Carnival Cruise Line President: Cruising on August 1St “Still Very Uncertain” by Jim Walker
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DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2020 –144 Number 144 *** COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS *** Saturday 23-05-2020 News reports received from readers and Internet News articles copied from various news sites. The brandnew SEVERN SUPPORTER leaving IJmuiden enroute Rotterdam. The Neptun build multicat is owned by Severn Offshore and managed by Landfall. For her first job she was chartered by Tug Training and Consultancy (TTC). Photo : Capt Bas van Hoorn Towmaster / Senior Trainer KOTUG INTERNATIONAL B.V. © 5Distribution : daily to 42.500+ active addresses 23-05-2020 Page 1 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2020 –144 Your feedback is important to me so please drop me an email if you have any photos / articles that may be of interest to the maritime interested people at sea and ashore PLEASE SEND ALL CORRESPONDENCE / PHOTOS / ARTICLES TO : [email protected] this above email address is monitored 24/7 PLEASE DONT CLICK ON REPLY AS THE NEWSLETTER IS SENt OUT FROM AN UNMANNED SERVER If you don't like to receive this bulletin anymore : please send an e-mail to the above e- mail adress for prompt action your e-mail adress will be deleted ASAP from the server EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS The MAASTRICHT MAERSK arriving at Rotterdam Maasvlakte assisted by the Boluda Europe tug INNOVATION Photo : Rotterdam Pilot Marijn van Hoorn (c) Alphatron Marine levert compleet navigatie- en communicatiepakket voor drie Boomkorkotters Alphatron Marine Zuid kan met trots melden dat zij de opdracht heeft ontvangen voor het leveren van een compleet navigatie- en communicatiepakket voor drie Boomkorkotters die gaan varen onder de Belgische vlag. In 2002 werd voor het laatst een Boomkorkotter van dit type gebouwd. Nu 18 jaar later worden de Z483 en Z39 bij Padmos Stellendam gebouwd en de Z98 bij scheepsbouwer Hoekman op Urk. Deze Boomkorkotters zijn opnieuw ontworpen met als 5Distribution : daily to 42.500+ active addresses 23-05-2020 Page 2 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2020 –144 uitgangspunten een optimaal brandstofverbruik, veiligheid, bemanningscomfort, duurzaam en kwaliteit. “Om hieraan mee te mogen werken is dan ook een fantastische uitdaging voor ons kantoor. Omdat we ons al jaren inzetten voor de visserij zijn dit de opdrachten waar je het voor doet. Daarbij sluiten de uitgangspunten van de werf naadloos aan op die van Alphatron Marine” aldus Ben Schot, Sales Manager van Alphatron Marine Zuid. Alphatron Marine Zuid zal de schepen voorzien van een compleet navigatie- en communicatie pakket met onder andere de nieuwe JMR-5400 radar. Deze krachtige radar heeft een gebruiksvriendelijk besturingssysteem en is uitgerust met speciaal ontworpen software voor de visserij. Dit maakt deze radar uniek in zijn soort en zal zeker de juiste ondersteuning bieden aan de hedendaagse visserij.Daarnaast wordt onder meer onze nieuwste JMA-3400 radar, Dual AlphaSeapilot MFC, Dual JRC JLR-21 GPS Compass, ons vernieuwde AlphaCam CCTV-systeem en een complete VSAT/TVRO oplossing geïnstalleerd op de schepen. The SEBAROK SPIRIT arriving in Rotterdam Caland canal assisted by the Boluda Europe tug VB HUDSON Photo : Rotterdam Pilot Marijn van Hoorn © 5Distribution : daily to 42.500+ active addresses 23-05-2020 Page 3 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2020 –144 Giant Sleipnir vessel wraps up decommissioning campaign for ConocoPhillips by Nermina Kulovic Earlier this month, Heerema Marine Contractors’ giant semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) SLEIPNIR completed its first decommissioning campaign of the season. It was a unique project, as Heerema’s CHAMPION installed the same modules for ConocoPhillips at the Greater Ekofisk Field in the 1970s, Heerema said in a statement on Tuesday. Now, almost fifty years later, SLEIPNIR has returned to complete the journey. The decommissioning of the Ekofisk 2/4A platform is the final stage of an important story in Norway’s energy history. The permanent production platform was the oldest on the Norwegian shelf when oil production ended in September 2013. Now, the Ekofisk 2/4A platform will be recycled up to 99% at the AFEBV decommissioning site in Vats, Norway. This topsides campaign entailed Engineering, Preparation, 5Distribution : daily to 42.500+ active addresses 23-05-2020 Page 4 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2020 –144 Removal, and Disposal/Recycling of five modules, a crane boom, and a burner boom within the Greater Ekofisk Field. Heerema also developed a dedicated subsea excavator to prepare the jacket for removal later this season by SLEIPNIR. According to Heerema, it was particularly appropriate that SLEIPNIR would perform the decommissioning work as it is the world’s most sustainable SSCV. Using SLEIPNIR made an already environmentally friendly process of removing retired platforms from our seas as sustainable as possible, the company explained. During the project, SLEIPNIR ran on LNG when next to the platform. Heerema will also be working on the removal of the platform’s jackets later this year. Earlier this month Sleipnir transported and installed the Nova topside module on the Gjøa platform in the North Sea. The giant vessel picked up the 740mT module from a barge outside Stavanger, Norway, and transported it to Neptune Energy’s operated Gjøa platform. Installation was completed within three hours. The Nova module will be used for the tie-back of the Wintershall Dea operated Nova field, located about 120 kilometres northwest of Bergen, with a water depth of 370 meters.As was the case with the ConocoPhillips decom project, SLEIPNIR ran on LNG during Nova module installation to reduce carbon emissions. Source : offshore-energy.biz Photo’s : Heerema Marine Contractors Hoek van Holland Berghaven with the KNRM lifeboat JEANINE PARQUI and several pilot tenders ready for action Photo : Charles Bijl Freelance Service Maasmond www.fsmconsulting.nl © CLICK at the Photo! 5Distribution : daily to 42.500+ active addresses 23-05-2020 Page 5 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2020 –144 Sima Charters & Dutch tender service Besides safe pax transfers we see the need for deliveries of goods, stores, fuel, fresh water growing rapidly. 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Carnival Cruise Line President: Cruising on August 1st “Still Very Uncertain” By Jim Walker The CARNIVAL VALOR departing from New Orleans Photo : Piet Sinke www.maasmondmaritime.com (c) CLICK at the photo & hyperlink in text to view and/or download the photo(s) ! The president of Carnival Cruise Line, Christine Duffy, stated in a letter to crew members last week “while we hope to bring back a small number of ships on August 1, that is still very uncertain.” Ms. Duffy continued by stating “what we do know is that whenever we do resume cruising, it will be a gradual, phased in return.” 5Distribution : daily to 42.500+ active addresses 23-05-2020 Page 7 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2020 –144 Cheap Fares Carnival has been heavily advertising cruises on the representation that it plans to restart certain cruises from Texas and Florida as early as August 1st. Carnival has been advertising cheap cruise fares to entice customers to book cruises, including offering five-day cruises from Galveston, to Cozumel, Mexico, in early August starting at $139, plus taxes, fees and port expenses. This comes out to a base rate around $28-a-day, according to the LA Times. The popular-among- hard-core cruise-fans blog CruiseRadio was showing cruise deals with Carnival Cruise Line as low as $20 a day per person. A “Ponzi Scheme?” Many people in the travel industry doubt that any cruises will actually leave U.S. ports as early as August 1st. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) extended its “no sail” order from mid-April to July 24th. It remains to be seen whether the CDC will again extend the order past the theoretical August 1st cruise date. Many Carnival customers are still waiting to receive refunds of fares for cruises which were cancelled 60 to 90 days ago. Some cruisers feel that by collecting fares for cruises in August which likely will not take place, Carnival is essentially running a quasi “ponzi scheme.” It is collecting money for new cruises, which probably will not take place, to be used to eventually refund fares which Carnival owes to its customers for the past several months. Our small firm has been contacted by literally hundreds of passengers complaining that Carnival has not returned their cruise fares for cruises cancelled due to COVID-19. There are many dozens or people complaining about this on Twitter, like this: I consider myself patient... but I have now waited over a month for my cruise refund @CarnivalCruise. Surely there is something that can be done to expedite this process.