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Casualty Week Feb 24 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 February 24 2006 Greeks make case against ‘unsafe’ common rules World’s biggest shipping nation bares its teeth, writes Nigel Lowry in Athens — Friday February 24 2006 REEK shipowners have laid 20-year design life built to today’s implementation,” the document bare the full extent of their technology. concluded. G objections to class society “This reduction of corrosion additions The criticisms will disappoint class common structural rules for tankers will reduce the ship’s service life to about societies, which will have hoped and bulkers, claiming the new 18 years or less, grossly misrepresenting controversy over the new rules would standards represent “an unacceptable her claimed 25-year design life.” quietly fade away. regression” over existing rules. The UGS warns that IACS’ failure to Some senior class executives have Adopted by the International agree with its campaign last year for been playing down the strength of the Association of Classification Societies heftier corrosion margins “will also make Greeks’ feelings, even portraying dissent last year, the rules are damned in a 40- ships inherently unsafe and will pollute as confined to one or two angry voices. page Greek document circulated this week the environment with substantial But the top brass left Lloyd’s List in no as intended “not to create more robust avoidable CO2 emissions from the steel doubt that the volley of complaints is ships but to minimise steel weight and fabrication necessary to build the representative of opinion. labour intensive shipbuilding procedures, replacement ship many years earlier. UGS president Nicos Efythymiou and thus keep construction cost low.” “That is not the way forward,” it said. called the rules “unacceptable” and According to the Union of Greek “Shipping operates in a zero tolerance “detrimental to safety” while Hellenic Shipowners-authored document, the rules environment for pollution. Owners cannot Chamber of Shipping chief George are riddled with errors and accept operating ships prone to develop Gratsos said, “It must be one of the first misrepresentations. cracks or other defects. In the interest of times the regulated are asking for stricter Key criticisms levelled by the Greeks safety the CSR should be corrected before regulations.” include a charge that corrosion additions adopted by IACS are “clearly inadequate for the stated design life of 25 years” and that claimed weight increases in the new Piraeus still hit by strike rules do not allow for design optimisation. Thursday February 23 2006 “By the time such a future initial CSR design is optimised and finalised, a Passengers sit in front of ferries moored in Piraeus yesterday, as a seafarers’ strike continued reduction of 6%-7% in weight is to be to disrupt services at the port, writes Nigel Lowry in Athens . expected,” the UGS said. Although hundreds of trucks clogging many Greek ports started rolling yesterday after a The document scornfully alleges that desperate government ordered striking seafarers back to work in a bid to end the week-long CSR corrosion additions derived from a stoppage ,the Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation voted to defy the ‘civil mobilisation’ in both study that manipulated data — “most Piraeus and Patras, the west coast hub for services to and from Italy. probably to cater to shipyards’ desire for In these two ports, strikers continued their action, reportedly allowing vessels to berth on ‘design obsolescence’”. arrival yesterday but not to embark on new journeys. It states, “Corrosion additions of, for Previously there had been a virtual 100% standstill of Greek-crewed vessels in the nation’s example, 3 mm to 3.5 mm are now being ports, causing widespread disruption and a critical situation in many islands that began to run presented by IACS to the industry as out of food, medicine and other basic supplies. adequate for the side shell of a 25-year Ferry company executives confirmed the first vessels left many Greek gateways in the design life ship, when present rules morning. There were also sailings from Italy’s Adriatic ports, it was confirmed. envisage corrosion additions to plating in One leading ferry executive in Athens said yesterday, “We will understand the situation the same area of 4.75 mm for ships of a better later in the day, but some vessels have sailed.” EDITOR Stephen Legall Tel +44 020 7017 5228 SUBSCRIPTIONS: ADVERTISEMENTS Scott Magrowski Mike Smith Tel: +44 (0) 20 7017 4720 Tel +44 (0) 20 7017 4488 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7017 5007 Fax +44 (0) 20 7017 5007 Email: email [email protected] [email protected] Lloyd's is the registered trade mark of the Society incorporated by the Lloyd's Act 1871 by the name of Lloyd's A complete online archive covering the last 10 years of Lloyd’s Casualty Week. For further information please call +44 (0) 20 7017 4779. Summary of Major Cases in this week’s issue of Lloyd’s Casualty Week Vessel Type Flag Class G T DWT Blt Casualty ALASKAN fishing USA — 89 — 1991 Reported drifting due lost propeller in lat 55 FRONTIER 52N, long 158 53W, Feb 15. Awaiting another vessel to tow, probably to Chignik. ARSCO III fishing USA — 101 — 1969 Sank at moorings in Conn Brown Harbour, Texas, Feb 5. Fuel being removed by authorities. AYU VI barge — — — — — Reported sank in Selayar Strait off Bulukumba Feb 4. JOANNA III general GRC — 499 1,160 1965 Grounded in lat 38 48N, long 22 44.6E, Feb 16. LNG EDO lng BHS BV 93,619 72,561 1980 Arrived Ferrol Feb 3 with major gearbox problems. Still at shipyard there Feb 14, with gearbox under repair at Houston. Expected to leave Ferrol after permanent repairs are complete at the end of April. MING LIEN fishing CHN — — — — In collision with mv Ever Bright in lat 26 19N, YU 1028 long 120 01E, Feb 9. Subsequently sank. 8 crew missing. PEGVAK general IRN — — — — Had fire while under repair in Baku Bay Feb 15. Towed away from shore. Vessel Vikhr 9 used to fight fire. Extinguished same day. PRINCESS GIGI yacht — — — — — Encountered heavy weather in about lat 23.6N, long 73.3W, Feb 6 and taking water. Found Feb 7 capsized but still afloat. Towed to sheltered bay at Cat Island, where arrived Feb 11. Awaiting repairs decision. REHUA trawler NZL LR 2,483 — 1996 Had machinery failure 26 nautical miles south of Pitt Island Dec 11. Taken in tow to Nelson. STAR OHIO crude BHS AB ABS 80,569 149,563 1992 Reported Feb 16 adrift at one knot in lat 59 oil 40.8N, long 04 27.3W, with turbo-charger tanker problems. Restarted engines same day and to proceed to Belfast after trials. TANANGER ro-ro BRB NV 4,636 4,380 1980 Had engine black-out in bad weather, four nautical miles south-west of Jossingfjord, outside Flekkefjord, Feb 15. Awaiting tug. Towed into Tananger same day. THOR bulker THA LR 8,821 24,232 1985 Grounded in 07 09 N 117 46 E, Feb 2. Refloated TRAVELLER Feb 14 after part cargo removed. Moved from grounding position and anchored for underwater inspection. TUGEN product LUX BV 5,412 7,413 1999 Grounded at Morondava Roads, Madagascar, tanker in bad weather due cyclone "Boloetse" Feb 3. Refloated Feb 13 and carrying out transhipment operations, ETC Feb 15, after which decision will be made regarding repairs. (ii) CONTENTS The following reports are reprinted from Lloyd’s List Reports appear in alphabetical AKADEMIK ALEKSANDR order under the following headings and relevant page KARPINSKIY (Russia) number: London, Feb 15 — Research Akademik Aleksandr Karpinskiy sailed Cape Town Feb 8. Marine, including Overdue & Missing Vessels 1 AL MANARA (St. Kitts-Nevis) Port Victoria, Feb 14 — The US Navy Piracy 1 5 A.DEAN HEASLEY (U.S.A.) rescued general cargo Al Manara, London, Feb 13 — A press report, attacked by pirates off the coast of dated today, states: On Saturday Port State Control 1 5 Somalia, the vessel’s master said late night (Feb 11) the Coast Guard yesterday. In a spate of attacks along Command Centre in Memphis was the unpatrolled waters off Somalia, Seizures & Arrests 1 5 notified by the tug A.Dean Heasley gunmen stormed Al Manara last (250 gt, built 1949) that one of the two month, captain Deaa Naseh said. US Pollution 1 7 barges they were towing had struck sailors arrested and left two suspected the Riverside Park Marina. Coast pirates locked up on board the vessel, Guard investigators were dispatched Naseh said, adding that it was Weather & Navigation 1 7 to the scene of the accident. The unclear what action would be taken marina sustained significant damage against them. After the rescue Earthquakes 2 0 but no injuries were reported. The mission, the vessel had an engine marina holds many houseboats and is failure and drifted for 15 days before Volcanic Activity 2 0 home to approximately 60 people. being towed at Naseh’s request by the Many of the boats were affected by the Seychelles Coast Guard into Port accident with one reported to be Victoria on Saturday (Feb 11). “The Political & Civil Unrest 2 0 taking on water. The two tank barges, attackers kept boarding and leaving which were empty at the time of the the vessel at will going and coming Labour Disputes 2 5 accident, were being towed to the back by smaller boats but when the refinery in the port for a scheduled US Navy personnel were about to board, the gunmen threw away their Awards & Settlements 30 loading.
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