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Newsclippings@Gmail.Com DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 097 Number 097 *** COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS *** Tuesday 08-04-2008 News reports received from readers and Internet News articles taken from various news sites. The AVATAR seen moored in the port of Kaohsiung (Taiwan) Photo : Piet Sinke © IF YOU HAVE PICTURES OR OTHER SHIPPING RELATED INFORMATION FOR THE NEWS CLIPPINGS ?? PLEASE SEND THIS TO : [email protected] Distribution : daily 4125+ copies worldwide Page 1 4/7/2008 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 097 EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS The Bitumen tanker New Millenium sailing from Lyttelton,New Zealand after discharging bitumen from Singapore. Photo : Alan Calvert © DUE TO TRAVELLING AT PRESENT THE NEWSCLIPPINGS WILL BE PUBLISHED IRREGULARLY Kidnapped Yemeni fishing boat restored Yemeni Fishing Brum Company restored on Saturday the fishing boat (Brum) kidnapped last Wednesday by Somali pirates, while it was fishing 60 miles off Mucalla coasts with 34 sailors on board. Deputy Minister of Fishery Wealth Ghazi Lahmar told Saba that boat, owned by the company, arrived on Saturday to Ashaher Port in Hadramout and it was released by the International Coalition Forces, working in international waters, in coordination with Yemeni Coast Guard Forces. Lahmar indicated that the fishermen were released using the Ships Detection and Surveillance System, imposed by fish ministry on all fishing boats. Source : SABA Net Distribution : daily 4125+ copies worldwide Page 2 4/7/2008 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 097 RAF Rescue Helicopter medivacs man from Yacht Waikiki and ferry passenger off Norfolk Coast Yarmouth Coastguard and the crew of RAF Rescue Helicopter 125 have dealt with two separate medical evacuations off the Norfolk Coast in less than three hours. The first, an urgent evacuation of a 44 year old Dutch man with severe head injuries from the Yacht "Waikiki" - on passage from Ijmuiden in the Netherlands to Lowestoft and some 40 miles from land when the incident occurred - was in the closing stages when a call was received from the passenger ferry "Pride Of Hull" reporting that a 33 year old British national had suffered a fall on board, had arm injuries and was drifting in and out of consciousness. Both men were safely evacuated to a local hospital by the helicopter, and Gorleston Coastguard Rescue Team attended to secure a safe landing site for the helicopter to drop off their patients. Wayne Brunning, Yarmouth Coastguard Watch Manager said, "We would like to thank the crew of Rescue Helicopter 125 and Gorleston Coastguard Rescue Team for ensuring that these people were evacuated for treatment as quickly and safely as possible. Whilst it is unusual to get two incidents of this type in quick succession, both incidents were dealt with as quickly and professionally as one would expect." "We would also like to extend our thanks to our colleagues in the German Navy, the Dutch Navy and also the Dutch Coastguard. Their help was vital in the successful location of the "Waikiki", and ensured that this gentleman was found and evacuated as quickly as humanly possible. This is an example of international co-operation overcoming difficult circumstances and bringing about a successful conclusion." Source : BYM Marine & Maritime News VLIERODAM WIRE ROPES Ltd. wire ropes, chains, hooks, shackles, webbing slings, lifting beams, crane blocks, turnbuckles etc. Nijverheidsweg 21 3161 GJ RHOON The Netherlands Telephone: (+31)105018000 (+31) 105015440 (a.o.h.) Fax : (+31)105013843 Internet & E-mail www.vlierodam.nl [email protected] BIGLIFT SPONSORT REMEX LIBERUS Naast het sponsoren van 3 J-22 zeilteams van de TU-Delft, sponsort BigLift Shipping ook vanaf 2008 voor een periode van 3 jaar de sloep REMEX LIBERUS (Vrije Roeier) van MASROVA (Maritieme Studenten Roei Vereniging Amsterdam). Distribution : daily 4125+ copies worldwide Page 3 4/7/2008 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 097 Met deze sloep wordt regelmatig getraind in de Amsterdamse wateren en worden wedstrijden geroeid in Nederland en Belgie (o.a. 10 mijl van IJmuiden, Harlingen/Terschelling race, Grachtenrace Amsterdam en Muiden- Pampus-Muiden). Bemanning bestaat uit (ex) zeevarenden(o.a. 1ste stuurman Joris van Vuuren in dienst bij Spliethoff/BigLift) en andere vrijwillegers. De sloep is de afgelopen weken in BigLift kleuren geschilderd door leden van Masrova en is van BigLift logo’s voorzien en te water gelaten bij VCK/Suezhaven Amsterdam. Informatie over MASROVA en de wedstrijdkalender kan gevonden worden op www.masrova.nl en informatie over BigLift op www.bigliftshipping.com Tassie captain averts disaster TASMANIAN shipwreck survivor Mark Smith has been involved in another drama at sea -- helping to avert a major shipping disaster off the coast of Western Australia last week. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has praised Mr Smith and the crew of Tasmanian tug Greshanne for their part in the rescue of the container ship MSC Lugano. An engine-room fire last Monday left the massive 40,000-tonne vessel without power and listing helplessly towards Esperance on WA's south coast. Near-hurricane force winds and 9m swells threatened to drive the ship on to rocks, potentially causing a catastrophic environmental disaster. The Greshanne, owned by Tas Ocean Shipping, was towing a work barge from Port Kembla to Dampier when Mr Smith got a call for assistance from the Australian Rescue Coordination Centre on Wednesday. Three smaller tugs had tried without success to budge the vessel, which is roughly the same size as the Pasha Bulker which ran aground in Newcastle last year. "I have never faced anything like this," ship master Mr Smith said of the rescue. "It was a titanic struggle of epic proportions between our 250-tonne tug and 40,000 tonnes of ship." In 2005 the professional seafarer spent 11 days in the South China Sea after a freak wave sank the 20m motor cruiser he was delivering from Hong Kong to Sydney. He wrote a book, Beyond All Limits, which was published last year. Distribution : daily 4125+ copies worldwide Page 4 4/7/2008 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 097 The crew of six worked for 48 hours straight to inch the MSC Lugano away from danger. Mr Smith said the most dangerous part of the operation was rigging the 800m tow rope at night in massive swells and a ferocious storm. "To get in close to pass the ropes across was extremely hazardous," he said. "To see that much steel rushing towards you -- if it hit us it would have been all over." It took 10 hours just to get the ship moving. At one point the 25-strong crew of the MSC Lugano prepared to abandon ship. But Mr Smith said the tug managed to drag the container ship 40km away from the coast where his crew was relieved by a Fremantle salvage company. Source : Sunday Tasmanian Ivory Coast arrests suspect in toxic waste case Ivory Coast has arrested the head of the local company which unloaded and dumped toxic waste in Abidjan nearly two years ago, leading to the deaths of 16 people, a judge familiar with the case said on Friday. Salomon Ugborugbo, director of the Ivorian waste handling firm Tommy which unloaded the toxic slops from the ship Probo Koala in August 2006 and dumped them at sites around Abidjan, was arrested on Thursday and is being held pending trial, the judge said. Police are searching for other people accused of taking part in the scheme, he added. Ugborugbo had been on provisional bail since June 2007. "We are in the phase of arrest of the people involved," said the judge. "The judicial police are on the ground and looking for them to bring them ... to start the trial." He declined to name the other suspects in the case but said they would be charged with poisoning. He said the investigation did not concern Trafigura, the world's third-largest independent oil trading firm, which chartered the Probo Koala to transport the chemical slops from Amsterdam. The ship ended up in Ivory Coast. In August 2006, toxic waste was found at open-air sites around Abidjan, where it poisoned thousands of people. Trafigura agreed to pay a $198 million settlement to the Ivory Coast government but denied responsibility for the dumping or any wrongdoing. Dutch prosecutors said in February they would file criminal charges against the oil company and Amsterdam council. An Ivorian court threw out a case against Trafigura in March. Source : africa.reuters South Africa the number one port of call for stowaways South Africa repatriates more shipping stowaways than any other country, according to a report by the world’s largest maritime insurer. The report, released last month by the UK P&I Club which insures 17% of the world’s ocean-going ships, said 190 stowaway cases arose from South Africa — almost double that of the United States — between 1998 and 2007. Distribution : daily 4125+ copies worldwide Page 5 4/7/2008 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2008 – 097 The cost of stowaway incidents to international shipping increased 100% in this period to over R160-million a year, the report said. The majority of cases were stowaways seeking illegal entry into South Africa or an onward passage to Europe, shipping agents said this week. The report coincides with continuing concern over security at many African ports, although South African authorities insisted the situation had been vastly improved in the past few years. Stowaways attempting to enter South Africa are detained by border police and looked after at the expense of shipping companies, who in turn take out insurance against the high cost of repatriation. It is believed many African stowaways sneak onto South Africa-bound ships intending to get caught and earn travel allowance money to get back home.
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