| _newsletter.png) On Saturday night pirates seized a liquefied petroleum gas tanker and the following day took control of a German cargo ship.
EU NAVFOR reports that the Singapore-flagged MV YORK was en route from Mombasa to Mahe in the Seychelles when two skiffs attacked it, about 50 nautical miles off the coast of Mombasa.
The nearby Turkish warship GAZIANTEP launched her helicopter to investigate, spotting armed pirates onboard.
The LPG tanker was drifting but began moving towards the Somali coast at 10 knots Sunday morning. The fishing vessel, GOLDEN WAVE, pirated on October 9, was coincidentally seen in the vicinity of the tanker.
![]() Read More>>>Back to Top |  Lia Hawkins, 33, was reported missing on Thursday by her brother and other crew onboard the M/V Sahara.
Divers discovered her body Friday morning under a pier in the shipyard where the boat was docked. Hawkins was a manager onboard the 303-foot former NOAA ship that was being converted into a luxury yacht.
Police report no trauma to her body, leading investigators to believe she fell overboard. A full investigation is however being conducted.
Photo courtesy of AP Read More>>>Back to Top |  On Monday the U.S. District Court in Tacoma, Washington sentenced Capt. Seong Ug Sin from Korea to 14 days in prison, and six months of supervised release, during which time he is restricted from sailing in U.S. waters. A minimal sentence compared to the maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine he was facing.
In April, Sin was commanding the 590-ft STX DAISY through the Strait of Juan de Fuca when the U.S. Coast Guard boarded the vessel for inspection. The Coast Guard testimony revealed that the inspection team had trouble boarding the vessel because Sin refused to follow their orders. Sin also was unable to produce usable ... Read More>>>Back to Top |  Dr Hermann J. Klein, Member of the Executive Board of Germanischer Lloyd SE and responsible for Maritime Services, will at his own request be resigning from this position with effect on 15.12.2010, thus leaving the Executive Board. In future, he will retain his links to Germanischer Lloyd by acting as a consultant. In the course of 2011, Dr Klein is to be appointed to a position on the Supervisory Board of Germanischer Lloyd. The Supervisory Board respects the wishes of Dr Klein and has accepted his resignation with regret. This made it necessary to fill the position of responsibility for Maritime Services on the Executive Board.
Günter Herz, the majority shareholder of ... Read More>>>Back to Top | _newsletter.png) (Mexico) – The Basel Action Network (BAN), a toxic trade watchdog and member organization of the NGO Platform on Shipbreaking, warned the Government of Mexico in a letter(1) released Wednesday, that they have learned from sources in Mexico(2) that three Mexican flagged tankers called the Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada, Tolteca, and Independencia, all owned and operated by Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), Mexico’s state-owned oil company, may very soon be exported from Mexico to shipbreaking yards in Pakistan, Bangladesh, India or China in contravention to the United Nations Basel Convention and Mexican law. Pemex has signaled that they intend to sell the vessels for scrap in the international market to the highest bidder later this week. Read More>>>Back to Top |  Traffic in the busy Dutch shipping channel, connecting Amsterdam to the Rhine river, was at a halt Friday after a small passenger ferry and a German cargo ship collided.
The 56-year-old captain of the ferry is believed to have been the only person onboard. Local police recovered his body about 15 meters from the overturned ferry.
The ferry continuously runs people back and forth across the 100-meter channel, near Breukelen, north of Utrecht. Friday was a school holiday, so passenger traffic was minimal.
The two crewmen onboard the inland cargo ship were questioned and tested for alcohol, both tested negative.
Photo Courtesy of ... Read More>>>Back to Top |  2011 General Increase
The premium rating of all UK P&I Club Members will be increased by five per cent from 20th February 2011. This was agreed by the UK Club’s Directors at their meeting in Shanghai on 18th October.
The decision was taken in the light of the underlying inflationary increases in claims. Much of the recent improved claims performance has come from lower claims numbers not lower claims values. The average cost per claim has continued to increase over this period. Past experience of claims and shipping cycles shows that claims escalate much faster than retail inflation when the world economy begins to recover.
Free Reserves and ... Read More>>>Back to Top |  The Port of Miami set a new world record for cruise traffic in Fiscal Year 2009-2010 with approximately 4.15 million passengers traveling through the Port over the last year. Port officials attributed an especially strong summer season to the record numbers as dollar conscious vacationers opted for cruise vacations as a way to get high value for their travel budget.
“For the third year in a row, the Port of Miami has set a world mark for passenger traffic,” said Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez. “We are pleased that even in a time of economic difficulty, cruise traffic continues to grow.”
The Port of Miami processed 4,145,053 passengers October ... Read More>>>Back to Top |  And Celebrates a Strong Performance in the Group's 250th Year
Lloyd’s Register’s Board of Trustees has selected Thomas Thune Andersen as the Chairman-elect of the Lloyd’s Register Group, the leading provider of independent assurance and expert advice to the marine, energy, transport and management-systems sectors around the world.
Andersen, who was appointed as a Trustee by the General Committee in June, will succeed Chairman David Moorhouse CBE, who is due to retire at the end of the year after serving eleven and a half years as the Chairman of the Group.
Moorhouse commented: "It is a great pleasure for me to welcome my successor, Thomas Andersen. ... Read More>>>Back to Top |  Largest harsh environment jack-up ever to be designed and built in Singapore
Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) has delivered the first of three KFELS N-Class jack-up rigs being built for Rowan Companies, Inc. (Rowan) (NYSE: RDC) safely, on time and within budget.
Built to the proprietary KFELS N-Class design, this new-generation rig is the largest jack-up to be constructed in Singapore. This rig design is the brainchild of Keppel's R&D arm, Offshore Technology Development (OTD), following Keppel's extensive experience in constructing rigs for the North Sea region since 1985. The North Sea region is one of the world's toughest operating environments for offshore exploration and production. Read More>>>Back to Top |  Global shipping industry recruiter Faststream reports that demand for ship operators and freight traders remains strong in Europe and Asia in its annual Maritime Employment Review (pdf) for the commercial shipping market published today (25 October).
Faststream Recruitment Group CEO Mark Charman says:
“The shipping markets continue to offer good opportunities for talented individuals and we believe that as long as there are no market shocks, the post-Christmas and post-bonus period should be a busy one for freight traders, shipbrokers and chartering managers looking for new challenges.”
The review looks at the growth of commercial shipping activity in Singapore and how this activity is translating ... Read More>>>Back to Top |  Following the successful launch of Norwegian Epic, the Company's largest and most innovative ship to date, Norwegian Cruise Line announced today that it has reached an agreement with MEYER WERFT GMBH of Germany to build two new next generation Freestyle Cruising ships for delivery in spring 2013 and spring 2014, respectively. Each of the 143,500 gross ton vessels, the largest passenger/cruise ships to be built in Germany, will have approximately 4,000 passenger berths and a rich cabin mix. Additional details about each ship's new and exciting features will be released as construction progresses. The contract price for the two vessels is approximately €1.2 billion. The Company has committed financing in place from a syndicate of ... Read More>>>Back to Top |  Compass Courses Maritime Training located in Edmonds WA, is proud to announce the completion of a Gravity Lifeboat Davit for their STCW Proficiency in Survival Craft / Lifeboat man course.
The davit came off the SS Gulf Farmer, which was being scrapped in TX. “We wanted to keep it as original as it was on the ship, even down to painting it battleship grey,” said Compass Courses owner Julie Keim.
Having this davit allows the school flexibility in their schedule, by offering Able Seaman and Basic Safety Training twice a month.
Compass Courses had been renting a davit for 8 years from a local community college ... Read More>>>Back to Top |  The passenger ferry Karya Terang sank Friday afternoon during bad weather off the cape of Watumanuk on Flores island.
Sixty-six passengers were onboard the ferry sailing from Palue to Maumere when it sank. Rescuers report that they’ve recovered the bodies of 3 women and 2 men; 17 remain missing.
Rescuers were still searching for the missing on Sunday.
Heavy seas and an overload of passengers contributed to the sinking. Read More>>>Back to Top | _newsletter.jpg) Earlier this month, Gamesa, a global technology leader in the wind energy business (through its U.S. based subsidiary), announced that they and the Newport News Shipbuilding operations of Northrop Grumman Corporation, a leading American defense company and America’s largest shipbuilder, have signed an agreement to work together on offshore wind technology.
The agreement calls for the companies to cooperate on the launch of Gamesa’s first G11X -5.0 MW offshore prototype, in the United States, using Gamesa's multi-megawatt technology and Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding’s broad experience in challenging marine environments.
Gamesa is currently designing and developing a G11X- 5.0 MW offshore Wind Turbine (WTG), specifically for the marine environment, built upon ... Read More>>>Back to Top |  Military Sealift Command’s long-term chartered container ship MV American Tern delivered containers and equipment belonging to the Pennsylvania National Guard’s 56th Stryker Brigade Oct. 7 in the Port of Riga, Latvia, as part of the preparation for Exercise Sabre Strike 2010. MSC’s Sealift Logistics Command Europe, headquartered in Naples, Italy, also played a key role in the off-load of equipment for this Northern European exercise.
Conducted at the Vecmilgravis Terminal in Riga, the offload set the stage for the joint multi-national military exercise training forces from the three Baltic States and the United States Oct. 18-31 at the Adazi training area in Latvia. The exercise is designed to tune interoperability procedures and ... Read More>>>Back to Top |  Successful Safety Management - A Practical Primer
This 2 Day workshop is an overview of important Safety Management topics. This course combines in-depth knowledge with a practical approach to provide a better understanding of the safety management system process.
Successful Safety Management – A Practical Primer
Has your safety management system grown into a monster that is difficult to manage and understand? Have we lost the meaning and intent by overcomplicating with special interest and bureaucracy? Can we reduce the paper and be safer? Together, let’s explore the benefits of getting back to basics to ensure successful safety management.
Objectives |  National GMDSS Implementation Task Force
Date/Time: Thursday 6 January 2011 at 9:30 am
Location: RTCM Headquarters in Rosslyn, Virginia
Chairman: Capt. Jack Fuechsel, USCG (Ret)
For Info: Jack Fuechsel at 703-527-0484 or e-mail: gmdss@comcast.net
Website: (NEW) http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=GMDSS
Click Here to Download the Meeting Agenda (pdf)
The Previous Meeting
Newsletter and Summary Record of 29 September 2010 Meeting (pdf)
This summary record is provided for information and will be posted on the Task Force portion of the Coast Guard web site Note the new address: www.navcen.uscg.gov/?pageName=MaritimeTelecomms ... Read More>>>Back to Top |  Project team members of Hamworthy Oil & Gas Systems, Hamworthy Shanghai and Sinopacific at the contract signing ceremony in China
Hamworthy Gas Systems has made a major advance in China’s broadening gas carrier construction sector by securing a breakthrough contract for systems for six Liquid Ethylene Gas carriers to be built at Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering Co. Ltd (“SOE”), Nantong.
The ships, six 12,000m3 capacity, 139m long semi-pressurized and refrigerated LEG carriers ordered by Luxembourg-based Jaccar Holdings, are being built in accordance with Sinopacific’s latest ‘Tiger’ design, with delivery due from 2012 onwards.
In a contract worth over £20 million, each ship will feature cargo handling ... Read More>>>Back to Top | | |
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