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Seatrade Panama Review 2010 Interview With Panama Cover-2010-11-Final 14/10/2010 14:46 Page 1 ShipServices-2010-11 12/10/2010 12:56 Page 10 SHIPPING SERVICES Hubel Marine ubel Marine B.V. was founded in 1997 for the Class to issue Certificates as the Hby Erik de Koning as a consultancy vessel had to leave the shipyard firm to assist ship owners with the rapidly. We solved it the same day.’ registration of their vessels and prompt Hubel Marine works with a pool of delivery of seafarer documentation. Its lawyers that are selected by the firm for head office is located in Schiedam, each client’s needs according to the Netherlands, where the company offers a services required and ‘we select the best complete package of services. suitable for the ship owner or bank,’ ‘In 1988 my father Jacques de comments de Koning. Koning started to perform Annual With comprehensive services, Hubel Safety Inspections for the Panama flag Marine has a wide range of ship owners state,’ says Erik de Koning. ‘Some flag including big liners, new buildings, bulk, states can be very bureaucratic tankers and the offshore market ‘where requiring complicated legalisation or Hubel Marine is very strongly represented.’ translation procedures. That was the The firm’s flag registration reason why we started our specialised department sees use by customers from vessel registration department.’ Norway, UK, Spain, Italy, Turkey and Hubel Marine has seven surveyors more, but ‘our strength is that we based in Dubai, Lebanon, United Kingdom Erik de Koning provide the best service and we do it Poland, Germany, Belgium and Holland, all The seafarer department annually ourselves,’ he explains. ‘accustomed to flying all over the world to processes approximately 3,500 ‘We give a personal and customised perform their surveys,’ says de Koning. applications for three different service and talk directly with the ‘Most of our clients know us for giving jurisdictions, he says adding that the decision makers,’ says de Koning who service on a 24/7 basis,’ he explains. ‘We firm is like a medical doctor for its spends about four to five months of the receive inquiries as far as Australia to clients, taking their headache away. year on the road visiting flag states and process applications for crew ‘We had once a Norwegian customer clients. ‘We don’t charge by the hour endorsements because we act faster that who had been trying for two weeks to because we are not reinventing the the nearby Consulate.’ obtain an authorisation from the flag wheel. It is our daily job.’ Since then the company has seen ‘And in 2006, it completed a mayor the US, the Caribbean and in South consistent work in dredging and land contract with the ACP to deepen the America. For the company, the Panama reclamation works in Panama, amongst Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal to Canal expansion means a potential others for the cruise port Colon 2000, 14.2mtr,’ said Bezemer. amount of dredging work and container terminals of Manzanillo In July this year C.I.M.S. was awarded furthermore, opportunities for port International Terminal (MIT), Colon a further contract by the ACP for the expansion and infrastructural Container Terminal (CCT) and for charter of a mechanical dredge and two development projects. Panama Ports Company (PPC). dump barges for the period of a year. This Belgium’s Dredging International/DEME ‘Just recently we completed the works equipment will specifically be deployed in Group (DI) was awarded the contract to under contract since May 2007 by Hong the Gaillard Cut and Gatun Lake for the dredge the Pacific entrance for the Canal Kong-based Hutchison Ports Holdings’ Panama Canal Expansion Programme. expansion project in April 2008. DI offered subsidiary Panama Ports Company, for The company Boskalis holds an ISO $177.6m to widen the Canal’s approximate the extension of the container port of 14km navigation channel to a minimum of Balboa, Panama, at the Pacific entrance 225mtr and deepen it to a maximum level of the Panama Canal,’ says CIMS regional of - 15.5mtr Mean Low Water Spring manager, Bernard Bezemer. The works (MLWS). ‘This project, the first in Panama for included the construction of additional Dredging International, is indeed our largest port area by means of land reclamation, project currently under execution in the a retaining rock dike and a link structure Americas,’ says Dredging International de to existing berths 16 and 17, removal of Panama’s Central America area manager, the ‘Diablo Island’ outcrop and an Hugo de Vlieger. additional extension to the berth 17 of The scope of work includes dredging around 320mtr. 9.1m cu mtr from 14.2km of the canal The civil works (the rock dyke), (some of it hard rock) from its entrance at which is the concrete structure the Amador Causeway up to the Miraflores between the existing pier, the landfill and new lock sites, making DI’s scope a vital and the new extension to berth 17, are part of the $5.25bn expansion programme. CIMS regional manager, Bezemer underway and almost finished at time In conjunction with the Panama Canal of press by Coastal’s Panamanian 9001 certificate following its Authority (ACP), DI has taken the various partner Intercoastal Marine Inc. implementation of a quality system and is challenges into account and split the C.I.M.S. has not only executed a large certified with ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 project into eight sections that, each of variety of contracts and works for private for health, safety and environment. The which will be dredged over two phases: first port concessionaries and port operators company also operates its vessels according removal of the relatively soft overburden, in Panama over the last few decades, but to the International Safety Management and then, removal of the rock. The contract has also executed a couple of code (ISM), Bezemer added. is to be executed over four years but DI says maintenance dredging works in the past As a worldwide operator, Boskalis is it might finish the works several months for the Panama Canal Authority (ACP). strongly active in the regions like Mexico, earlier. There are five disposal sites that will 56 PANAMA MARITIME REVIEW 2010/11 ShipServices-2010-11 12/10/2010 12:56 Page 11 SHIPPING SERVICES be used to dispose of the material - three at started dredging at the PSA Panama ensure that larger, wider ships can reach sea and two on land. International Terminal as subcontractor to the new Atlantic locks. DI has deployed nine new and Alvarado & Durling and Vergel & DI is also looking at other proven units equipped with the latest Castellanos, which is building the facilities. opportunities in the region where most technology for the job, including DI’s Works are executed with Cutter Suction of the Central American ports have 28,200kW cutter flagship, self- Dredger Vlaanderen XIX pumping ashore, expansion projects says De Vlieger, who propelled heavy-duty vessel D’Artagnan and are planned to be completed by mid came to Panama in 2007 to open that has 6,000kW cutter power and the 2010. There was some land-based dredging Dredging International’s office. drillship Yuan Dong 007. Additional in addition to the 1m cu mtr increase in Besides Panama, Antwerp-based DI is vessels are 9,000cu mtr trailer Breydel depth to 14.5mtr at MWLS. PSA Panama executing projects in over 40 countries and the backhoe Samson, a clamshell International Terminal plans to begin at present. These include the $300m- and a couple of self-propelled 2,000cu operating in the last quarter of 2010. plus dredging and reclamation for site mtr hopper barges. In June 2010, the ACP awarded DI its preparation for ADNOC in Ruwais, UAE; Drilling and blasting were initiated second Panama Canal contract to dredge the $400m plus contract to construct with the chatered-in Yuan Dong 007, a Gatun Lake. This was because the the London Gateway container terminal pioneering vessel designed and built Belgian company offered the lowest on the River Thames for DP World; the specifically for the Panama Canal price of $39.98m to widen and deepen extension of the Ust Luga port in Russia expansion project. Built at Ningbo the existing navigational channel by and the extension of the coal terminal shipyard for $25m by Chinese blast dredging approximately 4.6m cu mtr in of Newcastle in Australia. It is also company Yuan Dong, the vessel has 10 the northern most reaches of the Lake. undertaking a major site remediation integrated towers and the capacity to This contract is one component within contract prior to the construction of a blast up to 60,000cu mtr of rock per the ACP’s Fresh Water Dredging and container terminal for the account of week. In the first two years of the Excavation Project for the Canal Brasil Terminal Portuario in Santos, contract, DI finished 55% of the total expansion, which includes the dredging Brazil. Moreover, in August 2010 a job and accordingly foresees an early and/or excavation of about 30m cu mtr major contract worth $155m was finish in the 2nd half of 2011. in Gatun Lake and Gaillard Cut. The awarded to DI to deepen and widen the In addition to the ACP expansion, DI Gatun Lake dredging project is vital to access channel and harbour basin of PANAMA MARITIME REVIEW 2010/11 57.
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