HARBOUR MASTER's REPORT 2010 for the HUMBER HARBOUR AREA
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a HARBOUR MASTER’S REPORT 2010 for the HUMBER HARBOUR AREA Contents Contents ............................................................................................................................ 3 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 5 ABP Pilots .......................................................................................................................... 7 Pilotage Acts – 2002 to 2010 ............................................................................................ 8 Shipping Movements and Navigational Incidents ............................................................ 9 Graph of vessels reporting Defects ................................................................................. 10 Defect Problems Reported ............................................................................................... 11 Anchorage problems ........................................................................................................ 20 Graph of Close Quarter (Near Miss) Occurrences ......................................................... 21 Close Quarters Reports .................................................................................................... 22 Sinking Reports ................................................................................................................ 23 Graph of vessels grounding but refloating on the same tide ....................................... 24 Graph of vessels grounding but not refloating on the same tide ................................. 25 Summary of Groundings .................................................................................................. 26 Graph of vessels making contact with seamarks .......................................................... 29 Contact with Sea Marks .................................................................................................... 30 Graph of vessels making contact with structures ......................................................... 31 Contact with Structures .................................................................................................... 32 Graph of vessels making contact with other vessels .................................................... 41 Contact with Vessels ........................................................................................................ 42 Graph of Collision with Vessels ...................................................................................... 43 Collisions with vessels ..................................................................................................... 44 Summary of Bunker Operations ...................................................................................... 45 Debris etc. reported in River ............................................................................................ 46 Distress and other flare Reports ..................................................................................... 47 Failure to report to VTS .................................................................................................... 48 Fires Reported ................................................................................................................... 49 Graph of vessels reported for proceeding at High Speed ............................................. 50 Reports of High Speed ..................................................................................................... 51 Lost and Fouled Anchors ................................................................................................. 52 Low Water Berthing and Sailing Requests ..................................................................... 53 Navigation Marks Damaged or Unreliable ...................................................................... 54 Pollution Reports .............................................................................................................. 57 Graph of vessels in contravention of the Traffic Separation Scheme .......................... 58 Traffic Separation Scheme Contravention ...................................................................... 59 Barge Movements under the Humber Bridge ................................................................. 60 Bridge Jumpers ................................................................................................................. 61 Conservancy Activities ..................................................................................................... 62 Sunk Dredged Channel 2010 ............................................................................................ 64 Harbour Craft ..................................................................................................................... 66 Visitors to Spurn Control Tower ........................................................................................ 69 Daily Weather at 07:03 ...................................................................................................... 70 Page 3 of 81 Page 4 of 81 INTRODUCTION This report is intended to give the reader an overview of how ABP manage the navigational safety of the Humber Estuary, Rivers Ouse, Trent and the Humber, in relation to its obligations as a Harbour and Pilotage Authority. The Humber continues to be the busiest estuary in the United Kingdom with some 13,312 inward shipping movements in 2010, giving rise to 29,453 vessel movements in total. In addition, there were 4,211 recorded Oil Barge movements moving 1.21 million tonnes of product between Immingham, Hull and upriver destinations. Latest available statistical figures indicate that in excess of 76.9 million tonnes of cargo and over 1.007 million passengers were handled. An order for a new pilot launch was placed with Mustang Marine of South Wales in May 2010. The Nelson 48/50 launch is from the same mould used for our existing fleet but previously supplied by Halmatic. The boat was delivered in early 2011 and named “Humber Mercury”. Towards the end of 2010 Siemens and Associated British Ports announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in connection with ABP's proposed Green Port Hull development at Alexandra Dock, Hull. The parties have agreed to work together to develop plans for the construction of a new Siemens offshore wind turbine manufacturing and export facility at the port with the aim of executing definitive agreements later in 2011. On the South bank, Able UK are also proceeding with a consent application to build a berth between South Killingholme Oil Jetty and Killingholme Haven to support offshore wind farm manufacturing and exports. Consent applications for the building of an outer Ro-Ro berth at Grimsby and the deepening of the Sunk Dredged Channel were also submitted in 2010 and both were approved early in 2011. Page 5 of 81 2010 saw an increase in river traffic overall (4.9% higher than 2009) due to the recovery in the economy with highest concentrations of vessel traffic again centred on the Immingham area. Navigational incidents increased by 8.5% (v 2009). Within this figure “Ship Defects” and “Collision with Structures” increased by 10% and 11.9% respectively and we continue to work closely with the MCA and MAIB in an effort to reduce these. Capt PJ Cowing Harbour Master Humber It should be noted that the individual VTS reports are taken from contemporaneous shorthand notes recorded by the Vessel Traffic Services Operator at the time of the incident/occurrence. As such, they have not been revised for grammatical correctness. © The information contained in this report is subject to change at short notice. Although every Effort is made to ensure its accuracy, users should not rely upon it without making their own inquiries. Page 6 of 81 ABP Pilots The pilot complement as at end of 2010 is as follows: VLS ............................................................................ 18 First Class ................................................................. 35 Second Class............................................................ 24 Third Class................................................................ 25 Training ....................................................................... 8 Total......................................................................... 110 The year-end review of pilotage showed that on average a VLS pilot conducted 0.79 pilotage acts per duty day and a non-VLS pilot averaged 0.99 acts per duty day. Page 7 of 81 Pilotage Acts – 2002 to 2010 Pilotage Exemptions Certificate Holders As of December 2010, 172 Pilotage Exemptions Certificates are valid. This figure includes 32 Class C PEC’s issued to barge skippers. 2002 300 2003 268 2004 250 250 241 2005 200 212 218 195 190 185 2006 150 172 2007 100 2008 2009 50 2010 0 PEC Certs Acts of Pilotage The total number of pilotage acts carried out in the year was 17,368. The equivalent number for the year 2009 was 16,749. The total number of PEC passages, other than barge PEC holders, carried out in the year, was 8,194. The equivalent number in 2009 was 7,572. 35000 30000 25000 2002 2003 20000 2004 2005 2006 15000 2007 2008 10000 2009 2010 5000 0 Pilot Acts PEC Acts TOTAL Page 8 of 81 Shipping Movements The total number of inward shipping movements during 2010 was 13,312 This can be broken down as follows: 2010 Tetney Monobuoy................................................................. 113 Grimsby................................................................................