Daily Shipping Newsletter 2004 – 235 Vlierodam Wire

DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 235

Number 235***DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER***Sunday 14-11-2004

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The RAGNILD KNUTSEN enroute the Caland Canal Photo : Peet de Rouw ©

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EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS KNRM DONATEURS DAG

De Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maastchappij, welke dit jaar 180 jaar bestaat hield zaterdag de donateurs dag, en wel voor speciale donateurs, mensen welke al 50 jaar of meer lid zijn van de KNRM waren uitgenodigd voor een ontmoeting met de bemanningen en een vaartocht ,

Photo´s : Piet Sinke ©

In Hoek van Holland werd de reddingsboot CHRISTIEN ingezet, de CHRISTIEN is tijdelijk in Hoek van Holland daar de vaste boot KAPITEINS HAZEWINKEL voor onderhoud aan de werf ligt, er werden enkele trips gemaakt op de Waterweg waarvan de donateurs

PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 2 11/13/2004 DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 235 zichtbaar genoten, Na het maritieme intermezzo kregen de donateurs en de bemanning nog even de gelegenheid om onder het genot van een hapje en een drankje in de Torpedoloods van gedachten te wisselen over het werk van de KNRM, de leeftijd van de oudste persoon was 90 jaar

Van koopvaardij tot surfplank Vanaf de oprichting bewijst de Redding Maatschappij haar diensten aan de beroepsvaart. Het waren voornamelijk strandingen die de redders in de beginjaren van tijd tot tijd werk bezorgden. De spectaculaire tochten naar de Renown (1887), het s.s. Bramow (1935), de Katowice (1949), de Ping An (1965), de Margariti (1967) en de Stardust (1976) symboliseren het reddingwerk, zoals velen dat nog kennen: lange, zware tochten naar gestrande zeeschepen, waarbij in een vliegende storm hele bemanningen van boord werden gehaald. Het zijn de reddingen die door de Redding Maatschappij met “goud” werden bekroond. Diensten ten behoeve van de watersport zijn over het algemeen minder spectaculair. Maar daarom niet minder nodig. De acties hebben een sterk preventief karakter: door de hoge snelheid van de moderne reddingboten kan de KNRM in veel gevallen daadwerkelijke noodsituaties voor zijn, om zodoende erger leed voor de betrokkenen te voorkomen. Jaarlijks vaart de KNRM ongeveer 800 keer uit voor de pleziervaart, in de meeste gevallen als gevolg van motorstoring of slechter wordende weersomstandigheden. Maar ook de beroepsvaart doet nog gemiddeld 200 keer per jaar een beroep op de KNRM. Tegenwoordig telt het dienstenoverzicht van de KNRM ongeveer 1500 acties per jaar. In 1825 hoefde de Redding Maatschappij slechts zes maal in actie te komen. Een mensenleven is kostbaar. Een leven redden ook!

Een mensenleven is kostbaar. Daarover zijn we het in Nederland wel eens. Bemanningen van de KNRM geven deze opvatting handen en voeten door ver te gaan in pogingen om levens van anderen te redden. Omdat de redders daarbij zelf ook in gevaarlijke situaties terecht kunnen komen, investeert de KNRM al het nodige in veiligheid. Goed uitgeruste reddingboten, veiligheidskleding en goede opleidingen zijn voor redders van levensbelang.

De KNRM kan beschikken over voldoende bemanningsleden voor de zestig reddingboten die in haar gebied gestationeerd liggen. Gelukkig maar. Zonder de inzet van de 800 vrijwillige bemanningsleden zouden de reddingboten van de KNRM gedoemd zijn aan de steiger te blijven liggen. Tegelijkertijd zijn de bemanningen afhankelijk van het allerbeste materieel, dat alleen kan worden aangeschaft en onderhouden als de KNRM ook in de toekomst voldoende schenkingen en donaties mag blijven ontvangen. Feitelijk staat de schenker dus aan de basis van het reddingwerk.

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Bent u benieuwd hoe ú een bijdrage kunt leveren aan het reddingwerk van de KNRM? Surf dan gewoon eens langs de verschillende mogelijkheden. De KNRM is blij met elk initiatief, ongeacht de vorm of de hoogte van de bijdrage. http://www.knrm.nl/

Stichting Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij Beschermvrouwe: Hare Majesteit de Koningin

Postbank rek.nr. 26363 Rabobank rek.nr. 37.35.46.181

De KNRM wordt uitsluitend door vrijwillige bijdragen in stand gehouden.

A Story about the Macardle Bridge Reaction on the accident photo of the Michaela McAllister

Back in 1973 when the Texaco Fuel Chief was but a few months old the mate on the Fuel Chief hit the Macardle Bridge . This mate had been a mate on the Texaco tankers and he wanted to try the tugboat business. Well while the barge 808 was over loading the Capt told the mate to go over to Texaco Chelsea for some fuel.

As the mate was approaching the Macardle Bridge he requested a opening. The bridge asked if the Fuel Chief could get through with just one span opened. The mate said sure.

As the Texaco Fuel Chief's mate was going through the opened span he was leaning out the stbd window to make sure that the upper wheelhouse cleared. One problem, Clearing the upper wheelhouse, the windows in the lower wheelhouse crashed into the closed span. Texaco at the time did not fire the mate for this.

A few years later this same mate figured how to hit the Saint George Bridge in the C&D canal with the bow of the light Texaco barge 808.

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At this time Texaco figured that this mate was not made for tugs. Did he get fired? Hell no. This mate was put back on to the deep sea tankers and ended as a Texaco TTOA Tanker captain.

Now a short story about being absent of the wheelhouse. Texaco used to have a tug captain who used to leave the tug on auto pilot and stay in his room while underway. The engineer used to tell this Texaco captain that he would turn him if he continued to doing that. This captain would behave for a while and then go back to the same old stunts. The engineer got a transfer to a different Texaco tug. A few years later this same captain ran over and sunk a sail boat in Delaware Bay. To this time he said that he was in the wheelhouse when he sunk the sail boat. With past record, I doubt he was there, but who knows. He retired from Texaco at this time.

At the time I was on my time off listening the radio for my part time towing business I used to own. Living in South Jersey I head the conversation between another pleasure boat and this Texaco tug/barge on ch 16.It seems that the Texaco captain did not even know that he sunk a sailboat until the other told him. The other pleasure boat picked the sole person on the sunk sailboat.

For every bad Texaco tug captain or mate there is many more men who were good seaman. When I was still a deckhand on the Texaco Sky Chief I had a captain who taught me the business and NY Harbor/Hudson River. Capt Tony was the man who pushed me to get into the wheelhouse. We had a slow single screw, 1600 hp Enterprise direct rev engine. Very interesting.

While making many mistakes in the years coming up the ladder, hitting bridges with a upper wheelhouse is not one of them. Fred M

Bulker leaking oil off Vancouver TUGS were dispatched before daybreak today to the Greek-flagged bulker Thrasyvoulos V after the vessel was found to be leaking oil into the Pacific Ocean off Vancouver. US and Canadian Coast Guard units responded to the scene and the vessel was ordered to remain at least 161 km from shore until tugs arrived and the spill situation could be evaluated. US Coast Guard helicopters were also being dispatched to determine the extent of the spill. The 20-year-old ship was en route for Vancouver, BC from South Korea in ballast, according to state officials. Washington state ecology officials discovered a small hole above the waterline into a petroleum holding tank. The hole was immediately patched and the oil transferred to another storage tank, stopping the leak that the ship’s master said resulted from refuelling in South Korea. The spill involved light fuel, not heavy bunker oil, according to the US Coast Guard, which added the ship had about 8,000 gallons of fuel on board.

TROUBLE-HIT FERRY HAS FAILED AGAIN The Plymouth-based £100 million superferry Pont-Aven has yet again sailed into trouble, leaving passengers facing delays. It emerged this morning that Brittany Ferries' flagship is stranded in Santander for 24 hours while repairs are carried out to one of her turbochargers. Now the ferry is being taken out of service, weeks earlier than planned, for a month for repairs.

To add to the company's woes, the vessel's bow doors have been jammed shut for the past month.

The turbocharger fault is the latest in a string of problems to hit the 41,700-tonne ferry, which only came into service on the Santander route in March.

The bow doors jammed within a couple of weeks of the ship entering service, leading to delays. Pont- Aven then had to be taken out of action during the peak summer holiday season after 1,200 tonnes of seawater flooded the engine-room while she was alongside at Millbay Docks - blocking the city's only ferry berth and leaving the travel plans of thousands of people in chaos.

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And after she returned to service, the luxury ferry – built by Meyer Werft in Papenburg, and the pride of the Brittany Ferries fleet - broke down again with alternator failure caused by the engine room flood.

Brittany Ferries spokesman Stephen Tuckwell told the Herald today: "The ship is delayed in Santander at the moment due to another problem with one of the turbochargers.

"It's impacting on the schedules," he admitted. "She's going out of service on November 19. The alternators were damaged, new ones have been manufactured and they're going to be installed."

He said the bow door fault meant cars and lorries were being loaded and unloaded via the rear doors only, but insisted this had not led to delays, although he admitted it was 'unfortunate'.

All oil removed from BBC China THE balance of oil has been removed from the grounded dry bulker BBC China, which went ashore off Port Grosvenor on South Africa’s Wild Coast on 16 October. Earlier this week, all heavy oil was safely pumped from the ship into a ‘sea slug’ bladder which is currently under tow for disposal in Durban, where it is due to arrive tomorrow morning. A small leak from the sea slug has been reported and rectified with the assistance of divers rushed to the scene on board the salvage tug Smit Amandla. Strong winds in the area have helped to disperse the small amount of oil in the water. The salvage team has now turned its attention to stripping all removable items from the accommodation section of the ship in anticipation of its being left to deteriorate on the coast. However, a final decision on this will be made once all environmental reports have been collected, probably towards the end of November, according to the Joint Response Committee.

CASUALTY REPORTING Barge Bound For Cuba Stuck On Mayport Jetties The U.S. Coast Guard will oversee salvage operations on a 250-foot container barge that ran aground on the Mayport Jetties early Thursday morning.

U.S. Coast Guard Photo

The Guantanamo Bay Express, which was being pulled by the tugboat Spence while trying to leave the mouth of St. Johns River at 2 a.m. ran aground on the north side of the jetties. The Coast Guard said it is not affecting marine traffic into or out of the river.

Pac-Atlantic Marine Leasing LCC, owner of the Guantanamo Bay Express, hired Titan Marine LLC to remove the barge. Plans were been finalized or approved by the Coast Guard late Thursday, but salvage operations are anticipated to begin Friday.

Coast Guard officials will try to move it off the rocks at high tide. If it's not successful, they will bring another barge

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Coast Guard marine inspectors and environmental response teams have been at the scene to determine any damage and assess the situation. The Coast Guard said the barge contains fuel, oil, batteries and paint. There are no reports of pollution.

Commercial salvage engineers are taking precautions to prevent the release of hazardous materials from the barge.

The Spence and Guantanamo Bay Express make regular trips from Jacksonville to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The incident is under investigation.

SHIPYARD NEWS

Several vessel fitting out at the Damen yard in Hardinxveld - Giessendam, with left the SMIT CRISTOBAL and in the middle the SMIT MANDJI Photo : Ton Grootenboer © Hyundai HI suffers 3Q loss of $30M HYUNDAI Heavy Industries, the world's largest shipbuilder, has plunged into the red with a net third quarter loss of W33Bn ($29.8M), compared with a net profit of W3.8Bn for 3Q03. Operating losses amounted to W90.4Bn while losses before tax hit W47.2Bn. A spokesman for the builder told Fairplay attributed the result to the steep increase in steel plate price. The cost of steel plate has leapt by 50% over the year, and while other Korean yards have also been hit, Hyundai appears to have suffered more as it does not hedge against currency fluctuations as much as the others.The practice can cushion the cost impact on pre-tax and net profits. The silver lining is the increase in turnover to W2.2Trn from W1.9Trn and a net profit of W40.6Bn for the first nine months of 2004, although this is well below the net profit of W114.5Bn for the same period in 2003. Turnover for nine months rose to W6.6Trn from W5.7Trn.

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ROUTE, PORTS & SERVICES

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Top : Overview of the Wilton harbour in Schiedam which is merely used by the Rotterdam United Shipyard (Damen Group) (Right) and Huisman / Itrec (Left) and Mammoet (Right) Photo : Joris Wortelboer ©

Durban box handling picks up SOUTH Africa’s National Ports Authority said that it would invest nearly R5M ($810,000) in the port of Durban by 2009, with most of the amount going to container terminal development. In addition SA Port Operations recently told Fairplay it would spend R1Bn a year over the next five years with the lion’s share being invested in equipment and infrastructure at Durban. The port recently took delivery of three Liebherr super post-Panamax cranes, and productivity levels at the berth where the new cranes have been installed have already increased to 48 container moves per crane per hour (utilising

PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 8 11/13/2004 DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 235 double TEU lifts) compared with less than 18 before the cranes arrived. Daily throughput at the terminal has increased to more than 4,000TEU, up from an earlier average of 2,800. The NPA expects to start widening and deepening the entrance to Durban port in mid 2005 to enable container ships of up to 6,500TEU capacity to use the port. A further five cranes will be ordered for Pier 1 in 2005 for a new container terminal facility, bringing the number of cranes in Durban to 24.

Panama Canal Said to Gross $1B in 2004 The Panama Canal took in a record-high US$1 billion (euro776 million) in revenue in fiscal year 2004, which ended last month, the independent Canal Authority reported Thursday.

Revenues, which come mostly from fares collected from ships that transverse the waterway but also from hydroelectric energy the canal produces and sells, were up 8 percent over fiscal year 2003's 921 million.

In 14,035 trips through the canal from October of 2003 until Sept. 30, authorities logged just 10 crashes or accidents involving vessels, a new low in the canal's 81-year history, said Panama Canal Authority administrator Alberto Aleman.

"We've set a new safety record and moved more boats and cargo through the waterway," Aleman said.

Boats sailing through the canal carried approximately 267 million tons, a nearly 10 percent increase from fiscal year 2003's 242 million tons of cargo shipped through the waterway.

Some 5,329 total trips through the waterway, or 12.5 percent of all canal traffic, were taken by larger, Post Panamax ships, an increase from 4,737 extra-large vessels in fiscal year 2003.

Authorities have been weighing the possibility of expanding the canal for some time and are analyzing a number of different plans, including the possibility of constructing an entirely new, third set of locks and channels specifically to handle Post Panamax ships.

Ships from the United States, China and Japan are the top users of the canal while Chilean vessels sail through it more than boats from any other country in Latin America.

Caledonian MacBrayne name new ferry for Bute

Ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne has confirmed that the name of its new ship to service the Isle of Bute will be named after the island. MV Bute is currently being built by the Remontowa Group in Gdansk, Poland.

Funding of up to £8.75million for the new ship was announced in October, 2003, by Minister of Transport, Nicol Stephen MSP. The ship is due to enter service as the newest addition to the CalMac fleet in the summer of 2005.

The name of the new ship was confirmed Friday, November 12, by CalMac's Chairman Dr Harold Mills, at the Conference organised by the Firth of Clyde Forum on "Transport on the Clyde" being held today in Glasgow. Dr Mills said: "The new MV Bute will actually be the seventh ship on the Clyde to have the name. The first was one of the original paddle steamers built for the Wemyss Bay Railway when it opened in 1865, while the next four were cargo ships sailing all the way from Glasgow and discharging

PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 9 11/13/2004 DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 235 at the various small piers on the Firth until they reached Rothesay and beyond. The best known Bute, however, was the car ferry which entered service for The Caledonian Steam Packet Company on the Wemyss Bay-Rothesay crossing on 6 December, 1954."

NAVY NEWS

Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG 67) approaches the guided missile destroyer USS Shoup (DDG 86) while preparing for a replenishment at sea (RAS) with the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Lincoln and Carrier Air Wing Two (CVW-2) are currently deployed to the Western Pacific Ocean MOVEMENTS THIS SECTION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY : MULTRASHIP Towage & Salvage Scheldekade 48 4531 EH Terneuzen The Netherlands Tel : + 31 – 115 645 000 Fax : + 31 – 115 645 001 Internet [email protected] http://www.multraship.nl

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AIRCRAFT / AIRPORT NEWS

An SH-60F Seahawk, assigned to the "Black Knights" of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Four (HS-4), performs a flare maneuver alongside the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) during an air and sea power demonstration. Approximately 1200 friends and family members are aboard participating in "Tiger Cruise 2004". Stennis and embarked Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) are returning home from a five-month deployment to the Western Pacific Ocean

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