DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2020 – 288 Number 288 *** COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS *** Wednesday 14-10-2020 News reports received from readers and Internet News articles copied from various news sites. The PORTO awaiting her fate in the port of Niteroi (Brazil) Photo : Capt Jan Plug Master Seven Rio © Distribution : daily to 43.100+ active addresses 14-10-2020 Page 1 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2020 – 288 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 EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS Keppel Smit Towage Pte Ltd 42 ton BP KST 31 navigating the Singapore Strait Photo : Piet Sinke www.maasmondmaritime.com (c) CLICK at the photo & hyperlink in text to view and/or download the photo(s) ! Keppel Smit Towage Pte Ltd was established in 1991 under a joint venture between Keppel Shipyard Investments Pte Ltd [which is a part of Keppel Offshore & Marine under the umbrella of Keppel Corp] and Smit Singapore Pte Ltd [Which is Distribution : daily to 43.100+ active addresses 14-10-2020 Page 2 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2020 – 288 a part of Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. ("Boskalis")]. Keppel Smit Towage Pte Ltd is one of the largest and leading Harbour tug service providers in Singapore as well as Asia Pacific region. CMA CGM Flagship the 23.000 TEU LNG powered CMA CGM JAQUES SAADE commenced her maiden voyage from China and is above seen arriving in Singapore last Sunday for boxhandling at the Pasir Panjang Container terminal before heading to Europe Faster boats for Singapore Police Coast Guard Seen above & below is the 2015 introduced PK-class high-speed interceptor in action. Propelled by twin high-powered engines, they can hit 55 knots patrolling the Singapore coastal waters By : Aw Cheng Wei Photo’s : Piet Sinke www.maasmondmaritime.com (c) CLICK at the photo & hyperlink in text to view and/or download the photo(s) ! Distribution : daily to 43.100+ active addresses 14-10-2020 Page 3 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2020 – 288 Every day in the the Singapore Police Coast Guard stopped an average of 20 suspicious vessels, amounting to more than 7,000 in 2014. They also nabbed 46 illegal immigrants trying to enter Singapore by sea last year, a slight drop from the 49 illegals in 2013. Policing Singapore's coastline is also challenging, considering that the Republic is one of the world's busiest seaports.Also, Singapore's shoreline is less than 500m from the international boundary at some places. "This gives us little reaction time and space to respond to any sea-borne threats before it reaches our shoreline - which could be less than a minute for a boat travelling at high speed," said Mr Teo.The new patrol interdiction boats (PIBs) and second generation PK-class high-speed interceptors, which will significantly improve the coastal police's interception capabilities.They are also sturdier, with shock-mitigating seats. The interceptors, in particular, will have improved ability to withstand hard impact during operations. Its reduced engine noise emissions and lowered profile will also help the boat in stealth missions. Meanwhile, the PIB will have beaching capabilities that allow "officers to dismount on land quickly to continue pursuit if their target gets to shore".They are also equipped with a Stabilised Naval Gun System, which can track targets automatically and is more accurate in 2016 .11 PIBs and six interceptors are added to the sea police's current fleet. Source : Straits Times Message to readers: All banners are inter-active and click through to advertiser web sites On Sunday the Isle Of Man Steam Packet’s Incat-built fast ferry MANANNAN performed a number of approaches to Liverpool for pilot exemption purposes. Photo : Simon Smith © Boskalis secures multiple dredging contracts in Germany Boskalis recently secured three contracts for coastal protection and port maintenance activities in Germany. These dredging contracts carry a combined value of EUR 45 million for Boskalis and will all commence in the coming months. The first contract was awarded by the German Waterways and Shipping Office WSA Weser-Jade-Nordsee to upgrade the existing coastal defense on the island of Wangerooge to provide flood protection to the island’s residents. This project will be executed with a local German partner and involves the reinforcement of the groins and revetment for which 200,000 Distribution : daily to 43.100+ active addresses 14-10-2020 Page 4 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2020 – 288 tons of rock will be used. In addition to a backhoe dredger a number of split barges will be deployed. Construction works will commence in November 2020 and are expected to be completed late 2021. The medium size TSHD FREEWAY operating off Vlaardingen Photo : Piet Sinke www.maasmondmaritime.com (c) CLICK at the photo & hyperlink in text to view and/or download the photo(s) ! Boskalis furthermore received a contract award from WSA Weser-Jade-Nordsee for maintaining a 90-kilometer-long section of the shipping fairway of the Weser river between Nordenham and Bremerhaven. Under a two-year maintenance contract Boskalis will dredge a total quantity of around 14 million cubic meters of sand and silt, which will be deposited at designated locations along the river. Boskalis will deploy a medium-sized trailing suction hopper dredger to carry out the dredging work that will start early 2021 and last until the end of 2022. The third contract that Boskalis secured was awarded by Niedersachsen Ports for the maintenance of the port of Emden, one of the largest German North Sea ports. Starting 1 November 2020, Boskalis will maintain the port at the required depth by dredging an annual volume of around 2.7 million cubic meters of sand and silt with a trailing suction hopper dredger for two consecutive years. Boskalis’ strategy is aimed at benefitting from key macro-economic factors which drive worldwide demand in our markets: expansion of the global economy, increase in energy consumption, global population growth and the challenges that go hand in hand with climate change. The project on the island of Wangerooge is aimed at combatting the consequences of extreme weather related to climate change. The activities in the Weser river and the port of Emden are largely driven by the need to maintain the accessibility of ports to accommodate global seaborne trade. With its groundbreaking activities and unique expertise, Boskalis is exceptionally positioned to play a significant societal role in creating and protecting welfare and advancing the energy transition. Distribution : daily to 43.100+ active addresses 14-10-2020 Page 5 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2020 – 288 The 2000 built AMADEUS AMETHIST general cargo vessel loading stones in Falmouth bay for Shoreham U.K. Photo : Robin Bennetts © Distribution : daily to 43.100+ active addresses 14-10-2020 Page 6 DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2020 – 288 CMA CGM online system back up and running By : Jason Jiang The 2015 built 9200 TEU CMA CGM ARKANSAS transiting the Singapore Strait Photo : Piet Sinke www.maasmondmaritime.com (c) CLICK at the photo & hyperlink in text to view and/or download the photo(s) ! French containerline CMA CGM has confirmed that the company’s e-commerce sites have resumed operations with all their main functionalities up and running. The recovery took two weeks, after initially being hit by the cyber attack on September 28.A number of CMA CGM’s websites went down, the culprit later revealed as the ransomware Ragnar Locker. The French carrier later announced that in addition it might have suffered a data breach.CMA CGM became the latest name in container shipping to be hit by a cyber attack, with leading liners Maersk, MSC and Cosco all being hit in recent years. “All communications to and from the CMA CGM Group are secure, including emails, transmitted files and electronic data interchanges. All our agencies as well as our back-office are now fully operational. The CMA CGM Group would like to thank its customers and partners for their understanding, their trust and their support,” CMA CGM said in a release. Source : Splash 247 Panama City Port Authority dredging project continues The Panama City Port Authority met Thursday and discussed the dredging that has been going on at the port for the past several weeks.According to the Port Authority Chairman, Harvey Hollingsworth, the process has been going on now for the last 60-90 days — although the entire process itself has been years in the making. Now the project is almost complete. Hollingsworth says this project will be beneficial for the port as a whole. “The opportunity we had with the East Terminal, is that the West Terminal is nearing capacity. So if we dont have a place to expand we’re kind of doomed. So by getting this terminal dredged, we’ve expanded this opportunity for the port for at least another 50 years of service to the community. Jobs and commerce will be flowing through this port. So it’s a lot more opportunity than we had before,” said Hollingsworth. Although the project is almost complete, it could be some time before the dredging is utilized.