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DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2018 – 165 Number 165 *** COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS *** Thursday 14-06-2018 News reports received from readers and Internet News articles copied from various news sites. The JOHANNA SCHEPERS arriving in Santa Cruz Photo : Wouter van der Veen © Tomorrow is too late, Yesterday is over NOW, Is exactly the right moment ! Distribution : daily to 39.700+ active addresses 14-06-2018 Page 1 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2018 – 165 EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS Peggys Point Lighthouse also known as Peggys Cove Lighthouse is an active lighthouse and an iconic Canadian image. Located within Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, it is one of the busiest tourist attractions in the province and is a prime attraction on the Lighthouse Trail scenic drive. The lighthouse marks the eastern entrance of St. Margarets Bay and is officially known as the Peggys Point Lighthouse. The classic red-and-white lighthouse is still operated by the Canadian Coast Guard, and is situated on an extensive granite outcrop at Peggys Point, immediately south of the village and its cove. This lighthouse is one of the most-photographed structures in Atlantic Canada and one of the most recognizable lighthouses in the world. Right : Newsclippings editor Piet with newsclippings contributor, Rene Serrao from Portuguese Cove at Peggys Point Light house Visitors may explore the granite outcrop on Peggys Point around the lighthouse; despite numerous signs warning of unpredictable surf Distribution : daily to 39.700+ active addresses 14-06-2018 Page 2 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2018 – 165 (including one on a bronze plaque on the lighthouse itself), several visitors each year are swept off the rocks by waves, sometimes drowning The first lighthouse at Peggys Cove was built in 1868 and was a wooden house with a beacon on the roof. At sundown the keeper lit a kerosene oil lamp magnified by a catoptric reflector (a silver-plated mirror) creating the red beacon light marking the eastern entrance to St. Margarets Bay. That lighthouse was replaced by the current structure, an octagonal lighthouse which was built in 1914. It is made of reinforced concrete but retains the eight-sided shape of earlier generations of wooden light towers. It stands almost 15 metres (49 ft) high. The old wooden lighthouse became the keeper’s dwelling and remained near to the current lighthouse until it was damaged by Hurricane Edna in 1954 and was removed. The lighthouse was automated in 1958. Since then, the red light was changed to white light, then to a green light in the late 1970s. Finally to conform to world standards the light was changed to red in 2007.The lighthouse used to contain a small Canada Post office in the lower level during the summer months serving as the village post office where visitors could send postcards and letters. Each piece of mail received a special cancellation mark in the shape of the lighthouse. However Canada Post closed the lighthouse post office in November 2009 citing mold growth as a safety hazard. The lighthouse at Peggys Cove was declared surplus by the Canadian Coast Guard in June 2010, along with almost all lighthouses in Canada. Photo’s : Piet Sinke www.maasmondmaritime.com (c) CLICK at the photo & hyperlink in text ! The KRVE 4 & KRVE 5 enroute their next assignement in the port of Rotterdam Photo : Piet Sinke www.maasmondmaritime.com (c) CLICK at the photo! KRVE’s core activity is the mooring and unmooring of sea-going vessels: in all weathers, at various mooring locations, 24/7 throughout the year. We sail to the ship in question in a mooring boat. Once there, we work together with the ship’s crew to collect the ropes. Next, we sail back to shore where fellow boatmen attach the ropes to the mooring construction. This is partially done manually and partially using the winch truck, a vehicle developed especially by us which is equipped with a winch to bring in the ropes. The boatmen have a wide range of tools at their disposal, many of which have been developed in-house.A four-shift system is used according to an agreed-upon schedule. When the workload exceeds the number of available boatmen, the team which is at home on standby is called in. This makes the KRVE highly flexible and ensures that sufficient boatmen are available at all times. ALSO INTERESTED IN THIS FREE MARITIME NEWSCLIPPINGS ? CLICK HERE AND REGISTER FOR FREE ! Distribution : daily to 39.700+ active addresses 14-06-2018 Page 3 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2018 – 165 Hamburg and Rotterdam lead the way in call for data sharing among ports By Gavin van Marle Two of Europe’s largest container gateways, Rotterdam and Hamburg, today revealed that they have been involved in ‘unprecedented levels of collaboration’. Joyce Bliek, director of digital business solutions at Rotterdam, told delegates at the TOC Container Supply Chain event in Rotterdam: “In the last couple of months Hamburg and Rotterdam have shared port call data to try to optimise port calls of the shipping lines in the North Europe area. “We are now at the stage of connecting systems, even though we are two competing ports. We needed to change the mindset.” It is understood the initiative was based on a request from Maersk Line that the two ports sharing vessel movement and other port data could help the carrier improve the running of its vessels between the two ports – many of its major strings feature a call at both. “We were pushed but were happy to oblige, and it has proved to be a really fruitful combination between ports and a major customer,” Ms Bliek added. Both Rotterdam and Hamburg already had vessel optimisation programmes underway. Hamburg recently developed a new passage plan programme to advise vessels the best speed, course and approach to take from the mouth of Elbe to its facilities, and which was developed as a response to the difficulties of serving the largest box ship sizes. Meanwhile, Rotterdam, as detailed in The Loadstar’s new Ports and technology LongRead, recently went live with its Pronto system, which combines a range of data sources on one platform, allowing shipping companies, agents, terminal operators and other service providers to exchange information relating to their port calls. It has been shown to reduce vessel waiting times in the port by as much as 20%. Linking those two systems up and making the data available to vessel operators has been the key plank of the recent collaboration between the two. The DELPHIS BOTHNIA moored in Rotterdam Photo : Rotterdam pilot Maurice Jacobs © Initial trials found that a 18,000teu vessel moving between Rotterdam and Hamburg could save 20-30 tonnes of bunker fuel per voyage, while other benefits include much better organisation of port labour gangs and greater awareness of shipment availability to other port stakeholders. And Gerald Hirt, managing director of Hamburg Vessels Coordination Centre, said it would now look to bring other ports into an emerging network. “This is not a closed shop – we would like to invite other ports to join us.” In a keynote speech at the event, chief operating officer of APM Terminals Keith Svendson called for far greater collaboration in the terminal industry to address the lack of data standardisation. “This industry is not customer-driven; it is a business-to-business procurement model and to change this we need collaboration between customer, partners and equipment suppliers. “In my opinion, the terminal operators really have to step up and help move the discussion forward because we really have to work on standards as an industry, so we don’t increase the complexity of the system just for the sake of it,” he said. Source: The Loadstar Distribution : daily to 39.700+ active addresses 14-06-2018 Page 4 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2018 – 165 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 The MARYLIN M inbound for Maassluis Photo : Nico Ouwehand © MISC shuttle tanker deal with Petrobras worth $645m MISC belatedly provided more details about its 10-year long term charter contract with Petrobras signed in May, revealing that the deal was worth $645m MISC’s tanker unit AET Tanker Holdings was awarded the contract to own and operate four specialist DP2 Suezmax shuttle tankers for Petrobras for operations in international and Brazilian waters, on May 25. The firm charter will commence in 2020. MISc has recently said it sees good potential in floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels and shuttle tankers and is planning $4bn in capex over the next five years. AET already operates two shuttle tankers for Petrobras under an earlier contract. Source : Seatrade Maritime News BEIS publishes new search-able schedule of North Sea oil and gas decommissioning projects under consideration Three of the four Brent platforms are shutdown having reached the end of their economic life. BEIS is considering Shell's plea for an exception to the OSPAR convention of 'full jacket removal'. Distribution : daily to 39.700+ active addresses 14-06-2018 Page 5 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2018 – 165 This is the latest table of draft decommissioning programmes under consideration for approval by BEIS.