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EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS
Missing cruise ship passenger
identified as B.C. woman
It's now been learned that the Canadian woman reported missing from a cruise ship in the Bahamas on the
weekend is from Victoria. Jill Begora was reported missing by her husband last weekend, as the Royal
Caribbean cruise ship Jewel of the Seas pulled into the Bahamian capital of Nassau after visiting the
eastern Caribbean island of Antigua.
The 59-year-old Begora and her husband retired to Victoria two years ago from Ontario.
Fran Pfaff, who was the missing woman's close friend for 30 years, says Begora suffered from depression,
but had left for the cruise in good spirits. "She had lots of things going on in her life," she said. "You know,
lots of things to look forward to."
Pfaff is now waiting as officials investigate whether Begora fell or jumped off the ship.
"It doesn't seem that that would be right at this point because she was doing so well. You know I just
can't...but on the other hand I can't just see someone falling off a ship."
The U.S. Coast Guard and Bahamian naval vessels have called off the search for Begora. When the cruise
ship arrived back in Fort Lauderdale, it was search by Coast Guard staff. The investigation has now been
turned over to the FBI.
Ferry dispute 'takes a bad turn'
The industrial dispute which brought tens of thousands of protestors onto the streets of the Republic of
Ireland has taken another turn for the worse. The dispute centres on plans to replace about 540 Irish
Ferries crew members with cheaper foreign workers.
Irish Ferries has told the unions involved that its three ships must resume sailings by Tuesday night.
It has threatened to cut a redundancy offer and take one of the vessels out of service if sailings do not
restart.
On Friday, thousands demonstrated in Dublin and eight other towns and cities in the Republic of Ireland.
On Saturday, trade union members staged a demonstration in west Wales in support of the Irish Ferries'
workers. Talks resumed on Tuesday to resolve the dispute following the company's ultimatum.
The negotiations have been taking place at the Labour Relations Commission in Dublin. None of the
company's three ships between Ireland and Britain have sailed since 24 November. The dispute has also
paralysed an Ireland-France service involving a fourth Irish Ferries ship.
The company is seeking to "reflag" the three Irish Sea ferries to Cyprus. Irish labour laws do not apply on
ships under foreign flags. Irish Ferries chief executive Eamonn Rothwell said the main union SIPTU was
not "interested in engaging to negotiate a settlement".
This was despite the company "being prepared to consider conceding, among other things, the national
minimum wage for future contract crews", he said.
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The dispute began in September when Irish Ferries offered redundancy to a third of its workforce in order
to replace them with lower-paid workers from central and eastern Europe.
It escalated more than two weeks ago when Irish Ferries crew members on the vessels Isle of Inishmore
and the Ulysses barricaded themselves on board. The ships have remained moored in Pembroke Dock and
Holyhead respectively while the dispute remains unresolved.
Irish Ferries has said it needs to bring in foreign staff to remain competitive. The company added it had
been completely open about its plans to bring in new crews as part of a cost-cutting exercise.
Fuelling woes in Chinese ports
Oil tankers, container ships and bulk carriers are calling at Chinese ports in record numbers, but when it
comes to filling up their tanks, owners look elsewhere.
China's marine fuel market - dominated by a single supplier barely a year before the country is due to open
up its domestic wholesale oil sector under the terms of its WTO entry - remains a bit player in the
international bunker fuels trade.
This is despite the world's fastest-growing major economy importing more raw materials than ever before,
while exports are projected to grow at more than 20 per cent next year.
Without a transparent and competitive climate, a reform of inefficient procedures and lower prices, Chinese
ports will struggle to vie with Hong Kong and Singapore to sell the millions of tonnes of diesel and fuel oil
that power the world's ships.
"Shipowners bunker in China only under emergency," said Robert Chandran, president and chief executive
of top US marine fuels supplier Chemoil-ITC, half-owned by Japan's Itochu Corp. Industry experts say
China has the potential to be the world's top bunker fuel market, but it has to get things right.
The Government has not made clear how it would open up the market for bonded bunkers - non-taxable
marine fuels taken by global vessels or Chinese ships plying international routes - after end-2006, when the
WTO deadline expires.
China's bunker market is dominated by Chimbusco, a joint-venture between Chinese major PetroChina and
the country's top shipping firm, Cosco Group. It accounts for about 95 per cent of the annual volume of
bonded bunkers.
The market remains tiny, with a mere annual volume of 2.5-3 million tonnes for the international market
deemed a record-high. That is almost a tenth of the volume in Singapore, the world's biggest bunkering
port.
Chimbusco sold 2.04 million tonnes in the first nine months of 2005, up 33 per cent from the year before.
Growth in fuel sales has lagged overall port turnover.
Shipping throughput in Shanghai, China's largest port, has almost doubled to 14.65 million twenty-foot
equivalent units (TEUs) last year, up from 8.61 million TEUs in 2002. Volumes in Hong Kong, the world's
largest container port, are at 20.4 million TEUs and Singapore are at 20.1 million TEUs for 2004.
Shippers complain about poor transparency in China, where prices are the highest in Asia, averaging at
US$30 ($42.24) a tonne more than Singapore levels this year, US$17 above Hong Kong and US$69 over
Rotterdam.
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Chimbusco is perceived as unwilling to share its monopoly and has cornered the Chinese market by owning
most of the storage facilities in the best locations.
Chimbusco deputy managing director Fu Bin said the firm had not received word from the Government on
the WTO market-opening, but it was bracing itself for competition.
Greenpeace members board asbestosridden French ship bound for India
A lone Greenpeace activist was camped
out aboard a decommissioned French
aircraft carrier after a larger protest
against plans to send the asbestosriddled ship to India for scrapping, the
environmental group said.
Originally three protesters jumped from
small boats to the hull of the 44-year-old
Clemenceau, kept in the Mediterranean
port of Toulon after being mothballed in
1997, and climbed on to the radar
platform at the top of the boat's
superstructure.
Two of the protesters later left the ship
and joined four of their fellow
campaigners who had been taken into French police custody earlier Monday.
All seven had earlier climbed up a crane in the dockyard, where they unfurled a banner reading:
"Asbestos carrier: not here, nor elsewhere". Greenpeace said it organised the stunt to call attention to
the carcinogenic danger posed by the vessel and to call on the French government to remove the asbestos
itself instead of sending the carrier to India.
"It is clear that the government is unable today to manage the decommissioning of its military and
merchant ships. We ask that the government start a national strategy of dismantling them that observes
international law, human rights and the environment," said the head of Greenpeace France, Pascal Husting.
The French government intends to send the Clemenceau to India to be broken down into 22,000 tonnes
of scrap metal.
Although some of the asbestos insulation has been removed, Greenpeace and an anti-asbestos group, the
Jussieu Committee, say the bulk of the 210 tonnes of the dangerous fireproofing remains.
"Decontamination is very expensive and so the easiest thing to do is to send it to other countries where
labour laws can be easily flouted," said activist Madhumita Dutta of pressure group Corporate
Accountability Desk.
Dutta said in a statement released in New Delhi that India did not have the proper technology, equipment
or procedures in place to handle the decontamination of the Clemenceau.
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"The workers use the most unsophisticated methods to break the ship down. Even one fibre of asbestos
can cause serious medical problems," she said.
Almost half of the world's ships end up in India -- which has the world's biggest shipbreaking yard -- for
dismantling after their sailing lives are over, according to Greenpeace.
India was selected as its destination for the process after a Spanish company which won the original
decommissioning tender in 2003 tried to send the ship to Turkey to have its asbestos stripped out, in
contravention of EU law.
That contract was rescinded and the French defence ministry decided to do some of the decontamination
work itself before sending the ship to India.
The timing of the Greenpeace protest coincided with a meeting of a World Maritime Organisation working
group in Basle on the transport of dangerous waste and a World Trade Organisation meeting in Geneva on
Monday.
No comment was available from the Ship Decommissioning Industries (SDI), an affiliate of German steel
giant Thyssen-Krupp, which is handling the ship decommissioning.
The French maritime authority said that over a hundred tonnes of asbestos had been removed already, and
"what was not accessible must be treated in India at a specialised site and according to European norms,
under direction of the SDI". Up to 100,000 people are set to die in an "epidemic" of asbestos-linked
cancers, the French senate said in a report published in October which blamed the state and powerful
lobbyists for the failure to ban the substance until 1997.
The Clemenceau, which took part in the 1991 Gulf War, was taken out of service when it was superseded
by France's new, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle.
CASUALTY REPORT
Gekapseisde vissersboot: twee
slachtoffers geborgen
Volgens de Britse kustwacht zijn bij het ongeval met de Z.122 Noordster voor de Britse kust twee
bemanningsleden overleden. Eén persoon werd gered. Over een vierde opvarende is er nog geen nieuws.
Het Zeebrugse vissersvaartuig kapseisde dinsdagavond op zestien kilometer voor Beachy Head in OostSussex. De oorzaak is nog onbekend. Een 21-jarige bemanningslid van het schip werd gered. Hij zat op de
romp van het gekapseisde schip toen de Britse kustwacht woensdagmorgen arriveerde. Hij is overgebracht
naar een ziekenhuis in Eastbourne. Twee anderen zijn omgekomen, bevestigt de kustwacht. De Britse
marine is intussen met duikers ter plaatse.
Het noodsignaal dat het vissersschip uitzond, werd niet onmiddellijk opgevangen. Het duurde tot
woensdagmorgen tot een voorbijvarend vrachtschip alarm sloeg. Intussen zijn vier reddingsboten, één
marineschip en een helikopter ter plaatse. Zij zoeken verder naar het vermist bemanningslid. De man zit
vermoedelijk nog in het schip opgesloten.
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Hr.Ms. Pelikaan uit dienst gesteld
Op vrijdag 9 december 2005 is het ondersteuningsvaartuig van de Koninklijke Marine in het Caraïbisch
Gebied, Hr.Ms. Pelikaan, ceremonieel uit dienst gesteld. Dit gebeurde in aanwezigheid van onder
anderen de Commandant der Zeemacht in het Caraïbisch
gebied, Commandeur Frank Sijtsma, en de laatste commandant
van het schip, luitenant-ter-zee Bob van Hoof. De Pelikaan
heeft vanaf 1990 dienst gedaan in het gebied. In 2006 wordt
haar aflosser verwacht, die ook weer Pelikaan zal heten.
Hr.Ms. Pelikaan heeft de afgelopen 15 jaar een belangrijke rol
vervuld bij het transporteren van materieel en (incidenteel)
personeel van zowel Koninklijke Marine als Kustwacht voor de
Nederlandse Antillen en Aruba. Het schip diende herhaaldelijk
als platform of transportschip bij verschillende lokale oefeningen
zoals Caraïbes, Deux Tricolores, de Deep Divex en de jaarlijkse
Hurricane Relief Exercise. Ook werd het bij ernstacties ingezet,
zoals na de passage van de orkaan Mitch in 1998. In november
van dat jaar vertrok de Pelikaan tot de nok toe beladen met
brandstof, medicijnen, Landrovers, rubberboten en mariniers
naar Honduras om daar noodhulp te verlenen. Daarnaast bood
het schip incidenteel hulp aan individuele schepen in nood, zoals
in 2002, toen een Amerikaans zeiljacht ten noorden van Isla de
Margarita in moeilijkheden raakte. De Pelikaan leverde toen technische en medische assistentie aan de
opvarenden.
Fregat Westdiep komt naar huis
Het Belgisch fregat Westdiep en zijn 160-tal bemanningsleden meren vrijdag aan op de marinebasis in
Zeebrugge na een bijna twee maanden
durende operatie Active Endeavour, die
de NAVO op de Middellandse Zee voerde
in de strijd tegen het terrorisme.
Rechts : De F 911 WESTDIEP
Foto : Piet Sinke ©
De Westdiep, een van de twee varende fregatten van de Belgische marine, nam van 17 oktober tot 12
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december deel aan de operatie en praaide meer dan 500 handelsschepen, maar voerde geen controles aan
boord uit, aldus dezelfde bron. De operatie Active Endeavour is een van de maatregelen van de NAVO na
de aanslagen van 11 september 2001 in de Verenigde Staten. De NAVO beroept zich hiervoor op artikel 5,
dat bepaalt dat een aanval tegen een van de leden moet beschouwd worden als een aanval tegen allen.
De operatie die sinds oktober 2001 van kracht is, heeft als doel de koopvaardij op de Middellandse Zee te
controleren om eventuele terroristische activiteiten op het spoor te komen. In een eerste periode beperkte
de actie zich tot het oostelijke deel van de Middellandse Zee, maar breidde zich in februari 2003 uit tot de
Straat van Gibraltar tussen Spanje en Marokko. De NAVO overweegt nu om Rusland en Oekraïne en de
landen van de "meditterane dialoog" bij de operatie te betrekken. De afgelopen twee maanden vuurde de
Westdiep in het kader van een militaire opdracht een zee-zeeraket van het type Exocet MM38 af. De raket
werd onderschept door twee anti-luchtraketten van het type Evolved Sea Sparrow 2, afgevuurd door het
Nederlandse fregat De Zeven Provinciën, die zijn operationele voorbereiding afrondde alvorens het
commando te nemen van een multinationale zeemacht met de naam Combined Task Force 150 (CTF
150). Die operatie strijdt ook tegen het terrorisme, maar dan ter hoogte van de Hoorn van Afrika.
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Hanjin to Build Container Yard in China
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South Korea's top container shipper Hanjin Shipping said Wednesday it is building a container yard on
China's east coast to secure a stronghold in a new port under construction in Shanghai. The off-dock
container yard is being built at a site near Yangshan port, about 30 kilometers from Shanghai's industrial
and logistics complex, it said. The facility is slated for completion in August 2006.
``The growth potential for Shanghai's new port is tremendous," a Hanjin official said. "Almost 30 percent
of Hanjin's container cargo is to and from China." China is currently building the new port in its largest
commercial city as part of an ambitious plan to make it Northeast Asia's logistics hub. The first phase of
work on the new port was completed Saturday.
When finished in 2020, the port will handle 20 million TEUs with over 50 berths each year, according to
Hanjin Shipping. TEU stands for a 20-foot equivalent unit. Last year, Shanghai emerged as the world's
third-largest container port with an annual cargo handling capacity of 14 million TEUs, surpassing that of
Pusan, South Korea's key port city.
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TOP Tankers Announces Delivery of
M/T Edgeless
TOP Tankers Inc announced that it has taken delivery of the M/T Edgeless, a 147,048 DWT double-hull
Suezmax tanker, built in 1994 by Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries Ltd, of the United Kingdom. The vessel
has been financed with the Company's cash reserves and secured bank debt.
The M/T Edgeless is the final of four Suezmax deliveries for the fourth quarter of 2005 and will be
deployed in the spot market, which currently averages approximately $75,000 per day.
FIRST NEWBUILDING FOR HARMS DELIVERED
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HARMS is glad that to inform you about the hand-over
from their newbuilding PSV "CENTAURUS". She has left
the Kleven Yard, Alesund . She sailed to Cuxhaven for
fitting out and will leave today in direction Africa for a ten
month contract with options. The christening took place
on Monday at the Mützelfeld-Yard Cuxhaven. The next
newbuilding PSV "CERBERUS" (the second one of three
ordered) will join the market mid March and the third one
PSV "AEOLUS" during June. They are all from the same
type: VS 470 MK II from the Kleven Yard, Norway.
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Sevan arranges $120 million finance
facility for first SSP
Sevan Production AS, a subsidiary of Norway's Sevan Marine ASA, has signed a US$120 million senior debt
project finance facility for Sevan's first floating oil production, storage and offloading unit, the SSP
Piranema.
Sevan Marine ASA 's SSP (Sevan Stabilized Platform) is a new, cylinder shaped platform type for floating
production, storage and offloading of oil and gas,
GE's financial businesses and ANZ, acting as joint Mandated Lead Arrangers for the $120 million facility.
The debt facility is structured as a limited recourse financing containing a pre-completion construction
financing of up to US$20 million that converts into a ten-year amortizing term loan following delivery of the
SSP Piranema to Petrobras.
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The first SSP is currently
under construction at
Yantai Raffles in China.
The SSP 300 is an FPSO
with an oil storage
capacity of 300 000 bbls,
an oil processing capacity
of 30 000 bbls/day and a
gas injection capacity of
3.6 million cu.m/day. The
unit will carry up to 21
risers and umbilicals. It
will work for Petrobras on
the Piranema field from
mid-2006. The water
depth at the field is
1,000m---1,600 m. The
contract with Petrobras
has a fixed term of 11
years, with 6 x 1 year
options and 5 x 1 year
mutually agreed.
Sevan has signed a contract with Venture Production for the use of one SSP 300, as an FPSO on the
Chestnut field in the central North Sea. The water depth at the field is 120 m. The unit will have an oil
processing capacity of 30 000 bbls/day and a water injection capacity of 20 000 bbls/day. The unit will
carry up to 3 risers and umbilicals. The unit will be delivered from the Yantai Raffles in the first quarter of
2007 and will be installed at the field mid-2007. The contract with Venture Production has a fixed term of
2.5 years, with 4 x 6 months options. Sevan has ordered a third SSP 300 from Yantai Raffles. The SSP will
be equipped as an FPSO, with an oil storage capacity of 300 000 bbls. The unit is currently uncommitted.
Delivery of Stena Paris
Yesterday (Wednesday) Concordia Maritime
took delivery of the MR tanker Stena Paris
built at Brodosplit Shipyard in Split, Croatia.
Stena Paris is the first P-MAX tanker in a
series of six vessels built at Brodosplit
Shipyard. Stena Paris is on a five year
charter to the French oil company TOTAL.
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The STATENDAM anchored at Bora Bora, French Polynesia.
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SHIPS THAT SAILED THE SEAS
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The 520 ft. long, 58 ft. broad, 33 ft. deep SS MONGOLIA measured 10,000 tons and was powered by
14,000 h.p, the MONGOLIA was launched in 1904, and could accommodate for upwards of 500 saloon
passengers. in 1917 the vessel was mined and sunk off Bombay with the loss of 23 lives.
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Helicopter Crashes Off Colombia
A U.S. Navy helicopter crashed in the Pacific Ocean off Colombia with three aboard Tuesday, and the
Colombian navy joined a search for the missing crew members, U.S. and Colombian officials said.
The SH-60B helicopter was within visual range of the frigate USS DeWert when it went down in the
eastern Pacific, said Bill Austin, a spokesman for the U.S. Naval Station at Mayport, Fla., where the troops
were based.
"The helicopter didn't transmit any kind of distress call that we know of," Austin said, adding that the
helicopter was conducting normal operations at the time of the crash. He said he did not know how far the
helicopter was from the ship when it went down, or whether it had just taken off or was returning.
The Colombian navy sent a marine patrol plane to join in the U.S. Navy's search, said Colombian Adm.
Jairo Pena, commander of Colombia's Pacific fleet.
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"We received the report that it feel to the water inexplicably," Pena said, adding that the accident occurred
about 5 a.m., but that by Tuesday afternoon, the search still had been fruitless.
He said the DeWert is part of a unit that usually carries out anti-drug missions in international waters. "We
are searching in a zone about 350 miles from the Colombian coast," Pena said.
Colombia is the world's largest cocaine producer and a major supplier of heroin to the United States.
The U.S. has been helping the Colombian police and military battle the country's drug gangs and have
made several major arrests in recent years. The Pacific coast of Colombia, particularly along the edge of
coca-growing Narino state, where the land is penetrated by few roads and bisected by inland waterways, is
a popular haven for drug smugglers.
Since 2000, the United States has spent $4 billion for "Plan Colombia," a joint U.S.-Colombia anti-drug
program that ended in September. The United States provides the Colombian government with training,
equipment and other aid under the project.
CHC Helicopter wins five-year
British search and rescue contract
CHC Helicopter Corp. said Tuesday it has won a five-year contract from the United Kingdom Maritime and
Coastguard Agency.
Vancouver-based CHC will provide commercial search-rescue helicopter services from four bases in Britain,
starting July 1, 2007. Financial details were not disclosed.
The aircraft to be deployed on the contract are the Sikorsky S-92 and the Agusta Bell AB139. CHC's
European Operating Division will operate two S-92s at Stornoway, two S-92s at Sumburgh, two AB139s
at Lee-on-Solent and one AB139 at Portland.
CHC currently provides search-rescue and emergency helicopter services in Ireland, Africa, Australia and
Norway. The company is the world's largest provider of helicopter services to the global offshore oil and
gas industry, with aircraft operating in more than 30 countries around the world.
'Schiphol beste luchthaven van de wereld'
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Luchthaven Schiphol is uitgeroepen tot het beste vliegveld van de wereld door het Britse reisvakblad
Buying Business Travel. Het is voor het eerst dat Schiphol bij de verkiezing van dit blad als beste uit de bus
komt. Lezers waarderen de faciliteiten van de luchthaven. Andere genomineerde vliegvelden waren die van
Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong en Chicago.
Eerder dit jaar is Schiphol al uitgeroepen tot het beste vliegveld van Europa. Het Britse blad voor
zakenreizigers Business Traveller kende de Nederlandse luchthaven die prijs sinds 1980 22 keer toe.
Schiphol heeft de afgelopen 25 jaar bijna 130 van dergelijke prijzen ontvangen.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY
De ROTTERDAM arrived in Cadiz
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