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Number 171 *** COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS *** Tuesday 23-06-2009 News reports received from readers and Internet News articles copied from various news sites.

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The Rockdump vessel "Tideway Rollingstone" seen outward bound in the Amoyfjorden ( Norway), with onboard Captain Henk Betlem which is present making his last trip after 15 years service on board !!

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The old girl and the sea An 82-year-old floating crane, the Hikitia, has taken to the sea, travelling under tow from Wellington in New Zealand to Lyttelton, where she will undergo repairs. The Hikitia was built in 1926 by Fleming and Ferguson of Paisley, Scotland. The crane was built by Sir William Arrol and Co., the engineers who built Tower Bridge in London, and the recently renovated Titan crane in Clydebank. The crane was designed to lift 80t at 50ft, but was tested to 125% capacity. On her voyage to New Zealand, she travelled to the Azores, crossed the Atlantic to the Panama Canal, and then across the Pacific to Wellington, a trip of 82 days at 7.5 knots.

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She worked for the Wellington Port Company for more than 80 years, before being put up for sale in 1989. She was bought by four local enthusiasts in 1991, who carried out lift tests to 88t, allowing her to work commercially to a

maximum capacity of 80t. Under private ownership, she carried out more than 300 lifts, including lifting yachts taking part in the Global Challenge round the world race. Photo : Alan Calvert © Ownership of the Hikitia was transferred to the Maritime Heritage Trust of Wellington in 2006. The trust is working to renovate the ship to ensure she can continue working commercially. The voyage from Wellington on New Zealand's North Island to Lyttelton on the South Island allows her to be put into a drydock for repairs to her hull. Dubbed the 'Old Girl' by her crew, the Hikitia performed well under tow, travelling at up to 7.2 knots through 3m swell. The voyage started ominously, when a water-logged

electrical connection 'spectacularly shortcircuited'. With the connection repaired, the voyage itself went well, Maritime Heritage Trust spokesman Malcom McGregor reports.

Mid-East to Japan tanker rates down 2 per cent

The cost of delivering Middle East crude to Asia, the world's busiest route for supertankers, dropped for a third session in London as oil companies delay hiring the ships they need to collect next month's cargoes. Shipping costs on the Saudi Arabia to Japan route fell 2 per cent to 49.92 Worldscale points, according to the London- based Baltic Exchange. Rental income for ships on the voyage fell 3.4 per cent to US$32,484 a day. They advanced 41 per cent last week, the most since January. 'Charterers are holding back in the hope of cooling down the present trend,' Oslo-based Fearnley Consultants A/S said in a report yesterday. With about 90 per cent of next month's rentals still to be concluded, it 'remains to be seen whether they will succeed', it said. Demand for vessels should advance in the next several days after Saudi Arabia provided a loading schedule for some of the two million-barrel consignments to collect cargoes next month, Nikos Varvaropoulos, an official at Optima Shipbrokers Ltd in Athens, said yesterday. The surplus of vessels competing for cargoes shrank to 10 per cent from 15 per cent a week ago and 45 per cent two weeks ago, according to a Bloomberg News survey of ship brokers, owners, a derivatives broker and a trader. Worldscale points are a percentage of a nominal rate, or flat rate, for more than 320,000 specific routes. Flat rates for every voyage, quoted in US dollars a ton, are revised annually by the Worldscale Association in London to reflect changing fuel costs, port tariffs and exchange rates. Each flat rate assessment gives owners and oil companies a starting point for negotiating hire rates without having to calculate the value of each deal from scratch. Source : Bloomberg



Equipment for race village of Volvo Ocean Race arrives in St. Petersburg

Sea Port of Saint Petersburg has accepted the equipment for the race village of Volvo Ocean Race, PortNews IAA learnt from the organization committee of the race’s St. Petersburg leg. According to the source, the port accepted four 40-feet and three 20-feet containers. The cargo mainly consists of exhibition equipment and office appliances, as well as entertainment facilities of Volvo Ocean Race Eхperience. St. Petersburg citizens and guests may participate in celebrations dedicated to the finish of Volvo Ocean Race on June 27- 29, 2009. Sport festival will be arranged on the beach of the Peter-and-Paul Fortress. It will be one of the greatest events in the cultural life of our country. Volvo Ocean Race is one of the leading projects of sport community in terms of both the scale and the technologies used to cover it by mass media. The first start of the Volvo Ocean Race (formerly the Whitbread Round the World Race) was in 1973 in Great Britain. From 1997, the race bears its current name - Volvo Ocean Race and is held every four years (from 2005 – every three years). It is one of five largest sport events in the world. The race of 2008-09 is the tenth in its history. The current race started in Alicante, Spain in October.

The ONEGO TRAVELLER seen outward bound at the river Tyne Photo : Kevin Blair (c)

Ferry's bow a reminder of ‘Princess’ tragedy A year after a strong typhoon battered the island and sank a massive passenger ship in the sea, communities here have almost resumed their normal lives. But with the bow of the upturned M/V Princess of the Stars still bobbing out of the water, people here are haunted by the tragedy that almost poisoned their seas and turned the waters that gave them nourishment into a watery grave for hundreds of passengers of the Suplicio liner.



“We want it out. It is bothering us,” said villager Consejo Rosas, referring to the shipwreck that remains about 500-700 meters off the coastline. On June 21, 2008, typhoon Frank (international codename: Fengshen) struck Romblon province, directly hitting Sibuyan island. The 23,824-ton MV Princess of the Stars, carrying 829 passengers and crewmen, was bound for Cebu but capsized in Romblon due to the typhoon. “If its bow was not showing, this would not have been an international issue,” said Lieutenant Jonathan Galam, Philippine Coast Guard commander in Romblon, saying the capsized vessel has been reminding people of that fateful night. Rosas remembered hearing warning signals coming from the ship hours before it sank, “but we could not go out because of the typhoon.” “We did not see (how it happened). (But) we could hear noises (off the sea) and cargoes clanging,” said Perly Bibas, another resident. He said winds and waves battered the island so hard that they decided to stay home the whole evening. When the storm passed, he rushed to the shores and saw the capsized vessel. He said fishermen's huts were washed off the coast. Other residents claimed that flood reached the town's poblacion. The typhoon also damaged the Tablas Island, smashing seawalls at its eastern side, Nonong Navarette, a resident, added. “In our records, (typhoon) Frank was so far the strongest that hit the province,” Galam said, adding that it sank not only the MV Princess of the Stars but also six other commercial tankers and fishing boats in other areas. But the fishing community lost more when a fishing ban was imposed for fear of oil and toxic waste spill from the sunken vessel. Galam recalled the one-kilometer-radius fishing ban was imposed immediately after the sinking after authorities discovered that the Princess of the Stars was carrying tons of the highly-toxic pesticide endosulfan. The fishing ban was expanded to five kilometers in August and was reduced back to one kilometer in December after the chemicals were fully extracted. “San Fernando was so poor for six months,” fisher Manuelito Rojero, 60, recalled. He said they were allowed to fish only after the ban was lifted and the Department of Health declared the fish harvested from the sea fit for consumption. “We had no choice but to eat (canned) sardines and our livestock,” he said. “(Since) we were not allowed to fish, we did not have income during those months,” Rosas said. When the ban was lifted, she said people were also scared to eat fish for some time, causing their income to dwindle. “Even I did not eat fish for two months. But when we searched it over the Internet and found no harmful effects, we ate fish again,” said Dodoy Conde, a resident from another island, Romblon, Romblon. Rosas and the other residents said they depended on aid and relief goods while the ban was in force. Some of the fishermen resorted to working in construction projects. Rosas, who had two kids to send to school, coped by selling soda drinks and junk food to Coast Guard personnel, rescuers, media men, and visitors who flocked to their island. People of the sleepy town of San Fernando claimed seeing ghosts, believed to be the spirits of the victims of MV Princess of the Stars. Bibas recalled one evening when he set off to catch fish, about eight months since the tragedy. “I saw groups of bright light in the waters,” he even demonstrated them to be moving like pools of fish. He said the fishermen cheered, thinking they were “dilis,” and that they rushed to throw their “sayap,” a fishing net. The next morning, he said, they were surprised to see nothing in their net but the seawater. “Santermo pala [It was a ghost],” he said. “Yes, there are santermos until now,” Ely Menese, 65, said. She said her husband had seen human figures on boats, thought to be fellow fishers, but disappeared upon second look. “He returned to the shore (after seeing the supposed ghost). He was afraid the santermo might cause his boat to capsize.” Romblon, composed of three major islands, was directly hit by the typhoon Frank, said engineer Vener Balsamo, of the Royal Jessan Resources Inc., one of the salvaging companies commissioned by Sulpicio Lines to retrieve the sunken ship. Sibuyan island was the hardest hit, he said. At the shorelines, the community here has preserved a papaya tree. Quoting stories from townsfolk, the tree was believed to have saved a couple during the typhoon, Balsamo said. “They held on to it,” as the waves battered Sibuyan. The town that lost about P150 million in terms of infrastructure and fishery damage has slowly gotten back on its feet. “Somehow, it was a blessing in disguise. Who would have noticed us if not for this (shipwreck),” San Fernando Mayor Nanet Tansingco said, but she lamented the deaths of the victims. She said people from other places came to see the shipwreck and extend their help to the communities.



Aid from government agencies, non-government organizations, and private firms also poured in. School buildings and bridges damaged by the typhoon were rebuilt through donations. Medical and dental missions, said to be rare in the remote areas of the island, were also held after the tragedy. A one-kilometer-radius fishing ban was still in effect around the shipwreck as of Sunday, but Galam said the ban was being maintained only for security reasons, to ensure that the operations of the Coast Guard and the salvors would not be hampered. He explained that fisherfolk could now fish around the area if they got the permission of the Coast Guard.The ferry's salvors, Royal Jessan Resources Inc. and CV Gaspar Lighterage, arrived in Sibuyan island on June 11 and began their initial “surveying” of the shipwreck's surface. The actual operations might begin in a week, said Balsamo, project engineer. Galam said the Coast Guard was expecting the refloating to be completed in 230 days, given the favorable weather conditions. “It is so far the most difficult (to salvage). For one, it is the largest passenger ship in the country,” he said. The Coast Guard is expecting to retrieve remains of less than a hundred victims trapped inside the vessel. Galam ascertained that the operations will not pose any harm to the islanders. Weeks before the first anniversary of the tragedy, the weather on the island was marked by gray and overcast skies. But on Sunday, sun shone on a fine afternoon as people offered prayers for their community and the victims of the ship sinking. “It seems the weather is consenting to the anniversary celebration,” said Balsamo. On Sunday, the community held a Mass, a candle lighting and flower offering for the victims whose remains have not been retrieved, Tansingco said. “It is also a (form of) thanksgiving because we have already recovered and we are still here,” she added.When the shipwreck is refloated, the Coast Guard will install a memorial marker along the coastline of Sibuyan, Tansingco said. She hopes this would be seen, not only as a reminder of a tragedy, but a symbol of the people’s resilience and a historical emblem that could even help boost the town’s tourism.

Winter has arrived at Dunedin, New Zealand. Above seen the New Zealand registered product tanker Kakariki inbound to Dunedin where she will discharge petroluem products . The vessel has a gross tonnage of 27795 and built

in 1999. - Photo : Ross Walker (c)

Last single-hulled tanker leaves Alaska Has the last single-hulled tanker exited the Alaska oil trade? The S/R Long Beach, which carried North Slope crude oil for Exxon Mobil, is “not currently physically located along the West Coast,” Ray Botto , spokesman for Houston-based SeaRiver Maritime Inc., told Petroleum News on June 16. Botto wouldn’t say whether the ship will ever return to Alaska for another load of oil. He confirmed media reports that the tanker in late April delivered a cargo of Alaska oil to the LOOP, the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port in the Gulf of Mexico. Normally, tankers in the Alaska trade carry oil from the port of Valdez to refineries in Washington state and California. Speculation was the 987-foot Long Beach could be scrapped. Botto wouldn’t confirm the ship’s fate. The Long Beach was built in 1987 and, under the federal Oil Pollution Act of 1990 it must cease hauling oil in U.S. waters by Jan. 1, 2010, because it lacks a double hull to reduce the risk of oil spills. A tanker listing available on the



Washington State Department of Ecology’s Web site shows the Long Beach is the last remaining single-hulled tanker in the Alaska trade. Fifteen other ships remain in the trade, including three more SeaRiver tankers that carry oil for Exxon. One of those, the Baytown, isn’t a double-hulled ship but has a double bottom. OPA 90, which Congress passed after the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound in 1989, ushered in a transformation of the Alaska tanker fleet from predominantly single-hulled ships to double hulls. Two of the major North Slope oil producers, BP and ConocoPhillips, built brand-new fleets of double-hulled tankers. Exxon, however, hasn’t built new ships, choosing instead to use or acquire older double hulls that carry no mandatory retirement date under OPA 90. The overall number of tankers has been declining in recent years as North Slope oil production declines. Production peaked at more than 2.1 million barrels per day in early 1988, but was averaging 635,000 barrels per day through mid-June of this year. The Long Beach is a sister ship of the single-hulled Exxon Valdez, which Congress banished from Alaska waters following the spill. SeaRiver’s spokesman, Botto, emphasized the Long Beach “is still fully certified to operate” as an oil tanker. He cited security concerns, including the threat of piracy, in declining to say where the ship is located now, or where it’s headed. He said options for the Long Beach could include converting it to a double-hulled tanker or retrofitting it for some other use. But saying more about plans for the ship, Botto said, would be “speculative or proprietary.” The Washington Ecology Department list says no double-hull conversion is planned for the Long Beach. According to the shipping Web site vesseltracker.com, the Exxon Valdez is now called the Dong Fang Ocean. The ship belongs to Hong Kong Bloom Shipping and operates as an ore carrier under the flag of Panama. Source: Petroleum News

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Japan expands anti-piracy mission Japan's parliament has passed a law allowing its navy wider powers to fight piracy off the coast of Somalia.The new law allows Japanese warships to protect all commercial vessels in the area and to fire at pirate vessels, but not at pirates themselves. Japan has sent two destroyers and two surveillance planes to join the navies of more than 20 countries fighting piracy in the Gulf of Aden. Japan's post-WWII pacifist constitution tightly restricts its military. The bill was approved by the lower house of parliament in April. On Friday, the opposition-controlled upper house rejected it over concerns about expanding the role of Japan's military. Just hours later, the lower house used its capacity to overrule the upper house and voted the bill into law with more than a two-thirds majority. Previously, the Japanese force was only allowed to escort Japanese vessels, or those with Japanese cargoes or crews, and use weapons only for self-defence. They will now be able to escort any ship and have more leeway to fire, such as at suspected pirate vessels which fail to heed warnings not to approach commercial vessels. Pirates in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean near Somalia have attacked shipping in what is one of the world's busiest sea lanes, capturing vessels and crews to hold for ransom. Source: BBC



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The BRO DESIGNER seen in Warnemunde Photo : Ronald de Bloeme (c)

Baltic Dry Index posts first drop in 7 sessions The Baltic Dry Index, a measure of shipping costs for commodities, posted its first decline in seven sessions on weaker demand for so-called panamax vessels.



The ships, able to haul about 100,000 metric tons of goods, compete with capesize ships that are about twice the size to carry goods such as iron ore. Cargoes can be split onto the smaller transporters to take advantage of the spread in rates. That must be set against worsening port delays and demurrage, a penalty paid to shipowners waiting to load. The index tracking transport costs on international trade routes fell three points, or 0.1 per cent, to 4,070 points, according to the Baltic Exchange on Friday. It jumped 14 per cent last week, supported by Chinese demand for iron ore to make steel. Almost one in five of the world's capesizes are stuck in lines outside ports in China, Brazil and Australia, London-based broker Simpson, Spence & Young Ltd said in a report on June 17. 'It's very difficult to split cape shipments into China because it will cause more congestion and more demurrage,' Kjetil Sjuve, director at Oslo-based shipbroker and consultant Lorentzen & Stemoco AS, said on Friday by telephone. Panamax rents fell 1.2 per cent on Friday to US$25,074 a day. They will drop to US$20,500 on average in the third quarter, according to forward freight agreements used to bet on or hedge against future costs. Capesize rents were little changed at US$89,862 a day and will plunge to US$52,500 in the next quarter, according to the FFA data from broker Imarex NOS ASA. Source : Bloomberg

Vietsovpetro says not responsible for oil spill clean up

Vietsovpetro on Thursday refused to pay for stopping an oil slick spreading after a tanker carrying its oil exploded and sank off the southern coast of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province on Wednesday. Engineer Truong Ngoc Bich of the Vietnam-Russia joint venture said all the oil had burnt in the accident, in which 12 sailors from the Nhat Thuan tanker were rescued and three others are still listed as missing. Bich was speaking at an emergency meeting with Ba Ria-Vung Tau People’s Committee and the province’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DNRE) on measures to salvage the ship and stop the oil spill from spreading. Nhat Thuan was carrying 1,793 cubic meters or 11,300 barrels of waste oil from one tanker of Vietsovpetro to another offshore tanker of the company for treatment. The ship was also carrying 10,000 liters of diesel as fuel. According to the National Agency for Stopping Oil Spills, most of the oil slick is formed by the diesel, while the waste oil also started to leak out, forming a slick more than 1.8 kilometers long and 80 meters wide. Deputy Director Nguyen Boa of the province’s DNRE said the situation would get worse as oil has not been removed from the ship. The department on Thursday suggested two solutions: to salvage the ship and move all the oil to another tanker or to leave it underwater and pump the oil out.



Bich said Vietsovpetro will only take responsibility when waste oil is still detected on Nhat Thuan. Vietsovpetro didn’t directly hire the ship and thus has no responsibility for salvaging it, he said, adding that the company will nevertheless help with the efforts. Tran Minh Sanh, chairman of the province’s People’s Committee, has asked the Ho Chi Minh City-based Binh Thuan Transport Company that owns Nhat Thuan ship to send someone to inspect the ship’s condition with local officials. Port authorities and ships from the province’s rescue center are still searching for the missing crew members - a first mate, an engineer and a deckhand, but survivors have said that it was unlikely that their crew survived the explosion.

Pirates say free seven crew from Seychelles yacht

Pirates in Somalia said on Monday they had freed the seven crew members from Seychelles yacht Indian Ocean Explorer. Pirates seized the oceanographic research cruiser at the end of March near the Seychelles' island of Assumption, the second vessel flying the Indian Ocean nation's flag to be hijacked. "We have released the Seychelles crew, they flew this morning," pirate Hassan told Reuters by phone from Haradheere. Seychelles' minister for the environment, natural resources and transport, Joel Morgan, said on Monday he was in Kenya's capital Nairobi negotiating the release of the crew. "I can't comment. It's too sensitive at the moment," he told Reuters. The International Maritime Bureau says more ships have been attacked off Somalia so far in 2009 than in the whole of 2008, but fewer of those attacks have been successful. Source : Reuters

Greenpeace Boarders Six people were arrested today after climate change campaigners boarded a coal freighter and tried to stop it unloading its cargo at a power station. Four protesters are still on board. Greenpeace said nine activists climbed on board just after midnight as the ship travelled along the river Medway to the Kingsnorth power station in Kent, using rigid inflatable speedboats to pull up alongside and attaching climbing ladders to scale the 15-metre hull. Some of the group managed to scale the ship's funnel and foremast, while others were hanging off the side, a spokesman said, adding that the group had enough food and water to allow them to remain on the vessel for several days. There were reports of three protesters swimming in the river in front of the vessel to try to prevent it docking outside the power station. A Greenpeace spokesman said the protesters on board would try to hold their position for as long as possible to try to prevent the coal from being unloaded. Kent police described it as a "difficult and potentially dangerous situation". Assistant Chief Constable Gary Beautridge said the six were being held on charges of conspiring to commit criminal damage and having an unauthorised presence on a ship, under Section 104 of the Merchant Seaman Act. "Four other protesters are in the crow's nest in the bow of the vessel. The situation is contained there and police officers are on board the ship." One of the campaigners who scaled the foremast said they were protesting against plans by energy giant E.ON to build a new coal-fired power plant at Kingsnorth. Speaking earlier this morning, one of the activists, Sarah Shoraka, 31, said: "There are nine of us on the ship. We have split into three teams of three, with one team on foremast, another on the funnel and the third hanging off the side.



"We are using walkie-talkies to stay in contact with each other and have enough food and water to last several days. We will stay as long as we can to stop the coal being unloaded." Shoraka, who works for Greenpeace, said: "Scientists are telling us we can't beat climate change if we keep burning coal, and yet [the energy and climate change secretary] Ed Miliband's new policies would still allow E.ON to build the dirtiest new power station in Britain for 30 years. "The experts say we have the technologies we need to slash emissions and power Britain with renewable energy and more efficient use of cleaner fuels, it just needs the politicians to give them the green light. New coal plants that emit huge amounts of carbon can never be the answer." The arrests came as two women lodged a complaint to the IPCC over their arrest and detention during protests at Kingsnorth last year. Video footage shows Val Swain and Emily Apple being bundled to the ground by police after challenging officers for not displaying their badge numbers. Source : ShipTalk

NAVY NEWS

The 1986 built Russian Destroyer of the UDALOY class 619 SEVEROMORSK seen arriving in Brest in view of the exercise FRUKUS 09, The SEVEROMORSK was first named SIMFEROPOL, and it was reported in late 1993 that SIMFEROPOL would have to be decommissioned for lack of available crew, but the ship was active in 1996; the

name was changed to Severomorsk 21-1-1996. She began a major refit at Severnaya Verf, St. Petersburg, arriving in 7-1998 but with work not commencing until fall 1999 and completing 30-8-2000; her departure for the Northern Fleet

was delayed by a fire at St. Petersburg in 9-2000, and the ship left Bal’tysk 5-11-2000, Photo : Jacques Carney (c)

Class prototype Udaloy was stricken from the Northern Fleet 31-8-1998. Admiral Zakharov, completed in 1983, suffered an engine room explosion and fire 17-2-1992, was stricken 29-9-1994, and was later scrapped in South

Korea. Admiral Spiridonov, placed in 2nd Class Reserve at Vladivostok 31-8-1998 after several years of inactivity, is being used as a spare parts source and is not likely to return to service.





SHIPYARD NEWS

General Dynamics NASSCO delivers ‘Pelican State’

General Dynamics NASSCO delivered the second ship of its State-class of product carriers to USS Products Investor, a shipbuilding joint venture led by the Blackstone Group. The ship is named ‘Pelican State’, the state nickname of Louisiana. NASSCO began constructing the ‘Pelican State’ in August 2007. At a length of 183 metres, the double-hulled ship has a cargo capacity of approximately 331,000 barrels and will be used to carry petroleum and chemical products in Jones Act service between US ports. Source : Baird-Online

The Saga Wind seen at HuaRun DaDong Dockyard in Chongming Island, Shanghai. Photo : Roger Lim (c)

Market potential for local ship builders The international trade is keep on growing day by day. The transportation between countries is essential and therefore ship building industry is playing a huge supporting role for the sustainability of the local as well as international trade. There is a huge market potential available for local ship builders in the international market. However, the problem is whether they have identified these opportunities to expand their business internationally, said the Managing Director/CEO Colombo Dockyard PLC, Mangala P.B. Yapa.



“There are various types of ships in the market. Considering the capacity constrains, we as a country have identified the models of ships that we can build. Colombo Dockyard has identified the market requirements and according to that we are producing many models of ships that are unique in the local as well as in the international market and also we are trying to find our own niche market segments to be globally competitive and successful,” Yapa said. Ship building is one of the main businesses that Colombo Dockyard is engaged in and at the early stage the target was to cater for emerging local requirements such as Sri Lanka Navy and Port Authorities’ requirements. As at today, we have built many vessels such as 14 meter petrol boats, 20 meter petrol boats, landing crafts, 40 meter off-shore petrol vessel and it was the first Sri Lankan company to built 40 meters off-shore petrol vessel. All these vessels are built by the Colombo Dockyard according to our unique designs,” Yapa said. Apart from that we are doing a number of maintenance in the ship industry. However, we have been able to bring the cost down and play a vital role in the shipbuilding and maintenance industry, Yapa added. “The challenges we see in the industry is the ship building industry is not growing within the country very fast. Even though we are having the capacity and the potential to grow, it is always a limiting factor since the markets are growing very slowly, Yapa said. We have successfully stepped into the Indian, Maldives and Singapore markets and also our boats are operating in Africa, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. Perhaps we will consolidate our boards further in these markets. We still have not planning to expand our business in European market since sill there is an economic down turn and this is not the time to expand the business in instability markets. “The current economic down turn has a clear adverse impact on any sea-going trade. However, by positioning the companies strategically in the market, we still can survive profitably. Our capacity is full up to next 2011 and the current economic crisis is not thrashing our budgets unconditionally. Our success during this recession is our flexibility such as changing the ship building into ship repair and adjusting according to the market conditions,” he said. Source : Sri Lanka Daily News

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Bulker orders: New twist in Vale tale Reuters is reporting that Chinese shipbuilder Jiangsu Rongsheng Heavy Industries has won a $484 million deal to build four ships for Oman Shipping Co. The report says that they will carry exports from an iron ore pellet plant being built by Brazil's Companhia Vale do Rio Doce in northern Oman and expected to begin production in the second half of 2010. The Reuters report cites an the official from Oman's Tender Board as saying "the vessels will be delivered by the end of 2011 or beginning of 2012 and will be chartered to Vale for its exports." This marks an interesting development in the saga that started last August when Vale reported that it entered into a $1.6 billion contract with Rongsheng for the construction of twelve very large ore carriers, each with a capacity of 400,000 dwt.



Ever since the newbuild bulker market went bad, various European sources have been predicting that the Vale order was set for cancellation. Thus far that hasn't happened. Details of the Oman deal were first released in November after Oman Shipping Company (OSC) signed a framework agreement with Vale to lease four 400,000 dwt ships for transporting ore pellet from the extraction areas in Brazil to the industrial complex in Oman's Sohar Port. At that time, Adel bin Abdullah al Raisi, Managing Director of OSC said "though it has been established not long ago OSC now has a fleet of giant ships ; all of them are leased with long term contracts and used in transporting LNG, oil and oil derivatives. A new sector has been added to the scope of the operation of the vessels namely transporting iron ore pellet from Brazil." All of this would seem to indicate that the four ships are being leased from Vale by OSC and are part of the original dozen announced back in August and not four more. Source : MaritimeLog

Mv " BOA MAGNITOR " seen after dry-docking by Van Brink Rotterdam, grit blasted and newly painted Photo : Joop Bartels (c)

Poland yards' buyer provides guarantees

The mysterious buyer of Poland's Gdansk and Szczecin shipyards has provided bank guarantees for the deal. Polish treasury minister Aleksander Grad said United International Trust (UIT) has given proof it can pay the $115m auction fee from two Qatari banks, Qatar Islamic Bank and Qinvest.



He also said the company will operate the yards under the name Polskie Stocznie. Grad has said that a specific fund representing Middle East interests is behind UIT and that trips made by him to Qatar and Kuwait proved crucial in sealing the deal, which was forced by the need to repay illegal state aid granted to the yards by Poland. Source : The Motorship

Shipping industry asks for setting up of fund

The shipping industry on Sunday asked the government to set up a fund to help the industry to get finances for projects with loans increasingly drying up. The Indian shipping industry finds it difficult to raise money from the global market because of the global economic crisis triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. "Many western banks have received loans from their respective governments. The government nominees in these banks insist on giving loans only to projects in their countries," Shipping Corporation of India, Chairman and Managing Director, SC Hajara told media. The Indian shipping industry would have to invest USD 20 billion in the next few years to modernise its fleet and acquire new vessels. Indian shippers raise funds from the global market, preferably Europe, because interest rates are cheap and repayment can be done through a longer term. Indian banks and financial institutions do not have an appetite to lend to shipping companies, Hajara said. With no global finance and no domestic finance, raising debt for Indian shippers has become difficult, he said. Many years ago, there was a shipping fund for the domestic industry. But it was merged with ICICI Bank. Since then there has been no shipping fund. Source : Times of India

ABG Shipyard Q4 PAT jumps 12.84 per cent ABG Shipyard today reported a 12.84 per cent jump in profit after tax (PAT) at Rs 51.96 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2009, over the same period last year. In the March quarter of 2008, it had posted a PAT of Rs 46.05 crore, the company said in a statement. The company's net sales for the reporting quarter was Rs 370.86 crore against Rs 276.68 crore in the same period a year ago, a jump of 34.04 per cent, it said. Its net profit for the year-ended March 31 was at Rs 171.10 crore from Rs 160.68 crore a year ago, up by 6.48 per cent, ABG Shipyard said. Its net sales for the year-ended March 31 was Rs 1,412.20 crore up 46.06 per cent from Rs 966.84 crore a year ago. The company's board has recommended a dividend of Rs two per share of Rs 10 each. As on March 31, 2009, its order book stands at Rs 11,500 crore. During 2008-09, it bagged orders worth Rs 305 crore from Marnavi Spa and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. "We expect pick-up in growth momentum in order book as we see stability in trade and increased activity in oil and gas exploration," ABG Shipyard CFO Dhananjay Datar said. Source: tmcnet.com

Keppel buys stake in Brazil new shipyard Brazilian construction group WTorre has confirmed talks with Singapore's Keppel Corp over selling a stake in a new shipyard project. "We're in advanced, but not conclusive, talks with Keppel," a spokeswoman said. WTorre's oil and gas division has been building a large shipyard facility called ERG at Rio Grande in Rio Grande do Sul state in southern Brazil since 2006. Petrobras will be the main client and will convert tankers to FPSOs there, as well as build and repair rigs. WTorre could form a joint-venture operating company with Keppel, in which the Brazilian company would retain a minority stake. ERG is due for completion later this year. Source : The Motorship



Damen’s WAI KING seen in Singapore Photo : Renier van den Bichelaer ©

Malaysia's first fully-automated shipyard to operate in 2013

The country's first fully-automated shipyard will be in operation at the Tanjung Agas Oil and Gas and Maritime Industrial Park here in 2013.It will be part of a RM4.8 billion project that comprises a fabrication and engineering yard, and marine repair and ship-building facilities on a 320-hectare site. Vantech Dockyard (M) Sdn Bhd's managing director Azlan Sidol said the company would build and operate the facilities under a joint-venture effort with two South Korean giants, namely Daewoo and Handong. "The construction of the shipyard will begin next year and it takes three years to complete," he told reporters after the ground-breaking ceremony of the industrial park here today. Azlan said the company had already received advance bookings for the construction of eight ships worth RM7 billion. The bookings, he said, came from local companies but enquiries have also been received from neighbouring countries, the Middle East and Europe. Azlan also said that the company planned to cooperate with a leading university from South Korea to set up an academy for shipbuilding in Tanjung Agas. "The academy is an important component as we required about 8,000 workers with 30 percent of them being engineers," he said. The company, he added, will specialise in the construction of large ships weighing more than 100,000 metric tonnes, particularly liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers. According to Azlan, Vantech Dockyard's facilities will be capable of repairing 100 ships annually. "We will also build other types of vessels, including battleships if there is a demand from customers," he said. Source: bernama.com

Lindo axing more jobs Lindø Shipyard in Denmark may be forced to cut 2,000 jobs by the second quarter of 2010 if the shipyard does not receive new orders. Lindø has not received any orders since the first quarter of 2008. “The situation does not look good and things have become worse lately,” said Lindo CEO Finn Buus Nielsen. “The adjustment is needed when taking into consideration the way our construction programme looks these days. If our products are not purchased we have to throttle down.” The yard's owner AP Møller-Maersk may even decide to



completely shut down the yard once its orderbook to 2011 is fulfilled. A final decision will be reached by the start of the summer holidays. Source : The Motorship

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Indian contracts for Veripos

The Indian AHTS SUBHADRA, SUVARNA and SUCHANDRA seen moored in Aberdeen Photo : Wibbo Hofman (c)

Four of India’s leading DP vessel operators in Mumbai have each commissioned Aberdeen-based Veripos to provide medium to long-term high-precision GNSS positioning products and services for their respective domestic and international offshore operations. The companies include Greatship India who have commissioned Veripos’ Standard positioning service and LID3-G1 hardware on DP vessels, Greatship Amrita, Greatship Anjali, Greatship Dhriti, Greatship Disha, and Greatship Diya while a further four vessels are to be supplied with similar facilities later this year.



The company, which has recently had vessels operational in the Middle East, Mexico and South Africa as well as its domestic market in India, is currently engaged in a major newbuild programme involving further additions to its DP fleet between now and 2011. Great Offshore, the prominent integrated oilfield services supplier of services to upstream oil and gas producers, have likewise fitted Veripos’ LID3-G1 integrated receivers for reception of its Standard GNSS augmentation services on two DP vessels now working offshore India, FFSV Malaviya 25 and FFSV Malaviya 27.

Varun Shipping Co have also committed to identical equipment and services which are now operational aboard DP anchor handling tugs AHTS Subhadra and AHTS Suchandra. These are two of a number of similar vessels operated by the company and are presently working in the North Sea. Meanwhile, Veripos has also been awarded a three-year contract to provide LD2-G2 equipment and its Standard services for TAG Offshore’s new anchor handling tug ship, TAG 4. The company, which currently operates four offshore vessels, plans additional extensions to its fleet over the next two years. The four contracts represent a further stage in the continuing growth of Veripos specialist positioning services for the burgeoning Indian offshore industry and add to an existing customer base which already includes Allseas, Helix, WesternGeco, EGS Survey and state-owned oil company, ONGC, said Veripos Managing Director, Walter Steedman. He added that the company has committed significant resources to India over the last couple of years with the relocation of reference stations to more reliable sites and the inclusion of a GLONASS capability at Chennai and Kolkata. Source : Offshore shipping online

PCTC vessels laid up at Southampton. Zodiac Maritime's sisters Tokyo Car and Triumph were delivered only last year. On the right is the K-Line's 22-year-old Atlas Highway

photo : Graeme Ewens (c)

Sea France bid ends in tears LOUIS Dreyfus Armateurs told Fairplay it has thrown in the towel on acquiring Sea France. The launch of its new Boulogne/Dover high-speed catamaran service has closed out the proposal, said Philippe Louis-Dreyfus, LDA's chairman. "The case is closed on Sea France," he said, because political interference had undermined the scheme; it



is France's government-run ferry operator. "We asked for company information from Sea France three times, and each time Sea France refused to provide information," Louis-Dreyfus told Fairplay. "We made a bid and presented a business file, but Sea France is a political file," he explained. "If Sea France remains publicly owned, I do not see how it will survive. It will need injection of public finance, which would go against EU free-competition rules." LDA officially launched on Monday the UK-flagged Norman Arrow catamaran on the run to Dover. It is the largest fast ferry ever to operate on England/France routes and the first freight-carrying, high-speed vessel on that route. Sea France unions have pledged to harass the new service in Boulogne tomorrow because they hold that more LDA capacity will mean unfair competition for Boulougne/Dover crossings. Norman Arrow - the world's largest diesel catamaran and first Incat 112m vessel in Europe - will operate with four return sailings a day. Source : Daily Fairplay News

Boskalis wins €90 million offshore project in Argentina

A consortium of Royal Boskalis Westminster NV and Allseas Group SA has been appointed for the construction of a gas pipeline through the Strait of Magellan in Southern Argentina. The agreement was signed during an official ceremony attended by the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. The agreement was signed by Nación Fideicomisos SA as Trustee of the Estrecho de Magallanes Trust and Work Principal. The agreement is worth approximately €180 million, with the share of Boskalis amounting approximately €90 million. The project is expected to be completed before the end of 2009. The work consists of laying a new 24in undersea gas pipeline joining Cape Espiritu Santo and Cape Virgenes in waters outside the eastern mouth of the Strait of Magellan, Argentina. The length of the undersea pipeline and shoreline sections is approximately 38km. The water depth (70 meters), strong currents and high tidal conditions create a challenging operating environment. The pipeline is of significant strategic importance linking the gas fields in the south with the main gas network of Argentina. Boskalis will be responsible for the trenching and backfill of the pipeline in the near-shore area on both the northern and southern part of the crossing. Boskalis will also execute near shore pipe pulls and the landing of the pipeline. A jumbo trailing suction hopper dredger will be deployed for the project. Source : Dredging News Online

The ALEXANDER CARL seen moored at the EECV in Rotterdam-Europoort Photo : Rik van Marle (c)



“DEN ALPHONSE” ARRIVED WITH SMITBARGES IN ROTTERDAM

The tug ALPHONSE LETZER arrived with the SMITBARGES 6,7,8 and 9 from China in Rotterdam as can be seen at the photos.

Photo’s : Bob Soumang (c)

Stena Discovery’ makes a comeback ‘Stena Discovery’ has finally been delivered to Venezuelan operator Albamar after a long hiatus. Laid up in Belfast since the cease of the Harwich to Hoek van Holland service in early 2007, the vessel was drydocked last month to have its Stena markings removed. The vessel then performed sea trials in which it achieved a top speed of 42 knots. The HSS 1500 catamaran was built in 1997 in Rauma. The vessel is driven by gas turbine propulsion and can carry a maximum of 1,500 passengers and 375 cars. ‘Stena Discovery’ will reach La Guaira on July 1 and will commence a service to El Guamacho in August. Source : Baird-Online



Safe Bulkers, Inc. Announces the Sale of Panamax Class Vessel

Safe Bulkers, Inc. an international provider of marine drybulk transportation services, announced the sale of a Panamax Class Vessel. The Company announced that it has entered an agreement to sell a 76,000 dwt Panamax class vessel built in 2003 for $33 million, excluding commissions to brokers. The vessel will be delivered to its new owners in December 2009. The extended delivery period, which exceeds the market standard of three months, will permit the Company to employ the vessel in the spot market through December 2009. Proceeds from the sale of the vessel will strengthen the Company's balance sheet. The Company also provided additional details regarding its entry into a resale agreement to acquire a Capesize class newbuild vessel to be delivered in April 2010, which had been previously announced in a press release dated June 8, 2009. The acquisition price for the 177,000 dwt newbuild is $63 million, including commissions, and the vessel will be delivered by the Shanghai Jiangnan Changxing Shipbuilding Co., part of the SWS group. Source : Marketwatch

MSC launches Pacific Central American Maya feeder service

MSC has launched its Maya feeder service which hubs in Balboa and calls at the west coast Central American ports of Puerto Caldera (Costa Rica), Acajutla (El Salvador) and Puerto Quetzal (Guatemala), deploying the 1,232-TEU MSC Paola. At the hub port of Balboa, the service connects to MSC's US east coast-Freeport-west coast South America service, the Far East service (GGP) and the US west coast service (Puma). So far, the three west coast Central America ports now on the port rotation for the Maya feeder service were covered by the Puma service, from which they have been removed, reports AXS -Alphaliner News. Source : schednet.com

The AUTO BANNER seen in Cape Town - Photo : Aad Noorland (c)



The S&P Market week 24 Bulkers Boomerang: 76,390 dwt blt 04 Sumitomo, 7Hoha. Sold region USD 35,000,000 to Greek buyer. Torm Tina: 75,966 dwt blt 01 Tsuneishi, 7Hoha. Sold region USD 30,000,000 to Chinese buyer. Efrossini: 75,932 dwt blt 03 Tsuneishi, 7Hoha. Sold region USD 34,000,000 to Greek buyer. Maddalena d’Amato: 74,716 dwt blt 01 Hudong, 7Hoha. Sold region USD 25,500,000 to Greek buyer. Sale includes tc until 4th quarter 2009 at USD 13,150 per day. Four Coal: 74,020 dwt blt 99 Tsuneishi, 7Hoha. Sold region USD 28,000,000 to Greek buyer. Sale includes tc until 01/2010 at USD 25,200 per day. Far Eastern Silo: 69,338 dwt blt 90 Imabari, 7Hoha. Sold region USD 12,000,000 to Chinese buyer. Jupiter Applause: 69,123 dwt blt 97 Imabari, 7Hoha. Sold region USD 20,000,000 to Chinese buyer. 2 x Glory Wealth NB Resale: 57,000 dwt blt 09/10 Kouan, 5Hoha, Crs 5x30t. Sold region USD 28,000,000 each to Wilmar. Orfeas: 48,891 dwt blt 83 IHI, 5Hoha, Crs 4x25t. Sold region USD 6,000,000 to undisclosed buyer. New Sea Star 6: 45,877 dwt blt 85 Hashihama, 5Hoha, 1,074 teu, Crs 5x25t. Sold region USD 7,250,000 to Far East buyer. Oriental Key: 38,323 dwt blt 80 Kasado, 5Hoha, Crs 5x25t. Sold region USD 2,800,000 to Singapore buyer. Cenk Kaptanoglu: 36,788 dwt blt 83 HHI, 5Hoha, 750 teu, Crs 4x25t. Sold region USD 4,000,000 to Chinese buyer. Efessos: 33,554 dwt blt 82 usuki, 5Hoha, Crs 2x25t. Sold region USD 3,500,000 to Gurita Lines. Hilal II: 25,845 dwt blt 81 Osaka, 5Ho/9Ha, Crs 4x30t Sold region USD 2,00,000 to Chinese buyer. BBC Gdansk: 7,787 dwt blt 09 Poland, 2Hoha, 532 teu, Crs 2x120t. Sold region EUR 12,900,000 to Schappchenfonds Tankers Pacific Onyx: 40,509 dwt blt 88 Shin Kurushima. Sold region USD 5,000,000 to Winson Oil. Punica/Peonia: 29,000 dwt blt 05 STX. Sold region USD 25,000,000 each to GNMTC. Chemstar Hero: 19,836 dwt blt 02 Fukuoka. Sold region USD 17,500,000 to MTMM. LPG Ocean Primate: 3,566 dwt blt 93 YVC Ysselwerf, 3,220 cbm. Sold region USD 6,200,000 to Venezuela buyer. Gas Sophie: 2,610 dwt blt 95 Kitanihon, 3,516 cbm. Sold region USD 6,000,000 to Indonesian buyer.

Demolition China Kandalaksha: 570 lm, 17 kn, blt Wartsila 1984, 10,816 ldt, USD 245/ldt. MV Morning Light (PCC): 19,931 dwt blt 77, 9,121 ldt, USD 243/ldt. MV Morning Queen (roro): 18,426 dwt blt 78, 12,906 ldt, USD 240/ldt. India MT Hugo N. (LPG): 43,354 dwt blt 80, 15,530 ldt, USD 265/ldt. MV Aquilo: 18,186 dwt blt 81, 7,600 ldt, USD 262/ldt. MV APL Tulip (cont): 18,436 dwt blt 78, 6,736 ldt, USD 260/ldt. MV Alba (roro): 4,610 dwt blt 77, 6,016 ldt, USD 250/ldt. Hoha = holds and hatches - All details believed to be correct but not guaranteed. Source: Aquamarine Shipping Consultants, www.aquamarine.org

Reederei Komrowski übernimmt Blue-Star-Flotte



Die Hamburger Traditionsreederei Komrowski übernimmt vom dänischen Schifffahrtsriesen Maersk die Blue-Star- Flotte. Die Beschäftigung der Blue-Star-Schiffe sei langfristig durch Charterverträge mit Maersk sichergestellt, teilte die Komrowski Befrachtungskontor KG am Montag mit. Sie betreut den Angaben zufolge 18 Container-, Feeder- und Schwergutschiffe sowie Massengutfrachter. Durch die Blue Star GmbH (Hamburg) kommen 34 Containerschiffe hinzu, so dass die Gesamtkapazität 190 000 TEU erreicht. Die Blue-Star-Reederei lasse vier Feederschiffe und sechs Massengutfrachter bauen, die mehrheitlich angfristig verchartert seien.

The URS tugs ZEELAND and WALCHEREN which were sold to Eureco at Sicily departed from Terneuzen bound for Italy, the ZEELAND was towing WALCHEREN for this trip.

Photo : Wim Kosten – www.maritimephoto.com ©

New ro-ro service Finland–Sweden–Germany

Under the name PowerLine, the Finnish company Lillbacka Powerco has started a new ro-ro service between Turku, Oxelösund and Travemünde with sailings twice a week from Turku. One of the sailings is between Turku and Oxelösund only. The 1,700 lane metre ro-ro vessel Global Carrier is employed on the route. Management of the vessel is handled by ASP Shipmanagement Scandinavia Ab in Mariehamn. Source : Shipgaz



Bearing monitoring systems for Aframaxes

Kongsberg Maritime has won a contract to supply bearing wear monitoring (BWM) systems to a series of eight 120,000 dwt newbuilding product tankers. The vessels are under construction at Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries for Kristian Gerhard Jebsen (KGJS). Delivery of the systems is scheduled from May 2009 through 2010. They were designed to monitor wear down of bearings in large 2-stroke diesel engines. An early warning in the form of an alarm, should any of the three crank-train bearings (crosshead, crank and main bearings) get unexpected wear problems during operations, will enable the crew to carry out preventative maintenance, avoid unscheduled maintenance, reduce off-hire and ultimately costs, Kongsberg said. The system can be delivered as a standalone unit, or integrated into Kongsberg’s K-Chief 500 and AutoChief C20 automation systems. In the case of the Jebsen newbuildings, the BWM systems will be connected to the AutoChief C20 system via the common (CAN) network, using the BWM mimic to display wear and trending measurements. The tankers will be powered by HHI MAN B&W 6S70ME-C M8 main engines, which are electronically controlled and monitored. Each BWM system will be installed by the South Korean engine builder HHI-EMD. By signing the contract, KGJS can also take advantage of Kongsberg’s extensive worldwide service organisation. Source: Tanker Operator

The Baloe gives assistance to the Barent Zanen during the connection to the floating pipeline at the Luneort Project (close to Bremerhaven).

Photo : Priit o/b Barent Zanen (c)

Safety forces Sulpicio to sell SULPICIO Lines of the Philippines is selling its ships as it adjusts to safety rules enforced since the sinking of its flagship Princess of the Stars. SULPICIO Lines of the Philippines is selling its ships as it adjusts to safety rules enforced since the sinking of its flagship Princess of the Stars. Passenger vessel Tacloban Princess was the fourth to be sold after sinking, in which more than 800 people were killed on 21 June last year. Sister ship Cotabao Princess is rumoured to have already been sold. Sulpicio has been struggling to comply with ISM Code safety and management systems, or its local counterpart NSM Code, since the sinking. This has led to its ferries being barred from carrying passengers. A review concluded that



Sulpicio needed to improve in a range of areas: health; safety and environment policy; designation of a safety officer; qualifications of personnel; crisis management; and maintenance systems for deck, engine and electrical machinery. Sulpicio is also looking at a hefty bill after claims by families of victims. Cebu Princess and Cagayan Princess were sold in October last year to Roble Shipping Lines, and general cargo vessel Palawan Princess was reportedly taken by another buyer. Source : Safety at Sea

The TSHD PRINS DER NEDERLANDEN seen during dredging works off Cape Town – Photo : Prins der Nederlanden

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