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EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONSCalMac strike called off

THE 12-hour strike planned to hit ferry services operated by Scotland's Caledonian MacBrayne (CalMac)tomorrow has been called off. The action was postponed following further talks between CalMac’smanagement and representatives of the RMT (Rail, Maritime & Transport) Union, which has about 400members in the company. The strike was called in opposition to plans to put CalMac’s services out tocompetitive tender. CalMac operates 30 ferry services to remote areas and islands on Scotland’s westcoast, with subsidies provided by the Scottish Executive. The RMT feared that the pay and conditions of itsmembers might suffer if the services were put out to tender. CalMac managing director Lawrie Sinclairdescribed the talks with the union as very constructive. The Executive is trying to get clearance fromBrussels to allow it to continue CalMac’s services without going out to tender but talks to decide arecontinuing.

HIGH FREIGHT RATES EXACERBATECREW SHORTAGES

HIGH freight rates are making crew shortages worse Rajaish Bajpaee, the president of Hong Kong-basedship management company Eurasia, told delegates at the Connecticut Maritime Association’s annualconvention yesterday.

Mr Bajpaee said that the pool of qualified crew currently able to man the expanding global fleet was notlarge enough. He noted that in the short term this shortage has been increased by the current low levels ofship scrapping coupled with an increase in newbuilding volumes as shipowners capitalise on the highfreight rates prevailing across the shipping markets.

“The seafarer shortage is particularly pronounced in the specialised trades such as the large bulk carriersand tankers, the post panamax containerships and LNG carriers where specialist qualifications are needed.”

He noted that three to five years were required for a new recruit to qualify for the junior ranks and up toeight years to reach the senior ranks.

He called on shipowners to pool their resources and allow the owners of specialised ships to receiveunderstudy officers from other employers.

He said: “This measure, whilst not a quick fix, would be a way of making the most of the workforce that wealready have.”

Mr Bajpaee also said that Vietnamese and Indonesian seafarers’ standards should be raised to a higherlevel by improving these countries’ onshore training structures with more funding from the public andprivate sectors.



Turning to recruitment and retention issues, Mr Bajpaee said that the increasing criminalisation of theseafaring profession was “a big turn off to many seafarers.”

“The stigmatisation of seafarers does not just happen in the rare event of a serious incident, but morefrequently in their treatment as potential terrorists by over-zealous port authorities when they comeashore. After weeks at sea, shore leave is very important to seafarers – they should not be restricted ortreated like potential terrorists.”

Mobile River- Possible ship delays.The M/V Star Drivanger is anchored and taking on water in the Mobile River, east bank, at lower end ofAtlantic Marine Shipyard. Salvage operations are in progress. The channel is 600 feet wide at this location.

The Coast Guard “has established a temporary Safety Zone restricting all commercial traffic with drafts over18 feet from transiting the Mobile Ship Channel between lighted buoys numbers 84 and 87…..” “…Vesselswith drafts over 18 feet may be allowed on a case by case basis to transit the safety zone with priorapproval by the Captain of the Port….” The CG has authorised the first vessel over 18 feet draft to transitabout 1345 today. Additional transits may be authorised after that transit.

Anticipate salvage operation will take 48 hours, possibly longer. All vessels should proceed with caution andminimal speed in the area.

Greenpeace targets SkymanSix Greenpeace activists were arrested on Tuesday after they attempted to delay the berthing of a bulker inPortugal in a protest over illegal logging.

The six had rappelled from a bridge at the entrance to the port ofLeixoes, 340km north of Lisbon, in an attempt to delay the 17,159-dwt bulker Skyman (built 1977).

The port’s maritime police also prevented two inflatables launchedfrom the Greenpeace ship The Arctic Sunrise from reaching theSkyman.

Greenpeace claimed the ship contained wood from at least four firmsthat have been convicted in Brazil of supplying “illegal timber”.

The activists said the aim of the protest was to “expose” Portugal’srole as a European gateway for illegal timber from the world’sancient forests.

Portugal is the world’s fifth largest importer of timber from theBrazilian Amazon and a significant importer of timer from otherancient forest areas, Greenpeace said.

The Cyprus-flagged Skyman is owned by Athens-based Transman Shipping Enterprises.

Students Jump Ship, To SafetyMembers of the U.S. Coast Guard worked through the night to free a two-masted sailing ship that ranaground in shallow water near a rock jetty, forcing dramatic rescues in churning waters.



All 20 people aboard the 90-foot "IrvingJohnson" were brought to shore after theship became stuck in a sandbar.

Authorities said rough surf knocked atleast four people off the boat into the 58-degree water. They were later picked upby rescue workers in personal watercraft.

The rest of the group followed rescuers'orders and, one by one, jumped off thelurching boat wearing life jackets, aswaves rolled over the deck. They were alsopicked up.

All aboard were accounted for, said U.S.Coast Guard spokesman Prentice Danner.

At first, reports Carter Evans of KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, the Coast Guard tried to pull the boat back out tosea, but it wasn't working. Petty Officer Kenny Akana told Evans, "The seas were picking up, and westarted to lose our tow, and that's when we decided to recover people from the water."

Every single person aboard the boat had to jump into the water to be rescued, Evans says. Video showsthe ship tossing, perilously close to a jetty it needed to get around. It didn't. "I've been in and out of thisharbor before, and I'm kind of surprised. I have no idea how this happened," says John Little, a volunteerfrom the group that organized the trip, the Los Angeles Maritime Institute.

The owners of the $4.5 million ship say the harbor master had recently checked the depth, which wassupposedly about 20 feet, Evans reports. But somehow, sand filled in part of the harbor entrance, and theship ran aground.

Three of the passengers were taken to area hospitals for treatment of hypothermia. The rest received foodand clothing from the Red Cross.

The Irving Johnson is a brigantine completed in 2003 for the maritime institute's TopSail Youth Program.

The boat was being used for a seven-day volunteer spring break team-building trip through the ChannelIslands by students from the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, said Laura Trulson, the institute'seducation director. Ten students and 10 crew members were aboard the boat, she said. She did not knowhow the vessel got into trouble.

Authorities were working with the institute to pull the boat out to sea Tuesday. "There was a salvagecompany out here with a tug boat," Evans says. "They tried to put a line on this ship to pull it back out tosea, but they say the ocean is simply too rough to pull this boat out right now."

The vessel has 4,450 square feet of sail, a rigging height of nearly 88 feet and a diesel engine. The sailswere furled during the rescue northwest of Los Angeles.

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The cutter Storis tows the stricken fishing processor vessel,Independence, in the Gulf of Alaska Tuesday March 22,2005, off the coast of Alaska. The Seattle-based ship with204 crewmembers onboard lost its steering on Monday in20-foot seas with blowing snow and winds as high as 60

mph.

Baltic Press in tow The 4,550-dwt ro-roBaltic Press (built 1979)is being towed to Falmouthafter an engine crankcaseexplosion left the shipwithout power.

Multraship Salvage’s twin-screw tug Multratug 7reportedly reached the shipon 22 March and took theBaltic Press in tow.

The Baltic Press was left immobilised anddrifting in 49° 23'N, 04° 37'E on Mondayafter the explosion, which also caused thefailure of a hydraulic pump. The Swedish-flagged ship was on a voyage fromSodertalje to Ferrol in Spain with a cargo of4,450-mt of paper and a crew of ten.

Right : Multratug 7Photo: Piet Sinke ©

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NAVY NEWSNavy issues CJR replacement ship

solicitationThe Navy has issued asolicitation for theCobra JudyReplacement programship. The new ship willreplace the T-AGM 23,USNS OBSERVATIONISLAND.

The replacement ship isreferred to as theMissile RangeInstrumentation Ship,T-AGM(R). T-AGM(R)will be the supportplatform for the Cobra

Judy Replacement (CJR) program. The CJR program will provide worldwide, high-quality, high-resolution,multi-wavelength radar data. The Navy currently has a contract in place for the replacement radars,mission suite equipment and mission systems integration and installation efforts.

The T-AGM(R) will be a U.S. flagged new construction ship classed in accordance with ABS standards,certified by the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and designed/built to SOLAS requirements and other commercialand regulatory body rules and regulations. The ship is to have helicopter facilities in accordance withNAVAIR Air Capable Ship Aviation Facilities Bulletin No. 1J for Level III (Day Only), Class 5 (HoverOperations in excess of 15 ft), MH-60S operations. The maximum length overall is not to exceed 712 feet,the maximum beam is not to exceed 106 feet, the maximum navigation draft is not to exceed 27 feet andthe air draft is not to exceed 136 ft.

Top : The T-AGM 23 USNS OBSERVATION ISLAND – Photo : Coll. Piet Sinke

The T-AGM(R) is be capable of using all current T-AGM 23 USNS OBSERVATION ISLAND facilities andports. The T-AGM(R) will be capable of performing mission operations in wave heights of 8-13 feet andsurviving in wave heights of 25-46 feet. A Military Sealift Command (MSC) Civilian Mariner (CIVMAR) crew



or an MSC contracted civilian crew will operate the ship. The ship will be designed for a full complement of88 persons berthed in 62 single staterooms and 13 double staterooms. Dedicated interior mission spacewith a combined usable deck area of no less then 1,254 square meters is required.

Mission system power requirements are estimated at 8MW at a five (5) knot loitering speed. The T-AGM(R)is required to support two deck mounted mission radar arrays and a topside antenna area is required toaccommodate approximately 38 communication antennas. A horizontal separation of 30 meters and avertical separation of 11 meters is required for the deck mounted mission radars. The distance from thebridge wings to the closest mission radar shall be no less then 30 meters. The estimated weight of theupper mission radar array is 298 long tons and that of the lower mission radar array is 270 long tons. Theprojected service life of the T-AGM(R) will be 30 years. The ship is required to be fully supportable withinthe current commercial and DoD supply chains.

The ship will have the capability to conduct independent and unreplenished operations for up to 70 dayswith an operational range of at least 12,000 nautical miles at a sustained speed of 20 knots at 80% of theMaximum Continuous Rating (MCR). The Navy plans to conduct the T-AGM(R) procurement in two phases.Phase I will contract for a concept/preliminary design with the award of only two firm fixed price contracts.

Phase II will be for detail design and construction of the ship.

India to build aircraft carrierIndia will next month begin building an indigenously designed aircraft carrier that will tap Italian expertiseand take eight years to complete, a senior naval officer announced yesterday.

The carrier is designed to operate a mix of Russian MiG-29K and Kamov 31 anti-submarine helicoptersand the naval variant of India's light combat aircraft, vice chief of naval staff, Vice-Admiral YashwantPrasad, said. Construction of the 37,500 tonne ship which would carry a maximum of 30 fighter aircraft willstart on April 11 at Cochin Shipyard in the southern state of Kerala. It will be ready for delivery in 2012,Prasad said in New Delhi.

The 252 metre-long carrier will have a top speed of 28 knots and will carry 160 officers and 1,400 sailors,he added. It will have two runways with 200m-long ski jumps and a landing deck. The ship will bepowered by four gas turbines and will have an endurance of 7,500 nautical miles, making it capable ofvoyages of more than 45 days at a stretch.

Only five other countries operate aircraft carriers - China, the United States, France, Russia and Britain.

The Indian government sanctioned 32 billion rupees in 2003 for the project, Prasad said.The vessel wasdesigned by the Indian navy but the technical assistance of Italian firm Fincantieri will be used duringconstruction, Prasad said. Fincantieri will help Cochin Shipyard integrate the main propulsion system andother specialized tasks, a naval officer said. The Indian Navy has had two aircraft carriers but it currentlyoperates only the INS Viraat after the INS Vikrant was decommissioned in January 1997. Last yearIndia signed a $1.5bn (BD587m) deal with Russia for a 40,000 tonne aircraft carrier, Admiral Gorshkov,which is slated to join the Indian navy in 2008 after a refit.

India is also within "days" of closing a $2bn (BD756m) deal under which its navy will buy six FrenchScorpene submarines. "It is about to get through," Prasad said, of the deal aimed at plugging a hole inIndia's conventional military capability. "It should be through in the next coming days," he added. A sourcein the prime minister's office said the deal was on the agenda of the next security cabinet meeting nextweek.

India, US set to fix deal on submarinesOvercoming wrangles over product support assurances, India and United States are all set to conclude amajor defence deal on American assistance for Indian naval subs in distress and for purchase of submarine



rescue vehicles (SRVs).

The two countries are also in the final stage of working out a deal for purchase by India of 10 retrofittedLockheed Martin P3C Orions long-range naval maritime spy planes to fill the gaps in the navyreconnaissance capability hit by recent crashes of two Russian-acquired IL-38 aircraft. “We are in intensenegotiations and are likely to sign a contract for US cover for Indian naval submarines in distress and forpurchase of submarine rescue vehicles by the year-end,” vice chief of the naval staff vice admiral YashwantPrasad told newsmen here.

Washington and New Delhi almost finalised a contract for US navy cover to rescue Indian submarines indistress in 1999, when American sanctions following the Pokhran nuclear blasts hit the project. Mr Prasadsaid India had already paid earnest money for the contract which already covered its German-acquiredHDW SSK class conventional submarines. “The US experts are now evaluating the Russian suppliedFoxtrot and Kilo class submarines to point out alterations to be undertaken on them to make themcapable of such air and deep sea rescue by US navy,” he said.

The supply of submarine rescue vehicles along with flying kits and P3C Orions would be the secondlargest defence deal between the two countries in recent years. The deal, like the previous one for supplyof ANTPQ 37 fire-finding radars, would be a government to government contract, naval sources said.

American aviation giant Lockheed Martin is in strong contention for India’s over $5 billion plan to acquire125 multi-role fighters. Naval chief admiral Arun prakash is currently in the US on a 10-day official visit andthe sale of P3C Orions and contract for submarine rescue vehicles is high on his agenda during talks withPentagon officials, the sources said. Asked about plans to acquire P3C Orions already in service withPakistan navy, the vice chief of naval staff said, “We are looking at these seriously and they would be partof agenda of the naval chief there.” He said navy wanted these spy planes to be retrofitted giving themenough residual life and was also seeking assurance of total product support.

SHIPYARD NEWSChina Merchants invests in repair

DIVERSIFIED conglomerate China Merchants Group is building a large ship repair facility in Zhizhou Islandoff Shenzhen in southern China. Work has begun on the CNY2.3Bn ($277.8M) project, which is scheduledto be completed in 2006. A total of 63 hectares will be reclaimed from the sea and the yard will have aquay length of more than 3,000m. It will be equipped with two dry docks to take in ships of 300,000dwtand another for 150,000dwt vessels. Turnover is targeted at CNY2Bn a year. The yard is expected to rivalCosco’s facility at Liuheng in Zhoushan.

NASSCO delivers second BP tankerGeneral Dynamics' National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), San Diego, has delivered theAlaskan Explorer, the second of four Alaska-class double-hull oil tankers being built for BP Oil ShippingCompany, USA.

"We had very successful sea trials with the Alaskan Explorer," said Richard Vortmann, NASSCOpresident. "We are now focused on timely completion of the third and fourth ships in the class, which arealready under construction in the shipyard." The Alaskan Explorer will join its sister ship, the AlaskanFrontier, which was delivered in August 2004 and is delivering oil from Alaska to West Coast ports,including BP refineries in Los Angeles, Calif., and Cherry Point, Wash. The third ship will be delivered in late2005 and the fourth ship in 2006.NASSCO says the state-of-the-art ships are "the most environmentally friendly oil tankers ever built." Theirdouble hull construction has been designed for a life of 35 years and their deck structure has a life of 50



years, a "robust configuration that will perform at peak efficiency for decades in the rigors of the Gulf ofAlaska's waters." The diesel-electric propulsion system, with redundant engines, shafts and screws,significantly increases reliability and reduces air emissions and maintenance downtime. The ships useseawater instead of oil to cool and lubricate their propeller shafts, eliminating the possibility of accidentaloil leaks. Their cargo piping, normally installed on the deck, is run inside the cargo tanks, to reduce the riskof small spills.

The ships are 287 meters (941 feet) long, with a beam of 50 meters (164 feet) and a capacity of 1.3million barrels of oil. Once completed, the four BP ships will be operated by the Alaska Tanker Company ofBeaverton, Ore., which operates BP-chartered tankers used in the Alaska North Slope trade. Alaska TankerCompany is 25% owned by BP.

Vortmann noted that in addition to the two remaining BP oil tankers, NASSCO has contracts worth $2.5billion to build the first eight of 12 new T-AKE dry cargo/ammunition ships for the U.S. Navy. The first shipin the T-AKE program, a new class of combat logistics force ships designated the Lewis and Clark class,is scheduled to be launched in May. The program is expected to run through 2010.

Wanted: shipyard workersFinnish shipbuilder Aker Finnyards is reportedly on the look-out for 200 new workers for its Turku yard.The Aker Yards subsidiary needs extra staff to work on new orders, the most recent of which is Color Line’s$397m cruise ferry. The situation is a far cry from last November, when about 1,400 workers at Turku wenton strike to protest at threatened job cuts. Aker Yards wanted to axe about 700 jobs at its Finnishsubsidiaries with the cutback completed by mid-January. The plan was later revised to 315 jobs.

Damen faces late challengeDutch shipyard group Damen is facing a legal challenge to its purchase of the Okean shipyard in Ukraine –

nearly five years after the fact.

A Kharkiv resident named as S Hubarievhas asked the Pecherskyi district courtof Kiev to cancel the privatisation.Damen bought 78% of the yard inSeptember 2000 for UAH 26.3m (now$4.98m).

The plaintiff believes that his rights as acitizen of Ukraine were violated becauseconditions of the competition were

formed in a way that prevented him participating, Ukrainian News revealed. Okean specialises in buildingcontainerships and tankers. It reported a loss of UAH 33.83m for 2003, with revenues up to UAH 128.92m.Damen now owns 97.52% of the yard.

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Idemitsu, Mitsubishi in LPG talksIDEMITSU Kosan and Mitsubishi Corp of Japan are discussing a merger of their LPG businesses, a movethat could create one of the world’s largest gas shipping players from 1 April 2006. Collectively, the twoenergy companies control a fleet of 15 ships, including chartered and owned tonnage, in the VLGC sector.A spokesman for Idemitsu confirmed to Fairplay today that the proposed merger was intended to promoteefficiencies of scale and that Japanese demand for LPG was expected to remain steady. “We do notcurrently have any plans for fleet expansion” beyond the existing seven ships that Idemitsu wouldcontribute to the merger, the company said. Together the two companies import about 3M tonnes of LPG ayear, with sales of about ¥400Bn ($3.8Bn). Japan is the world’s largest importer of LPG, and the publicstatement of a feasibility study is usually seen as an indication of firm intent.



Fairplay ends venture talk

Top : The FAIRPLAY 23 seen here operating in the port of Rotterdam – Photo : Piet Sinke ©

JOERG Mainzer, managing director of German specialist Fairplay Towage, has responded to a Fairplay DailyNews item published on 18 March in which it was suggested that the managers at Dutch towage and heavylift group Smit were considering further joint ventures with Fairplay. “Both Smit and Fairplay intend tomaintain their independent harbour towage services in Rotterdam,” stressed Mainzer. At a press briefinglast week Vree admitted that neither Smit nor Fairplay had been particularly successful in Rotterdam. Thetwo companies own equal shares in Antwerp harbour towage operator URS.

Ferry lines threaten court actionNINE Italian ferry operators have threatened to take state controlled Caremar and its parent Tirrenia to theEuropean Court over unfair subsidies. The move follows a brief interruption to services on 18 March bylines running across the Gulf of Naples, namely Alilauro, Alilauro-Gruson, Alicost, Procidamar, Giuffrè &Lauro, Pozzuoli Ferries, Traghetti Pozzuoli, Linee Lauro and Navigazione Libera del Golfo. Lawyer SalvatoreRavenna, who is representing the privately owned operators, has accused the Italian government ofsubsidising Caremar to enable the line to keep its running costs low, which means it can undercut prices ata time when private operators have had to hike tariffs by 60% to meet increasing bunker costs. Tirreniarejects these allegations, saying that, “following a similar claim by some Italian private owners in 1999, theEU ascertained in March 2004 that the subsidies granted to the Tirrenia Group do not breach anycompetition law.” The statement pointed out that private operators benefit from a 50% rebate on tax paidon seafarers’ salaries, which is not allowed to Tirrenia".



New £6m Ipswich ferry terminal openedIpswich Ferry Terminal, the brand-new roll-on/roll-off ('ro-ro') facility at Associated British Ports' (ABP) Portof Ipswich, was unveiled Monday, 21 March at an official opening ceremony held at the port

Hosted by ABP's Group Chief Executive, Bo Lerenius, John Fitzgerald, Port Director for ABP's Short-SeaPorts and ABP East Anglia Port Manager Rob Smith, the event saw Jacques Dewilde, Managing Director ofthe port's largest customers, Ferryways NV ('Ferryways'), cut a ceremonial ribbon to mark the opening ofIpswich Ferry Terminal.

An audience of local civic dignitaries, including the Mayor of Ipswich, Councillor Roger Fern, local MP ChrisMole, Ferryways' customers and members of local business organisations joined ABP staff at the port incelebrating the opening of one of the single most important developments to have happened at the Port ofIpswich in recent years.

Built at a cost of £6.1 million, work commenced in June 2004 on the construction of this second ro-ro berthat the port's West Bank and additional hard standing. ABP undertook the project following an agreementwith Ferryways to extend the port's existing five-year agreement with the company, by a further 20 years.

Operating a ro-ro ferry service, Ferryways started operations at the port in February 2000 with the Ipswich-Ostend two-ship service, and traffic volumes have consistently grown year-on-year. Due to growth indemand, the number of daily sailings has since doubled. But with demand still continuing to grow, ABPundertook the construction of the second ro-ro berth to accommodate the increased levels of trade that theservice, and other potential routes, is expected to bring through to the port over the coming years.

Event host and ABP Group Chief Executive, Bo Lerenius, expressed his pride in and satisfaction with thenew development: "This is unquestionably a momentous day for the Port of Ipswich. Since ABP acquiredthe port in 1997, we have invested more than £25 million in new and improved facilities. Consequently, inless than eight years, we have seen annual tonnages of cargo handled at the port almost double.

"From the start, a key target was to re-establish Ipswich as an important unit-load facility. Thanks to therelationship we have with Ferryways, I believe that we have achieved this. It is also thanks to the formingof such relationships that we can look to the future of the Port of Ipswich with excitement and confidence.The opening of this new ro-ro facility is a significant step in establishing East Anglia's position as a majorgateway for short-sea trades to the rest of Europe."

Jacques Dewilde, Managing Director of Ferryways, said: "Ferryways has been very successful in being ableto identify and establish long-term relationships with suitably located ports, such as the Port of Ipswich.The port is well connected and very well managed. With the construction of this second ro-ro berth, we arepoised to grow our business further.

"All of this would not have been possible without the relentless support of our friends in Ipswich."

MACANDREWS SERVING COMOROSVIA DAR ES SALAAM

MACANDREWS, the UK subsidiary of CMA CGM, is using Dar es Salaam as its cargo gateway for theComoros Islands in the Indian Ocean.

Following the launch of its Swahili Express Service - a fixed-day fortnightly service which connects ports inIndia, Pakistan, the Middle East Gulf and East Africa - MacAndrews now offers onward connections via Dares Salaam to the ports of Moroni and Mutsamudu in the Comoros Islands, as well as Mayotte.



Jim Robb, General Manager, Indian Trades says: "Much of the Comoros Islands trade is sourced throughthe Middle East, especially Dubai, so our Swahili Express Service really comes into its own.”Dar es Salaamis a key gateway, offering a very strong base for regional trade. Prospects for trade are very bright.

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