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Number 244 *** COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS *** Friday 26-10-2007 News reports received from readers and Internet News articles taken from various news sites.

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KOTUG’s RT MAGIC and RT SPIRIT seen moored in Bremerhaven Photo : Piet Sinke ©

Lankan Navy attacks Indian fishermen again A group of fishermen from this Tamil Nadu town has been attacked by the Sri Lankan Navy, resulting in serious injuries to four of them, an official said on Sunday.



"The attack was carried out by 14 Lankan Naval personnel near Kachchatheevu when 40 fishermen were fishing along the International Maritime Boundary Line Saturday," an official told reporters here, quoting the fishermen. "After beating the fishermen with sticks, the defence personnel from the island seized their catch and nets worth Rs 500,000 and warned them against further fishing on Saturday night," officials informed reporters. A fishing craft owner present during the briefing revealed that he was part of the group that had been assaulted. He said the Lankan Navy had threatened them with arrests if they returned. However, all the 725 boats that had been put out to sea returned safely. The island's navy opened fire on Indian fishermen's boats on October 18 off the Nagappattinam coast damaging a vessel. No one was hurt in the incident. Five days before that, three fishermen were injured in a similar attack. The Lankan Deputy High Commission, which had issued denials about the earlier incidents, was unavailable for comment. Source : sify.com

HAL’s AMSTERDAM seen moored at the Hong Kong cruise terminal Photo : Mark Wilson ©



Royal Malaysian Navy Foils Illegal Entry By 26 Filipinos

A Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) vessel on patrol has intercepted a boat carrying 26 Filipinos who tried to enter Sabah illegally. The KD Yu had detected the foreign boat 10 nautical miles east of Tanjung Tunku in waters off Lahad Datu at 7.30pm yesterday, the vessel's commanding officer, Lt Commander Ee Chee Kiong said today. He told Bernama a check showed 12 men, eight women and six children without valid travel documents in the boat. Source : bernama.com

The SMIT RUSLAND seen assisting the JO SYPRESS in the port of Rotterdam Photo : Lennert Teerling ©

World shortage pushes supply of tug engines from six months to two years in a decade

A world shortage of material and high worldwide demand for diesel engines has increased the lead time for supply of the units from six months in 1999 to two years today. That’s according to Alstom Mechanical Equipment which has won two multimillion rand contracts for the manufacture and supply of main propulsion diesel engines for five new South African harbour tugs. The contracts were awarded by Durban-based Southern African Shipyards, which is the principal contractor appointed by Transnet’s National Port Authority (NPA) to build and supply the Voith Schneider tugs.



The engines for the Coega tugs, the contract for which was signed at the end of July 2007, will be the largest engines yet supplied for tugs operating in South African ports. The tugs will each have a bollard pull of 70 tonnes – the previous largest being 50 t bollard pull units. The first pair is due for delivery in April 2009 and the remaining two sets in August and December of that year respectively. The new Durban harbour tugs, each with a bollard pull of 60 tonnes, will replace two existing 40 t bollard pull tugs operating there. The delivery schedule for these engines, for which the contract was awarded at the end of August, is end-2009 for the first two and early-2010 for the second pair. Source : cargoinfo.co.za

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BULGARIAN VESSEL IN COLLISION OUTSIDE GREEK HARBOUR



Bulgarian merchant vessel Geo Milev has collided with vessel Helena, sailing under Panama's flag, three miles from the harbour of Thessaloniki. No one was hurt in the incident and there was no material damage. The two vessels have been forbidden to leave the harbour, Netinfo.bg said. This was the third incident in the past 10 day in which vessels collided in the bay of Thessaloniki. In one incident a captain died. On October 12 a ferryboat collided with a fisher-boat, the incident did not cause any damage. Minister for Mercantile Marine and Island Policy Georgios Voulgarakis announced an investigation would take place. According to the Greek ministry, the Tessaloniki harbour did not have a system to control maritime traffic Source : sofiaecho.com

15 Migrants Dead in Mexico Shipwreck Authorities have recovered the bodies of 15 Central American migrants whose boat capsized in the Pacific Ocean, the Mexican navy said on Saturday. The vessel was believed to be carrying more than 20 migrants. Survivor Noemi Martinez, 29, of El Salvador, said the boat departed from Guatemala and capsized Tuesday with more than 20 people aboard, according to Moises Hernandez, regional commander for ministerial police in Oaxaca. State authorities identified the only other known survivor as Salvadoran Walter Alan, 23. Search efforts were suspended on Saturday because of heavy rain that flooded rivers and creeks. Earlier, a military helicopter searched the sea while state authorities combed the beach near the towns of San Francisco Ixhuatan and San Francisco del Mar, about 200 miles from the Guatemalan border. "There are reports of more bodies, but the weather hasn't let us go out to sea," Oaxaca state public safety secretary Sergio Segreste said. In a news release, the navy said the ship apparently was overloaded and capsized in heavy seas. Authorities corrected earlier statements by state officials that 24 bodies had washed up in San Francisco del Mar and a nearby town. Oaxaca state authorities on Saturday counted 11 bodies found, and it was not immediately possible to reconcile the discrepancy with information supplied by the navy. The shipwreck signals that migrant smugglers may be increasingly turning to boats to transport Central Americans through Mexico, avoiding highway checkpoints. Illegal migrants who used to travel as stowaways on railway freight cars also have been searching for new routes north since train service was interrupted this year on two railway lines. Source : ap.google

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The Dutch submarine S 802 WALRUS arrived in Willemstad (Curacao) Photo : Kees Bustraan ©

USN Looks To Reduce Crew Sizes on Carriers The U.S. Navy wants to figure out a way to deploy an aircraft carrier, which normally sails with more than 5,000 sailors aboard, with a crew and airwing numbering less than 1,000. In an era when manpower costs devour 60 percent of annual Navy budgets, the service has been hard-pressed to not only reduce its endstrength so it can afford the ships and aircraft it wants, but to pare down crew sizes while making the most of each sailor. The manning goals for future warships are far below that of current surface combatants, with just 75 aboard the Littoral Combat Ship and fewer than 150 on DDG 1000. Future submarine crews will also be smaller. But when it comes to the next-generation aircraft carrier, the Office of Naval Research offers an even more dramatic vision. For the Gerald R. Ford-class CVN 78, the initial goal is to cut 1,500 sailors from the more than 5,500 aboard today’s Nimitz-class carriers. Now the Navy wants to see if a carrier crew of less than 1,000 is possible. “How do you optimize manpower from a 5,000 crew to 1,000? It’s very difficult. Can it be done? Maybe,” said William “Kip” Krebs, program officer for human systems integration at the Office of Naval Research. His office recently called on the nation’s research community to help figure out how much a sailor can be expected to do on an ergonomically designed ship and what functions on these ships can be replaced by automation. Krebs, a former active duty aerospace experimental psychologist and current member of the Navy Reserve, says it’s one thing to build a piece of machinery — the proverbial “black box” — it’s another to design it with a human operator in mind, the definition of human-systems integration.



“It’s easy to quantify and build a black box. They are usually predictable. You’ve got certain assumptions, you’ve got certain restraints, and it’s fairly easy to build that black box,” Krebs said. “When you are dealing with humans, it’s nonlinear, it’s unpredictable. So it’s very difficult to quantify a human and human performance. I’m not saying it can’t be done. It’s just a harder problem because it’s not as straightforward.” Through computer modeling and experimentation, ONR hopes to determine how much to expect from a sailor performing at 100 percent without an overload of stress or fatigue while maintaining situational awareness. “When you say, ‘I want this sailor to be performing at 100 percent,’ what does that mean? Because your 100 percent is different from my 100 percent,” he said. “You don’t need a Ph.D. to understand what fatigue is or workload or stress or stressors.” Krebs says the key is to go through the ship and identify and isolate each task by the knowledge, skills and abilities required. “Then you can start looking at redundancies and say, ‘What type of automation tools can be created to reduce workload on that individual?’” he said. “If you look historically, for instance at the airplane, when the airplane came about, it was a stick and rudder and a couple of dials. Now you’ve got autopilot and some airplanes can take off from gate to gate all by itself, all computer-driven; it’s fully automated and the pilot has very little interaction.” Another potential shift from traditional crewing will be the need for extensive training so that a smaller number of sailors can operate an increasingly complex machine. “You can design a very efficient ship but then you’ve got to put someone in it who fully understands it,” Krebs said. “You are not going to get the recruit out of A-school because they don’t have the knowledge.” For naval analyst Norman Polmar, all that crew training spells a drain of the existing pool of manpower. “It’s more front-end training, but the more you train a sailor the less he’s available to operate on the ship,” he said. “The more complex the ship with fewer people the more you’re training them and the less useful time you’re getting from them.” For example, on the Ford-class carriers, steam catapults have been replaced by electric catapults. That may seem more efficient, but Polmar says it’s a case where technology steals from manpower, especially if there are still Nimitz-class carriers with the current steam technology. “You need a new school system for those guys, so you’re eating up people in instructors and support,” Polmar said. He noted that on the current fleet of Nimitz-class carriers, there are nearly a thousand sailors assigned to the engineering department alone. He says a few hundred might be reduced from the crew, but the sheer size of an aircraft carrier requires lots of sailors. “We should save on people, but it’s not a case of cutting a certain number because the engineering department needs people; you need plane-pushers and lots of them, you need a certain number of boatswain’s mates because the ship’s a certain size and you need ship’s security.” So an aircraft carrier with less than 1,000 sailors aboard? “Impossible,” Polmar said bluntly. “It’s not going to happen.” Proposals for the research work are now being reviewed. Krebs says a decision is expected in weeks.

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Australian Navy landing ships 'will be very useful'

The navy's next two landing ships would be "national assets" with the flexibility for a wide range of tasks, a military think tank says. In an analysis of the proposed acquisition of the two 27,000 tonne landing helicopter dock (LHD) ships, to enter service from 2013, the Sea Power Centre said they would be just as useful in disaster relief as in major military operations.



It said the vessels, to be built at a cost of $3.1 billion, would represent a quantum leap in capability which the Australian Defence Force needed to fully understand in order to maximise their potential. "The LHDs will be significant national assets," it said. "While they will be capable of operating at the high-end of the conflict spectrum, their capabilities and inherent flexibility mean the ships can be used in a wide range of tasks in support of Australia's national interests. "They will prove to be incredibly useful in a wide range of military, diplomatic and constabulary operations, and will form the backbone of the ADF's ability to deploy to meet the requirements of the Australian government." The two new ships, based on a design by the Spanish shipbuilder Navantia, will be called HMAS Canberra and HMAS Adelaide. At 27,850 tonnes, they will be among the largest ships ever to serve in the Royal Australian Navy. In comparison, the navy's last aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne displaced 15,740 tonnes while the recently retired supply ship Westralia displaced 40,000 tonnes. The hulls will be constructed in Spain and fitted out at the Tenix Williamstown dockyard in Melbourne. Each will be able to transport up to 1,000 troops, as well as helicopters, vehicles including tanks, and landing craft. The Sea Power Centre said they would be a major advance on the older Manoora and Kanimbla, both used extensively in recent operations to East Timor, Aceh, the Solomons and the Middle East. "In times of increased strategic uncertainty, the LHDs will be able to respond to a wide variety of situations across the span of maritime operations," it said. "They will form the core of Australia's response to natural disasters, humanitarian aid, evacuation operations, peacekeeping tasks and, where necessary, the projection of combat force ashore." Source : theage.com.au

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The heavy load vessel COMBI DOCK I seen under construction for Reederei Harren & Partner (Bremen) at the Lloyd Werft in Bremerhaven, the hull was built in Poland and arrived in Bremerhaven July 3rd 2007 for the completion works

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Daewoo Shipbuilding Wins Freighter Order, Close to Topping $17B Target

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering said that its Romanian joint venture Daewoo Mangalia Heavy Industries Shipyard won an order for nine 5,550 TEU freighters (capable of carrying 5,500 20-foot containers) from a European shipping company. So far this year Daewoo Mangalia has secured a record $1.92b worth of orders for 21 ships, topping the $1b mark for the first time in its history. In 1997, when the company was set up, Daewoo Mangalia won $3m worth of orders. In 2001 it won more than $100m, and this year its orders are up to 640 times what it achieved at its start. Combining orders of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and the Romanian joint venture, the value of all contracts amount to $16.4b, or 97 percent of this year's target of $17b. Source : MarineLink

KST Space, Maju Sun,KST Kancil, Maju Star en de KST Leo assisting the LPG Lalla Fatma N'Soumer berthing at KeppelSingMarine (previous Keppel Hitatchi) berth no.4 in Gul Basin (Singapore) - Photo : John Bruinsma ©



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The MAERSK SANTANA seen at the River Elbe enroute Hamburg, the liner is built as the MANET STAR during 2003, renamed the same year in P&O NEDLLOYD MANET, and after Maersk took over Nedlloyd the vessels sails under the

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News from around the SA coast The container ship MAERSK NAPLES has sailed from Durban after undergoing repairs incurred earlier last week when a number of containers on board the vessel collapsed. The vessel was first noticed in this condition while at the outer anchorage. The incident resulted in the ship being brought into harbour and taken to the repair wharf at Bayhead. An eyewitness described the scene on the ship while at the outer anchorage as having several stacks of containers toppled over with at least one box appearing to be hanging over the starboard side.



In Cape Town there is concern over how long the synchrolift will remain out of service after the hoisting cable parted company with the structure. As a result considerable damage was done to the lifting table, which requires extensive repair. The accident or mishap places an additional burden on Cape Town’s Sturrock and Robinson dry docks, given the recent increase in ship repair traffic at the port. At Mossel Bay members of the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) were requested on 18 October to give assistance to a fishing trawler, the ULANDA 2 which was reported to be taking on water fast from an unconfirmed cause, resulting in the crew of seven having to pump water free of the vessel using water extrication pumps. The trawler was at the time 14.5 nautical miles offshore from Mossel Bay Point.

"We launched our rescue craft VODACOM RESCUER and on arrival on-scene found all seven crew on-board had brought the situation under control and were all wearing life-jackets and successfully extricating water from the vessel and gradually heading towards Mossel Bay harbour under their own engine power,” reported the NSRI Mossel Bay’s station commander Dave Zwiegelaar . "We stood-by on-scene ready to assist if required and we escorted ULANDA 2 towards Mossel Bay harbour in calm sea conditions.” The fishing vessel later motored safely into Mossel Bay Harbour under her own engine power and required no further assistance.

The NSRI rescue boat VODACOM RESCUER keeps station with the Mossel Bay fishing boat ULANDA 2 which earlier began taking on water and then requested assistance. Picture NSRI

The port of East London was the scene last week for celebrations of National Maritime Week, during which the Marine & Coastal Management patrol vessel SARAH BAARTMAN arrived in port for the occasion. Other organisations taking part included Transnet Port Authority, SA Police Services and the East London Aquarium. The big day of the week as far as the public was

concerned was last Saturday which started with a Fun Walk for members of the public, and which among other things granted access to the harbour to visit the patrol boat, a rare event given the current security restrictions. In Durban this past week an unusual cargo arriving at the port was a consignment of diesel-electric locomotives for Grindrod Sheltam, completing the delivery of new locomotives on order from Brazil’s General Electric division. The locos were observed on the dockside at Maydon Wharf. Source : ports.co.za



Senator Lines to launch Far East-Middle East service

SENATOR Lines has announced that it has expanded its current schedule of 12 liner services to include an additional Far East-Middle East service, FMS. The first westbound departure of the FMS service will commence on November 10 from Busan by the 2,000-TEU Hanjin Portadelaide.

The first eastbound voyage will start with the same vessel on November 26 from Khorfakkan. The port rotation for the FMS service will be: Busan, Shanghai, Chiwan, Singapore, Khorfakkan, Jebel Ali, Karachi, Singapore, Chiwan, and Busan. Westbound transit times will be 18 days from Busan to Jebel Ali and eastbound 19 days from Jebel Ali to Shanghai. Mark Ehlers, director of operational management at the line said "through the new FMS service we are offering an additional link between Asia and the Mideast in the scope of our liner services. Thereby, we can link two strong-growth markets." Source : indoshippinggazette

The 1975 built VOLVOX HOLLANDIA seen outward bound from Willemstad (Curacao) for a trial trip Phoot : Kees Bustraan ©



Florida port sees new container terminal with MOL, Hanjin help

FLORIDA's Jacksonville Port Authority is developing a concept for a container railway transfer facility near the MOL terminal at Dames Point. Such a rail yard would eliminate the need to haul containers from the terminal being built there for MOL, and one the authority hopes to build near Dames Point to Westside rail yards, reported the Jacksonville Business Journal. The authority's vision for 10 years from now includes the port handling 3.2 million TEU - about four times the port's container throughput last year. Most of the increase would come through MOL's 158-acre terminal and one about a mile east that Hanjin Shipping Co is said to be nearing a deal to build. One potential blockage is the steady stream of containers being trucked across town to get to railway facilities there. About a third of the containers coming through MOL's terminal, which will be operated by its subsidiary TraPac Inc, says the port authority's executive director Rick Ferrin. Source : indoshippinggazette

COSCO books $1.34 billion in bulker orders COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited reports that its 51%-owned COSCO Shipyard Group has secured shipbuilding contracts valued at US$1.34 billion to build 29 bulk carriers for several foreign ship-owners. The orders comprise 17 57,000 dwt bulkers worth a total US$699.4 million, eight 80,000 dwt bulkers worth a total US$400.1 million and four 92,500 dwt bulkers worth a total US$244.0 million The 29 bulk carriers will be built at COSCO Dalian Shipyard and COSCO Guangzhou Shipyard, and are slated for delivery between October 2009 and December 2011. Source : MarineLog

The 1973 built SAGA RUBY (ex VISTAFJORD , CARONIA) visited the port of La Pallice “The Atlantic Call”Photo : Henk Doornhein ©



EURONAV RESULTS DOWN LOWER freight rates and increased bunker costs have hit Belgian-based tanker owner Euronav which has announced a Q3 net loss of US$23.3m, compared with a profit of US$53.8m in the same period last year. EBITDA was US$43.8m against US$110.5m a year before. The company says Euronav owned VLCCs operated through the Tankers International (TI) Pool earned a time charter equivalent, in average for the quarter, of US$36,500/day compared to US$69,500/day a year earlier. The time charter earnings of the company's suezmax fleet which is fixed on long term time charters, was US$28,900/day for the third quarter compared to US$35,860/day in Q3 2006. Euronav has interests in 26 u/vlccs, of which 11 vessels are chartered in from third parties either directly or jointly with partners. 23 VLCCs and 2 ULCCs are managed in the Tankers International pool of which Euronav is one of the major partners. Euronav owns and also operates 14 suezmaxes and has two aframaxes on bareboat charter. It also has a further four suezmaxes and two VLCCs under construction. The company notes: “The Freight market for seaborne transportation of crude oil was lower than expected for a third quarter. This is mostly due to a combination of lower demand for transportation and a greater availability of ships especially in the Arabian Gulf. Furthermore, the low freight rates were exacerbated by sharply rising bunker costs.” It adds: “So far in the fourth quarter, Euronav VLCC fleet operated in the tankers International pool has earned US$28,000/day and 45% of the available days have been fixed.” Euronav says that it believes that the long-term outlook for the crude tanker markets is attractive but “remains cautious on the outlook for the rest of the year and the start of 2008”. Source : Maritime Global Net

The Curaçao Towage Company is expanding its tugboat fleet

The Curaçao Towage Company, a subsidiary of the Curaçao Ports Authority is expanding its tugboat fleet with a new tugboat. Two years ago CTC celebrated the arrival of two new tugboats called ‘Ola’ and ‘Manta’. With the arrival of these two tugboats the CTC noticed a big increase in jobs. The increase reached to such a high level that the management decided to invest into another tugboat.



The new tugboat is DAMEN ASD 2810 and will be the second tugboat within the fleet of CTC of the 2810 model. The first tugboat of this type is the ‘Ola’, with 4930 BHP and 58.7 ton Bollard Pull. Like the ‘Ola’, this new tugboat will be assigned to harbor towage jobs in the Caribbean. The Curaçao Towage Company has been working with the ASD 2810 model for a few years and has had good results with this tugboat model. Damen has pointed out that this type of tugboat has had tremendous success on the market. According to tradition, the tugboat needs a name. Therefore the personnel of the Curacao Ports Authority, the Curacao Towage Company and the Curacao Pilots organization are planning a competition to invent a name for the tugboat. The name of the new tugboat must have connotations of underwater flora and fauna such as is the case with ‘Ola’and ‘Manta’. Curaçao Ports Authority and in particular The Curacao Towage Company are very proud to have obtained another new tugboat, which will be delivered in the last quarter of 2008.

The Russian tug VZMORYE arrived in Rotterdam-Waalhaven Photo : Piet Sinke ©

PNSC teams explore market to buy two tankers, one bulk carrier

Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) is conducting physical inspection of vessels under its plan to buy two oil tankers and a bulk carrier at an estimated cost of $150 million. Talks are underway with ship brokers as the national flag carrier is exploring the international market for acquiring two double-hull oil tankers of 'Aframax' class and one bulk carrier of 'Panamax' class, sources told Business Recorder on Tuesday. They said that last week a two-member team has gone to the United States to conduct physical inspection of an oil tanker standing in the American territorial waters. Another team of experts had visited France for another oil tanker while another group had inspected a bulk carrier in Cairo, sources said. They said that decision in this regard was likely to come to surface within the next six to eight months, as the ship purchasing process requires that all modalities be discussed and feasibilities are seen satisfactorily.



The team visiting US would return on October 25 while the issue is likely to take central place in PNSC board meeting on October 27, sources said. The Corporation, they said, was considering some delay in view of the prevalent high prices of ships. Source : Imran Farooq

The DMS STARLING during the bollard pull tests in Rotterdam-Caland canal Photo : Wim van Noort ©

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