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Tanker recycling, sales and newbuildings Several vessels have left the fleet, while a couple of others have been sold at auction.The 1984-built ‘Ballina’ (124,750 dwt) has been reported as sold to Indian recyclers. The V Ships managed vessel has been laid up at Labuan since April 2010. Another vessel, Tanker Pacific’s 1991-built small Aframax ‘Irish Sea’, was reported sold on private terms to Pakistani breakers. In the secondhand market, the 1999-built Aframaxes ‘DS Performer’ and ‘DS Power’ were said to have been sold at auction to Commerzbank for $15 mill each. The bank originally arrested the vessels at Aruba and Rotterdam, respectively and will probably resell them. Dynacom’s Aframaxes ‘Equator’ and ‘Navigator’ were reportedly sold to US-based Principal Maritime for $44 mill each, while Cido’s Shipping’s MRs ‘Pacific Oasis’ and ‘Pacific Polaris’ were reported as sold to unknown interests for $23 mill each plus a timecharter attached at $13,500 per day to Hanjin Shipping until 3Q12. Navios Maritime has confirmed that it has chartered out five newbuilding MR2s. Three MR2s have been chartered out to for three years at a rate of $13,331 net per day (plus two additional optional years at $14,566 net per day for the first year and $15,553 net per day for the second year) plus 50% profit sharing. The profit sharing will be calculated monthly and profits will be shared equally once market rates exceed the relevant index by $1,000.
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The as yet unnamed charterer has been granted a short term option, expiring at the end of February 2012, for a fourth vessel at same terms as above. The two remaining MR2s have been chartered to another unnamed charterer for three years at $13,331 net per day (plus an additional optional year at a rate of $14,813 net per day) plus profit sharing. The charterers will receive 100% of the first $1,000 in profits above the base rate and the owners will receive 100% of the next $1,000. Thereafter, all profits will be split 50% to each party. This charterer has also been granted an option for a third vessel, exercisable through January 2012, at a rate of $13,825 net per day for three years (plus an optional additional year at $15,306 net per day) with profit sharing on the same terms as described above, Navios said. DHT has also confirmed that it has amended the timecharter with Frontline for the VLCC ‘DHT Eagle’. This has resulted in the charter hire being be paid at $26,000 per day monthly in advance for the remaining period of the charter commencing 1st January, 2012. The difference between the original charter hire and the amendment, being $6,500 per day, will be paid in arrears with one lump sum payment due in December 2012 and a second lump sum payment at the end of the charter period, DHT said. Golar LNG is to timecharter its 2003-built LNGC, ‘Golar Arctic’, to a major Japanese trading company for three years. The charter is expected to commence in March 2012 following the end of the vessel's current charter. The annualised EBITDA contribution from this new charter is expected to be about $45 mill, Golar said. As for newbuildings, Kuwait Oil Tanker (KOT) has received approval from state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Corp (KPC) to award contracts worth $556 mill to Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering for five crude oil tankers, believed to be VLCCs, local news source Al-Anba reported. The tankers are part of KOTC’s plans to build nine new vessels in the third phase of its modernisation programme, according to the Kuwait-based newspaper. Source: Tanker Operator
Ore Ships at Parity With Panamaxes May Extend Slump, Pareto Says
Charter rates for iron ore-carrying capesize ships may extend this year’s 64 percent slump once port congestion eases, according to Pareto Securities AS, an Oslo- based investment bank. Rents for the vessels, which haul at least 160,000 metric tons of cargo, declined 18 percent to $9,959 a day yesterday, according to the Baltic Exchange in London. Panamax ships about half the size cost $10,663 daily to charter. It’s the first time in five months capesize rates have matched panamaxes. About 5.8 percent of the dry-bulk fleet is delayed at ports, Pareto said, citing information from ViaMar, a company that tracks congestion. Source: Bloomberg
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The 2011 built bulk carrier Crystal Island arriving at Dunedin to load logs for Inchon . The vessel has a gross
US reveals Iranian navy harassed two American ships in Strait of Hormuz
Iranian naval ships recently harassed two American vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the US military has revealed. According to videos released by the military, the incidents in one of the world's most important oil routes occurred last week and involved the USS New Orleans, an amphibious transport dock, and the Coast Guard Cutter Adak.
According to Fox News, Iranian speed boats are seen in one of the videos approaching the USS New Orleans within about 500 yards last Friday. "The Iranian boats did not respond to whistle signal or voice queries from the New Orleans, disregarding standard maritime protocols," the US army's Central Command said while releasing the videos. In the incident involving the Adak, communications were established with a larger Iranian ship operating in the area and thereafter the speed boats ceased their harassment. According to a senior defense official, the Iranians "intended to be harassing", but it didn't go much beyond that. Iran threatened last month to block the Strait of Hormuz if provoked, and it has warned US Navy ships to steer clear. The rising tensions coincide with increased pressure on Iran over its nuclear program, which the West fears is merely a front for Iran's clandestine work on developing nuclear weapons. Source : newstrackindia
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UISGE GORM DEPARTED FROM ROTTERDAM
Bluewater’s UISGE GORM, which arrived in the port of Rotterdam 14-09-2008 departed after more than 3 years laid up in the port, from Rotterdam bound for Hamburg, the HARMS tugs TAURUS and PEGASUS are seen on the photos
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Barge makes it to Rena A crane barge has made it out to the stricken Rena, the first step in resuming container removal which came to a halt after the ship split in two in terrible weather last weekend. Improved weather conditions meant the barge could make its way back towards Rena, but it has not yet connected to Rena and a series of anchors, Maritime New Zealand said.
Despite the barge making it out to the Astrolabe Reef, where Rena ran aground on October 5, it could take some time before container removal would resume or divers could undertake a survey of the sunken section. "The dynamic sea state and the relative proximity of the reef below make it difficult to indicate any timing for this next stage of container
salvage," national on-scene commander Rob Service said.
The sea swell, which has hampered rescue efforts since the aft section split off and the majority of it sunk last weekend, was expected to reduce to 1.5 metres tomorrow and 1 metre on Monday. Meanwhile, boaties have been warned to stay off the water unless it is necessary. Debris floating in the water has spread, and today has been spotted around Volkner Rocks in the eastern Bay of Plenty.
On Monday boaties were advised to stay off the water in western Bay of Plenty
because of the large amount of debris in the water, and today that warning was extended to cover the eastern Bay of Plenty. Any unnecessary voyages should be avoided, harbourmaster Brian Spake said. "If vessels in the eastern Bay of Plenty do go out, they should maintain a proper lookout by sight and sound and travel at slow speed while transiting local waters," he said.
Boaties should not be on the water at night, he said. A three nautical mile exclusion zone also remains around the Astrolabe Reef. Aerial observation flights to Rena confirmed no change to the state of the wreck, and there appeared to be less oil leaking from the vessel. Waihi Beach is free of containers, with 17 taken away for processing.
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Work continues to recover the 11 containers on Matakana Island. Fresh oil has been found at Papamoa East and small spots of oil stretching over 2km of coastline, have been found by shoreline clean-up teams. One oiled little blue penguin was collected from Papamoa Beach last night, and one recovered offshore from Hahei today. Source : NZ Herald
Shipping Industry Faces Its “Deepwater Horizon Moment”
The shipping industry has been warned by a leading maritime lawyer that it may soon face its “Deepwater Horizon moment” in the event of a mega containership casualty. Speaking at a Maritime London lunchtime function 11 January, Holman Fenwick Willan partner Andrew Chamberlain said that the consequences of a serious incident involving one of the larger containerships “may well result in a complete change in the accepted liability regimes and even the traditionally accepted insurance arrangements for such large vessels.”
Recent high profile container ship casualties have involved relatively small vessels capable of carrying up to 4688 containers (MSC Napoli). The Rena, which is currently breaking up off the coast of New Zealand, has a capacity of 3352 containers. By comparison, the largest vessels sailing today are carrying over 15000 boxes. He told the audience of salvors, insurers, shipowners and other maritime professionals that in the event of the loss of the largest class of containership, the epic scale of the incident would mean that the salvage industry would struggle to deal with the removal of the containers and wreckage. He warned that the salvage industry had limited and ageing resources, was increasingly risk averse and today consisted of only around four or five companies with a genuine global capability. He noted that the legal environment for dealing with these types of incidents was becoming increasingly demanding with rising claims, disproportionately high clean-up costs and the near impossibility of disposing or recycling of a wreck thanks to the restrictive legal regime now imposed by the 1996 Protocol to the London Dumping Convention and the OSPAR Convention, combined with the absence of suitable recycling facilities. He added: “The industry is facing the perfect storm. We have a global recession, high cargo values (relative to ship values), ever larger and untested ships, environmental concerns and increasing public and government awareness of the impact of shipping incidents. Since the Napoli in 2007 any marine casualty is much more likely to be on the front page of every newspaper.” Source: Maritime London
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Russian experts believe the new strategic nuclear submarine “Yury Dolgoruky” will more than compensate the loss of “Yekaterinburg”, which was seriously damaged in a fire in December. Russia’s defense capacity is not harmed by the absence of the Delta IV-class nuclear submarine “Yekaterinburg”, says Igor Korotchenko, presidium member in
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the Defense Ministry’s Public Council. “Yury Dolgoruky”, which is capable of carrying 16 ballistic missiles of the new Bulava type, will compensate for the Northern Fleet’s temporary loss of “Yekaterinburg”:
- There will be no harm to the defense capacity that is needed to sustain Russia’s strategic balance with the other members in the global nuclear club, Korotchenko said, according to RIA Novosti.
Russia will even be stronger armed, since the Bulava missile is a more powerful weapon than the Sineva missile, which “Yekaterinburg” was equipped with, Korotchenko says. A military source told ITAR-TASS that there are only a few, purely technical problems to be solved before “Yury Dolgoruky” can be taken into service:
- [we need] to place intercontinental Bulava missiles in the launching tubes, to load torpedoes, water and supplies and to give the crew a chance to relax after last year’s testing of the submarine and the Bulava, and we need to make one more test of all the sub’s mechanisms and components.
“Yury Dolgoruky” on December 23 2011 conducted its first multiple launch of the Bulava missile, and the missile is ready to be taken into service in the Russian fleet in 2012, Interfax reported. It has earlier been said that “Yury Dolgoruky” will be taken into service in the Pacific Fleet. There are no indications in Russian media that it will go to the Northern Fleet instead.
Military experts say that it will take some 3-4 years to repair “Yekaterinburg”. The submarine’s rubber coating and hydroacoustic system was seriously damaged in the fire and the repairs are estimated to cost some €24.5 million. The sub can be transported from Severomorsk to Sevmash shipyard outside Arkhangelsk only in May-June, when the White Sea is free of ice, and the Northern Fleet cannot expect to have the vessel back in service before 2015, at the earliest, ITAR-
TASS reports. However, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on his Twitter account says that “we plan to return the submarine to duty earlier, in summer 2014.” Source : BarentsObserver
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Russian sea weapon transport 20180TV "Academicain Kovalev" from which the keel was laid down on 20.12.2011
U.S. Navy Shipbuilding Given Budget Priority The general state of the U.S. Navy's shipbuilding programs is good, two senior service officials claimed, and construction programs apparently will not be slashed to meet an expected Pentagon-wide $263 billion reduction in spending. "We've placed a priority on shipbuilding," Sean Stackley, the Navy's top acquisition official, told reporters Jan. 12. "You can see a lot of alignment between the defense strategy and what the Navy does."
The Obama administration's fiscal 2013 budget request, scheduled to be sent Feb. 6 to Congress, will show "various impacts," Stackley said, "but we've been careful to hold to the core capabilities we need in our shipbuilding program. It's not just platforms, it's the capability we need in terms of weapon systems to be able to meet the defense strategy."
Speaking at the Surface Navy Association's symposium in Washington, Stackley commented on the progress of the Air Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), a program to develop a primary sensor to go with the Aegis weapon system. Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman are competing under-development contracts for the radar, which will be installed on Arleigh Burke-class destroyers beginning with those bought in 2016.
A downselect on the AMDR is expected to take place later this year. "The AMDR program is going great. And I'm not blowing smoke," Stackley adamantly declared. "I spent a very concerted couple-week period this past fall, because I've got to see for myself. So I went up to Raytheon, I went to Lockheed Martin, I went to Northrop Grumman.
"I spent a day at each going through not just the data, but looking at the hardware, sitting down and talking with the engineers individually. Getting as much information as I could to corroborate what I'm seeing inside the Navy.
"That program is going very well." He noted that the AMDR effort is building on existing technology. "The maturity of the technology is far beyond where folks in the building believed it could be. And the costs that we are seeing are much better than we had estimated just a couple of years ago," he said. "And the performance - we're at the upper end of the estimated performance range. I'm bullish on AMDR." With the AMDR installed, the new destroyers will become Flight III of the Arleigh Burke class, supplanting current Flight IIA ships.
Stackley reminded a lunch audience that the Navy would seek a multiyear procurement (MYP) in the new budget for destroyers from 2013 through 2017. Congressional MYP authorization, however, is normally based on design maturity and consistency. Navy Undersecretary Bob Work, speaking with reporters at the symposium, explained that, for a brief time, the service plans to order both Flight IIAs and IIIs. "There's an overlap date between the IIAs and the Flight
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IIIs," he said, with another block buy planned separately for the AMDR ships. Details will arrive on Jan. 26, when DoD officials preview the 2013 budget request.
7 Cruisers To Be Cut?
Earlier, Work, speaking to a symposium audience, laid out the capabilities of the fleet being built through 2022 - and might have inadvertently let slip one of the secret numbers about future ship cuts. "We're going to wind up with 72 Burkes, and 15 - uh excuse me, I'm not going to tell you any numbers. Rewind the tape," he said, to sympathetic laughter from the professional audience.
The Burke number would reflect the total number of Flight I, II and IIA ships, but the Navy currently operates 22 Ticonderoga-class Aegis cruisers. Speculation has been rampant that some of the cruisers, which range in age from 25 years old to 17, might be decommissioned in line with budget reductions. No officials have commented for the record, but most guesses range between six and nine ships. Work may have let slip that seven Ticos will be put down early.
But he also exuberantly extolled the virtues of the forces the Navy will have in the future. "Everyone focuses in on: it's going to be 313 ships, 310," he said. "What the hell do we care? I have BAMS," the Broad-Area Maritime Surveillance aircraft based on the Global Hawk unmanned aircraft. "Those numbers don't care," Work said. "How many ships would it take to provide the same maritime domain awareness as those BAMS? It's a lot bigger than a [Reagan-era] 600-ship Navy, I guarantee you that."
With the new fleet, "we span the globe. We can concentrate because we can get there in a hurry on 35 knots on the JHSV [Joint High Speed Vessel], 40-plus knots on the LCS [Littoral Combat Ship]. Yeah, it burns a lot of fuel," he said, referring to the LCS. "Yeah, we have refuelers. We get there quickly. We can configure for what we need. We have enormous payload capacity in our big boys.
"This is a different fleet. This is a more powerful fleet. I will take this fleet over a 600-ship Navy … in a heartbeat," Work said, his voice booming. "One thing I would regret, quite frankly, is I would rather have 100 SSNs [nuclear-propelled attack submarines]. But in almost every other case, I'll take this," he said.""And if you aren't excited" about the new fleet, he concluded, "you don't have a pulse." Source : defenseNews
The Dutch Frigate F 805 EVERTSEN departed from Den Helder naval base bound for Plymouth.
SHIPYARD NEWS Two Brodosplit ships win international
accolades Two ships produced in Croatian shipyard Brodosplit have been named amongst the most important vessels built in 2011 by the Significant Ships 2011 publication. The publication is a specialised edition of The Naval Architect magazine published by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA), an international organisation that gathers
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representatives of the shipbuilding industry, educational institutions and naval organisations from 90 countries. The two ships – Orange Star and Piana – were built without state subsidies at a profit, the shipyard located in the coastal town of Split said in a statement. Orange Star is the biggest orange juice tanker, measuring 190 metres and is intended for the transport of cooled, fresh fruits. The vessel was finished in February 2011. Piana is a ship intended for the transportation of passengers, personal and freight vehicles and hazardous cargo. It is the first ro-pax vessel built according to new regulations that ensure the highest standards of stability, security and ecological protection. The ship was handed over to the client in December 2011, Croatian Radio Television (HRT) reports. Source: Croatian Times
Drydocks World Dubai to build offshore wind power platform
Drydocks World has entered into a contract with Aibel, a Norwegian provider of services to the energy industry, that will see the Dubai shipyard build a Wind Power Offshore Platform to receive power generated from offshore wind farms. The project will be implemented at the Dubai shipyard. "Drydocks World has progressively enhanced its capability to implement sophisticated high end projects involving tremendous skill and expertise," said Khamis Juma Buamim, Chairman of Drydocks World and Maritime World. "We are proud to work on the ground-breaking project for a leading service provider like Aibel. Our contribution to the wind farming and offshore industry is widely acknowledged and this project will serve to further enhance our reputation."
The platform named DolWin beta will be built for the large DolWin offshore wind farm cluster near Dollart, in the German sector of the North Sea. Drydocks World will carry out the building of the platform structure for Aibel, who is a supplier to ABB. ABB has been contracted by the German transmission grid operator TenneT to deliver a turnkey solution for the power transmission link, connecting the offshore wind farms to the German mainland grid, including the offshore platform, the offshore and onshore converter stations and the land and sea cable systems.
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The length of the platform is 92.3 m and breadth is 72.8 m. The fabrication of GBS (Gravity Base Structure) Platform will start in July 2012 and it is expected to be delivered in December 2013. The shipyard will carry outfabrication of steel and piping, electrical cables and implement surface protection coating. The accommodations structure for 16 people will be to NORSOK standards and will be fabricated and installed along with the heli-deck.
"Aibel is pleased to award the GBS platform structure fabrication contract to DDW," said Jan Skogseth, Aibel CEO. "DDW has been selected after international competition and with recognition of DDW's safety record. The platform will be transported to Aibel's yard in Haugesund Norway for outfitting. In the summer of 2014, Aibel will tow the platform from Haugesund to the offshore site in the North Sea and install the platform on the sea bottom.
"We look forward to a good co-operation with DDW and an on time delivery to a satisfactory quality for our end clients."
Cosco Corporation (Singapore) announces delivery of vessels
The Board of Directors of COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited wishes to announce that subsidiaries of the Company’s 51% owned COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd have made the following deliveries: 1. COSCO (Zhoushan) Shipyard Co., Ltd has delivered one bulk carrier of 92500 DWT, “POS TUERKIS”, to its European buyer, and one bulk carrier of 57000 DWT, “PORT DALIAN”, to its Asian buyer. 2. COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard Co., Ltd has delivered a bulk carrier of 57000 DWT, “RINIA”, to its European buyer. 3. COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard Co., Ltd has delivered a bulk carrier of 92500 DWT, “OCEAN DIAMOND”, to its Asian buyer. All the delivery documents were signed by and between the COSCO shipyards and the respective buyer in January 2012. The bulk carriers of 92500 DWT measure 229.2 meters in LOA (length of all), 38 meters in breadth and 20.7 meters in depth. The bulk carriers of 57000 DWT measure 189.99 meters in LOA (length of all), 32.26 meters in breadth and 18 meters in depth. Source: Cosco Corporation (Singapore)
New-built AHTS-ship being delivered to TransAtlantic
TransAtlantic has received the delivery of Brage Viking, an AHTS vessel from the Astilleros Zamakona S.A shipyard in Spain. The vessel will be flagged up in the Danish register of ships, DIS. Brage Viking is the last new-built ship in a series of four, which have been built at the Spanish shipyard. The vessel series is specifically designed to meet demands for efficient, safe and environmentally friendly offshore management in areas with severe ice conditions such as the Barents sea.
- We already have a strong operational presence in these waters and expect a continued increasing demand for our services, says Christian W. Berg, Head of Business Area Offshore/Icebreaking.
Brage Viking has the following technical data:
AHTS, ice 1A, stand by vessel, oilrec, clean design. Deck area 750 m2, length 85 m, beam 22 m, 4,500 deadweight tons and complies with the most up-to-date regulations pertaining to oil recovery.
Rederi AB TransAtlantic is a leading Swedish shipping company. Operations are organised into two business areas; Offshore/Icebreaking and Industrial Shipping. The Industrial Shipping business area consists of four divisions: RoRo Baltic, Bulk, Short Sea Bulk and Container. The fleet consists of 63 vessels and the company has about 950 employees. The sales for 2010 totalled SEK 3,600 million pro forma. The company’s B-shares are
listed on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm, Small Cap segment. Source : Cision
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The OLYMPIC COMMANDER was delivered in Alesund by the Kleven Verft January 14th 2012
India Govt set to boost domestic ports capacity by 2020
The Government aims to create a port capacity of around 3200 MT by attracting investments to the tune of Rs. 2,87,000 crore to handle the expected traffic of about 2500 MT by 2020 and bring Indian ports on a par with the best international ports in terms of performance and capacity. This was stated by Shri G.K. Vasan, Union Minister of Shipping while addressing the valedictory function of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Paradip Port Trust at Paradip in Odisha today, India Gov. Press Information Bureau reports.
Addressing the function, Shri Vasan said that Paradip Port successfully crossed 50 years in the promotion of Indian trade and commerce and was blessed by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who laid the foundation stone of Paradip Port on the 3rd January, 1962. This Port is the first major port on the East Coast commissioned after Independence.
Regarding the connectivity to Paradip Port Shri Vasan said that a new Haridaspur-Paradip rail link was under execution by Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd. which would reduce the rail route from the iron ore mines of Odisha to Paradip making the export more viable apart from reducing congestion. Paradip Port has also contributed equity for the construction of this new Railway line. On completion of the project, there will be considerable reduction of the distance from Bansapani to Paradip and the freight will be reduced by 50%. Shri Vasan informed that the Port handled 56 million metric tonnes of traffic during 2010-11 comprising of 31.22 million tonnes of import cargo and 24.81 million tonnes of export cargo.
He further stated that the Indian Oil Corporation was establishing a Refinery of 15 MMTPA capacity and a mega Petroleum, Chemical and Petrochemicals Investment Region (PCPIR) at Paradip. The construction of 2nd and 3rd Single Point Mooring by IOCL at an estimated cost of Rs. 1492.33 crore, with a capacity of 22 MMTPA is underway. Under private sector participation, one 12 MMTPA integrated pelletisation facility at Paradip based on its strategic locational advantage for importing coal and other raw materials, and exporting pellets through Paradip Port is also being set up. Shri Vasan informed that the Port had embarked upon an ambitious plan to enhance its capacity to 251 MMTPA by taking up several capacity addition projects, strengthening the rail-road connectivity, and mechanizing / modernizing the existing facilities to meet the requirement of industries. Some of the capacity addition projects under execution are deepening of channel to handle 1,25,000 DWT vessels at an estimated cost of Rs. 293.36 crore, which is expected to create a capacity addition of 5 Million Tonnes Per Annum, construction of deep draught iron ore berth and coal berth on BOT basis at an estimated cost of Rs. 1070 crore, which would add a capacity of 20 MMTPA.
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Some of the major projects that have been scripted for execution in the future include construction of western dock system at an estimated cost of Rs. 2822 crore which is envisaged to create a capacity of 75 MMTPA, mechanization of east quay at an estimated cost of Rs. 917 crore, leading to a capacity addition of 14 MMTPA. On completion of above projects, the capacity of Paradip Port would reach 251 million metric tonnes per annum by the year 2020, he added. Shri Srikant Jena, Minister of State (I/C) for Statistics & Programme Implementation & MoS for Chemicals & Fertilizers, Secretary Shipping, Shri K. Mohandas and other dignitaries were also present on this occasion. Source: http://pib.nic.in/
Bulk Carrier "Panormitis D" passing Cuxhaven bound for Stade. Wonderful to see 29-year-old bulkers still in service !
Aker Solutions secures frame agreement with Talisman Energy Norge AS
Aker Solutions has been awarded a frame agreement for engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning (EPCI) for Talisman Energy's maintenance and modifications projects on the Norwegian continental shelf, the Company press release said. Scope of work includes studies, engineering, procurement, fabrication, offshore installation and commissioning (EPCI) and maintenance services. The fixed contract duration is three years from January 2012 to December 2014, with an option for six further years. Studies, EPCI and maintenance and modifications will be managed from Stavanger, and prefabrication will take place at Aker Solutions' Egersund-yard. Although the contract
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contains no firm spending commitment, the anticipated contract value for the initial three-year agreement is approximately NOK 870 million.
"We are very pleased to be working for Talisman Energy - an important operator in the North Sea, and look forward to collaborating with them on further development of their operating assets offshore," says Tore Sjursen, executive vice president for maintenance and modifications in Aker Solutions.
Contract parties are Aker Solutions subsidiary Aker Solutions MMO AS and Talisman Energy Norge AS. Aker Solutions ASA, through its subsidiaries and affiliates ("Aker Solutions"), is a leading global oil services company that provides engineering services, technologies, product solutions and field-life solutions for the oil and gas industry. The Aker Solutions group is organised in a number of separate legal entities. Aker Solutions is used as the common brand/trademark for most of these entities. Aker Solutions' parent company is Aker Solutions ASA. Aker Solutions has aggregated annual revenues of approximately NOK 35 billion and employs approximately 18 000 people in about 30 countries. Source : PortNews
BOURBON creates new unit Bourbon Docking to optimize Class Dockings
A leader in offshore oil and gas marine services, BOURBON opens Bourbon Docking, an organization located in Dubai, to manage the Class Dockings of vessels, for all BOURBON affiliates, allowing the Group to reach its 2015 target rate of 95% vessel availability, the Company press release said. According to BOURBON 2015 Leadership Strategy plan, the Group’s growth strategy is based on the mass-building of vessels in series. This initiative substantially reduces costs, not only for construction and procurement but also, just as importantly, for vessel maintenance.
Bourbon Docking will optimize the benefits of this strategy. “Due to the rapid growth of BOURBON’s fleet, the company will standardize Class Dockings using common specifications for all sister ships,” explains Stéphane Burgaud, Bourbon Docking Managing Director. With its dedicated team of experts (project & docking superintendents, purchasing &logistic officers,), Bourbon Docking will centralize purchases through one single entity, minimize vessel downtime and increase reliability, thanks to permanent local stocks of spare parts and a network of in-house technicians sharing best practices across all BOURBON affiliates. In 2012, 50% of all Class Dockings will be managed from Dubai and in 2013, all Class Dockings for BOURBON vessels will be managed by Bourbon Docking. Dubai was a strategic choice of location for Bourbon Docking as it allows for business to be conducted with Asia during morning hours, and with Africa and America in the afternoon hours. Dubai is also an important logistics hub, where the process of chartering Superintendents will be easier and faster. This strategic location in Dubai also allows BOURBON to limit the impact of the euro/dollar exchange rate.
“Bourbon Docking complements BOURBON’s existing maintenance program, which includes a worldwide network of Bourbon Repair Centers as well as the continuous available supply of critical spare parts - the vessel’s “showstoppers” - for vessels located around the world. BOURBON’s highly efficient maintenance program is made possible by our built-in-series strategy,” explains Fabien Monleau, BOURBON Vice President Maintenance. We are confident in our ability to reach the ‘BOURBON 2015 Leadership Strategy’ target rate of at least 95% vessel availability for BOURBON’s fleet by
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2015.” Paris-headquartered BOURBON is a major international player in offshore oil and gas marine services. The Group has operations in sixteen countries providing marine and subsea survices. Source : PortNews
The MARY ARCTICA arrived in Cape Town to load 150 x 40' reefer boxes bound for Rotterdam.
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Cayman Islands dredging plan arouses concern The Cayman Islands News Service says a coastal works application made by a Dart owned company to dredge two canals in land at Vista Norte in the West Bay area "will have an irreversible adverse impact on the marine environment in the North Sound," government conservation experts have warned. According to a memo sent by the Department of the Environment to the ministry regarding the application, the two canals will destroy over 138,000ft2 of sea grass and remove over 161,000 cubic yards of material.
The work’s application by Crymble Land Holdings for the proposed canals - one 2,135ft in length and the second more than 1,500ft - are to serve a proposed canal-based hotel and tourism development and take almost three years to dredge. The details of the application and the DoE’s concerns were revealed in a memo released following a freedom of information request made by a CNS reader.
Cayman Island News Service said the memo shows that the DoE recommended that the application made in September be held in abeyance until a masterplan has been submitted for the entire development, which covers some 340 acres. The DoE’s environmental assessment officer stated in the memo that the department would need to see a “full and robust justification” for the extensive dredging works because of the adverse impact it would have. However, the agent was unable to supply the DoE with any information as the plans were not completed. The department official pointed out that government would be negligent to authorize these significant dredging works without seeing a plan for the development.
The department also recommended that a full Environmental Impact Assessment be undertaken on the project with the terms of reference being established by a specially convened environmental advisory board. This is a requirement that the developer would be obligated to undertake if the stalled National Conservation Bill had been passed. "The issue of dredging continues to raise controversy as developers seek ways to provide access to the ocean for the wealthy boat owners that they hope to serve with their high-end projects. But the impact of dredging on the local marine environment can be devastating. Local conservation experts have warned that dredging continues to be one of the most significant threats to the local marine environment and should be avoided wherever possible," the report claimed. Source : Dredging News Online
Ezra profit stays flat Offshore firm Ezra's first quarter net profit stayed flat year-on-year even as revenue more than doubled. Net profit for the quarter stood at $13.3m while revenue rose to $180.5m from $75.9m a year ago. The increase in revenue was attributed to stronger contributions from its offshore support services division, marine services division and subsea services division, Ezra said. Looking ahead, the Singapore-listed firm is “cautiously optimistic that the outlook on the oil and gas industries will be positive in the next 12 months”. Deepwater development and production is expected to drive the industry in the next few years, it added. Source : Seatrade Asia
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