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DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 265

Number 265***DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER***Wednesday 22-12-2004 THIS NEWSLETTER IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY :

VLIERODAM WIRE ROPES Ltd. wire ropes, chains, hooks, shackles, webbing slings, lifting beams, crane blocks, turnbuckles etc. Binnenbaan 36 3161VB RHOON The Netherlands Telephone: (+31)105018000 (+31) 105015440 (a.o.h.) Fax : (+31)105013843 Internet & E-mail www.vlierodam.nl [email protected]

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THE ELBE GALLERY

This section of the newsletter is temporarily reserved for companies which donated 500 Euro or more to save the ocean going tug ELBE. Until now we have received from the following companies the above amount : www.smit.com Waalhaven O.Z. 85 Port number 2204 3087 BM Rotterdam Tel : + 31 (0)10 454 99 11

Kahn Scheepvaart Van Vollenhovenstraat 3 3016 BE Rotterdam tel : + 31(0) 10 – 41346 30 [email protected]

D. Touw Expertise- en Ingenieursbureau b.v [email protected] Waalhaven ZZ 10 3088 HH Rotterdam Tel: +31 (0)10 2836666.

[email protected] Radarweg 36, 1042 AA Amsterdam Tel: +31-(0)20-4488300

[email protected] P.O. Box 37196 1030 AD AMSTERDAM el: +31-(0)20-686 66 31


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DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 265 [email protected] OPDR Netherlands Agencies B.V. Seattleweg 17 3195 ND Rotterdam Tel: +31 – (0)10- 7980772 [email protected] ALPHATRON MARINE Schaardijk 23 3063 NH ROTTERDAM Tel: +31 –(0) 453 4000 www.alphatronmarine.nl HAPO international Ringdijk 486 2933 GS RIDDERKERK Tel : + 31 (0) 180 41 46 71 UNIFLEET BV - Shipmanagement [email protected] Scherpdeel 28 4703 RJ Roosendaal Tel: +31-(0)165 578444 CLEARWATER GROUP Scheepvaartweg 3A 3356 LL Papendrecht Tel.: +31.(0)78.6410440 [email protected] Rederij WATERWEG bv Het Nieuwe Diep 39D 1781 AE Den Helder Phone +31 223 615 666 www.waterweg.nl

SOENEN BVBA OOSTKAMP BELGIUM [email protected]

SMITWIJS OCEAN TOWAGE Westplein 5b 3016 BM Rotterdam Telephone: +31 10 412 6969 E-mail: [email protected]

Seaspan C/O 2700 – 200 Granville Street Vancouver BC Canada Tel: (604) 482 8776 [email protected]


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DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 265 Samuel Stewart & Co 1 Tranquil Vale Blackheath London SE3 0BU Tel: 020 8297 7474 www.stewartgroup.co.uk

LKL Oceantrade, Inc. Adriaen Banckerstraat 8 3115 JE Schiedam Phone +31-10-4129622 [email protected]

LEKKO I.T.E.S P.O.Box 400 1970 AK IJMUIDEN [email protected] Bonn & Mees Sluisjesdijk 123 3087 AE Rotterdam Phone +31(0)10 - 429 05 44 [email protected]

Vopak Agencies Rotterdam BV Droogdokweg 71 3089 JN Rotterdam tel +31 10 2942222 (24 hrs) [email protected]

Sledge Hammer Engineering International b.v. Ringdijk 486 2983 GS Ridderkerk Tel.: +31 180 41 37 28

STICHTING NATIONAAL SLEEPVAART MUSEUM

HvS Dredging Support B.V. Noorderhaven 96 8861 AR, Harlingen The Netherlands Tel. +31 (0) 517 413588 [email protected]


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DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 265 HA-CE MARINE BV Specerijenhof 53 3063 BX Rotterdam Tel. + 31 10 212 2322 [email protected] HEEREMA MARINE CONTRACTORS Vondellaan 47 PO Box 9321 2300 PH Leiden Tel : + 31 (0) 71 579 90 00 www.heerema.com

SVITZER WIJSMULLER Sluisplein 34 IJmuiden Tel : (0) 31 255 56 26 66 www.svitzerwijsmuller.com ATLAS SERVICES GROEP Westersingel 91 3015 LC ROTTERDAM Telephone: +31 10 2411040 e-mail: [email protected] www.atlasgroep.nl

URS Noorderlaan 139 2030 Antwerpen Tel : + 32 (0) 3 545 11 20 [email protected]

DE KIL BV DORDRECHT Pieter Hoebeeweg 99, 3316 BT Dordrecht tel. +31 (0)78 648 29 29 [email protected] Multraship B.V. Scheldekade 48 4531 EH Terneuzen Tel: +31 115 645000 www.multraship.nl

Wagenborg Sleepdiensten Marktstraat 10 / P.O Box 14 9930 AA Delfzijl tel + 31 (0) 596 63 69 11 [email protected]


Anglo Dutch Shipbrokers bvba Petrus Bogaertslaan 31 2970 Schilde Belgium Tel : + 32 3 464 26 09 [email protected] Broere Shipping Wieldrechtseweg 50 3316 BG Dordrecht Tel : 31 (0) 78 6528428 [email protected]

Falconer, Bryan & Associate Pte Ltd 20 Maxwell Road #03-02 MAXWELL HOUSE Singapore 069113 Tel: + 65 - 6222-9282 [email protected]

Harms Bergung, Transport & Heavy lift GmbH Johannisbollwerk 20 D-20459 Hamburg tel + 49 (0) 40 31 77 22-0 [email protected]

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DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 265 Kotug International B.V. Parklaan 2, 3016 BB Rotterdam tel. +31 (0)10 2170217 www.kotug.nl

MTS Europroducts BV Heldringstraat 4A ZW 3144 CG Maassluis tel. + 31 (0)10 5991 599 [email protected]

NUTEC Rotterdam B.V. Beerweg 101 Harbour No 7033 3199 LM Rotterdam Maasvlakte tel : + 31 (0) 181 362 394 [email protected]

MCS International Marine Services Bijdorpplein 41 2992 LB Barendrecht tel : + 31 (0)180 641 690 [email protected]

Intershitra S&P Blijdorpplein 41 2992 LB Barendrecht tel : 31 (0) 180 641 630 [email protected] SMIT South Africa 31 Carisle Street Paarden Eiland 7405 Cape Town South Africa Phone +27 21 5075777 E-mail [email protected]

RISC Fire & Safety Training BV Beerweg 101 3199 LM Rotterdam Maasvlakte tel : +31 181 376 666 Fairplay Schleppdampfschiffs-Reederei Richard Borchard GmbH Stubbenhuk 10 20459 Hamburg / Germany Tel. +49-40-374999-0 (24 hrs) [email protected]

TITAN Salvage USA 410 S.W. 4th Ter. Dania, FL 33004 P.O. Box 350465 Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33335 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Tel : 954-929-5200 www.titansalvage.com


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International Transport Contractors Herenweg 133 2105 MG Heemstede Tel : + 31 (0) 23 548 5200 [email protected]

DISA Maritime Emiel Vermeulenstraat 160 2980 Zoersel (Belgium) tel : + 32 (0) 3 385 17 27 [email protected]

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DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 265 ISKES towing & Salvage B.V. Min.van Houtenlaan 108 1981 EK Velsen Zuid tel : + 31 (0) 255 - 510 182 [email protected] Scheepswerf De Haas Govert van Wijnkade 1 Postbus 2 3140 AA Maassluis tel : + 31 (0) 10 5913511 [email protected]

Vlierodam B.V. Binnenbaan 36 3161 VB Rhoon Tel : + 31 (0)10 5018000 [email protected]

Marint (Offshore Services) Ltd Stags Court 1B High Street Thames Ditton KT7 0SD Surrey – United kingdom Tel: + 44 - 020 8398 9833 www.marint.co.uk Ahoy' exhibition, congress & event management Johan Teunisse Phone: +31 10 293 32 07 E-mail: [email protected] FLANDERS Shiprepair Noordzeestraat 14 8380 ZEEBRUGGE (BELGIUM) tel : +32 50 33 70 50 tel : +32 3 233 54 74 e-mail : [email protected] Tenwolde Marine Equipment Boonsweg 19 3274 LH Heinenoord tel : 31 186 60 33 33 [email protected] HOLLAND MARINE EQUIPMENT Postbus 24074 3007 DB Rotterdam tel : + 31 10 44 44 333 [email protected]


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STENA LINE Stationsweg 10 3151 HS Hoek van Holland Tel : + 31 (0) 174 389333 www.stenaline.nl [email protected]

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Today STENA LINE at Hook of Holland joined the Elbe Gallery Thanks for your support !!

Save the ELBE Giro rekening No 8145443 Att : Piet Sinke - Stationsweg 21 - 3151 HR Hoek van Holland

The score until today : 37900 Euro Terugkomend op het onverwachte overlijden van

MARTINUS KLAAS VAN TOLEDO wilde de samensteller van de nieuwsbrief U informeren dat de afscheidsdienst zal worden gehouden op vrijdag 24 december om 14:00 uur in de Welkomskerk, Hoogvlietlaan 23 te Rockanje, waarna de begrafenis plaats zal vinden op de begraafplaats van de Dirk van Voornelaan te Rockanje Voorafgaande aan de dienst is er van 13:15 tot 13:45 uur gelegenheid om afscheid te nemen van MAR in de kerk. Na afloop van de begrafenis is er gelegenheid om de familie te condoleren in de aula op de begraafplaats. De samensteller van de Scheepvaart Nieuwsbrief wenst Ida, de kinderen en kleinkinderen veel sterkte om dit onverwachte verlies te kunnen verwerken.

EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS Fire, flooding on failed ferry

THE Tirrenia ferry Vincenzo Florio limped back to Palermo, on the island of Sicily, yesterday morning with a 20° list following an electrical failure and a fire. The 30,757gt ro-ro vessel lost electrical power in 7m seas and force 8 winds. It was adrift for four hours with 472 passengers on board. During that time a fire then broke out on the garage deck. An investigation is to be carried out, but initial suspicions are that the cause was shifting of trailers. The water used to extinguish the fire subsequently caused the vessel to list 20° to port. The Tirrenia di Navigazone-owned and operated ferry was 20 n-miles off Sicily en route to Naples when the incident occurred. No injuries to passengers have been reported. The stern door of the ferry is expected to be opened some time this afternoon to allow the 100 cars and several trailers still on the vessel to be taken off.

Tough battle against oil spill amid icy seas It was 11:30 a.m., barely an hour after sunrise, yet the day already seemed remarkably similar to the last: Awakened before 6 a.m. from his cramped berth on the tug Redeemer, Halama was dumped by a skiff on a remote shore to cordon off the same stream as yesterday.


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DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 265 Nearly two weeks after a Malaysian freighter split in two in a wildlife refuge off the uninhabited side of the Aleutian island of Unalaska, cleanup crews trying to corral the vessel's syrupy leaking oil are still wrestling to maintain every inch of progress. As the region enters winter — and the crippled Selendang Ayu is believed to be gushing even more chocolate-colored bunker fuel from its broken halves — a day spent with work crews highlights just how grueling this cleanup may prove to be. Laborers are hamstrung by mismatched or improvised gear and frigid, blustery seas that can kill in a moment. With a mere six hours of Alaskan daylight and the possibility of temperatures that, with wind chill, are below zero Fahrenheit, wet socks alone can be enough to halt a day's work. "I'll tell you what: I'm used to the rivers in Montana, where I could walk across them barefoot," Halama said. "But when your boots fill up with this water, you know pain." The wreck is 18 miles as the crow flies from the tiny fishing village of Dutch Harbor, but no roads lead over the black volcanic peaks in between. And mountains around the crippled ship jut so abruptly from the sea that even satellitetelephone or radio communication is often spotty. Scott Halama, his cheeks crimson from biting winds, dragged a yellow oil boom across an estuary, straining to refashion a barrier destroyed by the night's raging surf. "I called up the other day and said 'We need 2,000 feet of boom,' and then it was like 'Huh?, What? Say again? You're breaking up,' " said Scot Tiernan, an expert on oil-spill responses with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, who is helping coordinate cleanup for workers onboard the salvage tug Redeemer. "We eventually got the boom, but it wasn't like going down to the corner store." An oil boom is a long, ungainly strip of heavy cylindrical plastic that, when laid into the water, traps oil at the surface and several inches below. Deliveries of everything from drinking water to coffee pots to the rakes and shovels workers use to scrape oiled rocks from the beach require a tricky six-hour one-way boat trip across swollen winter seas, a churning ride so uncomfortable that some Bering Sea veterans lose their lunch. And ferrying goods to workers are a few fishing-boat captains and their crews, most of whom have been operating on three to five hours of sleep a night for a week. "I don't think I can do this for another 100 days," said a baggy-eyed Denny Knagin, a crabber and crewman aboard the Sirene, which has been transporting equipment from Dutch Harbor to the Redeemer and other work-boats virtually around the clock.


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DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 265 In fact, much of what workers have accomplished thus far is a tribute in part to brute strength and stubborn perseverance. Multiple layers of protective booms now block oil from a half-dozen streams and tributaries each in Makushin and Skan bays, though oil in some cases has breached the first barrier, and there's no telling how long others will last. "Ideally, you'd have someone tending to these booms all day after putting them down, because oil a foot thick is eventually going to go where it wants," said Tiernan, with the state. "We don't have the resources for that." Six crew members of the Selendang Ayu died in a roiling storm off Unalaska Dec. 7 after a Coast Guard helicopter crashed while attempting to rescue the men from their powerless, drifting vessel. As the National Transportation Safety Board struggles to figure out everything that went wrong during the 40 hours after the ship lost power, a command team led by the ship's owner, the Coast Guard and the state are trying to figure out how to fix the mess left behind. More than 40,000 gallons of bunker fuel are known to have drained from the busted ship, settling in a few marshy areas and along several miles of coastline within the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, a region popular with hundreds of wintering sea and shorebirds, marine mammals, shellfish and salmon. At least five birds have died, along with a sea otter, but bird experts and federal officials have spent little time on the shore and expect to find dozens more. Early next month, salvage experts will begin trying to drain some of the ship's intact fuel tanks, but at least two other tanks that once held about 380,000 additional gallons of fuel also are leaking. No one can say at this point how much has spread into the frigid seas. In the major bays near the wreck, workers only recently began attempting to remove oil from marshlands, having focused until then on making sure the oil didn't disturb new areas. Much of that work has been led by one of the same tug crews that tried unsuccessfully to offer the Selendang Ayu aid the night it ran aground: the Magone Marine Salvage's tug, the Redeemer. After the ship broke apart and as gale-force winds whipped up 20-foot seas that swamped its own deck, the Redeemer sailed back to Dutch Harbor and refueled, returning 12 hours later to begin roping off salmon streams. "My daughter just happened to be flying into town that night, and I hadn't seen her in two years," said James Clark, an assistant engineer aboard the Redeemer. "I had time to spend an hour with her at dinner, before we headed back out on the water." At this point no one can say how long Clark will be away. Hours before dawn on a recent morning, Denny Knagin helped pilot stacks of protective booms from his delivery boat to the back deck of the Redeemer, while workers on board the hulking tug prepared old halibut anchors to be used to help hold the booms in place. Inside the ship's galley, the Redeemer's skipper, Dave Magone, prepared a breakfast of eggs, pancakes and hash scooped from a 1-gallon can. After a safety briefing in which Butch Aus recounted the time he and his brother were the only survivors to find their way into a life raft when their boat sank, half the Redeemer's crew donned fullbody orange protective suits and clambered into a waiting skiff. In Pumicestone Bay, where the Redeemer is anchored south and west of the wrecked vessel, no oil has been sighted by the crew, but Halama found the remains of an oiled duck.


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DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 265 "Nothing left but the feathers," he said. "Fox must have got it." "Or an eagle," said Tiernan, who took notes on the find to report to incident command. "How much oil was there?" "Just a finger's worth on the feathers," Halama said. "That's enough to kill a bird," Tiernan replied, adding that birds can ingest it while preening or catch hypothermia when it covers too much of their feathers. The wreck of the Selendang Ayu is so isolated that incident commanders overseeing cleanup have not let "nonessential" personnel near seriously oiled areas. But recently, Halama and Philip Allen Jr. dragged booms across heavily oiled Portage Bay, where a thick, dark greasy smear ran for several miles along the beach. "It was 3- to 5-feet wide, and like a foot thick," Allen said. "When you step in it, you know it; it's really sticky." While Magone filmed Halama and Allen's efforts, a heavily oiled seagull landed on the bow of the Redeemer and began preening. After two days of effort, Halama and two others finally wrangled a yellow boom around the stream outlet during an unusually sunny moment. They were forced to use the halibut anchors, which are made to hold loads at a different angle and have been known in high winds to skitter across the bottom. That patch of rye-grass marsh and freshwater proved easier to protect than another, when frigid winds picked up and a driving snow began. There, after hours of effort, the crew finally pieced together the ends from two different types of booms. The crew stayed on the water until after 7 p.m. Tiernan later cut an end off another sample of boom to take back to Dutch Harbor. "I want to show them what kind of stuff they're sending out here," he said. After a dinner of stew, prepared by Magone, crew members watched a DVD of "Van Helsing" and staggered off to their bunks. In the morning, they'd be headed back to Skan Bay, to start raking gravel from a marsh covered with up to 1,700 feet of oil. As he smoked a cigarette before bed, Aus stepped out for one last bit of snow and windy fresh air, attempting to gauge how rough the next day's journey would be. Choppy whitecaps were blowing just off the Redeemer's bow, and Aus' bearded face settled into a slow grin. "This is a very protected bay," Aus said. "That means out there, it's gonna be ... ," he added, trailing off.

Cargo ship Malmnes makes her way through the ice and vapour created by the extreme cold as the sun sets on the St. Lawrence River, Monday Dec. 20, 2004 in front of Quebec City


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French blockade spoils early Christmas exodus CHRISTMAS spirit on board a cross-Channel ferry was crushed as French fishermen blockaded a busy port, forcing the vessel to return to Britain. Hundreds of passengers — both British and French — travelling from Dover to Boulogne were furious about the action. The fishermen refused to relent and let the SeaFerries catamaran through, however, even when one man on board needed urgent medical help. Protesters lined up 30 boats outside Boulogne-sur-Mer harbour to complain about a European Commission proposal to ban fishing in parts of the North Sea. A further 50 fishing boats also took part in a movement in mid-Channel designed to slow, although not paralyse, all ferry traffic between Britain and France. Demonstrators said ferries would be able to complete journeys to ports such as Calais and Dunkirk, but with delays. Their action came just over a week after Calais and Dunkirk were blockaded for two days by French sailors angry at plans to reorganise the merchant fleet. Despite leaving Dover early yesterday morning to avoid trouble, the SeaFerries catamaran got caught up in the protest. When a diabetic man in his fifties aboard the high-speed ferry needed urgent medical attention, the fishermen refused to let the vessel pass. A doctor on a pilot ship was allowed through the barricade and managed to treat the ill passenger. Ian Proud, 60, was on a cross-Channel day trip to buy alcohol and cheese for his office Christmas party on Wednesday. The public relations consultant, based in St Martin’ s Lane, Central London, said: “The fishermen were totally intransigent. They wouldn’ t let us through. “When we had a medical emergency on board, they still wouldn’ t let us through. They have received absolutely no sympathy from anyone on board.”A SeaFerries spokeswoman said the vessel returned to the UK to drop off passengers who did not wish to travel so late and returned to Boulogne yesterday afternoon. It was not just ferry passengers who faced an arduous journey as Britons tried to make an early break for Christmas. Airports and motorways were teeming with people trying to get away before the real festive rush. Nearly 200,000 people passed through Heathrow yesterday — the busiest day so far. More than one million people were expected to use Heathrow this week, many heading for New York, Dublin and Paris. British Airways said that it would be carrying two million passengers worldwide over the holiday period. The airline said Thursday was expected to be its most hectic day, with 50,000 people jetting off from Heathrow and Gatwick.

AUSTRALIA TO CHECK ON SHIPS UP TO 1,000 MILES OFFSHORE

AS part of revamp of the country’ s maritime security arrangements, Australia is to demand ships bound for its ports identify themselves when they come within 1,000 miles of the coast. Ships not bound for Australian ports are to be required to do the same if they come within 200 miles of the coast.


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DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 265 As part package costing nearly A$200m the federal government will assume direct responsibility for counter-terrorism prevention, interdiction and response in all offshore areas of Australia. Australia’ s states and the Northern Territory will only be responsible for initial counter-terrorism incident response and security arrangements within ports.

CASUALTY REPORT Ferry strikes gas ship in Catania

TWO-year old ferry Trinacria, owned and operated by Tomasos Transport, struck the moored LPG carrier Etagas in the Sicilian port of Catania yesterday. Strong winds and heavy seas forced the 24,400gt ro-pax ferry off course as it was leaving Catania for Naples. No injuries were reported. The Tricacria returned to its berth and all passengers and vehicles were transferred onto another Tomasos ferry, the Partenope, which sailed north 12 hours later.

Selendang Ayu bunker salvage SMIT has won the contract to remove the remaining oil from the stricken bulker Selendang Ayu, aground in two pieces off Unalaska Island, US. This contract is for removal of oil only and not for salvage of the vessel, which is expected to begin in spring when the weather improves. A spokesman of Smit told Fairplay that a team is currently on site preparing a salvage plan. Due to the poor weather conditions, Smit will use a helicopter to lower tank barges onto the vessel's deck. Bunker fuel will then be pumped into the containers which will be replaced by helicopter when full. It is thought there are 1,600 tonnes of bunker fuel on the Selendang Ayu and each tank container can hold about 2.5 tonnes. The removal operation is expected to commence within several days.

NAVY NEWS Two more ''Ghost Fleet'' ships will be scrapped Two more obsolete Ghost Fleet ships on the James River will be scrapped, the U.S. Maritime Administration announced today. Bay Bridge Enterprises of Chesapeake will dispose of the Shirley Lykes for $860,000, Deputy Maritime Administrator John Jamian said during a news conference near the fleet, anchored off Fort Eustis. Neosho (AO-143) at Guantanemo Bay, Cuba, 21 February 1971 Photo : Coll Piet Sinke Another ship, the Neosho, will go to International Shipbreaking Ltd. of Brownsville, Texas. That contract is for $1, since higher steel prices and better ship conditions make the ship less costly for the scrapping yard to dismantle.


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DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 265 "Six months ago, we stood right here and promised that by the end of the year we would have disposal contracts on 10 'high-priority' ships. We've done it," Jamian said. "Not only do we have disposal contracts on all 10 of those ships, but we are now disposing of two additional ships." With Monday's announcement, 29 ships have been removed from the James River Reserve Fleet and 43 ships have been contracted for disposal since 2001, according to the agency. The agency administers the National Defense Reserve Fleet, which holds ships designated as being useful for defense. When the ships deteriorate, they are made available for disposal.

SHIPYARD NEWS

Noordelijke scheepsbouwers bundelen krachten De Noordelijke scheepsbouwers in Groningen en Fryslân voegen de daad bij het woord. Na een gedegen onderzoek van prof. dr ir U. Nienhuis naar de toekomst van de Noordelijke scheepsbouw zijn ze klaar voor de volgende stap: samen aanpakken. Maandagmorgen 11 uur werd daartoe in het Provinciehuis in Leeuwarden het Platform Maritiem geïnstalleerd. Er is namelijk alleen toekomst voor de Noordelijke Scheepsbouw wanneer gemeenschappelijk door de werven wordt ingezet op een ingrijpende vernieuwing van product-, productieproces, de orderfinanciering, de organisatie van de productieketen en de beroepsopleidingen. Maandag 20 december 2004 wordt officieel een begin gemaakt met een platform waar de maritieme industrie ervaring en kennis inbrengt, die het begin kunnen vormen van bedrijfsoverstijgende vernieuwingen. Maar ook strategie, toekomst, externe communicatie en onderzoek staan op de agenda. Gedeputeerden J.C. Gerritsen van de provincie Groningen en P. Bijman van provincie Fryslân, beiden van economische zaken, zullen de leden van het Platform Maritiem officieel installeren. Het Platform Maritiem krijgt een onafhankelijk voorzitter de heer A. van der Hek, een bestuurder die veel kennis heeft van de scheepsbouwsector. Van der Hek, was o.a. voorzitter van de Vaste Kamercommissie voor Economische Zaken, voorzitter van de economische en monetaire commissie van het Europese Parlement, NOM-directeur, voorzitter van de Stichting Centrum voor Maritiem Onderzoek en voorzitter van de Stuurgroep Maritieme opleidingen van Nederland Maritiem Land. Hij is thans o.a. voorzitter van de Nationale Havenraad. Het platform wordt verder ingevuld door de heren J. de Groot van Barkmeijer Stroobos BV, J.W. Huisinga van Centraal Staal. J.A. Smit van Ferus Smit BV, A. Kolthoff van de NOM en W. Schipper van Roden Staal.

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DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 265 TOTAL VESSEL MANAGEMENT K.P. van der Mandelelaan 34 - 3062 MB Rotterdam (Brainpark) - The Netherlands Telephone : (31) 10 - 453 03 77 Fax : (31) 10 - 453 05 24 E-mail : [email protected] Telex : 24390 wosh nl

LNG terminal set for Manzanillo A new LNG terminal will be built at the Mexican port of Manzanillo, not its Pacific rival Lazaro Cardenas, the Mexican federal power company CFE said on Friday. According to a CFE statement, the LNG terminal will be built to a capacity of 500M ft³ a day, with a design that allows for future expansion. A tender for bids will be put out in March 2005, with the project investment estimated at $400M and the timetable calling for gas to be sent via pipeline from the new LNG facility to power plants in Manzanillo and Central Mexico by 2010. CFE chief executive Alfredo Elias Ayub said the overall cost of the port, the regasification plant, the pipelines and the power-plant conversion will total around $1.5Bn.

Search, rescue vessel Naji-8 launched in Bushehr port A search and rescue vessel called Naji-8 was launched in this southern port city on Monday in a ceremony attended by Managing Director of the Ports and Shipping Organization and a number of provincial officials. Director General of Bushehr branch of Ports and Shipping Organization Ali-Reza Sateie said at the gathering that the Norwegian-made vessel was purchased by the organization for two million euros. Sateie said the search and rescue vessel Naji-8, that is well-equipped with most sophisticated search and rescue equipment, cruises with a speed of 850 nautical miles and 79 kilometers per hour (43 knots) in a non-turbulent sea and 55.5 kilometers (30 knots) in a mild sea with the capacity to carry 12 people. He said the vessel, equipped with modern medical equipment and instruments can carry and save four injured simultaneously. Sateie said the vessel -- 19.6 meters long -- is the most sophisticated relief and rescue vessel.

SEAWHEEL LAUNCHES ROTTERDAM GOOLE LO-LO LINK

UK-based European intermodal operator Seawheel is launching a daily lo-lo service between Rotterdam and Goole in January 2005 using three 150-200 TEU ships. This new link, from Rotterdam’ s Steinweg Terminal to the RMS Terminal at Goole, will replace the ro-ro service which has been operating for the last two years between Rotterdam and Killingholme. Alan Jones, Managing Director, says: “All our other services are lift-on, lift-off and we know we can offer an excellent, reliable service between Rotterdam and Goole with these lo-lo ships. Goole fits our strategy of using smaller ports, with good transport links, close to the important markets.” Seawheel was acquired in a management buy-out from the Simon Group in August 2003, by Mr Jones and three other directors, who had been brought in to turn the company around. They inherited the


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DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 265 ro-ro service which the Simon Group was running into its Killingholme terminal. “We do not see ro-ro services fitting into our long-term business strategy so we are pleased to be able to change this link between Rotterdam and north-east England to lo-lo. It also gives us more flexibility to switch ships between services as demand for capacity changes,”says Mr Jones. Seawheel offers more than 50 sailings a week to and from 13 ports in the UK, Ireland, Spain and Continental Europe.

FARSTAD PLANS NEWBUILDINGS FOR NORSK HYDRO CHARTERS

FARSTAD Shipping, through its subsidiary Farstad Supply AS, reached an agreement with Aker Brattvåg AS for the building of two platform supply vessels for delivery in May and October 2006 for about NKr540 (US$88m). The contracts with the yard are conditional upon the entrance of final charter contracts with Norsk Hydro, following letters of intent signed earlier this month. The vessels will be built to the new UT 751 E design by Rolls-Royce Marine, which also will be a major supplier of equipment to the project. The vessels will have a length of 93 metres and, according to Farstad will have “particularly high cargo capacities

Geen hekken bij sluizen, wel rond de haven

Er hoeven geen hekken om de IJmuidense sluizen te worden geplaatst om schepen te beschermen tegen terroristische aanslagen. De Nederlandse regering heeft besloten voor de sluizen een uitzondering te maken, zei burgemeester Peter Cammaert gisteravond in de Velsense gemeenteraad.

De IJmuidense haven ontsnapt niet aan de permanent afgesloten hekken, tot onvrede van de IJmuidenaren die graag 'een kantje pikken'. De gemeenteraad ging op de ChristenUnie na gisteravond akkoord met hekken op de Westerduinweg, Trawlerkade, Leonarduskade en Kotterkade. De meerderheid van de raad was overtuigd door het argument dat Velsen moet voldoen aan een eis van de Europese Unie. Ook argumenten van Zeehaven IJmuiden en het overslagbedrijf Kloosterboer haalden aarzelende partijen over de streep. Directeur Johan Kloosterboer vertelde de raadsleden dat hij een grote Amerikaanse klant zou verliezen als de kade niet zou worden afgesloten. Een reder uit Alaska brengt tonnen vis naar de vrieshuizen van Kloosterboer. Bijna dagelijks liggen er aan de Trawlerkade bij Kloosterboer internationale schepen die aan de anti-terrorisme-eisen moeten voldoen, gaf directeur Peter van de Meerakker van Zeehaven IJmuiden aan. Van de Meerakker beloofde dat de hekken weer open gaan zodra het beveiligingsbeleid wordt versoepeld.

Imtech Marine & Offshore and Wärtsilä join forces in consortium to build advanced yacht carrier Imtech Marine & Offshore and Wärtsilä will be cooperating closely to build a state-of-the-art highspeed yacht carrier. Dockwise Shipping B.V., specialist in the field of shipping heavy transports, gave the assignment. Wärtsilä will deliver the generator sets and the thrusters, Imtech will integrate the system and deliver the electric propulsion, the integrated bridge (UniMACS®3000), automation, the generators for high and low voltage and distribution systems. The ship will be built on the Yantai Raffles shipyard in China and will be sailing in the summer of 2006.


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DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 265 More and more owners of sail and motor yachts desire a safe passage of their yacht over the Atlantic Ocean. This new advanced yacht carrier is the safest way to transport the valuable yachts. And the quickest. Thanks to the electric propulsion system the ship sails at a speed of eighteen knots. The crossing from the Mediterranean Sea to the Caribian will only take eight days. Nearly twice as fast as with similar carriers. Common-rail system The originally Finnish Wärtsilä is the lead company in the consortium. Wärtsilä will deliver the propellors (2 LIPS CS 3500 pulling thrusters, 5 mW each), the bow thruster (CT225M @ 1780kW) and the engines (2x12V38B and 2x 6L20). In order to protect the cargo, consisting mainly of snow-white yachts, against soot particles, these engines are equipped with common rail. This limits the emission of dangerous substances and soot to a minimum. In addition to the four generator sets mentioned above, Wärtsilä will also deliver an Auxpac Volvo Penta high-speed emergency generator set. Unique float-in-float-out loading method Imtech’ s advanced joystick and auto-pilot system, combined with the shallow draught make accurate manoeuvring possible and make sure that the carrier can also berth in smaller harbours. Another feature of the ultra-modern ship is the unique float-in-float-out loading method. The carrier is sunk, yachts sail in and the ship comes up again. This creates a kind of floating dock in which smaller repairs can be done under way. Of course the ship is provided with all means of comfort and provisions for the crew of the yachts that sail along. Largest of its kind The yacht carrier, which is 205 metres long and 32 metres wide and has a total installed capacity of 19,840 kW is the largest of its kind. Imtech and Wärtsilä intend to offer more of these high-quality solutions in the future.

Containerterminal Wanssum te koop

Het Havenbedrijf Rotterdam (HbR) wil af van de binnenvaartterminal in het Noord-Limburgse Wanssum. De directie van het HbR heeft gisteren aan de raad van Commissarissen toestemming gevraagd om het complex te verkopen, zegt een woordvoerder van het havenbedrijf. Wanssum werd begin 2003 overgenomen van de Ridderhaven Groep van binnenvaartondernemer H. van der Lande. Het was destijds de bedoeling van de toenmalige havendirecteur W. Scholten om zes haventerminals van de Rotterdamse entrepreneur over te nemen om zo betere afvoermogelijkheden naar het achterland te realiseren.

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The SARAH BAARTMAN arrived in Cape Town, seen here moored with the Lilian Ngoyi at her stern Photo : Aad Noorland ©

MS Enchanter of Big Lift Shipping loading the 340 ton working vessel DMS Beagle on board with its own crane. The DMS Beagle will be transported to Port Harcourt in Nigeria. Photo : Hans de Jong – Maritime photo´s ©


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AIRPORT / AIRCRAFT NEWS

Canada upgrades pollution aircraft CANADA is equipping its coastal patrol aircraft with new detection equipment for oil pollution caused by ships. The gear will assist crews who currently must spot spills visually, limiting them to a range of about two miles from their plane. The new equipment will be able to detect surface anomalies, such as oil, up to about 25 n-miles on each side of the aircraft. The Canadian department of transport said the new equipment will significantly increase its “ability to detect illegal discharges from passing vessels even in conditions of reduced visibility, such as darkness or low cloud cover=94. The new system consists of a side-looking airborne radar, an ultraviolet/infrared line scanner, an Airborne AIS and a digital camera and video system with GPS. Transport minister Jean Lapierre said the government is committed to protecting the marine environment and preventing pollution from ships. He added that the new technology would help to achieve that goal.

OMNI Announces Helicopter Accident

OMNI ENERGY SERVICES CORP., announced that one of its Bell 407s crashed around noon on Friday while attempting to land on an offshore platform located at Ship Shoal 130E in the Gulf of Mexico. The helicopter carried a pilot and three passengers. While all persons were able to exit the helicopter, one passenger died as a result of the accident. The exact cause of death has not yet been determined. The pilot sustained serious, but non-life threatening injuries and the remaining two passengers were treated and released with minor injuries. A F/A-22 Raptor, the U.S. Air Force's newest fighter, taxies past the crowd after a flyover at Nellis Air Force Base during the Aviation Nation air show near Las Vegas, Nevada, in this file image from November 14, 2004. A similar plane crashed and burned during take-off at the base December 20, 2004. The pilot was reported to have ejected safely.

Dutchbird aan de grond De luchtvaartmaatschappij Dutchbird bleef dinsdag aan de grond wegens het uitblijven van betalingen door het moederbedrijf Exel Aviation Group van zakenman Erik de Vlieger. Dat heeft woordvoerder A. Balk van Dutchbird dinsdag laten weten. Een vlucht naar Egypte is geschrapt en ook de voorgenomen vluchten voor de komende weken staan ter discussie. Reizigers worden dinsdag nog omgeboekt naar vluchten van Martinair en Transavia, maar hoe de reizigersstroom de komende dagen opgevangen moet worden weet niemand. De chaos bij Dutchbird


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DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 265 is compleet. Een reddingspoging liep maandag in het honderd. Aandeelhouder H. Prins besloot maandagavond zichzelf te benoemen tot statutair directeur. ,,Wij hebben geen idee wat de heer Prins van plan is met Dutchbird'', aldus Balk. Hij hoopt dat daarover in de loop van dinsdagochtend duidelijkheid komt en dat er in de loop van de middag een persbericht wordt uitgegeven. Dutchbird kwam eerder in het nieuws door de arrestatie van Prins op verdenking van afpersing, witwaspraktijken en valsheid in geschrifte. De Vlieger wilde toen de verantwoordelijkheid voor Dutchbird niet op zich nemen, omdat de luchtvaartmaatschappij juridisch eigendom zou zijn van Prins. Een faillissement van het kwakkelende Dutchbird kwam zo steeds dichterbij. Eerder heeft de belastingdienst beslag gelegd op twee bedrijfsonderdelen van Exel wegens achterstallige betalingen aan de fiscus. Na de eerste beslaglegging benadrukte De Vlieger dat de luchtvaartmaatschappij Holland Exel, ook een onderdeel van Exel Aviation Group, gewoon blijft vliegen.

PHOTO OF THE DAY

HAL´s AMSTERDAM in the background and the NAVIGATOR OF THE SEAS seen in St.Maarten Photo : Pim Korver – Film & Video ©


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SCHEEPVAARTBERICHTEN ADMIRALENGRACHT 21 180 zo Shanghai nr Kaohsiung, ALDEBARAN 21 te Norrkoping, ALLIANCE 21 te Tornio, ALSERBACH 21 te Rotterdam, AMORE 21 te Bilbao, ANKERGRACHT 21 100 zo Palma nr Rotterdam, ANTJE K 21 te Ibiza, ARKLOW RALLY 21 te Nantes, ARKLOW STAR 20 pas Ile d'Ouessant nr Pasajes, ARKLOW SWAN 21 25 n Guernsey nr Amsterdam, ARROW 21 60 z Antalya nr Iskenderun, ARTISGRACHT 20 50 wnw Taipei nr Da Gang, ATLASGRACHT 21 te Martinique, BALTICBORG 21 17 n Ameland nr Sheerness, BANCKERT 21 te Rotterdam, BETTINA K 29 verw te Garston, BLUE STAR 21 te Sagunto, BOTHNIABORG 20 pas Stockholm nr Haraholmen, BRO GALAXY 21 te Brofjorden, BRO GEMINI 20 vn Avonmouth, BRO GENIUS 20 vn Whitegate, BRO GLOBE 20 vn Shannon, BRO GLORY 21 vn Gothenborg, BRO GRACE 20 vn Stenungsund, BRO GRANITE 21 vn Vasteras, BRO GRATITUDE 22 verw te Antwerpen, CHRISTINA 21 pas Ameland nr Terneuzen, CITO 21 pas Skagen nr Halmstad, CLARISSA 21 te Mosjoen, COASTALWATER 21 vn Ventspils nr Rotterdam, CORAL MEANDRA 20 60 n La Coruna nr Sines, CORAL MILLEPORA 20 pas Skagen nr Stenungsund, DANIEL K 26 verw te Bilbao, DEO VOLENTE 21 thv Borkum nr Rotterdam, DEPENDENT 21 pas Vigo nr Gandia, DIEZEBORG 21 20 nw Terschelling nr Frederikstad,


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DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 265 DINTELBORG 20 te Beirut, DOCK EXPRESS-10 21 1100 wnw Colombo nr Kobe, DOGGERSBANK 21 te Algeciras, DUTCH AQUAMARINE 20 210 n La Coruna nr Ceuta, DUTCH FAITH 21 pas Lands End nr Le Havre, DUTCH MARINER 21 30 n Cherbourg nr Antwerpen, DUTCH MATE 22 verw te Dordrecht, DUTCH NAVIGATOR 21 te Cartegena, DUTCH PILOT 21 te Rotterdam, DUTCH PROGRESS 21 te Antwerpen, EDAMGRACHT 21 120 zw Taipei nr Shanghai, EDISONGRACHT 21 250 zo Esperance nr Bunbury, EENDRACHT 21 te Las Palmas, EGBERT WAGENBORG 21 pas Cabo de Palos nr Antwerpen, EGELANTIERSGRACHT 20 200 zo Kreta nr Ancona, ELKE K 29 verw te Rotterdam, EMERALD 21 vn papeete nr Noumea, EMMAGRACHT 20 130 zzo New Orleans nr Mobile, EUROGRACHT 20 te Piombino, FAIRLIFT 21 18 o Crotone nr Vasto, FAIRPARTNER 21 80 nw Lissabon nr Constanza, FLINTERHAVEN 20 vn Salem nr Hamilton, FLINTERSPIRIT 21 180 w Brest nr Porto Vesme, GOOTEBORG 21 te Moerdijk, GRIEND 21 27 no Grimsby nr Tees, HANSEATIC SCOUT 24 verw te Mersin, HAPPY BUCCANEER 20 te Shanghai, HERON 21 te Moerdijk, ICE STAR 20 vn Lubeck, IJSSEL TRADER 21 vn Naha Narar nr Kaohsiung, ILSE K 22 verw te Le Treport, INGER 20 te Antwerpen, IVER EXACT 20 85 zzo Grand Cayman nr New Orleans, JACO TRADER 21 te Londonderry, JACOBUS BROERE 21 te Sarroch, JFJ DE NUL 20 120 no Hawaii, JO ASK 20 73 zzw Stavanger nr Bergen, JO CALLUNA 20 te Callao, JO LONN 21 te Stolthaven, JO SELJE 26 verw te Sikka, JO SYPRESS 21 440 z Clarion Isl nr Kobe, JOHN PAUL K 20 vn Rotteredam, JUMBO VISION 20 580 zo Bermuda, KEIZERSBORG 21 60 nw Rotterdam nr Sousse, KINNE 28 verw te Uddevalla, KIRSTEN 21 vn Oulu nr Takhuluoto, LADON 21 pas Tunis nr Diliskelesi, LAURIERGRACHT 21 pas Papua Nieuw-Guinea nr Port Kembla, LECKO 21 vn Nordenham, LEONARDO DA VINCI 21 50 n Belawan, LIJNBAANSGRACHT 21 pas Kieler Kan nr Las Palmas, LURO 21 vn 21 vn Mariager, MAGNIFIC 20 60 ono Flores nr Port Canaveral,


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DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER 2004 – 265 MAINEBORG 21 140 z Nova Scotia nr Baie Comeau, MARIANNE K 20 vn Malaga, MARINUS GREEN 21 30 n Bermuda nr Wilmington, MARJOLEIN 21 t a rede Santander, MATHILDE 21 te Gdynia, METSABORG 20 te Gavle, MICHIGANBORG 20 30 nw Guernsey nr Agadir, MIGHTY SERVANT-1 20 325 nw Kaapstad nr Invergordon, MIGHTY SERVANT-3 21 pas Str Taiwan nr Dalian, MOEZELBORG 21 te Ambarli, MORRABORG 21 te Mantane, MSC POLAND 21 pas Hanstholm nr Gothenborg, MUNTEBORG 23 verw te Hamburg, NEDLL AFRICA 20 310 nw Mekka nr Jeddah, NES. 21 vn Farsund nr Aaheim, NORMED BREMEN 20 te Rota, NORMED IZMIR 21 te Antwerpen, NORTHERN EXPLORER 21 420 zo Okinawa nr Tokyo, P&O NEDLL AUCKLAND 20 10 n Schotland, P&O NEDLL BRISBANE 21 260 z Saigon nr Singapore, P&O NEDLL STUYVESANT 21 te Singapore, PACIFIC 21 80 o Oman nr Valparaiso, PAUWGRACHT 21 420 wnw Midway Isl nr Stockton, RIFGAT 21 te Rotterdam, ROELOF 21 vn Barcelona nr Sete, RUFINIA 21 vn Grangemouth, SABINIA 23 verw te St Petersburg, SCHOUWENBANK 21 pas Stockholm nr Esbjerg, SINGELGRACHT 20 te Kotka, SLUISGRACHT 21 vn Rostock nr Jacksonville, SNOEKGRACHT 20 te Stephenville, SNOW STAR 21 vn Kokkola, SPUIGRACHT 20 te Vila do Conde, STELLA POLARIS 21 te Nantes, SWING 21 te Nordenham, THEODORA 20 t a rede Loire, TRACER 21 300 zo New Orleans nr Houston, TRAMPER 21 105 ozo Key West nr New Orleans, TRANSMARE 21 te Belfast, TRANSPORTER 20 48 nno Ouessant nr Panama City, TRINITAS 21 te Falmouth, TUNA 23 verw te Villagarcia, UAL TEXAS 21 700 w Luanda nr Lobito, VARNEBANK 21 50 w Graciosa nr Livorno, VECHTBORG 21 rede Mariupol, VEDETTE 21 70 nw La Coruna nr Runcorn, VEERSEDIJK 21 te Hamburg, VICTORIABORG 21 15 no Stockholm nr Kaskinen, VLIEBROG 21 130 z Kreta nr Alexandrie, VOORNEBORG 21 120 o Gibraltar nr Moerdijk, XANTIC 20 pas Gothenborg nr Rafnes, ZEUS 21 t a Casablanca, ZILLERTAL 20 vn Taranto.


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