DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 337 Number 337 *** COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS *** Friday 19-12-2008 News reports received from readers and Internet News articles taken from various news sites. The luxury yacht DENIKI seen arriving in Willemstad (Curacao), the yacht from which the hull was built under number 451 at the Damen shipyard in Gdynia (Poland) and outfitted at the Amels shipyard in Flushing is having a length of 52 mtr and is registered at the Cayman Islands. In the background the ADVENTURE of the SEAS can be seen moored at the Mega Pier Photo : Kees Bustraan © Distribution : daily 5625+ copies worldwide Page 1 12/18/2008 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 337 EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS HIGH DEEP HEAVY EURO DEMOLITION BV Lijndenweg 5, NL 1948 ND BEVERWIJK www.eurodemolition.com MSC Daniela klaar voor maidentrip De 14.000 teu grote MSC Daniela heeft de eerste proefvaarten achter de rug en is klaar om volgende week op maidentrip te vertrekken in de Jade Service tussen het Verre Oosten en het Middellandse Zeegebied. Een luchtfotograaf maakte de eerste beelden van deze containerreus in actie. De Daniela is na de Emma Maersk en haar zussen nu het grootste containerschip ter wereld. Het is het eerste exemplaar van een nieuwe generatie ultra large container ships (ulcs) waarbij de brug en de scheepsmotor gescheiden worden. Bron : Nieuwsblad Transport Aad & Merleen Noorland from Cape Town wishes all readers Merry Christmas & a Prosperous 2009 Distribution : daily 5625+ copies worldwide Page 2 12/18/2008 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 337 Australia intercepts boat of suspected refugees Australia's navy intercepted a boat carrying 37 suspected refugees off the country's north coast on Tuesday, the seventh boat to enter national waters in the last two months. The vessel was intercepted about 110 nautical miles northeast of Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory, Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus said in a statement. The nationalities of the people were not yet known, Debus said. Most of the refugees who come to Australia by boat are from Iraq, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka and often depart from Indonesia. The recent surge in arrivals comes after the year-old Labor Party government relaxed tough laws against refugees in August, and has reignited a political debate about how Australia should deal with refugees. The opposition Liberal Party claims that move has made Australia more attractive to people smugglers. The government says the newest arrivals are fleeing conflicts in their home countries rather than taking advantage of Australian policy changes. The new regulations allow asylum seekers access to lawyers, limit the detention period to 12 months and give qualified refugees permanent visas instead of the three-year refugee visas under the previous government. The 127 suspected asylum seekers who arrived in Australian waters over the last two months aboard six boats have been taken to an immigration detention camp on Christmas Island, a remote Australian territory in the Indian Ocean where their refugee applications will be decided. The latest group was to be taken there as well, Debus said. Last year, 148 asylum seekers arrived aboard five boats. Source : iht.com IF YOU HAVE PICTURES OR OTHER SHIPPING RELATED INFORMATION FOR THE NEWS CLIPPINGS ?? PLEASE SEND THIS TO : [email protected] No One Wants Captured Pirates On December 13th, the Indian warship, INS Mysore, interrupted a pirate attack on a merchant ship, tracked the speedboats back to their mother ship, and captured it and 23 pirates (12 Somalis and 11 Yemenis) along with weapons, communications and GPS gear. The incident occurred 250 kilometers east of the Yemeni port of Aden. The Mysore was 25 kilometers away from the merchant ship when they got the distress call. The Mysore promptly dispatched its helicopter, which chased the two pirate speed boats away and found the mother ship. The Mysore rushed to the scene, and sent commandos to capture the mother ship, Since all this happened in international waters, there is a problem with finding a country that will accept, and prosecute, the pirates. The Indian Foreign Ministry is working on that, and may be doing so for a while. Since World War II, national and international laws for dealing with pirates (which used to mean trying and executing the pirates on the spot) have been discarded. But nothing took the place of those procedures, because it was believed that piracy was no longer a problem. Some nations working the anti-piracy patrol, have signed deals with Kenya, which sends pirates captured off the Somali coast, to Kenyan courts for prosecution. These deals provide cash to help defer the costs of prosecution and incarceration, which would otherwise be a burden for a poor nation like Kenya. Source : strategypage Distribution : daily 5625+ copies worldwide Page 3 12/18/2008 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 337 Pirates to release ship soon? SOMALI pirates who hijacked a Saudi oil super-tanker and demanded a US$25 million (S$36.9 million) ransom will release it within 72 hours, a Saudi newspaper reported on Tuesday. The daily Okaz newpspaper quoted Abu Bakr Dary, a source allegedly close to the pirates, as saying the tanker and its 25 crew members will be released in 72 hours, after the ship's owners agreed to pay the ransom. Somali pirates captured the world's attention when they hijacked the Saudi-owned super-tanker Sirius Star, fully laden with two million barrels of crude last month. 'Negotiators on behalf of the owners of Sirius Star have agreed to pay the ransom,' said Mr Dary. Okaz said that Mr Dary had been involved in the negotiations between the owners of the tanker, Somali mediators and representatives of the pirates, who had been demanding US$25 million for its release. He did not specify the value of the ransom that was finally agreed on. Source : straitstimes Pirates seize Indonesian boat off Yemen Pirates on Tuesday seized an Indonesian tug-boat off the coast of Yemen, a Kenyan maritime official said, adding that it was not clear if it was taken by Somali pirates. The boat, which is owned by French oil giant Total SA, had Indonesian crew members and others whose nationalities were still unknown, said Andrew Mwangura, who runs the Kenyan chapter of the Seafarers Assistance Programme. Distribution : daily 5625+ copies worldwide Page 4 12/18/2008 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 337 "We still do not know how many crew members there were in total," Mwangura told AFP. He added that the boat was on its way to Malaysia when it was captured and that the identity of the pirates was not yet known. Last week, Somali pirates hijacked two Yemeni fishing vessels in the Gulf of Aden but seven fishermen managed to escape on a smaller boat. Pirates have ramped up attacks in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean in recent months, defying foreign navies patrolling the dangerous waters. Somali pirates have enjoyed a bumper 2008, attacking more than 100 ships and raking in an estimated 120 million dollars (90 million euros) in ransom money. They captured the world's attention when they hijacked a Ukrainian cargo ship carrying combat tanks in September and a Saudi-owned super-tanker fully laden with two million barrels of crude two months later Source : Antara Kranenprimeur voor PSA HNN in Antwerpen Het schip Zhen Hua 13 van de Chinese kranenbouwer ZPMC is in het Antwerpse Deurganckdok aangekomen met drie grote portaalkranen voor PSA HNN aan boord. De twee grootste kranen hebben een reikwijdte van 22 containers breed en zijn uitgerust met een dubbel hijsmechanisme. Volgens PSA HNN is dat laatste een primeur voor Europa. The ZHEN HUA 13 seen enroute Antwerp with 3 new container cranes for PSA Hessen Noord Natie Photo : Sjaak Klaassen © Bij de nieuwe kranen is het mogelijk om twee spreaders aan elkaar te koppelen en dus twee 40' containers gelijktijdig te behandelen. Met deze techniek wil de containerbehandelaar inspelen op de toename van het aantal 40' containers. De lange giek van de nieuwe heftuigen laat PSA HNN toe om 's werelds grootste containerschepen te behandelen, zoals de Emma Maersk die 22 rijen containers in de breedte bovendeks vervoert. De Zhen Hua 13 heeft ook nog een kleinere kraan (18 rijen containers) mee die volgende week op de Europaterminal gelost wordt. Met de installatie van die extra kraan wordt de vernieuwingsoperatie van deze containerkade voltooid. PSA HNN heeft op deze terminal nog heel wat capaciteit om nieuwe diensten aan te trekken dat twee grote klanten hun diensten onlangs hebben stopgezet. Het gaat om de China Europe Express (CEX) van APL en de Far East Service (FES) van het duo PIL/Wan Hai. De Europaterminal wordt nog gebruikt door ACL (dubbele aanloop), de NUE- pendulumdienst van Evergreen en de AEC2 loop van UASC. Bron : Nieuwsblad Transport Widows hit out at port's failure to act after tug tragedy Distribution : daily 5625+ copies worldwide Page 5 12/18/2008 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 337 WIDOWS of three men who died after a tug capsized in freezing fog accused port managers, a year on, of failing to improve safety. The Flying Phantom was towing the Red Jasmine, a 39,738-tonne bulk carrier, along the River Clyde when the accident happened on 19 December, 2007. Stephen Humphreys, 33, the skipper of the tug, from Greenock, Robert Cameron, 65, from Houston, Renfrewshire, and Eric Blackley, 57, from Gourock, Inverclyde, all died. A fourth man, Brian Atchison, 37, from Coldingham, Berwickshire, was rescued. Yesterday, the widows, Linda Cameron, Helen Humphreys and Eileen Blackley, hit out at Clydeport, the port manager.