DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2005 – 095 Number 095*** COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS ***Friday 15-04-05 THIS EDITION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY : VLIERODAM WIRE ROPES Ltd. wire ropes, chains, hooks, shackles, webbing slings, lifting beams, crane blocks, turnbuckles etc. Binnenbaan 36 3161VB RHOON The Netherlands Telephone: (+31)105018000 (+31) 105015440 (a.o.h.) Fax : (+31)105013843 Internet & E-mail www.vlierodam.nl [email protected] Northrop Grumman Corporation of Newport News, Va., reached a construction milestone by launching the second Virginia-class attack submarine USS Texas (SSN 775). This is the company's first submarine launching in nearly a decade. Northrop Grumman Newport News is teamed with General Dynamics Electric Boat to build the first ten submarines of the Virginia class. PSi-Daily maritime press clippings Page 1 4/14/2005 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2005 – 095 Save the ELBE Giro rekening No 8145443 Att : Piet Sinke - Stationsweg 21 - 3151 HR Hoek van Holland The score until today : 49.350 Euro Yesterday an amount of 250 euro was received from Arif Kazi from Augsburg in Germany ARIF , Thanks very much EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS VITAL DECK COVER 'LACKING' A fishing boat which sank with the loss of seven men was missing vital flood prevention equipment and twice had to be baled out by hand in the months before the tragedy, a court has heard. The Solway Harvester, a scallop dredger which capsized in the Irish Sea with the loss of the entire crew, was lacking a crucial deck cover for two years. The High Court in Douglas, Isle of Man, was told that only days before the sinking the crew had to be roused to bale out sea water by hand after pumps failed. Richard Gidney, 41, the director of a firm which owned the fishing trawler, is charged with the manslaughter of the crew by breaching a duty of care. Opening the case for the prosecution, Simon Gedge said that Gidney, who years earlier worked as a captain on the Solway Harvester, had failed to exercise "proper care" and this had led to the sinking. He described how the trawler had been dredging the sea bed for scallops when gale force eight winds and high seas forced the boat to head for shelter in Ramsey Bay, in the Isle of Man. The Kirkcudbright- registered ship sank around 11 miles east of the island at around 5.45pm on January 11, 2000. Mr Gedge said: "The prosecution say that failure to exercise proper care led clearly to the sinking and that when you come to judge that failure you will find it of such a degree that you'll find it worthy of criminal censure. "The Solway Harvester was not, the prosecution say, lost as a result of a rogue wave. It was not, and this will be agreed in the trial, as a result of collision with another object or vessel, surface or submerged. "The prosecution says that the loss was due to a failure on the part of those who had responsibility for the management of the vessel properly to consider the hazards produced by her condition when she went to sea." Gidney, of Gatehouse of Fleet, south west Scotland, denies seven counts of manslaughter. The case continues. Kenya seeks money for oil spill Mombasa is the busiest port along the East African coast , Kenya is demanding $1m in compensation from the owners of an Indian tanker which spilled 140 metric tons of crude oil in Mombasa harbour last Thursday. PSi-Daily maritime press clippings Page 2 4/14/2005 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2005 – 095 It hit metal railings as it docked, puncturing the hull - creating a slick with a radius of two kilometres. International oil pollution treaties which Kenya has signed guarantee compensation, the National Environment Management Authority (Nema) said. Nema is concerned that 40 hectares of mangroves have been affected. The money, which the tanker's owners have agreed to pay, will be used to fund the clean- up of near-shore ecosystems, Nema's Deputy Director Ali Mohamed said. He told the BBC News website that the spill would also have an effect on local communities which rely on fishing their livings. "These habitats are the breeding grounds and nurseries for a variety of species. So the spill will impact on local fisherman too." Mangroves devastated by Mombasa's last oil spill of some 5,000 metric tons in 1998, had never completely recovered, he said. As the latest spill was smaller and the clean-up operation had successfully contained the slick by Saturday, he hoped it would not have such a serious impact. The ship, currently detained in Mombasa port, will be released once Kenyan authorities receive a $13,000 bank guarantee on behalf of its owners. Hapag-Lloyd upbeat on volumes, rates German line expects no considerable surplus of tonnage soon Confident of continuing export growth in China and other areas in Asia, Hamburg-based shipping company Hapag-Lloyd is optimistic it would not face overcapacity next year with new ships it has ordered. Colombo Express, the world’s largest containership at 1099 ft. (335 m) long, 141 ft. (43 m) wide, and able to carry 8,750 containers, was recently named. 'As long as there is continuing double-digit growth in Asia, we will be fine,' said chief executive Adolf Adrion yesterday, before a naming ceremony here for Hapag-Lloyd's latest vessel, the Colombo Express, one of the world's largest container ships. To meet projected growth, Hapag-Lloyd is putting into place a fleet expansion programme that will mean an overall capacity increase by 86,800 slots in 61 vessels by 2008. Last year, Hapag-Lloyd moved 2.4 million TEUs globally, grew its global throughput by 15 per cent and reported record profits again. The 335-metre-long vessel, about the size of three football fields, can carry 8,750 standard 20-foot containers and is the first of eight such super post-panamax vessels the shipping giant has ordered, on the back of excellent trading results. The Colombo Express arrived here on its maiden voyage after calls at Chinese and Hong Kong ports with a near-full load, reflecting the region's surging cargo volumes and huge demand for capacity. 'And it's not even peak season yet,' added Mr Adrion. He sees demand this year increasing by at least 10 per cent from Asia to the US and Europe. Hapag's new vessels are likely to be deployed on the Asia-Europe and transpacific routes. 'We are very confident about the outlook for our new ship and also the subsequent newbuildings, said chairman of Hapag's executive board, Michael Behrendt. 'Even on a conservative assessment of future growth rates, a considerable surplus of tonnage can hardly be expected in 2006, despite the ship capacities coming to the market. 'Ship capacities are currently very PSi-Daily maritime press clippings Page 3 4/14/2005 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2005 – 095 well utilised, so we should see stable or slightly increasing rates in 2005,' he said at a press briefing before the ceremony. 'Global container transport remains a growth market. The 71-million-TEU global volume is forecast to grow to almost 91 million by 2008, a 30 per cent rise,' Mr Behrendt said later at the naming ceremony. Shipping lines are performing well, chalking up record profits with surging cargo volumes, especially from China which, in turn, drove freight rates up. But shipping companies also face higher charter rates and bunker costs with rising oil prices and US dollar exchange rate fluctuations. They also face port congestion, especially in Europe and the US West Coast, resulting in delays and surcharges. And analysts have warned that they might face a global overcapacity around 2008, when most of the new orders come on stream. Industry analyst and ship broker Clarkson plc has reported that shipowners invested a record US$77.2 billion last year, 30 per cent more than in 2003, in new vessels as earnings surged to records. Hapag-Lloyd is wholly owned by leading European tourism group TUI, which achieved 18 billion euros (S$38.5 billion) in sales last year and employs 60,000 people worldwide. Why "Colombo Express"? Containerships at Hapag-Lloyd traditionally bear the name of a city, followed by "Express". In 1886, North German Lloyd in Bremen, one of the two original companies of Hapag-Lloyd, opened its East Asia service with the steamship "Oder", calling at Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore as well as Colombo. In the same year, a service was set up linking Germany with Australia via Colombo. Colombo was not only an important transhipment hub for Hapag-Lloyd in the past: it has remained a key port up to the present day. Customers are provided with seven weekly departures providing links with the world’s main economic centres. The port is also a significant transhipment hub for the Indian subcontinent. Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft, known for short as "Hapag" or Hamburg- American Line, was founded in 1847 to carry emigrants to the "New World". Its greatest competitor was North German Lloyd, founded in Bremen in 1857. The companies merged in 1970 to form Hapag-Lloyd AG, which has belonged to TUI AG since 1997. KNRM voorkomt dat schip zinkt De mannen van de KNRM-post in Enkhuizen glunderen. Samen met de collega's van Marken hebben ze in de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag weten te voorkomen dat de Smal Agt III in de golven van het Markermeer verdween.