreds of today, launching several predawn air has seen continuing political troops and riot police manned raids that knocked out electricity in instability since then. According to a checkpoints in Port Harcourt today Gaza City and sweeping into two West local source, Mr Erkinbayev was a after local militants blocked roads and Bank cities, witnesses said. The former wrestler who owned a number threatened violence over the arrest of escalating violence has battered hopes of shops and hotels around the their leader. Oil giant Royal Dutch that Israel's troop pull-out from Gaza southern town of Osh. He was widely Shell extended restrictions on two weeks ago, billed as rumoured to be associated with the movement of its Nigerian employees to "disengagement" from conflict, would criminal world. It is unclear whether a second day, but the measures had no boost chances for peace. Israeli the motivation for that attack was impact on oil supply from the world's aircraft fired missiles at four militant political - at the time, he had eighth largest exporter, industry targets in and around Gaza City, announced plans to run for president - officials said. "Workers are still destroying the offices of a leading or linked to his business interests. advised to stay at home, but there has Fatah militant, and two other militant been no impact on operations," a Shell groups, an Israeli military source and NEPAL source said, asking not to be named. Palestinian witnesses said. They said London, Sep 20 -- A press report, Soldiers and riot police set up a fifth missile fired later destroyed a dated today, states: Nepali anti- checkpoints across the city and bridge in northern Gaza's Beit government guerrillas have abducted armoured personnel carriers Hanoun. An Israeli military source at least 36 teachers from various thundered through the streets. said a leading traffic artery for schools in eastern Nepal, local police Militants of the Niger Delta People's militants had been wrecked. The raids office said today. The teachers were Volunteer Force (NDPVF) threatened plunged much of Gaza City into abducted from Kerabari village of on Tuesday (Sep 20) to cause mayhem darkness cutting electricity to many of Morang district, some 300 km east of and close down oil facilities in the its 350,000 residents for two hours. Kathmandu, on yesterday, local police Niger Delta, which pumps all of Rescue workers sifted through the office said in a statement. All the Nigeria's 2.4 million barrels per day, rubble in Gaza and El Bureij refugee teachers were forcibly taken away after police arrested their leader, camp. There were no reported from the school premises, the Moujahid Dokubo-Asari. Minister of casualties. Hours earlier Israeli statement noted. The whereabouts of State for Petroleum Edmund Daukoru artillery gunners had opened fire on the teachers is still unknown, the said it was too early to say how suspected rocket launching sites in statement added. The guerrillas often seriously the threats should be taken. northern Gaza after darkness force civilians, teachers and students The NDPVF demanded Dokubo-Asari's yesterday, shelling the area for the to take part in their "ideological" release by 1300, UTC, yesterday, but first time since Israel's September 12 programs and usually free them after the deadline passed without a major exit from the zone its army had ruled a few days unharmed. The guerrillas crisis. Hundreds of militants blocked a for 38 years. The shelling came after a had declared the unilateral ceasefire major road several times, but were rocket slammed into a street in the with immediate effect on Sep 3. dispersed by police officers. Police said

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Dokubo-Asari would be charged today said. "A group of people came called for calm. "Asari gave me the in an Abuja court. They previously demanding that we close it down, so instruction to tell them that nobody accused him of "seditious and we closed it down and everybody should harm any foreigner or do treasonable" calls for the left." -- Reuters. anything criminal," Mr Okwukwu told disintegration of Nigeria. Dokubo- Port Harcourt, Sep 23 -- Ethnic Reuters news agency. The lawyer was Asari campaigns for sovereignty of his militants cut deeper into Nigerian oil released on Friday (Sep 23) after being Ijaw tribe, the largest in the delta, supply otoday with the closure of a arrested when he went to defend Mr and argues that the colonial treaties U.S.-operated platform, but the Asari. Alali Horsfall, deputy leader of which created the union with the rest situation was confused when militia the militia group, told the AP news of the country were fraudulent. The leaders later backed away from agency that the group had "suspended threats over his arrest come days after threats of violence. U.S.-based action". Mr Asari was arrested on another delta militant, Oyeinfie Chevron shut a second production Tuesday, and on Thursday (Sep 22) Jonjon of the Ijaw Youth Council, said platform as a safety precaution today was remanded in custody for two he could "no longer guarantee the after an armed group stormed a weeks by a judge in the capital, Abuja. safety" of British people and property nearby facility a day earlier. Two Police are investigating charges of after a delta politician was arrested in commanders of the Niger Delta sedition in connection with a London on suspicion of money People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF), newspaper interview in which Mr laundering. Despite its huge oil who had threatened to blow up oil Asari allegedly called for the break-up industry, most inhabitants of the delta facilities after their leader was of Nigeria. live in poverty and feel cheated out of arrested on Tuesday (Sep 20), Warri, Sep 29 -- A British oil worker the wealth, which leaves the region in suddenly withdrew the threats amid a was kidnapped in Nigeria's southern the form of profits for foreign oil split in the group. Dakuro Princewill, delta last night, police and diplomatic companies or revenues for the faraway who said he was a member of the sources said today. Another foreign oil federal government. Their resentment group's Supreme Command, said a worker was also abducted along with fuels armed conflicts, sabotage of oil temporary ceasefire had been decided the Briton, but his nationality was not installations, kidnappings of oil but some in the group disagreed and immediately clear, the sources said. -- workers and oil theft. An NDPVF may not respect it. "We, the Supreme Reuters. commander, Dakoru Princewill, said Command, have decided a ceasefire," he had about 3,000 volunteers ready he told Reuters. The decision was PAKISTAN for action and they would be able to corroborated by Alali Horsfall, who London, Sep 22 -- A press report, procure arms when they decided they said he was acting leader in the dated today, states: At least six people needed them. There was no absence of detained Mujahid Dokubo- have been killed and 16 have been independent confirmation of his Asari. One analyst said the confusing injured in two bombings in Pakistan's comments. message reflected a disintegration of eastern city of Lahore. Lahore police London, Sep 23 -- A press report, the group. "It was Asari who had some chief Tariq Saleem Dogar says the dated today, states: A Nigerian militia form of control over this movement, in first blast occurred near the Minar-e- group has seized an oil pumping his absence the structure of the Pakistan monument, killing one station in the Niger Delta and riot NDPVF is amorphous. Nobody can person and injuring 13. Mr Dogar says police are on patrol after the arrest of predict what they will do next," said minutes later a second device exploded a senior rebel leader. The attack an ethnic rights activist in Port in Icchra, Lahore's busiest shopping follows threats by militants that they Harcourt. A senior oil industry official district, killing another five and will shut down oil plants in the world's said any attacks on oil platforms wounding three. eighth-ranked exporting nation after would only worsen Asari's fate. Karachi, Sep 26 -- Pakistan state the arrest of militant leader Mujahid Chevron shut the 20,000 barrel-per- owned gas utility company-Sui Dokubo-Asari earlier this week. His day Robertkiri platform today, Southern Gas Company (SSGC) said group, the Niger Delta People's bringing the total impact of the crisis this morning that a bomb blast blown Volunteer Force, invaded the Chevron to 28,400 barrels a day, or 1 percent of up gas pipeline on the confluence of facility, calling for his release. The Nigerian output. "We shut Robertkiri Sindh-Balochistan Province of group wants more control of oil in the based on our assessment that it was Pakistan yesterday. As a result, gas Delta, where most people live in under imminent threat," a Chevron supply to various areas of the two poverty despite the presence of the spokeswoman said. Anglo-Dutch oil provinces partially suspended. A resource. Mr Asari is to be charged giant Royal Dutch Shell withdrew spokesman of company said a team of with treason and his lawyer has also about 50 workers from three oil and engineers has already reached the been arrested. Last year, the same gas facilities yesterday, but output remote spot of ruptured to repair the group caused a sharp rise in oil prices was maintained by a skeleton staff. pipeline. Earlier, police said that when they threatened war against oil Yesterday, a high court ordered some unknown saboteurs planted a companies. Asari's detention for another two time-device at the 20-inch diameter Port Harcourt, Sep 23 -- U.S. oil weeks pending charges of treason, gas pipeline, running from Sui to the company Chevron shut a 20,000 which can carry the death sentence, Punjab, which exploded at the G-2 barrel per day Nigerian oil production and unlawful assembly. After three point, damaging the pipeline in platform today as a precaution, a days of sporadic street protests, the Bhittai police limits of Taluka spokeswoman said, after armed situation in Port Harcourt, the delta's Tagewani in district Kashmore. After militants stormed a nearby platform. largest city, was calm today amid a the incident, police reached the scene Ethnic militants have threatened to heavy troop and police presence. -- and cordoned off the area. Bomb blow up oil platforms and pipelines Reuters. Disposal Squad in charge inspector across the world's eighth largest London, Sep 26 -- A press report, Malik Tahir told reporters that it exporter after a leader was arrested dated today, states: The Chevron oil was a time-device, weighing 10 on Tuesday (Sep 20), and Western oil company has reopened two oil stations pounds. -- Lloyd's List companies have withdrawn dozens of in Nigeria's Niger Delta region under Correspondent. workers from vulnerable areas. The army protection. They were closed last closure of Chevron's Robertkiri week after attempts by a local militia PHILIPPINES platform brought the total impact of group to sabotage oil facilities. The Manila, Sep 27 -- The leader of a the crisis to 28,400 barrels per day. Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force band of Abu Sayyaf militants who "It was a precautionary measure," a had issued the threats in protest at kidnapped four Indonesian crewmen of spokeswoman said. The the detention on Tuesday (Sep 20) of tug SM 88 in 2002 has been captured, spokeswoman had no information on their leader Mujahid Dokubo-Asari. together with seven of his men, by the status of the Idama platform, The group seeks self-determination for Philippine Marines. Jundam Jamalul closed by more than 100 armed the oil-producing region, which was arrested after troops from the militants on yesterday, but said that remains poor and under-developed. 211th Marine Company raided his it was not in the hands of militants. Yesterday, Mr Asari's lawyer, Uche hideout in Panjogan Village, Bongao, "It was never really occupied," she Okwukwu, said the militia leader had Tawi-Tawi, last Wednesday (Sep 21).

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On Jun 17, 2002, Jundam Jamalul led bomb would explode at the industrial national unity government does not a group of Abu Sayyaf terrorists in park, officials said. That gave police deserve this name," Islamist leader boarding the SM 88 near the southern time to evacuate the area, a few miles Hassan al-Turabi, who was freed in Philippine island of Basilan and from the historic walled town of Avila, June from 15 months in detention, told abducting four of its crew. The tug was west of Madrid. "The police arrived and the Al-Sahafa newspaper. He said the towing barge Labroy 179 and was on its told us we had two minutes to get out," SPLM had been "marginal portfolios". way to Cebu. Abu Sayyaf demanded Juan Carlos Fernandez, a worker at a The new line-up was also dismissed by millions of pesos for the release of the printing plant, told state radio. He said a separate group of rebels fighting in three hostages but negotiations with the blast occurred soon afterwards. the western Darfur region. The number the vessel's owner collapsed and the Three buildings were damaged by the of ministers each side names was set crew had to endure harrowing months bomb, which police believed was placed out in January's deal - with the NPC of ill-treatment and captivity. Three of in a van parked nearby, officials said. -- getting 52% and the SPLM 28%. The the hostages later escaped separately, Reuters. biggest disappointment for the while the fourth died in captivity. -- southern Sudanese is that they have Lloyd's List Correspondent. SRI LANKA not been given the energy and mining Colombo, Sep 21 -- Sri Lanka today ministry which includes the oil sector. RUSSIA extended a state of emergency imposed Under the terms of the peace London, Sep 25 -- A press report, dated in the wake of the August agreement, oil revenue will be split 50- today, states: The Russian republic of assassination of is foreign minister. 50 with the north but most of the Dagestan reportedly has been left The state of emergency gives proven reserves are in the south. The without gas after unknown assailants government and police special powers south is due to hold a referendum on attacked a pipeline on Friday (Sep 23), to detain suspects and deploy troops if secession in six years' time. according to Russian news agencies. need be. The move comes as ties Geneva, Sep 28 -- Violence is rising Gas shipments to neighbouring between the state and the Tigers are at sharply again in Sudan's Darfur and Azerbaijan were also disrupted after their lowest ebb since a 2002 ceasefire could force the United Nations to halt the attack near the town of Pokrovskoye halted two decades of civil war. Slain aid to over two million desperate in the Khasavyurt region, news Foreign Minister Lakshman people, the UN's humanitarian chief agencies reported. Officials with the Kadirgamar's killers are still at large. warned today. All parties to the Darfur state-run Kaspyigazprom gas company, The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam conflict -- the Khartoum government, the Emergency Ministry, and the (LTTE) deny any involvement -- a rebels, Arab militias -- were at fault, Interior Ministry are investigating the denial analysts dismiss as a stock said UN Emergency Relief Co-ordinator cause of the blast. disclaimer. "The motion to extend the Jan Egeland. "If it continues to Moscow, Sep 27 -- Lawlessness and emergency powers was passed in escalate, we may not be able to sustain kidnapping still plague citizens of parliament," speaker of the house our operations for 2.5 million people Russia's Chechnya, President Vladimir W.J.M. Lokubandara told lawmakers. requiring life-saving assistance," he Putin said today, six years after coming The month-long extension also comes said, adding: "In Darfur, it (aid to power on pledges of bringing the as Sri Lanka heads into a Nov 17 distribution) could all end tomorrow. It region's criminals to book. Rights presidential election, which will help is as serious as that." Little progress groups say hundreds of Chechens have set the course of the island's future has been made in peace talks in the gone missing since Putin as prime security and economic policies. Left-of- Nigerian capital, Abuja, brokered by minister sent troops back into centre Prime Minister Mahinda the African Union. However, rebels and Chechnya in 1999 -- an act which Rajapakse is set to face off against his the government could sign a peace deal underpinned his popularity and right-of-centre predecessor Ranil by the end of the year to end the crisis, propelled him into the Kremlin in Wickremesinghe in a vote seen too close top UN official in Sudan Jan Pronk presidential elections six months later. to call. Sri Lanka's main donors said in Khartoum today. Pronk praised Activists blame pro-Moscow forces for stepped into the fray on Monday (Sep the parties for remaining at talks to many of the kidnappings. Often, they 19), urging the government and the end the conflict despite an upsurge in say, rebels' relatives are kidnapped to Tigers to preserve the truce and halt a fighting that saw rebels seize the town put pressure on the separatists to lay rash of killings that culminated in of Sheiria in South Darfur state earlier down their arms. Pro-Moscow forces Kadirgamar's assassination amid a this month. -- Reuters. deny the allegations, but Putin said silent war the military and the rebels they could well be true. "It is each blame on the other. -- Reuters. THAILAND impossible to say who stands behind London, Sep 21 -- A press report, these crimes: disguised bandits or law SUDAN dated today, states: Thailand's Prime enforcement workers abusing their London, Sep 23 -- A press report, Minister has vowed to bring to justice power," he said. The Kremlin has dated Sep 22, states: Sudan's first post- those responsible for the murder of two refused any rebel overtures for peace war national unity government has servicemen who had been held hostage talks, focusing on crushing the rebel been sworn in, as part of a deal signed in a mosque in the country's far south. groups while running a unilateral with former southern rebels to end 21 Prime Minister Thaksin has ordered peace plan that includes parliamentary years of war. Nine former SPLM rebels the security forces to capture the elections this November. "The main pledged to work with 16 members of ringleaders decisively and swiftly. The solution to the problem is the political the government they had been fighting military has recovered the bodies of regulation of Chechnya, with the until January. The inauguration was the murdered servicemen, who have inclusion of the greatest possible delayed by a row over who runs the been identified as navy personnel. number of people in this regulation," energy portfolio, with control of the Both had been bound and blindfolded, Putin said. "I consider the Chechen vital oil industry. Many southerners stabbed repeatedly in the stomach and parliamentary elections very are unhappy that key ministries beaten about the head. They had been important." Rebel news sources said remain in northern hands. It is a large investigating a deadly ambush in the Putin's pledge was meaningless, saying government - a total of 74 ministers, province of Narathiwat when they the policemen were themselves to ministers of state and presidential were taken late last night. The pair blame for kidnappings and would never advisors - with a huge task, delivering was chasing a pick-up truck carrying be able to stop the problem. -- Reuters. peace and prosperity to a country with suspected militants into the mosque. a long history of civil war. President But the men were surrounded by 2,000 SPAIN Omar al-Bashir's National Congress villagers who formed a human shield Madrid, Sep 24 -- A car bomb exploded Party retains the energy, defence, around the building. For the first at an industrial park in central Spain interior and finance posts in the 30- time, Thaksin Shinawatra has today but there were no casualties in strong cabinet. Two seats have been left exercised censorship powers contained the first attack in two months by the vacant for members of the northern in an emergency decree, to prevent armed Basque separatist group ETA. opposition National Democratic foreign media crews from reaching the Two Basque newspapers had received Alliance, which is unhappy at the village where the hostage taking took calls in the name of ETA warning a allocation of seats. "The so-called place.

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London, Sep 27 -- A press report, IRA permitted two independent dated today, states: Four Thai soldiers witnesses - a Methodist minister and a have been shot dead during an Roman Catholic priest close to Sinn ambush in the Muslim-majority Fein leader Gerry Adams - to view the province of Yala, in the latest violence secret disarmament work conducted to hit the region. "The soldiers were by officials from Canada, Finland and riding motorcycles on patrol when the United States. "Successive British militants ambushed them and robbed governments have sought final and them of their machine guns," police complete decommissioning by the IRA Lieutenant Colonel Mustorpha Mani for over 10 years," British Prime NIGERIA said. He says the soldiers had been Minister Tony Blair said. "Failure to See under "Political & Civil Unrest". patrolling a stretch of road near deliver it had become a major Chakwua village in Raman district impediment to moving forward the when they were attacked. peace process. Today it is finally accomplished. And we have made an TURKEY important step in the transition from Diyarbakir, Sep 28 -- Turkish troops conflict to peace in Northern Ireland." killed two Kurdish rebels today after a Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern tip-off that they were about to launch said he accepted the word of de an attack in a town in the south-east, Chastelain and his colleagues. "These a provincial governor said in a are men of integrity. Their words are statement. Turkey's mainly Kurdish clear, and they are welcome." Earlier ARGENTINA south-east has seen an upsurge in in the day, De Chastelain gave London, Sep 22 -- A press report, violence in recent months despite the representatives of the British and Irish dated today, states: Fishermen who Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels governments a confidential report on have been on strike for over two extending their ceasefire till Oct 3, the his work. He said the decommissioning months in Mar del Plata yesterday date Turkey is due to start talks to was completed Saturday (Sep 14) and received a pay rise offer from the enter the European Union. The that he had checked and counted all government and plan to meet this statement said police in the provincial the weapons involved. Questioned by morning to discuss it. Following orders capital Diyarbakir received a tip-off reporters, de Chastelain said he could from President Nestor Kirchner, Mar late yesterday saying the PKK were not be absolutely certain that every del Plata Mayor Daniel Katz offered planning to attack one of two IRA weapon had been disposed of, but them a 140% wage increase. The townships in the region. Security he said he believed the IRA was government also pledged to open a forces set up roadblocks and sincere in saying it had handed over 180-day round of talks to agree new attempted to stop a suspect car the whole arsenal. He also said the working conditions for the workers, outside one of the towns. When the car amount was consistent with police and who have virtually paralyzed the city's did not stop, security forces blocked its army estimates of the IRA's arms strong fishing industry. path and two men inside opened fire. holdings. The breakthrough should Three policemen were wounded, one of overcome the biggest stumbling block BANGLADESH them seriously. The two men were shot in Northern Ireland's peace process London, Sep 21 -- A press report, dead. Police found two Kalashnikov since Britain opened negotiations with dated today, states: Police and assault rifles, ammunition, two hand- Sinn Fein, the IRA-linked party, in protesters have clashed in Dhaka amid grenades in the car. -- Reuters. 1994. Senior Sinn Fein official Mitchel a nation-wide strike called by the main McLaughlin said he hoped IRA opposition Awami League party. The one-day strike was called in protest UNITED KINGDOM disarmament would promote London, Sep 27 -- A press report, "confidence and generosity in response against the recent rise in fuel prices and dated Sep 26, states: The Irish from our opponents." Most politicians over a nation-wide bombing campaign Republican Army has given up its and analysts agree the IRA move last month. Three people were killed entire arsenal of weapons, comes years too late to lead to a quick and more than 100 injured when about demonstrating that its 35-year revival of a Roman Catholic-Protestant 400 bombs went off within an hour in campaign to overthrow Northern administration, the central goal of August. Opposition leaders said about Ireland by force is really over, the Northern Ireland's 1998 peace accord. 40 people were injured in today's Canadian general who supervised the That complex, landmark agreement clashes. Thousands of security officials tortuous process said today. "We are required the IRA to disarm by May were guarding streets and key satisfied that the arms 2000. The Democratic Unionists, which government installations. Police put up decommissioning represents the represents most Protestants today, had barbed-wire barricades around the totality of the IRA's arsenal," said demanded photographs, a detailed central office of the Awami League in John de Chastelain, a retired record and a Paisley-approved efforts to prevent party activists from Canadian general who since 1997 has clergyman to serve as an independent staging protests. The streets in Dhaka led efforts to disarm the outlawed witness. The IRA refused to permit were largely empty with only a handful IRA. The material included photos and selected the two religious of buses operating on some of the ammunition, rifles, machine guns, witnesses themselves: the Rev. Harold heavily protected roads. School and mortars, missiles, handguns and Good, a former president of the shops were mostly closed with economic explosives, and all were rendered Methodist Church in Ireland, and the activities and normal life disrupted "permanently inaccessible or Rev. Alex Reid, a Catholic priest. "A across the country due to the strike - the permanently unusable," de Chastelain witness who was appointed by the IRA second such shutdown this week. On told a news conference. The IRA is not going to have the same Sunday (Sep 18), the country's main left followed up the announcement with a credibility," said the Democratic group - the Communist Party of brief statement of its own that Unionist chairman, Nigel Dodds. The Bangladesh - also called a nation-wide concluded: "The IRA leadership can IRA said in July that it would no strike. No one has claimed responsibility now confirm that the process of longer seek to abolish the for the unprecedented bomb attacks putting our arms verifiably beyond use predominantly Protestant territory of that took place on Aug 17. Leaflets has been completed." Ian Paisley, Northern Ireland by force, a policy that found at each blast site carried a call by leader of the Democratic Unionist was the source of much of the deadly militant group Jama'atul Mujahideen Party, which has resisted dealing with violence over the past 35 years. The for the introduction of Islamic rule in the IRA's political allies, was not IRA said it had commanded members Bangladesh. Hundreds of members of persuaded. While he accepted that the to "dump arms," but it was vague the group have since been arrested, but IRA had disposed of some weapons, about whether this meant every single police say the masterminds of the attack Paisley said the process was not one - leaving room for retention of are still at large. The government has transparent and gave no assurance firearms for crime, intimidation and also been under pressure from fuel that all the weapons were gone. The self-protection. price increases.

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Karachi, Sep 26 -- The dock workers (Tuesday)". Meanwhile, a meeting of said had been "explanatory" and of the Chittagong port adopted "go- the BMSA, CPA trade unions, and the "pedagogical". Participants at the slow" tactics since yesterday afternoon Chairman of the CPA is going on to meeting are due to meet again on to press their demand which includes find out ways to overcome the crisis. -- Monday but it is not clear whether the surety of service, enhancement of Lloyd's List Correspondent government will have any new salaries, introduction of incentive Karachi, Sep 28 -- Chittagong Port proposals to put to the strikers. scheme and appointment of dock Authority (CPA) said this morning Meanwhile, unions representing the workers in the container vessels etc. that the dockworkers have ended their company's shore staff have given The Bangladesh Master Stevedore programme of 'go-slow' tactics notice that they will strike from the Association (BMSA) in a press release following a successful meeting start of next week to protest at what alleged that the dock workers have between all stakeholders yesterday. A they claimed was the government's suspended their work since 1600, port official said "we have discussed "assassination" of the company. yesterday, which have created all the issues and the mater has been Yesterday, the last remaining stalemate situation in the country's resolved". It is hoped that operations passengers destined for North Africa, principal seaport. They termed it as at the port will return to normal today. who had been stranded in the port of quite illegal and called upon the dock -- Lloyd's List Correspondent. Marseilles since Tuesday evening (Sep workers to withdraw their pressure 20), were transferred to nearby Toulon tactics. The BMSA Chairman, AHM FRANCE where they were due to leave for Manzur Alam told local media that he London, Sep 21 -- A press report, Algiers aboard a vessel belonging to has appealed to the Chittagong Port dated today, states: More than 1,500 SNCM's Algerian partner, ENTMV. Authority to take necessary steps travellers were stranded overnight London, Sep 27 -- A press report, against the dock workers. Otherwise, after two ferries were prevented from dated today, states: Striking French he proposed that the stevedoring firms sailing by striking seamen protesting sailors commandeered passenger ro/ro would continue the works appointing the proposed privatisation of their Pascal Paoli (32458 gt, built 2003) and their own employees instead of dock company, port officials said today. The began steering it towards the island of workers, if the "go slow" is not management of the Corsica- Corsica today, as tensions flared over withdrawn by today. -- Lloyd's List Mediterranean shipping company the privatisation of a state-owned Correspondent (SNCM) said the company's president, ferry company. The country's largest Dhaka, Sep 27 -- A wildcat strike by Bruno Vergobbi, had been taken sea-port at the Mediterranean city of pilots of the state-run Biman hostage, but the CGT union denied Marseille was at a standstill as Bangladesh grounded the airline's this. "He is aboard the ship, yes ... but dockers and seamen staged a 24 hour international and domestic flights on he is not being held," said union work stoppage to protest against the Tuesday, civil aviation officials said. spokesman Bernard Marty. "He sale of the debt-ridden National They said the strike was called by the himself organised the meeting on the Corsica Mediterranean Company pilots' association in protest against boat, which was closed for security (SNCM). The passenger port in the the sacking of its president Captain reasons." Officials said the passenger city of Marseille as well as the oil and Nasimul Huq on grounds of poor ro/ro Mediterrannee which was due to container terminals at Fos and Lavera health. Huq was not available for leave for Algiers with 1,000 30 kilometres to the west were all shut comment. The strike, which passengers and 750 vehicles, was down, officials said. A group of some threatened to disrupt Biman's eight prevented from leaving yesterday 30 masked men from the Union of international and ten domestic flights afternoon along with the passenger Corsican Workers (STC) took over the today, was also supported by "all Napoleon Bonaparte that was vessel, which was in dock at Marseille, categories" of Biman ground staff scheduled to depart for Corsica with and overcame the 40-member crew. demanding higher wages and benefits. 550 passengers and about 100 "This is a piece of equipment that "We are facing a complete shutdown of vehicles. The strike was touched off by belongs to Corsica and we are flights with hundreds of passengers an announcement that two investment returning it to Corsica," said STC stranded at the airports," one Biman funds, Butler Capital Partners and secretary-general Alain Mosconi. The official said. "Biman's 150 pilots and Caravelle, were in line to take over prosecutor's office in Marseille over 5,000 ground staff have all joined the state shipping company, which has launched a criminal investigation into the strike and supported each other to 2,400 employees and has been "hijacking of a ship," a crime which realise respective demands," said the experiencing financial difficulties. carries a penalty of up to 20 years in official who asked not to be named. Discontented passengers clashed with prison. The 24-hour strike was Leaders of the striking employees police yesterday outside the sparked by yesterday's announcement were holding a meeting with the civil headquarters of the company that the foundering SNCM -- which aviation minister Mir Mohammad according to witnesses, who said two serves routes to Corsica, Sardinia, Nasiruddin and Biman authorities police officers were slightly injured Algeria and Tunisia -- was likely to be trying to resolve the disputes. -- and three people were detained. taken over by Butler Capital Partners, Reuters. Passengers spent the night on board a French investment group. That Karachi, Sep 27 -- Understand from the vessel or in the town. decision was confirmed by the French Bangladesh shipping and port sources, London, Sep 22 -- Total SA said today government today, which said the that cargo handling at Chittagong port that its 328,000-barrel-a-day Butler offer was "both the more has declined due to the "go slow" Normandy refinery, France's largest, acceptable financially, and the more tactics of the dock workers, over the continued to produce at reduced likely to respond to the interests of the last two days. They adopted this capacity as a strike over pay extended company, public service and course of action to pressurise all into its third day. The slowdown at the employment." Another French group, stakeholders for their job security and Normandy unit, which accounts for Caravelle, had been in the running. other demands. The Bangladesh roughly 15 percent of France's refining The news sparked violence in the port Master Stevedore Association (BMSA) capacity. of Marseille last night. Riot police has pointed out that more than 75 London, Sep 23 -- The fleet of French intervened with tear-gas at around percent of port operations have Mediterranean ferry operator SNCM midnight to clear entrance gates, after declined. The BMSA Chairman, AHM is to remain strikebound until Monday groups of masked men set fire to Manzur Alam, yesterday, told the local (Sep 26) at least following an pallets and set up barricades. Two media that a total of 60 boxes of inconclusive meeting in Marseilles union members were detained. containers were unloaded from a between personnel representatives, London, Sep 27 -- A press report, particular ship during a 12 hour company management and ministry of dated today, states: A refinery period against the normal total of 200 transport officials regarding the operated by French oil group Total boxes of containers for that period of government's plans for assuring the near the port of Le Havre was at a time. The BMSA threatened that the company's survival. SNCM seafarers standstill today after a week of strike stevedoring firms would not book voted yesterday afternoon to continue action. For a week no petrol (gasoline) gangs of dock workers "if such a their action after a meeting yesterday or diesel fuel has left the factory and programme continued until today which local prefect Christian Fremont management has said that the strike

© Lloyd’s Marine Intelligence Unit 2004 These reports may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photographic, recorded or otherise without the prior written permission of the publisher. 28 Labour Disputes is costing the business up to two were closed. The government has NZ$3 increase to a NZ$12 base pay million euros per day. But it has said drafted in 3,000 air force personnel in would amount to a 25 per cent jump. that there is no risk of fuel shortages, an attempt to avert major disruption. At Mt Cook, 55 workers have been on saying that the market can be "The strike is a 100% success," MK strike since last Friday (Sep 16) in supplied by other refineries in Europe. Ghosal, general secretary of the support of a five percent pay claim, The strike is led by the left-wing CGT Airports Authority of India Employees EPMU said. trade union on behalf of 70 workers in Union, told Reuters news agency. the 1,600-strong workforce who Federal aviation secretary Ajay RUSSIA control the arrival and departure of Prasad told the AFP news agency that London, Sep 23 -- A press report, products and materials. Management, steps had been taken to "ensure all dated Sep 22, states: St. Peterburg unable to ship out refined products, flights operate with full safety dockers will sign a collective has had to close down all of the measures". Airports are particularly agreement with the St. Petersburg sea installations. The strikers in the so- affected as many employees oppose port to end their strike, by the end of called Tmex department are government plans to sell 74% stakes this month, Alexander Moiseyenko, demanding that their pay be increased in the Delhi and Mumbai hubs. The head of the Dockersø Union, said by 200 euros a month, that their eastern city of Calcutta, home to a 28- yesterday, Interfax reported. status be revised and that security be year-old Communist government, was Moiseyenko said the workers will strengthened. worst hit by the strike. Operations at resume normal shifts from October, London, Sep 28 -- Helicopter-borne the city airport ground to a halt and but added that the talks for ways to French troops have recaptured ro/ro buses went off the roads. Cargo co-ordinate future wage rises and Pascal Paoli that had been seized by handling at Calcutta's port also bonus pay have not been agreed on. striking workers to protest the stalled after workers there joined the Both sides are required to agree on a privatisation of a state-owned ferry strike, reports said. The strike has final settlement by the end of the year, company. Black-clad and masked also had a major impact in the otherwise dockers will resume the commandos rappelled from five southern state of Kerala, another left- strike, Moiseyenko said. helicopters to the deck of the vessel as wing stronghold. In the capital, Delhi, it tried to enter the port of Bastia on riot police were deployed at airport SOUTH AFRICA the French Mediterranean island of terminals. The Airports Authority of London, Sep 23 -- A press report, Corsica. The sources said the vessel India (AAI) said international flights dated today, states: A strike by about was recaptured in 10 minutes, and were operating normally. It is 300 staff and cabin crew at then set sail for the mainland. About understood more than five million Nationwide airline was set to start at 50 members of an elite unit federal and state government 1700, today, trade union Solidarity specialising in dealing with hijackings employees in western Maharashtra and the airline said. "At this stage and kidnappings, the GIGN, took part state are participating in the strike. we're assuming that it will go ahead. in the operation along with navy Public transport services in Mumbai There shouldn't be any disruption at commandos. It followed two days of have not been affected, but all. Unlike the SAA strike we're able violence over the sale of the debt- government offices and banks are to do things differently," said ridden National Corsica running with fewer staff. Many bank Nationwide's financial director, Peter Mediterranean Company (SNCM) to a workers also stayed at home to protest Griffiths, adding that passengers French investment group, with against foreign investments in pension could be accommodated on other clashes earlier in the day between funds. India's communist parties have police and supporters of the striking been leading protests across the flights. He said the Commission for ferry workers. Interior Minister country against the government's Conciliation, Mediation and Nicolas Sarkozy hailed the "fast and economic policies. They oppose the Arbitration (CCMA) had been efficient" operation by the French government's policy of selling off some approached to resolve the dispute, troops. of its stake in state-owned scheduled to end at 1700, Sunday London, Sep 28 -- The strike by port corporations to raise funds for (Sep 25). "I was told that the CCMA workers at Lavera and Fos Public Oil investment, privatisation of airports could only meet with us on Monday, Terminals is still in force. The strike and allowing foreign investment in but that just doesn't make sense, to started around 2200 hrs, Sep 26. As a pension funds. go through the strike and then result, there are no vessel commercial mediate." Griffiths said that of the operations or berthing/sailing and port NEW ZEALAND more than 1 000 staff at the airline, access is restricted. There is currently London, Sep 22 -- A press report, around 250 were Solidarity members. no information about when the strike dated today, states: Adding to the woes It had 17 aircraft on domestic flights is expected to end. of travellers encountering on-going and one long-haul aircraft. Solidarity London, Sep 29 -- Port workers are strike action by Mt Cook baggage spokesperson Jaco Kleynhans said still on strike at Marseille. The strike handlers at Queenstown airport, the strike would "definitely" go ahead is affecting all western and eastern ground staff servicing Emirates, and affect the "vast majority" of harbours, except private terminals. All Singapore, Cathay Pacific, Pacific domestic flights as its members made cargo operations are presently Blue and other international airlines up 90% of cabin crew. He put the interrupted. are on a seven day strike at Auckland number of union members at International Airport. The Nationwide at 320. INDIA Engineering Printing and London, Sep 29 -- A day-long, Manufacturing Union is turning its UNITED STATES national strike in India has disrupted increasingly notorious pay increase Londonb, Sep 26 -- A press report, air, rail and banking services across demands on air travel right now and dated today, states: US aircraft giant the country. Left-wing trade unions the latest strike involves 80 Auckland Boeing has reached agreement with are protesting at the government's workers from Menzies Aviation -- but striking workers after pledging to economic reforms. It is the first the demands are sometimes much lift pension payments and cut plans national strike since the Congress higher than the five percent stake the to limit healthcare cover. Almost party won power in 2004. Private EPMU has been pushing in other 20,000 Boeing machinists at plants airlines cancelled flights as airport sectors. On-going negotiations with staff walked out in protest at plans to Menzies have not produced an in Kansas, Oregon and Washington privatise airports. Indian communist outcome the EPMU is happy with. øWe state downed tools at the start of parties are a key part of the ruling are talking about skilled workers ø this month, delaying plane coalition, but they oppose major many of whom currently earn less deliveries. Analysts estimated that a privatisation reforms. Domestic flights than NZ$12 an hour,ø said EPMU month long strike could have cost have been particularly badly hit, with national secretary Andrew Little. øWe Boeing more than $2bn (£1.1bn). unions saying the strike is affecting think that someone with three yearsø Union representatives said workers services in most of India's 78 airports. experience should, by next year, be will vote on the deal on Thursday Some government offices in Mumbai paid more than NZ$15 an hour.ø An (Sep 29). The deal is reasonable and

© Lloyd’s Marine Intelligence Unit 2004 These reports may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photographic, recorded or otherise without the prior written permission of the publisher. 29 Labour Disputes/Awards & Settlements was reached after both sides made settlement, Premor, which acquired unconscious man was placed on a compromises, said Boeing spokesman the refinery from Motiva in 2004, will gurney and wheeled into an X-ray Charles Bickers. The three-year deal install new safety controls valued at room, Ogden's lawyer Rex Blackburn was reached after Boeing pledged $7.5 million. This brings the combined said. A hospital employee sat Ogden not to make changes to its total of the settlement to $23.7 up at an angle and didn't secure him healthcare programme, despite million. to the gurney before lowering a side rising costs, trade union official Mr rail, Blackburn said. Ogden fell out of Blondin told the Associated Press INVASION OF PRIVACY, the gurney, breaking his neck at the news agency. It also agreed to keep UNITED STATES fifth and sixth vertebrae. As a result, offering medical benefits to retired London, Sep 23 -- A press report, Blackburn said, Ogden not only lost workers. Boeing had been looking to dated today, states: A federal jury upper body mobility, but also bladder, gain higher contributions from its awarded an Egyptian-born radiologist bowel and sexual function.The jury workers. The company will pay more nearly $2.5 million for invasion of awarded the money on Saturday (Sep in pensions to union members, privacy after a property manager 24), based on Ogden's estimated loss of increasing the monthly payout to $70 searched his apartment and called wages, pain and suffering and past police on Sep 11, 2001. After four days and future medical costs as well as for per month for every year worked, up of deliberations, the jury issued the his wife's loss of services and from $60. Boeing had previously award yesterday to Basem M.F. companionship. offered $66. Workers who sign up for Hussein, saying the invasion of his the deal will receive an eight percent privacy was made with "malice of SEXUAL HARASSMENT, bonus in the first year, plus $3,000 reckless indifference" to his rights. UNITED STATES in each of the next two years. Boeing Sherri Lynn Wilson had entered London, Sep 25 -- A press report, also agreed to offer the same terms Hussein's apartment in Coraopolis the dated Sep 24, states: A former utility to all workers, dropping plans to give day of the attacks to replace furnace meter reader was awarded nearly $5 less money to those they reckoned filters, according to testimony. She million by civil jury members who had a cheaper cost of living. told the FBI she saw Arabic literature, found she was sexually harassed by a an aircraft flight manual, a compact supervisor and that the company did disc jacket that showed an exploding little to help her. CPS Energy plans to aircraft, and chemical residue she appeal the verdict in the lawsuit by believed to be from bomb-making Yolanda Olivarri, who worked at the activities. What she actually saw was utility for 23 years. Yesterday, a jury a popular flight simulator computer determined CPS Energy should pay up game and its CD jacket, which did not to $2 million to Olivarri. Her former depict an exploding aircraft, Hussein's supervisor, Alex Villafranco, was attorney said. The purported Arabic ordered to pay the remaining $3 DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING, literature was an English version of million for punitive damages, said UNITED STATES the Koran; the chemical residue was plaintiff's attorney Alex Katzman. London, Sep 22 -- A press report, household dust. Hussein was awarded "The jury believed sexual harassment dated Sep 21, states: Federal $850,000 in compensatory damages occurred and that CPS was liable and regulators today announced a $4.5 and $1.6 million in punitive damages. did not fix the problem," Katzman million settlement involving deceptive An attorney for the defendants - the said. CPS Energy spokesman Bob advertising claims for the dietary Meadows Apartments in Neshannock McCullough said the utility was supplements CortiSlim and Township, Lawrence County; the disappointed in the verdict. "CPS CortiStress. The Federal Trade companies that own and manage the Energy still believes it took Commission alleged that three complex; and Wilson - declined to appropriate action when the defendants in the case made false or comment last night. Hussein's allegations first surfaced," unproven claims about the two attorney, Craig L. Fishman, called the McCullough said. "We hope the products in infomercials promoting the verdict "a shining example of appellate court will agree with our supplements. The marketers made American justice." Hussein, 40, a position." Olivarri charged that false claims about CortiSlims' ability permanent U.S. resident who has lived Villafranco made unwelcome sexual to cause rapid, substantial and in the United States and Canada since advances, including comments and permanent weight loss in all users, the age 6, was working in New Mexico touching. She said the harassment FTC said. It also challenged claims when his apartment was searched. He began in October 2000 and continued that CortiStress could reduce the risk was handcuffed, detained, through to February 2003, when she of, or prevent, osteoporosis, obesity, fingerprinted, interviewed and cleared was transferred to another diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, cancer by FBI officials there. When he department. Despite other employees and cardiovascular disease. The three returned to his Meadows apartment, corroborating her claims, the utility defendants are California-based he found he had been evicted. determined the allegations were Pinnacle Marketing Concepts, Inc. and unsubstantiated and did nothing to its president, Thomas F. Cheng, and MEDICAL MALPRACTICE, separate Villafranco from Olivarri, her Utah-based Shawn M. Talbott, the UNITED STATES attorneys said. The utility said agency said. The commission said London, Sep 28 -- A press report, management investigated Olivarri's litigation continues against four other dated yesterday, states: An Ada complaints and adequately responded defendants. County jury has awarded a Meridian to them. CPS Energy, formerly known man $5.7 million in a malpractice as City Public Service, said it wasn't FATAL EXPLOSION, lawsuit against St. Luke's Regional responsible for Villafranco's alleged UNITED STATES Medical Center. Hospital officials say actions. Villafranco's attorney said his London, Sep 22 -- A press report, they won't appeal. Nathan Ogden, 30, client was demoted for exceeding his dated Sep 19, states: Motiva whose lower body had been paralyzed management authority by cancelling a Enterprises has agreed to pay a $12 by a 2001 skiing accident, sued the meter reading day because of bad million civil penalty to settle a lawsuit hospital after his neck was broken in a weather and not for harassing any filed by government regulators after a gurney accident in 2003, causing him employee. fatal tank collapse and explosion at a to lose most of his upper body Delaware oil refinery four years ago. function. The jury found the hospital SWIMMING POOL ACCIDENT, Motiva also has agreed to pay more was negligent in providing medical AUSTRALIA than $4 million for a series of care to Ogden. At the time of the London, Sep 23 -- A 25-year-old man environmental projects, and to gurney accident, Ogden was suffering has secured $6.2 million in reimburse the state and federal from pneumonia. His wife called an compensation nine years after a governments more than $170,000 in ambulance after she could not wake swimming accident left him a costs associated with their him up, and he was taken to St. quadriplegic. Jason Ballerini was 16 investigations. As part of the Luke's in Meridian. Once there, the when he suffered severe injuries after

© Lloyd’s Marine Intelligence Unit 2004 These reports may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photographic, recorded or otherise without the prior written permission of the publisher. 30 Awards & Settlements/Railway Accidents diving off a log into a swimming hole contractors. Written by Rep. Edward million to settle a lawsuit filed by a on the Murray River near Cobram in Markey, D-Mass., the new law cuts off man who was twice wrongfully northern Victoria on Dec 29, 1996. In government payments to contractors convicted of murder, officials said. It September 2004, the Victorian that have lost the first administrative is the second settlement Ray Krone Supreme Court found the Shire of or judicial round of a lawsuit and has received this year. In April, Berrigan, as the responsible authority, reinstates those payments if the Maricopa County agreed to pay him should have removed the log or put up contractor prevails on appeal. $1.4 million. "I'm just glad for it to be a sign after a 1996 flood. It ordered over," said Krone, who spent more the Shire to pay Mr Ballerini $5.6 UNLAWFUL SEIZURE OF than a decade behind bars, including million in compensation. Today in the POSSESSIONS DURING two years on death row. The Phoenix Victorian Court of Appeal, an WORLD WAR II City Council approved the settlement application by the Shire to stay London, Sep 27 -- A press report, last week, said city spokeswoman Toni payment of the money - which has now dated Sep 26, states: Amid objections Maccarone. Neither the city nor reached $6.2 million with interest - from some Holocaust survivors, a county admitted wrongdoing by was rejected. The parties agreed that federal judge today approved a $25.5 settling, according to lawyers in the the money would be held in a million settlement between the U.S. case. Krone was a postal worker when Commonwealth Bank trust account for government and Hungarian Jews who he was arrested in 1991 in the killing Mr Ballerini pending an appeal by the lost jewellry, artwork and other of Kim Ancona, a bartender who Shire to the High Court. treasures when a Nazi "Gold Train" worked at a Phoenix lounge where was commandeered by the U.S. Army Krone played darts. He was convicted UNFAIR DISMISSAL, during World War II. Despite the in 1992, based largely on expert UNITED STATES objections, Judge Patricia Seitz said testimony that supposedly matched London, Sep 22 -- A press report, the agreement represented a "historic" his teeth with bite marks found on the dated Sep 21, states: After seven years chance to right a 60-year-old wrong victim. His conviction was overturned of litigation, a judge has ordered the committed by some U.S. troops and two years later on procedural University of California to pay more never adequately addressed by the grounds. A new trial was ordered, and than $3.8 million in legal fees and federal government. The settlement Krone was convicted a second time, costs to attorneys for a fired Lawrence came in a lawsuit filed by Hungarian but the judge in the second trial said Livermore weapons lab whistle-blower. Holocaust survivors over the U.S. he wasn't sure that Krone was the Combined with a jury award of more capture and pilfering in 1945 of a train killer. He spared Krone the death than $2 million, Dee Kotla and her loaded with gold, jewels, silver, china, penalty, instead sentencing him to life attorneys will end up with roughly $6 3,000 Oriental rugs and 1,200 in prison. In 2002, DNA testing million in one of the nation's longest- paintings that had been stolen from proved Krone wasn't the killer. running whistle-blower cases. The Hungarian Jews by the Nazis. There Instead, DNA from the crime scene money ultimately will be paid by the are about 62,000 Hungarian Holocaust was linked to a man already in prison U.S. Department of Energy, which survivors worldwide. Rather than for another crime. Krone, 48, was historically has reimbursed more than trying to directly compensate people freed that year. He filed a wrongful 96 percent of its contractors' legal whose items were stolen, the conviction lawsuit, saying Phoenix billings and judgments, including agreement will distribute money police did a shoddy job of those of the university. In 2002 and through Jewish social service agencies investigating the slaying and didn't again this year, two juries found the over the next five years to needy look at other suspects closely enough. Kotla was fired from her job as a lab Hungarian survivors around the world. Besides his mental anguish, Krone computer technician in retaliation for More than 40 percent of the money will said he sued Arizona agencies for volunteering as a witness in a sexual go to those in Israel, 22 percent to physical pain and suffering. He said discrimination case against the lab Hungary, 21 percent to the United he was stabbed, had his arm broken and one of its senior scientists. States and seven percent to Canada. and contracted hepatitis C while in According to the laboratory, Kotla was Lesser percentages will go elsewhere. Arizona prisons. fired for performing spreadsheet work Terms of the settlement also call for for a friend on her lab computer. She the U.S. government to issue a public also was terminated for making $4.60 apology for the military's actions. "This in personal phone calls. Total cost of is a huge victory for survivors the case to the federal government is everywhere," said Sam Dubbin, one of likely to be $8 million to $10 million. the attorneys for Hungarian families Livermore's Office of the Laboratory in south Florida who brought the Counsel hired two of San Francisco's original lawsuit in 2001. More than top labor defense firms over the course 350 people filed objections to the of the case. They have been paid $1.5 settlement after it was announced in BLACKWELL AREA, MISSOURI, million so far, and more billings for March. Seitz, however, said she UNITED STATES the two trials and appeals are likely to calculated that the living survivors London, Sep 29 -- A press report, bring total defense costs to more than would get only about $300 each from dated today, states: An Amtrak train $2 million. Kotla's attorneys received the settlement if it were disbursed that derailed in eastern Missouri after more, largely because Judge John Zika way, once attorneys' fees and apparently striking boulders on the granted a 50 percent "enhancement" administrative costs were deducted. tracks from a rockslide, officials said. allowed under California law to She also said that U.S. law in such No major injuries were reported. It encourage lawyers to take difficult cases calls for maximum damages of was not immediately clear how many cases involving significant public $10,000 each, or an unreasonable $620 people were on the train. Jefferson policy issues. Kotla's attorneys had million for all 62,000 Hungarian County Sheriff Glenn Boyer said it sought a doubling of their billings, survivors - if they had prevailed at a was carrying 130 passengers and crew plus interest, for a total of $5.4 trial. It was not immediately clear members, but an Amtrak million. Laboratory officials are today if any opponents would appeal spokeswoman earlier said there were reviewing the judge's fee the judge's decision, which would hold 90 people onboard. Boyer said 11 determination and have not decided up distribution of the money. The case people suffered minor injuries but whether to sign or appeal the decision. has already lasted five years, with the none was life-threatening. The train "We obviously want to make sure the number of aging Holocaust victims was moving slowly through a winding costs are as low as possible," said dwindling each year. area when it apparently struck the Lynda Seaver, a laboratory rockslide late yesterday, Boyer said. spokeswoman. The length and expense WRONGFUL CONVICTION, The Texas Eagle train, which runs of the Kotla case, more than any other UNITED STATES between Chicago and San Antonio, lawsuit nationwide, helped persuade London, Sep 28 -- A press report, derailed near the town of Blackwell, Congress to limit legal dated Sep 27, states: The city of located about 30 miles south of St. reimbursements to Energy Department Phoenix, Arizona, has agreed to pay $3 Louis. Amtrak spokeswoman Vernae

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Graham said the engine of the six-car machinery to retrieve the cars east of million stolen last month in a heist train was on its side and three of the Creston and south of Yahk. It was not from Brazil's Central Bank, making cars had derailed upright. immediately clear whether any of the five arrests today in one of the world's pollution extended south of the biggest bank robberies. Authorities BUFFALO, UNITED STATES international boundary. raided a middle-class home in the London, Sep 23 -- A press report, north-eastern city of Fortaleza, where dated Sep 22, states: A railcar JAMSHORO AREA, SINDH the bank heist occurred, and found the carrying an empty container designed PROVINCE, PAKISTAN money hidden in a hole in the floor, to transport Navy spent nuclear fuel Karachi, Sep 29 -- Pakistan Railway federal police said in a statement. was derailed in a CSX rail yard in said three bogies of the passengers Police were still counting the money, Buffalo. It happened just after 0100 train-Karakorum Express derailed at but spokeswoman Patricia Ferreira today. The container was in transit the Kotri railway station near said the initial estimate was that $4.3 from the Department of Energy's Jamshoro in Sindh Province of million had been recovered. The Naval Reactors Facility located on the Pakistan yesterday. The train was on thieves spent three months tunnelling Idaho National Laboratory to the its way to Karachi from Lahore when under a busy city avenue in Fortaleza, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, its three bogies derailed at the Kotri about 1,500 miles north-east of Sao Maine. Department of Energy officials railway station at 0700 hrs. As a Paulo, to break into the Central Bank say the empty container has no visible result traffic was suspended for quite vault and steal the equivalent of $70 breach and initial radiation surveys in some time. A relief train reached the million in Brazilian currency, the real. the area have confirmed no release of accident spot and started repair work Authorities recovered more than $2 radioactivity. In a press release from and the three bogies were righted in million in cash shortly after the heist the DOE, the agency says "there is no three hours. An inquiry committee is inside three pickup trucks on a vehicle hazard to the public from this empty being set up to probe the matter. -- transporter truck several hundred container, and hence, no protective Lloyd's List Correspondent miles from Fortaleza. Five suspects action by the public is necessary." were taken into custody today. Three Authorities from the CSX Railroad, NEW SAREPTA, ALBERTA, other suspects were arrested eight State of New York and Federal CANADA days ago. The robbery took place government were notified. Bettis London, Sep 28 -- A press report, sometime during the weekend of Aug Atomic Power Laboratory and Knolls dated yesterday, states: A locomotive 6-8. After completing the tunneling, Atomic Power Laboratory are assisting and 10 cars from a CN freight train the thieves crawled through a 28-inch- CSX in response to the derailment. derailed early today near the village of high tunnel that stretched more than New Sarepta, southeast of Edmonton. 260 feet from a house they rented near CEPU DISTRIST, CENTRAL JAVE, The train was headed south between the bank. The tunnel had wooden INDONESIA Edmonton and Calgary when the panels and plastic sheeting lining the London, Sept 25 -- A press report, derailment occurred, said CN walls, as well as electric lighting. The dated today, states: A train carrying spokesman Jim Feeny. "There are no thieves left behind shovels, pickaxes, saws, drills and other tools they used premium gasoline and kerosene injuries, no dangerous commodities to dig the tunnel and cut through the caught fire in Cepu district, Blora are involved, no impact on the public," vault's 3.6-foot-thick, steel-reinforced regency, Central Java, on Friday (Sept he said. Some diesel fuel was spilled concrete floor. Inside the vault, they 23) evening after hitting an Isuzu on the gravel underneath the tracks, broke into containers filled with used Panther minivan at a railway but that was contained and cleaned 50-real notes, which they apparently crossing. There were no immediate up, Feeny said. transported back through the tunnel reports of casualties or people injured. by a pulley system attached to a large A marketer with the local unit of state SOUTH-EASTERN VIRGINIA, plastic barrel cut in half. Prosecutors oil and gas firm PT Pertamina Heppy UNITED STATES have said the group tried to charter a Wulansari said two or three tanks London, Sep 22 -- A press report, small aircraft a couple of days before exploded before the fire. The accident dated today, states: Two CSX freight the robbery to use it in the escape and took place at around 1830 hrs at the trains collided head-on early today, to transport the money out of the Ronggo Lawe railway crossing, some injuring several people and leaving country. Some of the stolen cash was two kilometres from the Cepu railway some of the wrecked rail cars burning, taken from Fortaleza to Sao Paulo station. The train had nine tanks, five state police said. The collision occurred hidden inside grain sacks in a containing premium gasoline and four at about 0300 hrs along a rail line in commercial flight, they said. kerosene. Heppy said Cepu could rural south-eastern Virginia just north suffer fuel shortages due to the of the North Carolina state line, State accident. "All financial losses caused Police Sgt D.S. Carr said. Carr could Computer Systems by the accident will be covered by PT not say how seriously injured the KAI (state-owned train operator)," she people were or if they were rail added. printer friendly workers or residents. The trains were believed to be carrying rocks, he said. CRESTON AREA, The collision happened on a rail line BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA that runs parallel to state Route 671 London, Sept 27 -- A press report, and was blocking at least two roads, RAIL SERVICES, SCOTLAND, dated Sept 26, states: A Canadian said Tiffany Elliot of the Virginia UNITED KINGDOM Pacific Railway train derailed in a Department of Transportation. The London, Sep 29 -- A press report, tight canyon, dumping potash into the National Transportation Safety Board dated today, states: Rail services into Moyie River a few miles north of the was being alerted. and out of Edinburgh have been slowly Idaho Panhandle, witnesses and resuming following an early morning authorities said. A witness said two of computer glitch which hit rush hour the 14 cars that jumped the tracks trains. Services were halted when a yesterday landed upside down, spilling computer system indicated a signal potash into the pristine river, which failure in the Haymarket area. flows into the United States and Maintenance firm Network Rail empties into the Kootenay River east checked out the warning but of Bonners Ferry, Idaho. Dan Flegel, a discovered that there was no problem spokesman for the British Columbia with the signals. Train operator First Ministry of Environment, said about CASH, BANK, FORTALEZA, Scotrail said it would be some time 100 tonnes of potash was released in BRAZIL before services returned to normal. An the derailment, which involved a 123- London, Sep 29 -- A press report, estimated 15,000 travellers were car freight train. CP Rail workers dated Sep 28, states: Brazilian police affected by the disruption and First established a berm around the 100- recovered about $4.3 million of the $70 Scotrail apologised for the foot-wide spill and brought in heavy

© Lloyd’s Marine Intelligence Unit 2004 These reports may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photographic, recorded or otherise without the prior written permission of the publisher. 32 Computer Systems/Miscellaneous/Fires & Explosions inconvenience. The first Glasgow to Mongolia since late July, prompting and preparing hospitals," health Edinburgh service arrived at Waverley teams of emergency workers to be sent minister Siti Fadillah Supari said. -- station in the capital after 0900, BST. to the worst-hit areas, authorities said Reuters. All previous services had terminated yesterday. The first birds that died at at Linlithgow, 15 miles west of the city a lake in Hovsgol province near the centre. Services from West Lothian, Russian border in late July were later Fife and Dunblane continued to suffer identified as having the H5N1 strain disruption. A bus shuttle was running of the virus, which experts fear could from Inverkeithing in Fife into mutate into a form easily passed from Edinburgh. Steve Montgomery, person to person. Test results of the operations director of First Scotrail, most recent deaths have yet to be said his company were informed of the completed. Ch Ganzorig, from the fault at 0500, BST. He said: "We could Hovsgol General Emergency Office, not get our trains out of our depots said that so far 563 birds, mostly CASINO BARGE, BILOXI, and they couldn't depart or get into migratory, had been found dead in 16 MISSISSIPPI, UNITED STATES Edinburgh. Obviously this had a major provinces nationwide, including 250 at London, Sept 24 -- A press report, affect on all our customers coming in Erkhel Lake in Hovsgol, popular with dated Sept 22, states: The Hard Rock from Fife and from the Glasgow and tourists. Casino barge, destroyed by the winds Dunblane area." He responded to London, Sep 26 -- Indonesian health and tidal surge from hurricane criticism that services from Glasgow officials have confirmed two more "Katrina" on Aug 29, caught fire were terminating at Linlithgow. Mr deaths from bird flu, bringing the total yesterday. The fire began about 1700 Montgomery said: "Because of the number of fatalities in the country hrs when construction crews were signalling failure we could only get so from the H5N1 virus to six. From cutting a section off the barge's roof, far in towards Edinburgh and then correspondents in Jakarta I Nyoman Biloxi Fire Chief David Roberts said. you have to be able to find a location Kandun, the health ministry's The foam under the roof and other where you can turn the trains and director-general of infectious diseases, flammable parts of the collapsed send them back again. Linlithgow is said a test confirmed that a five-year- casino caught fire. Biloxi and Atlanta the only point where we can do that at old girl named Riska had become the fire departments responded with the present time." latest victim of the virus. "Her blood about 20 firefighters and five trucks. test was positive," he said. Although a Flames and smoke were visible from saliva sample tested negative, the the front of the building through Miscellaneous ministry has classified her case as a parts of the casino, but Hard Rock bird flu death based on the blood security prevented onlookers from analysis, he said. Samples have been getting too close. The fire was under sent to Hong Kong for further control, but difficult to fight, Roberts analysis. A 27-year-old woman, who said. "We don't have access to the was one of five patients who had roof, really," Roberts said, adding all tested positive for bird flu at the the debris and the construction IRAQ-KUWAIT Sulianto Saroso hospital for infectious Rijeka, Sep 29 -- Ro/ro Star (ex Boka equipment was hindering their diseases, also died on Monday, the progress. Star) is still laid up at Rijeka and hospital said. there is no prospect of it sailing. Jakarta, Sep 29 -- Indonesia faces According to Port Authority Rijeka, CONDOMINIUM TOWERS, more than 50 suspected cases of EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA which is the vessel's largest creditor, it deadly bird flu, Indonesian health is expected that the vessel should be London, Sep 24 -- A press report, ministry officials said today, while dated today, states: The dollar cost of announced for sale by Court Auction lowering their figure on deaths from in October. -- Lloyd's Agents. two condominium towers, under the disease to five from an earlier construction at 50 Avenue and 104A estimate of six. "Until now, we Street going up in flames on Aug 19, OUTBREAK OF "BIRD FLU" reported 63 suspected (cases) of bird London, Sep 22 -- Bird flu virus has after a propane tank caught fire, has flu," I Nyoman Kandun, who heads been assessed at Can$5 million. been officially confirmed in 49 Russian disease control at Indonesia's health settlements, and bird flu is suspected ministry, told Reuters today. But while in another 81 settlements, sources FACTORY, SOUTHERLAND RIDGE, 10 of those suspected have died, five of from the Russian Federal Service for PRETORIA AREA, SOUTH AFRICA the casualties proved to be from other Veterinary and Phitosanitary London, Sep 23 -- A press report, Inspection said Monday (Sep 19). causes, he said. Riadi, a ministry dated today, states: Robbers using a Quarantine measures have been lifted public relations staffer handling flu blow torch appear to have started a in 24 Russian settlements, the sources issues, said suspected cases have come fire in a huge warehouse in said. from nine provinces across Indonesia's Southerland Ridge, south-west of London, Sep 22 -- A press report, sprawling archipelago. Asked about Pretoria, this morning, emergency dated today, states: The Department of suspected cases today, World Health services said. "It looks like the robbers Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in Organization (WHO) spokeswoman used a blow torch to try break in, but Australia has issued a new warning Sari Setiyogi said: "We refuse to use they accidentally set fire to some about the risk of bird flu in 16 Asian the term 'suspect' because suspect is clothes," spokesperson Johan Pieterse countries including Indonesia, too broad. It can mean anything." said. "The whole building went up in Thailand, Malaysia, China and Japan. According to the international flames." Firefighters battled In the latest bird flu alert, Indonesian agency's standards, she said: "We have throughout the night to put out the officials have said four people have four positive bird flu cases (in blaze, which started just after died after testing positive to the virus, Indonesia). Three died, one is still midnight. "We have struggled since while ten others have been alive. Probable cases are (an 0030 to put the fire out," Pieterse said. quarantined. The advisory tells additional) nine." Indonesia has "Things are under control now. There Australian travellers to avoid contact formed a special team to prepare for is still a lot of smoke in the air. We with birds in these high risk countries any bird flu pandemic and coordinate will be here for the next four or five and to ensure all poultry or eggs they foreign assistance and funding. The hours." By 0800 hrs most of the roof eat are well cooked. The Department formation of the team under the had collapsed and the walls caved in. also recommends that travellers ministry's National Pandemic Aid Some 30 firemen, two aerial platforms discuss bird flu with their doctor Plan was announced yesterday. "Other and four fire engines were at the before leaving Australia. countries have committed to help in scene. "Most of the building has been London, Sep 23 -- A press report, terms of providing equipment, expert gutted. We did manage to save some of dated today, states: More than 560 paramedics, that sort of stuff. We are the stock," Pieterse said. The birds have died from bird flu in concentrating on paramedic training warehouse, which is about 2,000

© Lloyd’s Marine Intelligence Unit 2004 These reports may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photographic, recorded or otherise without the prior written permission of the publisher. 33 Fires & Explosions square metres big, belongs to a were no fires for almost two weeks in Market adjacent to Liaqatabad Supper company who distributes among the area thanks to a sharp cold spell. Market at Liaqatabad in Karachi, others, food and cosmetics. At the end of last week an Sindh Province, this morning. The fire unextinguished bonfire in the territory started around 1140 hrs and spread to FOREST, AMAZON, BRAZIL of the Ilim forestry enterprise 25 whole market. Initial reports say London, Sep 22 -- A press report, kilometres from the Keul settlement about 15 to 20 shops containing huge dated today, states: A state of set the taiga on fire. The forest fire quantity of imported and local emergency has been declared in Brazil's initially spread in the area of 4.5 manufactured cloth were burnt to western state of Acre as fires continue hectares and then engulfed a territory ashes. Eighteen fire vehicles from to rage across the country's vast of 10 hectares. A forest protection different fire stations took part in fire Amazon region. Thousands of hectares brigade with three units of land fighting operation, which lasted for of the world's largest rainforest have machinery is engaged in the three hours. Sindh Government has already been destroyed by the blazes. extinguishing effort. announced compensation to shop Acre's Governor Jorge Viana urged the owners and ordered an inquiry into federal government in Brasilia to act GAS PIPELINE TERMINAL, the blaze. However, reason for the fire swiftly, expressing particular concerns MONROE, OHIO, UNITED STATES is not known nor the total loss but it about pollution caused by the smoke. London, Sep 28 -- A press report, would be in million of rupees, a fire Hundreds of soldiers, rescuers and also dated today, states: Fire officials say brigade official said. -- Lloyd's List local residents are battling the fires. electrical sparks and leaking propane Correspondent. Correspondents say it is not known combined to trigger an explosion that what caused the blazes, some of which killed one person at a pipeline PETROCHEMICAL PLANT, TEXAS broke out nearly two weeks ago. Some terminal facility in Monroe. The CITY, TEXAS, UNTED STATES woman killed in the Sep 18 blast was London, Sep 23 -- BP has agreed to 500 people have been evacuated from an employee at the Texas Eastern pay the US federal safety authorities a the area, officials said earlier this week. Products Pipeline Company's fine of $US21.3 million for an transmission plant. The body of 52- explosion that killed 15 people at one FOREST, GRANADA PROVINCE, year-old Kollette Meyer, of of its refineries in Texas earlier this SPAIN Waynesville, was found in the main year. However BP said the fine - to be London, Sep 24 -- A press report, pump house area where the explosion paid to the Occupational Safety and dated today, states: A British man and occurred. The federal Occupational Health Administration (OSHA) - did a French woman were arrested in Safety and Health Administration and not amount to an admission of southern Spain after they lit a fire as Texas Eastern are still conducting responsibility for the blast, which a beacon to rescuers when they investigations. Monetary damages devastated the facility at Texas City, became lost and started a massive have not been determined. At least near Houston, on Mar 23. "Under the forest fire. A Foreign Office two other people were working at the agreement, BP does not admit the spokesman said it was understood the plant when the fire broke out. They alleged violations or agree with the man, who has been named in some were not injured. way OSHA has characterised them," a reports as Michael Hanks, 59, from BP statement said, referring to the US Colchester, Essex, and his companion, MARINA, GIG HARBOR, agency's contention that the company a 50-year-old French woman, had been WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES had violated about 300 safety released after briefly appearing in London, Sep 22 -- A press report, regulations at the plant. "The court. The pair were arrested by the dated today, states: Gig Harbor's fire agreement resolves more than 300 Spanish Civil Guard on suspicion of marshal says authorities might never separate alleged violations of OSHA starting the blaze in the Granada know what ignited the Aug 31 raging safety regulations in the areas of province of the southern Andalusia marina fire that turned a picturesque process safety management, region, the spokesman said. It is downtown waterfront upside down. All maintenance, training, procedures and understood the pair were hiking that's left of the 26-foot-long vessel facility siting put forward by the through national park land near where authorities believe the fire agency after its investigation of a Granada when they became lost just started is a hull buried under a layer March 23 explosion that claimed the before nightfall on Thursday (Sep 22). of wet, blackened ash, said Fire lives of 15 Texas City workers," the They raised the alarm with a mobile Marshal Dick Bower. "There was no statement said. The company said that telephone and then decided to light a clear indication of what started it," he under the terms of the agreement with small fire as a beacon to alert Civil said. "You have the bottom of the boat OSHA, it was to bring in safety Guard mountain rescue patrols covered in about a foot or a foot and a measures, including appointing a searching for them. The beacon half of charred debris." Authorities safety officer for the refinery. worked and they were soon rescued. also have finished interviewing the But the fire raged out of control and owners of the boat in question, but a PREMISES, EDMONTON, spread through the tinder-dry forest at clear cause hasn't emerged. The fire, ALBERTA, CANADA the height of a severe drought. By which started aboard the boat in slip London, Sep 24 -- A press report, yesterday more than 150 firemen with No. 15, ravaged the Harborview dated today, states: An early-morning 25 appliances, backed up by seven Marina and left about 50 boats at the arson destroyed a south-side business helicopters and five fire-fighting bottom of Gig Harbor Bay. No one was (in Edmonton) yesterday, causing aircraft, were tackling the blaze. hurt, but investigators believe the fire Can$2-million damage. "Fire crews Reinforcements, including five more cost boat owners millions of dollars. pulled up within five minutes of the aircraft and two helicopters, were also Insurance companies haven't fully fire call and it was rockin' already," called to fight the flames. The estimated the damage. A private fire said Lt. Lloyd Belair, a fire spokesman said it was understood investigator hired by the insurance investigator. Within minutes the roof that no specific charges had been companies was examining the suspect on Liquidation World, 8170 50 St., had levelled against the pair, as the judge vessel, Bower said. A crane finished collapsed. The 0430 hrs, blaze was is waiting for further investigations to lifting the boats out of the water this fuelled by paints and electronics be carried out before any decision is month. There's still an oil boom inside the big building. "We have made. around the marina site to catch any reason to believe through surveillance remaining particles and liquids. But tapes and other things that this is an FOREST, SIBERIA, RUSSIA most of the cleanup trucks have left. arson fire," Belair said later in the London, Sep 26 -- A press report, The giant crane positioned near the day. He added that a flammable liquid dated today, states: The area of forest shoreline is gone. had been used to begin the blaze, fires in the north of Russia's Irkutsk which was difficult to tame. region, Siberia, has doubled in the MARKET, KARACHI, PAKISTAN Firefighters put up a "water curtain," past 24 hours, the territorial Karachi, Sep 25 -- Understand from which combined with the firewall, department of the aviation base of central fire brigade sources that a helped bring the blaze under control, forest protection said today. There huge fire broke out in Khalid Cloth he said. but adjoining buildings

© Lloyd’s Marine Intelligence Unit 2004 These reports may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photographic, recorded or otherise without the prior written permission of the publisher. 34 Fires & Explosions/Aviation sustained fire damage. Shelley Tookey, contained by evening, Haralson said. burn out of control. An estimated 3 owner of Shelley's Dance Company, A blaze in Riverside County spread 000 hectares of plantation has been which adjoins Liquidation World, said over 1,300 acres between the cities of damaged by the blaze. she was called by her alarm company Redlands and Moreno Valley, about 70 London, Sep 27 -- A press report, at 0455 hrs. She raced to the scene to miles east of Los Angeles. That fire dated today, states: Firefighters find flames shooting from the building. destroyed three chicken coops at a continued to battle blazes across Her business sustained smoke and ranch believed to have housed 70,000 South Africa today with costs water damage. Liquidation World CEO to 90,000 chickens, said Riverside mounting and farmers asking to have Jonathan Hill said the company plans County Fire Department their farms declared emergency areas. to rebuild its first Edmonton store, spokeswoman Cheri Patterson. Working on Fire (WOF) spokeswoman which has been in the city for at least Thousands of chickens died. Nearly Val Charlton said, "We have no 15 years. In the meantime, it will try 400 firefighters battled the blaze, resources left. We are stretched to the to find work around town for its 15 which was 10 percent contained, full." WOF had 29 teams of 22 people employees left jobless by the far. No officials said. The National Weather each in the field across the country one was injured in the blaze. Service issued a high-wind warning and many were working with hand for parts of southwest California. tools to make sure there were no live REFINERY, TEXAS CITY, TEXAS, embers. Charlton said a small fire was UNITED STATES WILDFIRES, RUSSIA burning in Hebron in Mpumalanga London, Sep 23 -- A press report, London, Sep 28 -- A press report, province but it was expected that the dated Sep 22, states: The Occupational dated today, states: Freezing rain has fire would burn itself out. A fire at Safety and Health Administration helped put out the remaining Mac in the province was contained as announced a $21 million fine against woodland fires in the northern part of was a fire at Duga Duga. Firefighters BP over a deadly explosion and fire in Russia's Siberian Irkutsk region, were on full alert in Mpumalanga as March at the companyøs Texas City sources from the regional forest the province was expecting strong refinery. OSHA says the fine, which is protection service said today. Two fires winds and hot weather today. Free the largest in the agencyøs history, is emerged a week ago near two State province Agriculture have part of a settlement with BP Products settlements of the Ust-Ilim district, requested that farmlands ravaged by North America. Fifteen workers were blazing up from small unextinguished fires in areas including Senekal be killed and 170 others were injured in bonfires. As it was warm, the fires declared an emergency area. General the March 23 explosion at the Texas spread out to a territory of about 20 manager Pieter Moller said he had City plant. Regional OSHA hectares. It took specialists several requested the government to conduct a administrator John Miles Junior says days to stop the advance of the fires. survey to assess the damage, which the health and safety culture of the London, Sep 29 -- A press report, had affected the availability of fodder. plant was lax, which contributed to dated today, states: Forest fires flare The fire, which started outside the the blast. He also says OSHA is up in Chita region again. Fifteen fires park last Tuesday, took twodays to considering whether to refer some are raging in the trans-Baikal taiga as bring under control, he said. It violations to the Justice Department of now on an area of more than 800 destroyed about 5,000 hectares to for possible criminal prosecution. hectares, an official at the press centre 6,000 hectares of forest. British Petroleum said the fine did not of the Russian Ministry for amount to an admission of Emergencies department for Chita responsibility for the blast. 'Under the Region said. Six new forest fires broke agreement, BP does not admit the out in the region over the past 24 alleged violations or agree with the hours on an area of 160 hectares. way OSHA has characterized them,' a BP statement said, referring to the US WILDFIRES, SOUTH AFRICA agency's contention that the company London, Sep 26 -- A press report, had violated some 300 safety dated today, states: The estimated cost regulations at the plant. 'The of the wildfires over the weekend in ACCIDENT, MCCARRAN agreement resolves more than 300 four provinces is mounting. More than INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, separate alleged violations of OSHA 20 000 hectares of grassland in the LAS VAGAS, UNITED STATES safety regulations in the areas of Potchefstroom area of the North West London, Sep 23 -- A press report, process safety management, alone was destroyed. At R5 000 per dated today, states: A cargo aircraft maintenance, training, procedures and hectare, this amounts to over R100 remains disabled on a runway at facility siting put forward by the million. Fifteen houses belonging to McCarran International Airport, after agency after its investigation of a farm workers were destroyed and at blowing two tyres on takeoff. A March 23 explosion that claimed the least 23 herds of cattle had to be put spokeswoman at the Las Vegas airport lives of 15 Texas City workers,' the down. In the province's Pilanesberg says the Airborne Express MD 80 statement said. The company added National Park, a major tourist never got off the ground. It safely that under the terms of the agreement attraction, about 20 elephants were taxied to a stop in the 0400 hrs with OSHA, it was to bring in safety burned and one had to be put down. In mishap. The pilot and co-pilot were measures, including appointing a the eastern Free State, Malcolm the only people aboard. Neither was safety officer for the refinery. Procter, a control forester with the hurt. The spokeswoman says other water affairs and forestry department, runways remain in use, and passenger WILDFIRE, CALIFORNIA, says damage to grazing land has been flight operations at the nation's sixth- UNITED STATES extensive. The fire, which burnt busiest airport are notbeing affected. London, Sep 29 -- A press report, approximately 14 000 hectares in the dated Sep 28, states: Wind-driven Rosendal and Paul Roux areas now AIRCRAFT MISSING, brush fires scorched nearly 2,500 acres appears to be contained and is burning NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA north of Los Angeles today, killing in isolated places and presents no London, Sep 28 -- A press report, thousands of chickens at a farm while further danger, says Procter. In total, dated today, states: A light aircraft destroying at least one home and the fire has caused damage of about with a couple on board has been threatening others. A mandatory R6.6 million. Fortunately only one reported missing in northern New evacuation was ordered in Box Canyon house burnt. Battling to put out fires South Wales, Australian Search and and a freeway was closed as the blaze In KwaZulu-Natal, firefighters and Rescue (ASR) says. A man piloting the hopscotched the roadway and burned conservation teams are battling to put aircraft and his female passenger were at the west end of the San Fernando out fires in the Curlfargie Nature reported missing this afternoon by a Valley. Los Angeles County Fire Reserve, on the southern parts of the relative after they failed to return to Department spokesman Ron Haralson Drankensberg in the midlands. This the Coonabarabran area from said more than 700 firefighters were morning two crews were sent to Murwillumbah on Saturday (Sep 24). on the scene. The fire had burned over Mbazwane in northern KwaZulu- An ASR spokeswoman said its was not 1,200 acres and was five percent Natal, where a large fire continues to yet known why there had been a delay

© Lloyd’s Marine Intelligence Unit 2004 These reports may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photographic, recorded or otherise without the prior written permission of the publisher. 35 Aviation in reporting the aircraft overdue. No Canada has been contacted to launch dead at the scene, died in the crash official flight plan was lodged with an investigation into the accident. the ensuing fire, Soward said. No one authorities, she said. It was possible on the ground was known to have the aircraft was to land on a private CRASH, MEXIA AREA, TEXAS, witnessed the crash, but Soward said airstrip at a rural property. There UNITED STATES it appeared the single-engine plane have been no mayday calls nor London, Sep 22 -- A press report, clipped a power line and plummeted to emergency beacons activated in the dated today, states: A small plane earth about a half mile northwest of area since Saturday. Two helicopters crashed just south of Mexia last night Pleasanton. The incident temporarily began searching for the low wing near Highway 14 in Limestone knocked out electricity to homes in the Beech 36 about 1630, today. Other County, while taking off from the area. aircraft are being sought to join the Mexia airport. The small plane had search tonight along a direct flight five people on board. According to a EMERGENCY LANDING path between Murwillumbah on the spokesman for the Texas Department AT RANCHI, INDIA NSW far north coast and of Public Safety, the plane "tried to London, Sep 29 -- A press report, Coonabarabran, about 600km to its take off and didn't make fair speed" dated Sep 28, states: A Mumbai-bound south-west. before crashing into a neighbouring Air Sahara plane made an emergency field shortly after 2000 hrs.The landing at the Birsa Munda Airport in CRASH INTO SEA OFF spokesman said the plane was Ranchid, last evening, within a few AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND destroyed. One passenger was airlifted minutes after take-off, after its wings See ZK-MBQ. to Hillcrest Hospital in Waco. The had been hit by a falcon. Airport other four were taken to Parkview official sources today said that the Air CRASH, ATASCOSA COUNTY, Hospital in Mexia. Limestone County Sahara flight (number S-2-6235) was UNITED STATES officials say the plane crashed near later cancelled following the London, Sep 22 -- A press report, the Limestone Airport. Federal emergency landing, right after take-off dated today, states: One person died officials are being summoned to at 1630 hrs. All the 44 persons on and another was severely burned investigate the crash. board, including the crew, however, following an aircraft crash yesterday were safe. Air Sahara Airport in Atascosa County. Authorities said a CRASH, MEXICO CITY AREA, flight instructor and a student, both Manager Mr Rupam said, the plane, MEXICO which was on its way to Mumbai from from San Antonio, were on board the London, Sep 22 -- A cabinet minister 2004 Diamond aircraft. Investigators Patnam, was likely to be leave for its who led Mexico's fight against the dstination today. The pilot did not are not sure what caused the crash, drug cartels, his deputy and seven but the aircraft was upside down and take any chances and immediately others died in a helicopter crash in the contacted the air traffic control and charred when authorities arrived at mountains west of Mexico City. While the scene off FM 476 between Poteet asked for an emergency landing after one official aboard the craft had the plane was hit, Mr Rupam said. It and Lytle. The aircraft had taken off received death threats from a drug Stinson Field, authorities said. landed safely within 16 minutes of trafficker, authorities said the crash take-off and the flight was cancelled appeared to be an accident caused by CRASH, CHIRK, WALES, as a thorough check-up was neceaasry, poor visibility due to dense cloud he added. UNITED KINGDOM cover. The helicopter, carrying Public London, Sep 26 -- A press report, Safety Secretary Ramon Martin EMERGENCY LANDING, HANEDA dated today, states: An inquiry will be Huerta, Federal Preventive Police launched today into how a light AIRPORT, TOKYO, JAPAN Chief Tomas Valencia, five other London, Sep 28 -- A press report, aircraft crash-landed at a North Wales passengers and a crew of two, had airfield. Two people had a lucky escape dated today, states: An All Nippon taken off from a military parade Airways (ANA) jet made an emergency after the emergency landing. The ground in Mexico City. The Bell 412 Piper light aircraft, on its way from an landing at Tokyo's Haneda Airport helicopter was heading to an event at airfield in Kent, crash-landed at Chirk this morning after an alarm system the maximum-security La Palma airfield at around 1900, Friday (Sep indicated that the lubricant level in prison, 35 miles west of Mexico City, 23) night. Two people, the pilot and a one of its two engines dropped to zero, when it was lost in dense fog and female passenger, were not injured airline officials said. At around 1030 clouds. and managed to walk away from the hrs, the pilots of ANA Flight 243 accident. The plane's fuel tank was bound for Fukuoka from Haneda ruptured in the accident and there CRASH, PEND OREILLE RIVER, noticed a warning system was showing was damage to the craft's wings and WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES that the lubricant level in its left propeller. Three fire engines, one from London, Sep 22 -- A press report, engine had dropped to zero. The pilots Chirk and two others from Oswestry, dated today, states: A four passenger shut down the left engine, and were called to the aircraft, which is aircraft crashed into the Pend Oreille returned to Haneda Airport about 30 registered to a group in Stapleford, river yesterday evening near Ione. The minutes later, with only its right Nottinghamshire. The Air Accident Pend Oreille County Sheriff's Office engine running. None of the 369 Investigation Branch was notified of says the only person on board, a 57- people on board the aircraft were the accident and an investigation was year-old man, has died. injured. Mechanics who examined the expected to be opened today. aircraft, a Boeing 777-300, found that CRASH, PLEASANTON AREA, lubricant had leaked from its left CRASH, HOPE AREA, TEXAS, UNITED STATES engine. ANA is investigating the cause BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA London, Sep 22 -- A press report, of the trouble. London, Sep 27 -- A press report, dated Sep 21, states: A flying dated today, states: A helicopter has instructor from Stinson Field was EMERGENCY LANDING, crashed in a rural area north of the killed and his student was seriously JOHANNESBURG AIRPORT, Coquihalla Highway near Hope, injured when their small plane SOUTH AFRICA killing two people. RCMP say the crashed in Atascosa County near London, Sep 26 -- A press report, chopper came down close to a Pleasanton about 1130 hrs, today. dated Sep 24, states: A South African residence on Othello Road last night Neither was identified. David Soward, Airways (SAA) flight reported but no one on the ground was injured. the Atascosa County Sheriff's technical problems and returned to Police say identification of the Department chief deputy, said a the airport. The Boeing 737, bound for deceased occupants of the aircraft is passer-by pulled the female student Mauritius, has had to return to not possible at this time because of the from the wreckage just before it was Johannesburg International airport severity of the crash. The type of engulfed in flames. She suffered burns after developing technical problems. helicopter and its markings also can't and was flown by helicopter to Brooke More than 300 passengers were on be identified at this time. Transport Army Medical Centre. It wasn't clear board. Passengers are spending the if the instructor, who was pronounced © Lloyd’s Marine Intelligence Unit 2004 These reports may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photographic, recorded or otherise without the prior written permission of the publisher. 36 Aviation night in a Kempton Park hotel and airport burning fuel before landing the co-ordinated their efforts to find and hope to resume their journey jet at about 1820 hrs. The flight had rescue a crashed tour helicopter at tomorrow. originated in Winnipeg, but the pilot Haena Point, Kauai, yesterday. Navy turned the aircraft back to the airport helicopters were on scene first and EMERGENCY LANDING, after an indication of a problem. There rescued two people, who were LARNACA, CYPRUS were no injuries reported. transported to Kauai Veterans London, Sep 26 -- A press report, Memorial Hospital. Three of the dated yesterday, states: A Gulf Air INCIDENT AT BEN-GURION passengers swam to shore and a one aircraft flying from Abu Dhabi to INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, was missing when the Kauai Fire Paris with 198 people on board made ISRAEL Department arrived on scene. The an emergency landing in Cyprus London, Sep 29 -- A press report, Kauai Fire Department located the yesterday after the pilot reported a dated today, states: El Al aircraft sixth person in the water. Officials problem with one of its engines, swerved off the runway at Ben Gurion said yesterday that three of the people officials said. "The Airbus A330 was in Airport before dawn today when the aboard the helicopter were able to Cyprus air space when it alerted tow truck pulling it malfunctioned. swim to a reef and left the scene near Larnaca control tower and issued an The aircraft's fuel tanks were full in the remote Na Pali Coast on their emergency call saying one of its two preparation for the flight to New York, own. The Coast Guard said three men engines had failed," the official said on and all 400 passengers on board were and three women were on board the condition of anonymity. "The airport evacuated. El Al responded that the helicopter owned by Heli USA was put on full alert and all rescue malfunctioning tow truck was "a rare Airways. The National Transportation crews were mobilised and the local incident" and that the passengers Safety Board will investigate the hospital informed, fortunately the were put up in hotels. Company cause of the accident. Poor weather is plane made a safe landing at 0600 spokesmen expressed hope that the believed to be a factor. hrs," he added. Bahrain-based Gulf flight would be able to take off Honolulu, Sep 24 -- A Heli USA tour Air's Flight GS-019 had 184 sometime this afternoon, after the helicopter crashed into the ocean off passengers and 14 crew on board. aircraft's fuel tanks were emptied and Haena, Kauai, Hawaii, yesterday the aircraft was moved from the afternoon. There were six people EMERGENCY LANDING, runway's shoulder. "We are distressed onboard, three were killed. The pilot LEHIGH VALLEY INTERNATIONAL by this incident, but there were no and two passengers swam AIRPORT, PENNSYLVANNIA, malfunctions in the plane itself," the approximately 200 yards to the reef. UNITED STATES company reported. Two other passengers were pulled London, Sep 26 -- A press report, from the sea by a Navy SH-60 dated today, states: A two-engine INCIDENT AT MIDWAY AIRPORT, Seahawk helicopter. The remaining corporate aircraft made a safe CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, passenger was pulled from the sunken emergency landing at Lehigh Valley UNITED STATES wreakage by an off-duty Kauai International Airport yesterday London, Sep 29 -- A press report, firefighter and a county water-safety morning after its two-member crew dated today: The Federal Aviation officer. It was reported the helicopter, reported losing power in one engine. Administration is investigating an an Aerospatiale AS330 based at The problem was reported shortly incident at Midway Airport this Princeville Airport, sank and an oil after the Learjet 35 took off from the morning. A Chicago Aviation slick was present, along with debris. Hanover Township, Lehigh County Department spokeswoman says a The rescue Navy helicopter was in the airport at 1050 hrs bound for Hyannis, Denver-bound A-T-A flight bumped vicinity conducting training Mass. ''They shut the left engine another plane while backing out of a maneuvers. It was reported a heavy down, returned and landed safely at gate at Midway this morning. The rainstorm swept through the area at 1103 hrs,'' said Holly Baker of the flight's left wing hit the tail of another the time of the crash. -- Lloyd's Federal Aviation Administration, A-T-A plane that was undergoing Agents. which will investigate the incident. ''It maintenance at the airport. No one London, Sep 29 -- Eurocopter AS 350 was more of a computer glitch than was hurt in the incident. Aviation (Ecureuil) N355NT crashed into the anything else,'' said airport Department spokeswoman Wendy ocean off Kee Beach, Lihue, Hawaii, at spokeswoman Susan Kittle. ''The Abrams says 60 passengers and six 0035, Sep 24, while on a local flight engine did not completely shut down. crew-members were on the flight to from Lihue. The aircraft was At no time was the crew really in Denver, and the passengers had to be destroyed. Three of the six persons on danger.'' ''That's part of what we will switched to another flight. board were killed. be investigating,'' Baker said. The airport's emergency equipment was MOUNT CASTELLINO, ITALY N435RW dispatched as a precaution before the London, Sep 25 -- A press report, London, Sep 23 -- A press report, Sep aircraft returned to LVIA. The 29- dated Sep 25, states: A British pilot 22, states: A plane made a crash year-old aircraft is owned by CJPJ died when his plane crashed into the landing in Lake Guntersville this Associates of Little Falls, N.J. side of an Italian mountain, police afternoon, but the pilot, 71-year-old confirmed today. The man, who is Kenny Cobb of Boaz, only suffered EMERGENCY LANDING, believed to be from Manchester, was minor injuries. Around noon the sea LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL killed when the Cessna 150 crashed plane crashed while trying to land on AIRPORT, CALIFORNIA, into the slopes of Mount Castellino Lake Guntersville and the plane ended UNITED STATES during a heavy thunderstorm. The upside down, in about four feet of See N536JB. plane went missing as it was flying water. The wheels were down on the over the Tuscan Appenines from plane when it hit the water and EMERGENCY LANDING, Ravenna to Savona on its way to marine police say that may have been WINNIPEG INTERNATIONAL Manchester. The Foreign and the problem. "He apparently was too AIRPORT, CANADA Commonwealth Office said it could not close to the water and his wheels were London, Sep 28 -- A press report, confirm the pilot's identity until his down and that may have caused him dated today, states: There were some family were told. Air traffic control to flip the plane into the water," said anxious moments when a small jet lost contact with the plane which was Lt. Rick Wadkins. The FAA and the experiencing landing gear problems last spotted flying over land between NTSB are investigating the cause of touched down safely at Winnipeg Mount Cusna and Mount Castellino. the accident. International Airport. Emergency London, Sep 22 -- Wheaton Robin vehicles were on the scene yesterday N355NT Searey N435RW flipped over and sank as a Lear Jet 48 with six people London, Sep 25 -- A press report, on Lake Guntersville, Alabama, at aboard made a near-perfect landing dated Sep 24, states: The Coast 1645, Sep 22, following take-off from despite reports of a problem with its Guard, the Navy, Kauai Fire Guntersville. The one person on board nose landing gear. The pilot circled the Department, and other local agencies suffered minor injuries.

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N536JB FREEZERS AND a spokesman said today. The recall London, Sep 22 -- The registration REFRIGERATORS, will affect gas-engine 9-3 and 9-5 marks of the JetBlue Airbus A320-232 UNITED STATES models made in 2000, 2001, and 2002, that made an emergency landing at London, Sep 28 -- A press report, said Orjan Aslund, a Swedish Los Angeles International Airport, dated Sep 27, states: The U.S. spokesman for Saab owner General yesterday are N536JB. Consumer Product Safety Motors Corp. He said the U.S. Commission in voluntary co-operation National Highway Traffic Safety N9158U with W.C. Wood Company Inc., of Administration has found problems in London, Sep 25 -- A press report, Ottawa, Ohio, has announced a recall the ignition system that can lead to dated Sep 24, states: A helicopter of approximately 112,000 Automatic overheating. He refused to comment giving rides at a festival hit a power Defrost Upright Freezers and All- on how much it would cost to replace line and crashed into a northern Refrigerators. The defrost heater coil the ignition boxes, but Swedish news Wisconsin lake today, killing the pilot, can become exposed inside the units, reports said it could cost more than a woman and her teenage son, which poses a potential shock hazard $77 million. authorities said. The helicopter took to consumers. In some cases the off from FallFest in Cable, about 12 exposed heater wire can also melt, or STANLEY VACUUM BOTTLES, miles south of the crash site, Bayfield burn the unit's interior plastic food UNITED STATES County Sheriff Robert Follis said. liner. W.C. Woods has received 45 Washington, DC, Sep 21 -- The U.S. London, Sep 29 -- Robinson R44 astro reports of incidents of the defrost Consumer Product Safety N9158U crashed into a lake near heater coil becoming exposed. Nine of Commission announces the recall of Drummond, Wisconsin, at 1105, Sep those incidents resulted in an about 45,000 Stanley thermos bottles 24. The three persons on board were electrical short. The others melted in voluntary co-operation with PMI, of Seattle, Wash. Consumers should killed. and burned the unit's interior plastic liner. No injuries have been reported. stop using recalled products The recalled single door freezers and immediately unless otherwise YV412C refrigerators are 15, 17 and 20-cubic instructed. The handle on the London, Sept 27 -- Cessna 207 foot Automatic Defrost Upright thermos bottles can break, causing YV412C, operated by Cooperative Freezers and 17-cubic foot Automatic the vacuum seal to fail and release Association Lines Air Taxi Wayumi Defrost All-Refrigerators that can be organic, non-toxic charcoal powder C.A., crashed in the sector of La converted into freezers. They were insulation into the air. This can cause Esmeralda, Amazonas, Venezuela, at sold under the brand names Amana, consumers to suffer short-term vision approximately 0900, AST, Sept 16. The Crosley, Danby, Maytag, Whirlpool problems and temporary breathing pilot and three passengers received and Wood's, which is written on the problems when they inhale the fatal injuries, and the aircraft was front of the unit. They were sold at powder. PMI has received 654 reports destroyed. Home improvement and appliance of handles breaking and non-toxic stores from September 2002 through charcoal powder insulation releasing ZK-MBQ to February 2005 for between $400 into the air. The firm has received 23 London, Sep 22 -- Piper PA-28-161 and $1,000. reports of consumers who had (Warrior) ZK-MBQ, operated by difficulty breathing or seeing, and in Massey University School of Aviation, GAS CONTROL VALVES, some cases, began vomiting and was stolen from Ardmore Airport Sep UNITED STATES coughing. More than 60 of the 17 and subsequently crashed into the London, Sep 21 -- A press report, incidents occurred in trucks or cars sea near Auckland. The one person on dated Sep 19, states: Robertshaw creating the potential for impaired board suffered minor injuries. Controls Co. is recalling about vision. There have been 446 reports of 178,000 gas control valves used on property damage. The recall involves water heaters. The California the brushed stainless steel and the company says the screws on the green 1-liter and 2-quart bottles, and valves can break. It that happens, gas the 24-oz. wide mouth food jar. The could leak from the valve, which recalled thermos bottles have only could pose a risk of gas explosion and two spot welds per handle bracket fire. No incidents or injuries have and contain any of the following date been reported. The R110 Gas Control code numbers: C 02, D 02, or A 03. Valves being recalled are installed on The date code is located on the natural and liquid propane gas water bottom of the bottles just above the FREEZERS AND REFRIGERATORS, heaters. The recalled valves were "S" and "Y" on the word "STANLEY." CANADA manufactured between Jul 25 and Sold at Wal-Mart, Kmart, Target and London, Sep 27 -- A press report, Aug 14. The valves were installed on other discount department stores dated today,states: The risk of faulty the following water heater brands: nation-wide from October 2002 defrosting elements has prompted a American Proline, Bradford White, through February 2003 for about $25. voluntary recall and retrofit for about GE, GSW, Hotpoint, Jetglas, John Manufactured in Korea and China. 24,811 automatic defrost upright Wood, Lochinvar, Premier Plus, Consumers should immediately stop freezers and refrigerators. CSA Powerflex, Rheem, Richmond, Ruud, using the product and contact PMI for International, the safety standards Vanguard, Whirlpool, and U.S. a free replacement thermos bottle. agency, and W.C. Wood Co. of Guelph, Craftmaster. The valves were PMI will provide all shipping charges Ont., announced the problem today in installed on water heaters by gas for returned bottles. a release. The products were made appliance distributors and retailers, between September 2002 and including The Home Depot and UTILITY VEHICLES, February 2004 under the Amana, Lowe's, as well as plumbers and UNITED STATES Crosley, Whirlpool and Wood's brands. plumbing/heating equipment London, Sep 23 -- A press report, The defrost heater in some units can suppliers. The gas valves also were dated Sep 22, states: A safety recall fail and cause the heater element to sold separately through gas appliance was conducted voluntarily by Arctic become exposed, resulting in a service providers. Water heaters sold Cat Inc., of Thief River Falls, Minn. potential shock hazard. A failure can or serviced prior to Jul 25 are not in co-operation with the U.S. also result in deformation, melting, or affected by the recall. Consumer Product Safety burning of the interior food liner. The Commission (CPSC) of CSA and Wood said there have been SAAB MOTOR VEHICLES, approximately 700 Arctic Cat no reports of injury involving the units WORLDWIDE Prowler XT Off-Highway Utility and the free in-home retrofit is being London, Sep 29 -- A press report, Vehicles. The brakes on these conducted to prevent the possibility of dated today, states: Saab plans to vehicles can fail. Arctic Cat has injury. recall 287,987 cars worldwide because received notice of one incident of a of a problem with the ignition system, brake pad dislodging from the rear

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Port Delays

(Information received from BIMCO, Denmark and Indian Ports Association, New Delhi)

Country/Port Date of report No. of vessels waiting and/or days delay

Australia Abbot Point 26-Sep-2005 Coal: 1 vessel berthed; 9 vessels due by 11/10; no delays expected. Brisbane 26-Sep-2005 Coal: Fisherman Island coal berth: 7 vessels due by 23/10; up to 2 days delay expected due to berth congestion and cargo availability. Dalrymple Bay 26-Sep-2005 Coal: 3 vessels berthed and loading; 29 vessels due by 5/10; vessels usually berthing in order of arrival and cargo availability; average berthing delay 5-10 days, but some cargoes are in short supply and delays of up to 45 days can be expected. Dampier 26-Sep-2005 Iron ore: Parker Point: 1 vessel berthed and loading; 13 vessels due by 10/10; up to 4 days berthing delay expected; shippers cannot guarantee that vessel will be able to load up to max. sailing draft available; Parker Point 2: 2 vessels due by 4/10; shippers cannot guarantee that vessel will be able to load up to max. sailing draft available; East Intercourse Island: 1 vessel berthed and loading; 19 vessels due by 16/10; up to 1 day’s berthing delay expected; a shift to a lay-by berth for loaded vessels is always a possibility; shippers cannot guarantee that vessel will be able to load up to max. sailing draft available. Gladstone 26-Sep-2005 Coal: R.G. Tanna coal terminal: 2 vessels berthed and loading, 1 waiting; 37 vessels due by 22/11; up to 1 day’s berthing delay expected subject to port congestion and cargo availability; Barney Point: 8 vessels due by 25/10; up to 1 day’s delay expected due to port congestion and cargo availability. Hay Point 23-Sep-2005 Coal: 2 vessels berthed and loading; 13 vessels due by 6/10; up to 12 days berthing delay expected; vessels berthing in order of cargo availability; berth No. 1 closed for maintenance from 19.00 hrs. 27/9 to 19.30 hrs. 28/9. Newcastle 26-Sep-2005 Coal: Kooragang 4, 5 and 6: 2 vessel berthed and loading; 46 vessels due by 15/10; Dykes 4+5: 2 vessels loading; 18 vessels due by 11/10; no unallocated vessels; 23 vessels waiting off port; 5-9 days delay expected prior to berthing due to planned maintenance at Kooragang terminal, coal product problems with some shippers berthed congestion and cargo receival. Port Hedland 26-Sep-2005 Iron ore: BHP Iron Ore Pty. Ltd., Mt. Newman (Nelson Point), “A” berth: 2 vessels anchored; 1 vessels due 2/10; up to 5 days delay expected due to berth congestion and cargo availability; “B” berth: 1 vessel berthed and loading, 3 anchored; 5 vessels due by 30/9; up to 7 days delay expected; BHP Iron Ore Pty. Ltd., Goldsworthy (Finucane Island) “C” berth: 1 vessel anchored; 1 vessel due 30/9; up to 1 day’s delay expected; “D” berth: 1 vessel berthed and loading, 3 anchored; 6 vessels due by 5/10; up to 1 day’s delay expected. Port Kembla 26-Sep-2005 Coal: 1 vessel berthed; 12 vessels due by 26/10; up to 1 day’s berthing delay expected due to port congestion. Port Walcott 26-Sep-2005 Iron ore: 4 vessels waiting; 18 vessels due by 14/10; up to 3 days delay expected due to berth congestion; Line-up expected to change at short notice. Cargo grade shortages and stockpile problems may result in vessels berthing out of turn.

Azerbaijan Baku 23-Sep-2005 Oil products: Bay of Baku: no vessels; Azerneftyag terminal: no vessels; Azer Trans terminal - Nobel avenue: 2 vessels due by 24/9, both to discharge crude oil; Sangachal district: no vessels; Transserve terminal: closed.

Brazil Santos 27-Sep-2005 Eighteen vessels berthed of which 6 sugar loaders, 1 bulk soya loader, 1 fertiliser discharger, 5 chemical products dischargers, 1 wheat discharger, 2 pellets loaders, 1 other loader/discharger, 1 full container loader/discharger; 30 vessels waiting in roads; 40 vessels due over the next 7 days; Private terminals: Terminal 37: 2 full container loaders/dischargers; Tecondi: no vessels; Termares: no vessels; Rodrimar: no vessels; Cosipa: 1 fertiliser loader, 2 steel products loaders; Ultrafertil: no vessels; Cargill: 1 pellets loader; Santos Brasil: 2 full container loaders/dischargers; Cutrale: 1 bulk juice loader; Dow: 1 chemical products discharger. Paranagua 27-Sep-2005 Sixteen vessels berthed of which 2 reefer loaders, 4 pellets loaders, 3 fertiliser dischargers, 1 sugar loader, 6 other loaders/dischargers; 27 vessels waiting in roads, of which 14 to load (2 reefers, 4 pellets, 1 soya, 5 sugar, 2 others), 13 to discharge (12 fertiliser, 1 other); 34 vessels due over the next 7 days. Rio Grande 27-Sep-2005 Two vessels berthed of which 1 sulphuric acid discharger, 1 fertiliser discharger; 6 vessels waiting in roads; 12 vessels due over the next 10 days. Sao Sebastiao 27-Sep-2005 Three vessels berthed, 3 waiting in roads; 9 vessels due over the next 10 days.

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Bulgaria Bourgas 26-Sep-2005 Six vessels in port operating, of which 2 loading (1 coils, 1 sunflower seeds), 4 discharging (1 billets, 1 coal, 1 zinc concentrate, 1 iron ore); 2 vessels in roads, both to load, of which 1 coils, 1 empty vessel; 5 vessels due, of which 1 to load profiles, 3 to discharge (1 metals, 1 reinforced concrete, 1 lead/zinc concentrate), 1 passenger vessel. Varna 26-Sep-2005 Varna East, Varna West, Electrical Power Station, Balchik: Conditions 19-25 September: Thirty-four vessels in port operating of which 22 loading (7 bulk soda, 1 wheat, 1 cement, 1 barley, 3 clinker, 4 sunflowers, 1 scrap, 1 silica sand, 1 clinker, 1 wheat, 1 sunflower seeds), 8 discharging (6 coal, 1 bulk copper concentrate, 1 urea), 4 discharging/loading containers; no vessels waiting in roads.

Chile Antofagasta 26-Sep-2005 Three vessels berthed, 4 berths vacant; 12 vessels due this week to load/discharge concentrates, bulk copper, containers and general cargo. Arica 26-Sep-2005 Four vessels berthed, 3 berths vacant; 16 vessels due this week. Iquique 26-Sep-2005 Four vessels berthed, 3 berths vacant; 14 vessels due this week. Valparaiso 26-Sep-2005 Two vessels berthed, 6 berths vacant; 3 vessels anchored; 13 vessels due this week.

Egypt Adabiya 26-Sep-2005 Twelve vessels berthed (loading/discharging), of which 5 general cargo, 3 bulk carriers, 1 livestock, 1 tanker, 2 containers. Alexandria 26-Sep-2005 Twenty-six vessels berthed (loading/discharging), of which 13 general cargo, 7 bulk carriers, 3 tankers, 1 container vessel, 2 military vessels; 20 vessels dry-docked; 5 vessels at inner anchorage, 5 at outer anchorage. Damietta 26-Sep-2005 Nineteen vessels berthed (loading/discharging), of which 14 general cargo, 2 bulk carriers, 1 Ro/Ro, 2 containers; 4 vessels at outer anchorage, 1 at inner anchorage. Dekheila 26-Sep-2005 Thirteen vessels berthed (loading/discharging), of which 1 general cargo, 7 bulk carriers, 3 container vessels, 2 military vessels; 1 vessel at outer anchorage. Port Said 26-Sep-2005 Four vessels berthed (loading/discharging), of which 1 bulk carrier, 3 containers. Suez 26-Sep-2005 Nine vessels berthed (loading/discharging), of which 2 general cargo, 1 tanker, 3 reefers, 3 passenger vessels; 2 tugs, 1 vessel dry-docked Suez Canal 26-Sep-2005 Twenty-two vessels transiting Northbound, 25 Southbound.

Estonia Tallinn 26-Sep-2005 Paljassaare (formerly Kopli): 2 vessels loading at berth (1 fertiliser, 1 coal), 1 ferro manganese vessel discharging at berth; no vessels waiting at anchorage; 3 vessels due, with 5 days berthing delay expected.

India Kolkata 26-Sep-2005 6 vessels operating at berth of which 4 discharging (Containers-2, Timber Logs, Edible Oil), 1 vessel loading and discharging General Cargo, 1 vessel waiting to load General Cargo; 3 vessels working at midstream to discharge (Pulses-2, Steel); 1 vessel waiting at anchorage to discharge; 4 vessels under repair; 1 vessel under dry docked. Haldia 26-Sep-2005 19 vessels operating at berth of which 7 loading (Iron ore-6, Steel), 9 vessels discharging (Crude, Met Coke, Sulphur, Coking Coal-2, Soya Oil, Phosphoric Acid, Containers-2), 3 vessels loading and discharging (Containers, POL, Steel).; 16 vessels awaiting berth (3 to discharge, 12 to load, 1 to load and discharge); 1 vessels waiting at anchorage to discharge; 6 vessels due (Crude-2, Iron ore-2, Lime Stone, Coal) Paradip 26-Sep-2005 11 vessels operating at berth of which 5 loading (Iron ore-3, Crome Concentrate-2), 6 vessels discharging (Coking Coal, Pet Coke, N.C.Coal, S.Coal, Rock Phosphate-2); 14 vessels awaiting berth (3 to discharge, 11 to load); 4 vessels waiting at anchorage to discharge. Visakhapatnam 26-Sep-2005 14 vessels operating at berth of which 6 loading(Iron ore, S.M.Ore, Thermal Coal-2, Iron ore, Alumina), 8 vessels discharging (MOP-2, Project Cargo, Rock Phosphate, S.Scrap, C.P.Coke, Alumina, Coking Coal); 5 vessels awaiting berth (4 to discharge, 1 to load); 9 vessels not ready to work and waiting at anchorage (7 to discharge, 2 to load); 1 vessel under repair(MV Chin Shwe Haw at HSY Jetty which was collided with MV Uttar Kasi); 33 vessels due (Iron Ore-7, Steel-3, Food Grains-2, Granite Blocks, POL-3, Crude-3, MOP, Urea, Ammonia, Acetone, Styrene Monomer, Containers-4, Methanol, Raw Sugar, Crude Oil-2, POL). Chennai 26-Sep-2005 7 vessels operating at berth of which 2 loading (Furnace Oil, Iron ore), 4 vessels discharging (Raw Sugar, MOP, S.Coal, Crude Oil), 1 vessel loading and discharging Containers); 2 vessel not ready to work and waiting at anchorage to load; 5 vessels due (S.Scrap/HM Scrap, LSHS/Furnace Oil, S.Coal, Containers, S.Coil/Granite Block). Tuticorin 26-Sep-2005 9 vessels operating at berth of which 4 vessels loading (General Cargo-3, Cement), 5 vessels discharging (Thermal Coal, Timber Logs, Rock Phosphate, VCM, MOP); 1 vessel awaiting berth to discharge; 2 vessels not ready to work and waiting at anchorage (1 to load, 1 to discharge).

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Cochin 26-Sep-2005 6 vessels operating at berth of which 4 discharging (Rock Phosphate, Crude, Palm Oil, Ammunition), 2 vessels loading and discharging Containers; 2 vessels awaiting berth to discharge. New Mangalore 26-Sep-2005 7 vessels operating at berth of which 3 vessels loading POL Product; 4 vessels discharging (Timber-2, LPG, Coal); 1 vessel waiting at anchorage to discharge; 19 vessels due (POL crude–3, POL Product-6, Benzene, Container, Iron Ore Fines-3, Iron ore (P), Fertiliser-2, Timber, Granite Stone). Mormugao 26-Sep-2005 3 vessels operating at berth of which 2 loading (Iron ore, Alumna), 1 vessel discharging Coal; 2 vessels working at midstream and loading Iron ore; 5 vessels waiting at anchorage to load; 5 vessels under repair/dry docked; 5 vessels due (Coking Coal, Iron Ore-4). Mumbai 26-Sep-2005 17 vessels operating at berth of which 1 loading Bagged SBM, 15 vessels discharging (Peas in bulk-3, General/Project Cargo, Sillica Bricks/Steel/General Cargo, HR coils, Project Cargo, Bulk Salt, Bulk MOP, Rock Phosphate, POL-5), 1 vessel loading and discharging B/Bulk/Containers; 1 vessel working at midstream and loading Steel Cargo/Clay in bulk; 2 vessels awaiting order to discharge; 1 vessel waiting at anchorage to load; 17 vessels under repairs/dry docked; 5 vessels under arrest; 21 vessels under laid up(Berths not required for cargo operations); 27 vessels due (Container-7, Oil, Fertiliser (RM)-2, General Cargo-17). J.N.P.T. 26-Sep-2005 7 vessels operating at berth of which 2 vessels discharging (Edible Oil, SKO/HSD/MS), 5 vessels loading and discharging Containers; 5 vessels awaiting berth to load and discharge; 5 Containers vessels due. Kandla 26-Sep-2005 14 vessels operating at berth of which 9 discharging (CPO, Phosphoric Acid, Chemical, Timber Logs, Fertiliser, H.R.Coils, Grantik Clay, St. Pipes, Sulphur), 4 vessels loading (Rice, Zinc Concentrate, Bentonite, SBM); 1 vessel loading and discharging Containers; 2 vessels (*) awaiting berth to discharge; 7 vessels not ready to work and waiting at anchorage (2 to discharge, 5 to load). Ennore 26-Sep-2005 3 Thermal Coal vessel due (MV APJ Sri Devi, MV Rani Padmini, MV Gem of Ennore).

Israel Ashdod 27-Sep-2005 Two general cargo vessels loading at berth, 7 general cargo vessels discharging at berth, 3 container vessels loading/discharging at berth; no vessels waiting at anchorage; 17 vessels due, with 2-3 days delay expected. Haifa 27-Sep-2005 One general cargo vessel discharging at berth, 8 vessels loading/discharging at berth (4 containers, 2 car carriers, 2 tankers); 1 general cargo vessel waiting at anchorage to discharge, 3 vessels waiting at anchorage to load/discharge (2 containers, 1 tanker); 2 vessels under repairs/dry-docked; 16 vessels due, with 2-3 days delay expected.

Kazakhstan Aktau 23-Sep-2005 Oil products: 2 vessels berthed, 1 completed loading crude oil, 1 loading crude oil; 2 vessels in roads, both to load unknown cargoes; 3 vessels due by 24/9, all to load unknown cargoes.

Pakistan Karachi 27-Sep-2005 One cement vessel loading at berth, 13 vessels discharging at berth (1 crude oil, 1 chemicals, 1 coal, 4 general cargo, 2 DAP, 3 sugar, 1 urea), 2 container vessels loading/discharging at berth; 5 vessels waiting at anchorage to load (2 cement, 1 rice, 1 containers, 1 MOL), 8 vessels waiting at anchorage to discharge (2 sugar, 2 fertiliser, 1 containers, 1 coal, 2 general cargo); no vessels bunkering, 1 under repairs/dry- docked, none awaiting orders; 3 vessels due (2 containers, 1 coal), with 3-4 days berthing delay expected. Port Qasim 27-Sep-2005 Four vessels discharging at berth (1 fuel oil, 1 palm oil, 1 sugar, 1 rape seed); 2 vessels waiting at anchorage to discharge (1 palm oil, 1 coal).

Russia Novorossiysk 26-Sep-2005 Thirteen vessels in port operating, all loading, of which 2 scrap, 1 bulk cement, 1 bulk NPK, 1 DRI, 1 pig-iron, 1 slabs/steel billets, 1 steel billets/other, 1 steel sheets/steel billets, 1 steel billets/coils/steel sheets, 1 steel billets/coils, 1 aluminium, 1 diesel oil; 8 vessels waiting in roads, all to load, of which 2 steel billets, 1 bulk ammonium nitrate, 1 pig-iron, 3 wheat, 1 bulk cement; 55 vessels due, of which 51 to load (2 equipment, 4 DRI, 2 bulk ammonium nitrate, 4 aluminium, 7 steel billets, 2 bulk NPK, 2 slabs, 1 barley, 1 WRIC/steel sheets, 1 steel billets/scrap, 5 copper, 1 bulk urea, 3 scrap, 4 coils, 2 wheat, 2 steel billets, 1 bulk ammonium nitrate/bulk urea, 1 WRIC, 1 equipment/cars, 1 pig-iron, 1 tin plates, 1 UAN solution, 1 cellulose, 1 bulk cement), 2 to discharge (1 construction material, 1 zinc ore), 2 to discharge/ load containers; Oil terminal: 3 tankers berthed, all loading crude oil; 1 tanker in roads to load crude oil; 7 tankers due, all to load, of which 3 crude oil, 1 diesel oil, 1 fuel oil.

Slovenia Koper 26-Sep-2005 Nine vessels berthed of which 3 vessels loading sawn timber, 2 vessels discharging/loading containers, 2 bulk carriers loading general cargo, 2 bulk carriers discharging coal/general cargo; 1 vessel waiting at anchorage to discharge aluminium products; 20 vessels due over the next 2 days of which 4 vessels load/ discharge containers, 3 to load sawn timber/steel products, 1 reefer to discharger refrigerated goods, 4 bulk carriers to discharge general cargo/cement/coal/ore, 5 bulk carriers to load coal/general cargo, 3 car carriers to discharge/load vehicles.

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Spain Bilbao 26-Sep-2005 Thirty-five vessels operating (5 tankers, 30 other vessels), of which 6 loading, 22 discharging, 7 loading/discharging.

Sri Lanka Colombo 26-Sep-2005 Berthing/unberthing (pilotage) delays being experienced on breakbulk/conventional vessels. Delays to conventional vessels are due to the fact that container/feeder vessels are given priority at breakbulk berths if there is container congestion. Conventional cargo vessels at BQ 1 and 2 are facing navigation delays. Four container/feeder vessels loading at berth, 16 vessels discharging at berth (10 containers/ feeders, 1 bagged cement, 1 bulk cement, 2 bagged fertiliser, 1 bulk fertiliser, 1 bulk palm oil); 1 container/feeder vessel waiting at anchorage to discharge; 5 vessels dry-docked, 1 at new tanker berth; 9 container/feeder vessels due, with no delays expected.

Turkmenistan Turkmenbashi 23-Sep-2005 Oil products: 2 vessels berthed, of which 1 loading gasoil, 1 to load heating oil; 2 vessels in roads, 1 to load gasoline, 1 to discharge crude oil; 1 vessel due by 23/9, to load fuel oil.

Ukraine Ilichevsk 26-Sep-2005 Nine vessels in port operating, of which 6 loading (3 steel products, 2 grain, 1 ore), 3 discharging/loading containers; 4 vessels in roads, of which 3 to load (1 grain, 2 steel products), 1 to discharge/load containers; 23 vessels due, of which 7 to load (5 steel products, 1 grain, 1 equipment), 8 to discharge (6 steel products, 2 ore), 8 to discharge/load containers. Mariupol 26-Sep-2005 Twelve vessels in port operating, all to load, of which 5 steel, 2 wheat, 1 fire-clay, 3 coal, 1 carbamide; 5 vessels in roads, of which 3 to load steel, 2 to discharge equipment; 40 vessels due, of which 39 to load (21 steel, 8 coal, 6 fire-clay, 1 steel/fire-clay, 1 pitch, 1 equipment, 1 sunflower seeds), 1 to discharge/load containers. Odessa 26-Sep-2005 Fourteen vessels in port operating, of which 9 loading (3 metal, 2 pig-iron, 2 wheat, 1 wood, 1 barley), 3 discharging (1 luggage, 2 bananas), 2 loading/discharging containers; 12 vessels in roads, of which 6 to load (3 metal, 1 corn, 1 barley, 1 wheat), 3 to discharge (1 sugar, 1 general cargo, 1 oil), 3 to discharge/ load containers; 53 vessels due, of which 29 to load (20 metal, 1 scrap, 2 ore, 1 barley, 1 corn, 1 ferro alloy, 2 wood, 1 paper), 5 to discharge (2 wheat, 2 citrus, 1 fat), 19 to discharge/load containers.

United States Beaumont 21-Sep-2005 Louis Dreyfus terminal: 2 days delay. Houston 21-Sep-2005 Pilots report normal 43 ft. 0 ins. max. draft up to Shell terminal, 40 ft. 0 ins. max. draft after Shell terminal in Houston ship channel; Cargill terminal: 2 days delay; LDC Dreyfus terminal: 1-2 days delay. Kalama, WA 21-Sep-2005 Kalama export terminal: 4 days delay; United Harvest terminal: no delays. New Orelans 21-Sep-2005 Mississippi River terminal berthing delays: Cenex-Harstates/Myrtle Grove: no information available; Cargill-Westwego: no information available; ADM/Ama: 5-7 days delay expected; Bunge/Destrehan: 3 days delay expected; ADM/Destrehan: 5-7 days delay expected; ADM/Reserve: 5-7 days delay expected; Cargill/Reserve: 1-2 days delay expected; ADM/Paulina: closed; planned re-opening in October; Zen-Noh/Convent: 2-3 days delay expected; Cargill/Baton Rouge: no delays; maintenance being carried out; Mississippi River mid-stream buoys - estimated berthing delays based on new vessel presented as load-ready and weather permitting: Mile 121.5 ADM (Gemini) - Destrehan: no in formation available; Mile 158.0 Cargill (K2) - Convent: 3-4 days delay expected; Mile 180.0 Cooper (America) - Darrow: 5 days delay expected. Mississippi River recommended draft restrictions: SW Pass to Pilottown - 47 ft. for all vessels (daylight only); Pilottown to Nola - 47 ft. for all vessels; New Orleans (Mile 090) to Baton Rouge (Mile 233.5) - 45 ft. for all vessels; vessels with drafts up to 47 ft. have been handled up to Mile 180 in the past, but are approved by pilots on a case by case basis, based on current river conditions; Mississippi River Gulf outlet: 25 ft. Seattle 21-Sep-2005 Louis Dreyfus (Pier 86) terminal: 2 days delay.

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