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I am currently on a working trip to Greece. So apologies if I have missed a story you expected to see in this week’s edition. Feel free to link additional stories in the comments!
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This Week’s Photos:
This week’s photos come from the author of the maritime website Uglyships.com. I was asked to help in finding out information on the ship AERIA. He covers the vessel in his post “Aeria -Help Needed- (updated & again)“. Here are some comments on the vessel :
* The Questions:
A) Who knows more about the history and the purpose of this odd-looking vessel??
B) Who knows the where-abouts of this odd-looking vessel??
C) Who can shine a light on the future of this odd-looking vessel??
* Toni – According my knowledge: The ship is still at the harbor of my home-town Turku, Finland. Very little is written about that… What I’ve seen in local papers; it is still owned by Russians, harbor fees are unpaid (ship is abandoned), so my hometown Port Authorities are thinking what to do with it? – Link
* She is located in Pansio-harbour. Lat: 60.4423277 Lon: 22.1523745 (Turku, Finland)
In order to prevent collapses of container stacks when containers with various structural strengths are used, the Sub-Committee agreed to request the ISO to develop marking criteria to further the inclusion of such restrictions in the cargo planning.
BERLIAN Laju Tankers could look to replace some of Camillo Eitzen’s European crew with lower cost seafarers from Asia, following its planned takeover of the Norwegian shipowner.
“We understand that Camillo Eitzen operational costs are high, as it employs expensive all-European crew and subcontracts ship management services to third parties as opposed to the cheaper alternative of internally managing the ships,” an analyst report by CIMB said.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans appears to have taken leave of its senses when it comes to protecting the declining herring stocks, says Cardigan MP Lawrence MacAulay.
He said he can’t believe the department may decrease the legal size of herring caught by New Brunswick herring seiners.
The Danish tax authorities have caught a number of people employed by the Clipper Group in Copenhagen in an action against Danes with money in tax shelters around the world.
Most ports handle a mix of breakbulk and containerized chilled cargo. Tampa, however, has decided to tear down its 35-year-old, 150,000-square-foot cold storage facility Harborside, ending shipments of palletized melons, cantaloupes and other perishables at the port. Extending the building’s life would have cost an estimated $3.8 million and was not justified by the seasonal melon business, the only cargo in the facility, said Wade Elliott, the port’s senior director of marketing.
BitterEnd Blog has problems for the official state ship of Washginton State, the LADY WASHINGTON, in “Dirty Girl“.
But we all know the MSM can’t get much right these days. My guess is that the MSM simply confused the difficult and almost always closed Northwest passage with the Northeast passage.
On 7 October 1985, four members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro as it was in the Mediterranean Sea en route from Alexandria, Egypt to Port Said. After the Israeli Government refused their demand for release of 50 imprisoned Palestinians, they killed disabled American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and threw him and his wheelchair overboard. The terrorists surrendered to Egyptian officials and boarded a flight to Tunisia. The flight was intercepted by US Navy fighter aircraft and was forced to land in Italy. The four hijackers were arrested by the Italian Government but their alleged leader, Abu Abbas, was allowed to depart. This incident awakened governments around the world and the IMO to the security threats faced by passenger vessels.
Inbound tow on the Houston Ship Channel. Taken at dawn. Looking at the tug’s wake you can see how he compensated for the suction of the passing ship; putting the rudder hard right then hard left to keep the head of the tow pointed straight down the channel.
It’s a stinker, but at this point I can’t tell if I’m the only one upset-to judge from the volume of e-mail from people in the fleet upset at this issue as it plays out there (preferential promotions etc), I’m not alone. Certainly it’s corrupted USNA: we now no longer throw out minorities for honor/conduct violation — the goal is l00% graduation. This seeps through to EVERYBODY. I hear honor cases are closed or delayed (one with a star football player, his Xth infraction, has been postponed indefinitely) etc.
The Mystic Seaport Board of Trustees voted Saturday and authorized the Museum staff to restore the historic whaling vessel Charles W. Morgan to sailing condition and to plan a ceremonial voyage upon completion of the current multi-million dollar restoration project, while moving forward with a fundraising initiative to support these activities.
The vote, which was unanimous, came after Mystic Seaport conducted its own four-month feasibility study into sailing the Morgan, a registered National Historic Landmark.
According to the information received from reliable sources, the ship SS Oceanic (now named PLATINUM II), a US ship was due to get beached in the Plot No. B-5 Hariyana Shipping Ltd, Right now the ship is in the Bhavnagar anchorage point. The ship has under tow. Indian government has submitted to the IMO that a ship under tow should be pre-contaminated and the Indian Supreme Court has also sought
The ship should be sent back to US in the same way as was done in the case of Le Clemenceau. The US authorities must act before the ship is handed over to Rajiv Reniwal, the owner of Hariyana Shipping Ltd by Anil Sharma, the current owner of ship. It is same owner who misled and made fraudulent representation before the Supreme Court in the matter of the SS Blue Lady (SS Norway)
SSA Marine plans to make a huge gamble on new container crane technology which, if successful, will revolutionize cargo-handling in the port industry.
The Seattle-based terminal operator is negotiating with China’s Shanghai Zanhua Port Machinery Company, one of the largest manufacturers of container cranes in the world, on a new system of electrified guide rails to move containers throughout the yard at a terminal.
USCG could act on access – SEAFARERS hobbled since 9/11 by onerous shore-leave barriers while docked at US ports could soon get relief from the US Coast Guard.
As previously reported by Fairplay, the USCG had operated under the belief that it had no legal authority to intervene when seafarers were charged exorbitant fees by terminal operators for shore leave access. It believed doing so would violate private property rights.
But a recently completed legal review has determined that the USCG does have the authority to require terminals to provide reasonable access and this issue “may be the subject of a future regulatory change”, stated a just-released USCG internal directive.
According to a June 2009 study by the Seamen’s Church Institute of New York and New Jersey, seafarers’ access to shore leave escort services varies greatly from terminal to terminal, with some charging steep escort fees that essentially restrict crew to their ships.
The survey also revealed that seafarers are sometimes confused about escort policies, “in some instances leading them to abandon seeking shore leave at all”, the survey noted. – Fairplay Homepage (Used with Permission)
AND:
Iran’s ports to go private next year – IRAN WILL complete its port privatisation process by March 2010, the country’s deputy transport minister has said.
Ali Taheri, who also heads Iran’s Ports and Shipping Organisation, added that private investment in the country’s ports has now reached $1.3Bn.
Iran will rent out all of its Caspian and Gulf ports on 20 or 40-year leases, he told PressTV on Saturday. Local media reports claim the move is aimed at improving logistics infrastructure and port efficiency.
The Tehran Times added the plans are part of a mandate for sweeping privatisations of state-run organisations issued by Ayatollah Khamenei.
Taheri concluded that he expects the capacity of Iran’s oil and merchant fleet to increase from the current 12M tonnes to around 20M tonnes by 2012. – Fairplay Homepage (Used with Permission)
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