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Number 055 *** COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS *** Monday 26-02-2007 News reports received from readers and Internet News articles taken from various news sites.

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België krijgt 2 miljoen schadevergoeding voor ramp met Tricolor De eigenaar van het containerschip Tricolor betaalt België 2 miljoen euro schadevergoeding. Het schip zonk eind 2002 voor de Franse kust en zorgde voor zware vervuiling aan de Belgische stranden. De Tricolor zonk in december 2002 na een aanvaring met het schip De Kariba voor de kust van Duinkerke. De car carrier, dat zo'n 3.000 nieuwe luxeauto's aan boord had, zonk binnen de dertig minuten. Het schip van de Noorse reder Wilhemsen had 2.000 ton zware stookolie aan boord. Bij het overpompen van die olie tijdens de bergingswerken kwam 170 ton olie in zee terecht. Verzekeraars raamden de totale schade van de ramp op 170 miljoen euro. PSi-Daily Shipping News

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DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2007 – 055 Aan de Belgische kust alleen al werden in drie weken tijd niet minder dan 9.177 vogels opgeraapt. Het zou nog tot maart 2003 duren vooraleer alle olie langs de Belgische kust was opgeruimd. Tijdens de verdere spectaculaire bergingswerken van het wrak ontsnapte nog verschillende keren nog olie. De federale regering schoot de kustgemeenten het geld voor de opruiming van de olie op de stranden voor. ,,Dankzij de goede samenwerking van de verschillende federale diensten is de opkuis op zee en aan onze kust heel vlot verlopen'', zegt minister van Noordzee Renaat Landuyt (SP.A). ,,Ik ben verheugd dat de kosten nu ook snel worden vergoed door de eigenaar van de Tricolor.'' De twee miljoen euro is een minnelijke schikking. Wilhemsen is nog altijd in een kluwen van rechtszaken verwikkeld waarin alle betrokken partijen de schade op elkaar proberen te verhalen. Een rechtbank in de VS kwam begin dit jaar tot het oordeel dat het aanvarende schip, de onder de vlag van de Bahama's varende Kariba, volledig verantwoordelijk was voor het verlies van lading van de Tricolor. De Kariba zou in de dichte mist zijn uitgeweken voor een ander vaartuig, en daardoor de Tricolor hebben geramd. De eigenaar van de Kariba, de rederij OT Africa Line, ging echter in beroep tegen die beslissing. ,,Onze minnelijke schikking staat los van al die rechtszaken'', zegt Landuyt. ,,Wij zijn zeker dat we het geld snel krijgen.''

Seatrade’s POLARLIGHT seen enroute Rotterdam Photo : Henk van der Heijden ©

Crew Goes Over The Side The Royal Falkland Islands Police is investigating the case of twelve crew members who abandoned a Taiwanese flagged fishing vessel anchored in Stanley Harbour. The two phase maritime incident according to a release from the Royal Falkland Islands Police begun Monday evening, 17:00 hours when a report was received from the Falkland Islands Company Limited Shipping Agency that ten crewmen had jumped over the side of the Jih Da Gan, a fishing vessel at anchor in Stanley Harbour, in a bid to reach the north shore. “FIC launches were in the area very quickly and eight of the crewmen were found and taken to the East Jetty where they were transferred to KEMH hospital”, indicates the release. PSi-Daily Shipping News

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DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2007 – 055 A further search was commenced with the Fire & Rescue Service and the FI Defence Force being deployed to the Camber area. Launch crews carried out a detailed and concentrated search of the water, beaches and the country side, while a rescue helicopter joined the task covering the entire area including an infrared search. At 23:00 hours the search was called off. The eight survivors spent the night in KEMH and were provided with clothes and toiletries by the Seaman’s Mission. The survivors are being interviewed as part of an investigation by the Royal Falkland Islands Police into the incident. But early Tuesday morning it was reported that two further crewmen left the vessel belonging to the Wa Da Fichery Co Ltd. Meantime efforts continue to locate the two missing persons who are believed to have perished. On Saturday (24 Feb) police officers attended the fishing vessel . A member of the crew was arrested and taken to Stanley Police Station. The vessel is now a crime scene and police Scenes of Crimes Officers will be working on her throughout the day. According to reports from the local fishing community, at this time of year, Falkland Island waters begins to fill up with fishing vessels, like the Jih Da Gan. These vessels, mainly from Taiwan and Korea, are known as ‘jiggers’ due to their fishing method, which involves continuous fishing lines with bright plastic lures running in a jerky manner over eccentric cams. The jiggers call into Stanley to pick up fishing licences at the beginning of the catching season in Falklands waters for the Illex squid. This fish, which is sold to the Far East, is the principal cash crop of the Falkland Islands fishery. Clipper-bowed, with low superstructures, obscured by the davits from which the fishing lines are deployed, and the racks of powerful halogen lamps which attract the prey, these vessels streaked with rust and stained with squid ink, have a somewhat rugged, even piratical air about them. Their crews, recruited from anywhere in the world where labour is cheap, may go several years without getting home and rarely set foot on land. Anecdotal accounts of systematic brutality practised aboard these vessels, and at least one prosecution in the past, have caused rumblings of discontent in the Falklands over the years. Legal action, however, has been difficult, due to lack of evidence, language difficulties and the fact that while operating within the Falkland Islands Fishing Zone, the vessels are at the same time, usually outside the country’s legal jurisdiction.

Police Force Entry

Police armed with battering rams stormed a Greenpeace ship Friday (23 Feb) when it blockaded Faslane nuclear base. Ministry of Defence officers swooped on the "Arctic Sunrise" when protesters refused to budge from the Clyde home of the UK's Trident submarines. Greenpeace spokesman Ben Stewart said: "Police smashed their way on to the bridge." Forty-five people were arrested. The Royal Navy said the ship would be berthed until protesters were removed. PSi-Daily Shipping News

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The Kang Shen Kou seen loading modules in Batam for Woodside Australia. Photo : Dennis Brouwer ©

Pirates hijack UN-chartered ship near Somalia

Pirates hijacked a UN-chartered freighter off the coast of northeastern Somalia Sunday after the ship delivered food aid to the stricken nation. It was the first time pirates hijacked a boat near Somalia since Ethiopian troops helped government fighters oust a powerful Islamist movement from Mogadishu late last year. The incident has stoked fears of a new surge in once-rampant piracy.

The freighter, MV Rozen, was seized after delivering 1,800 tonnes of food aid to the towns of Bosasso and Berbera in the Somali region of Puntland, UN World Food Programme spokeswoman Stephanie Savariaud told AFP. The vessel was headed to to its home port in Mombasa, Kenya. "It was hijacked this morning at about 9:30 am (0630 GMT) ... near the town of Bargal," she said, days after Kenyan officials warned of a possible resurgence of piracy off the Horn of Africa. "As it was heading home, the heavily-armed pirates emerged from a motorboat, they jumped in the ship and seized it," Andrew Mwangura, of the international Seafarers Assistance Programme told AFP. "The captain managed to communicate somehow to Sri Lanka. Then the message was sent to Mombasa before the gunmen cut off communications." The identity of the pirates remains unknown, but such attacks in the past been blamed on a well organised cartel of Somalis who usually use speed boats mounted with machine guns. An official from the Motaku Shipping Company that chartered the boat confirmed from Bosasu that it had been hijacked off the semi-autonomous region of Puntland. He said the ship was carrying a flag from the Caribbean islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. "We are not sure where the ship is right now," Abdulaziz Mohamed Hamud told AFP by telephone. The vessel had 12 crew members -six Sri Lankans, including the captain, and six Kenyans. "I do not know what I will tell the relatives of the crew when they start camping outside my office tomorrow," Motaku company manager Karim Kudrath told AFP by telephone from the head office in Mombasa. Kudrath said it was the PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 5 2/25/2007

DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2007 – 055 fourth time one of the company's ships had been hijacked off Somalia. The MV Rozen itself narrowly escaped an attempted hijack off Somalia last March after another UN humanitarian delivery. "We are the only shipping company that has agreed to take food to Somalia," Kudrath said. "I am very doubtful if we will continue to offer our services to Somalia. It is getting very difficult for us." WFP warned that such acts of piracy would undermine the delivery of relief food to Somalia and further aggravate the desperate humanitarian situation there. "This is an indication that piracy has returned to Somalia," Mwangura said. Waters off the unpatrolled 3,700-kilometer (2,300-mile) Somali coastline saw scores of pirate attacks between March 2005 and June last year, when Islamists seized Mogadishu and then moved into much of southern and central Somalia. Earlier this month, Kenyan maritime officials monitoring the pirate-infested east African coast said raiders had returned to the Somali settlement of Haradere, about 300 kilometres (185 miles) north of Mogadishu, after briefly scattering in the face of Islamist rule.

OPENING EUROPEES HOOFDKANTOOR HOLLAND AMERICA LINE Woensdagavond 28 februari opent burgemeester Ivo Opstelten in Rotterdam het Europese hoofdkantoor van de Holland America Line (HAL). De ceremonie begint om 18.00 uur bij het nieuwe kantoor op de zesde etage van de laagbouw van Montevideo, Otto Reuchlinweg 1110 (net voor Hotel New York, het voormalige hoofdkantoor van de HAL). Na de bezichtiging verplaatst het gezelschap zich te voet naar de voormalige passagiersterminal van de HAL aan de Wilhelminakade. Daar is nu Cruise Port Rotterdam gevestigd. Hier wordt de officiële plechtigheid omstreeks 19.15 uur afgesloten met een vuurwerk.

CASUALTY REPORTING

Indonesische veerboot gekapseisd

Een Indonesische veerboot die donderdag in de Javazee in brand vloog is zondag omgeslagen terwijl inspecteurs, politiemensen en journalisten aan boord de schade bekeken. Daarbij is zeker één persoon om het leven gekomen. Drie mensen worden vermist. Eerder op de dag was bekendgemaakt dat het dodental van de brand was opgelopen van 24 tot 42. Het schip sloeg om na naar de haven van Jakarta te zijn gesleept en daar voor anker te zijn gelegd. Volgens getuigen verdween het schip vrijwel volledig onder water.

De veerboot had meer dan 330 passagiers aan boord toen er donderdag op het autodek brand uitbrak in een vrachtwagen. Het vuur verspreidde zich snel en de meeste passagiers sprongen in zee en meer dan 290 van hen werden gered. In het weekeinde werden ongeveer vijftig kilometer verwijderd van de plek waar het schip in brand vloog de lichamen van achttien slachtoffers gevonden, onder wie een baby. Toen het schip zondag omsloeg waren er zestien mensen aan boord. Een cameraman verdronk en nog een cameraman plus twee politiemannen worden vermist. Zeker vier mensen zouden ernstig gewond zijn geraakt. Het PSi-Daily Shipping News

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DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2007 – 055 gezelschap was pas vijf minuten aan boord toen de veerboot omsloeg, zei een journalist die zichzelf ternauwernood wist te redden. Hij zei ook dat veel van de journalisten geen zwemvest droegen.

VESSEL ON FIRE IN KISMAYU

A huge inferno has destroyed a commercial vessel docked in the port of Kismayu, 500 km south of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday (24 Feb). Witnesses said people were loading charcoal on the vessel when it caught fire which destroyed the whole boat. The burned vessel was the last contracted one to export charcoal form Somalia to the Emirates after the Somali transitional government imposed ban on the export of charcoal from Somalia. The ban was affective on Saturday morning at 8:00 am local time. The fire has threatened other commercials ships in Kismayu port. It is not yet known what sparked the fire.

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The US Coast Guard cutter WMEC 903 HARRIET LANE visited the port of Willemstad (Curacao) Photo : Els Kroon © PSi-Daily Shipping News

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Indian Coast Guard stepping out of Navy's shadow The Coast Guard may be the youngest of the armed forces but it is inching closer towards establishing a formidable identity of its own. And its efforts to step out of the "Navy's shadow" were backed by Defence Minister AK Antony, who said on Sunday that the Coast Guard would be provided more ships, aircraft, surveillance equipment and unmanned aerial vehicles to make it a reckonable force in the Indian Ocean Region. He said the extension of the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) after the delineation of the continental shelf would place additional responsibilities on the Coast Guard. "It is mandated with the task of protecting 2.01 million square kms of India's EEZ. But in the new scenario, its responsibilities will extend beyond 3 million square kms," Antony said after reviewing a Coast Guard fleet to mark its 30th anniversary. As part of a campaign to enhance its "deepwater capabilities", the Coast Guard has formulated its 15-year perspective plan for the acquisition of 15 new ships and 23 aircraft during 2007-2022. Antony assured that its requirements would be met. The air assets sought by the Coast Guard, which operates Dorniers and Chetaks, include multi-mission maritime aircraft, twin-engine helicopters and UAVs for sharpening its surveillance capabilities. Coast Guard Director General Vice Admiral Rusi Contractor said the force's responsibilities had increased manifold since its creation 30 years ago in terms of protecting India's maritime interests, marine wealth and ocean resources. To effectively meet the challenges of its varied roles, the Coast Guard will be expanding its fleet in the near future with the induction of five fast patrol boats, two advanced offshore patrol vessels, three pollution control vessels, three inshore patrol vessels and 11 interceptor boats. It has commissioned new stations at Pondicherry, Beypore and Kakinada to bridge the surveillance gap along the Coromandel and Malabar coasts. These stations assume significance in the light of oil and gas finds off Chennai and in the Krishna Godavari basin. Antony emphasised that the Coast Guard needed bigger ships, more infrastructure and additional manpower keeping in view its diversified role. The force has also been appointed the focal agency in the country to combat piracy and armed robbery under the Regional Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia — a pact signed by 16 countries. Antony said the force, under a home ministry initiative, was also assisting several states to set up maritime police stations and train police personnel under the coastal guarantee scheme. The objective of the move is to ensure that small dinghies and craft cannot be used to land contraband to the Indian shores.

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Norfolk repairer plans more dredging

The Virginian-Pilot reports that topsides repair specialist Marine Hydraulics International Inc. plans more dredging to expand operations at its Lamberts Point, Norfolk, Va., shipyard. The newspaper reports that the company has applied to dredge 119,000 cubic yards of Elizabeth River bottom at its Midtown yard near the West Ghent neighborhood, so it can bring in large Navy berthing barges.


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DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2007 – 055 The newspaper quotes Gary Brandt, MHI's president and chief executive, as saying the work would be added to a dredging permit MHI received a year ago as part of plans to install a dry dock alongside a pier it built in 2004 to accommodate large-deck Navy ships and commercial vessels. The company has not purchased a dry dock and will not until all permits are in hand. "Eventually, we will have a dry dock," the newspaper quotes Brandt as saying. "I can't give you anything firm. The permitting process takes a long time, and I don't want to spend $30 million on a dock and not be able to get a permit

The Leonard Tide seen moored in FLT Onne, Nigeria Photo : Eric Peute ©

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Harms bergung GmbH reported that their tug VARIUS is sold, she is just completing her final voyage before sailing to Rotterdam – Parkkade where the tug will be renamed in FOS MED. Photo : Richard Wisse ©

SAVANNAH ONDERZOEK ZEEBODEM

Het onderzoekschip Savannah onderzocht de afgelopen anderhalve week de zeebodem in de buurt van Piscadera. De bodem moet in kaart worden gebracht tot een diepte van 900 meter in verband met het zeewaterkoelingsproject van Aqualectra. Op die diepte heerst een temperatuur van 5.5 graden Celsius. Het ligt in de bedoeling dat Piscadera over veertien maanden beschikt over zeewater-airco. Photo : Kees Bustraan © Het idée is dit koude water op te pompen en hiermee via een warmtewisselaar gebouwen te koelen. Gekozen is voor Piscadera omdat hier Hilton, Marriott en het WTC liggen. Deze zeewater-airco is eveneens in staat het Holiday Beach hotel en Aqualectragebouw op Mundo Nobo te koelen. Volgens Aqualectra besparen de genoemde gebouwen met dit duurzame system 20 tot 50 procent van de huidige energiekosten. PSi-Daily Shipping News

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DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2007 – 055 Het bodem onderzoek duurt tot zaterdag. Opdrachtgever tot het onderzoek is Seacon International. De uivoering van de bodemscans ligt bij OIC. Met een zogeheten multi beam sonar en side bed sonar wordt het gebied voor de Piscaderabaai met een totaaloppervlakte van 15 vierkante kilometer in kaart gebracht. De scan lever teen diepteprofiel van de zee en is medebepalend voor waar de aanzuigpijp word gelegd.

EIDE TRANSPORTER LOADED AGAIN WITH RIVER CRUISE VESSEL Last Wednesday - 21st February 2007 - the dockvessel "Eide Transporter" returned in Rotterdam in order to load another river-cruise vessel wioth destination Foss-sur-Mer. This river-cruise vessel, named "Swiss Pearl", owned by Scylla Tours, smoothly entered the submerged dockhold of the "Eide Transporter" and the loading operation was completed successfully within four hours time.

After completion of the lashing, the m.s. "Eide Transporter" departed from Rotterdam on Thursday morning 22nd February 2007, bound for Foss-sur-Mer, where arrival is expected on 1st March 2007, whereafter Scylla Tours will commence their river-cruise operations on the Rhône. Chartering of the "Eide Transporter" and coordination of this transport was arranged by/through Landfall Transport & Towage bv of Sliedrecht, Holland.

Suez Offers Discounts Suez Canal Authority is planning to offer transit fee discounts during March to Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference members, quotes Fairplay a Bloomberg report.


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DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2007 – 055 The move is a bid to win a greater share of the US-Asia trade. Sayed Zakaria, director of the canal authority's transit department, commented: "Suez will go East and West to maximise its share of world trade before the Panama Canal upgrades capacity". There was no indication of the size of discount. The SCA believes that US West Coast congestion and increasing rail freight costs could encourage the all-water route to East Coast ports using either Panama or Suez. It wants to compete with Panama's increased capacity on completion of its expansion plans.

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Seen in Wellington, New Zealand. The Kupe and Toia, 2 really nice tugs. Photo : Tim Lodder – Statendam © From Monday 26th February @ 0800hrs to Thursday 1st March the Indian Navy sail training craft INS TARANGINI is visiting Valletta to berth @ Pinto 4 close to Pinto 3 wharf.

The UNION MANTA seen operating in the Gulf of Mexico Photo : Chris Pietquin © PSi-Daily Shipping News

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The newest Wagenborg vessel Ambassadeur seen passing Cuxhaven. The General Cargo built by Ferus Smit is in service since 12/02/2006. Photo : Marion & Helge Barth ©

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