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EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS Referring to the picture in newsletter 061 of the old dredger ROVUMA the newsletter reader AAD NOORLAND from Cape Town replied with the following message : In 1975 the dredger was registered as "Goa" with home port Lourenco Marques (Maputo) and managed by the Dutch concern "Breejenbout" for the Mocambiquan dredging department "Emodraga".

1975 vessel was sabotaged and sank alongside the quay in Lourenco Marques, starboard side down. After many days of negotiations South African Diving Services (a division of Land & Marine Contractors) based in Durban, managed to secure the contract to refloat the vessel. As there was no salvage equipment locally available all equipment was mobilized from Durban. Vessel was successful refloated and after the water protraction treatment had been completed, the vessel was handed back to her owners "Emodraga"

Ghost ship to be sunk in Coral Sea Salvage authorities will start stripping down a ghost ship found floating in the Gulf of Carpentaria last month. The 80-metre boat will be sunk in the Coral Sea off the north coast of Queensland in a few days.




Tracy Jiggins, from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, says an investigation has failed to shed any light on where the abandoned boat came from. "We actually have a Cairns company on site at the moment," she said. "They are cleaning the vessels and making sure that all the bits and pieces that might come off once it's scuttled have been removed from the vessel to ensure there's no damage to the environment or any hazards to navigation in the area."

Series to Feature Ships Lost at Sea "Andrea Doria: Dive to Adventure and Danger" is the first in a three-part lecture series, "Lost at Sea," that highlights Penn State research on shipwrecks. The "Andrea Doria" presentation will take place at April 13 in 26 Hosler Building on the Penn State University Park campus. David Bright, Penn State alumnus and president of Nautical Research Group Inc. of New Jersey, will present a multifaceted view of the Andrea Doria from her initial planning and construction to salvage dives in the 260 feet of cold North Atlantic waters. The Andrea Doria was an Italian steamship with 1,705 passengers and crew on board that was struck in fog off the coast of Rhode Island by the Swedish-American liner Stockholm. The ship was traveling from Genoa, Italy, to New York City in 1956. The 29,000-ton liner sank in 11 hours. Bright is a shipwreck historian and deep technical diver. He studied the Titanic for more than 30 years and in 2003 and 2005, as part of scientific research, dove three miles to the wreck site of the ship on the Atlantic floor. He has studied the degradation of the ship caused by increased microbial activity. He also has worked on the wreck of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.

List of Companies Suffered From Fire Onboard "Hyundai Fortune"

Photo : Royal Dutch Navy © Large number of containers thought to be intact despite devastating inferno. Undamaged containers on the Hyundai Fortune, which was partly destroyed by explosions and a huge blaze off the Yemen coast last month, could be delivered to customers within a few weeks. Insurance claims for the lost freight are heading for the record books, with underwriters saying this is likely to be the biggest cargo loss ever. The ship was packed with high value consumer products when it caught fire. Hyundai Merchant Marine's 5,551 TEU containership is now under tow and should arrive in the Omani port of Salalah later this week.



The "Hyundai Fortune" was deployed within the New World Alliance's Asia-Europe Express service and was also carrying cargo for Grand Alliance lines. That means that seven major container lines are directly affected by the accident - APL, MOL, NYK, Hapag-Lloyd, OOCL and MISC as well as HMM. Compensation settlements are expected to be highly complex and take years to resolve. The ship was about to be phased out of the Asia-Europe Express and replaced by the "Hyundai Shanghai", a 6,800 TEU newbuilding that will now be slotted into service loop.

Job of recycling French toxic ship finds candidate A subsidiary of French water and energy giant Suez has offered its services to the French government to decontaminate and dismantle the asbestos-laden Clemenceau warship, the company's chief executive told the French press on Tuesday. The Clemenceau is expected back in France at the end of May The controversial vessel was sent to India to for recycling, only to be ordered back to France after protests erupted against its toxic legacy being dumped abroad, and raising wider concerns about the dumping of aging ships on developing countries. Dealing with the Clemenceau will involve not only recycling 30,000 tonnes of waste metal that the ship is estimated to represent, but also disposing of an estimated 220 tonnes of asbestos. Suez subsidiary Sita France has declared itself ready to rise to this challenge, having already dealt with the first batch of asbestos from the Clemenceau.

Paul Dauvin, chief executive of Sita France, told La Tribune newspaper: "This [ship-breaking] market will be important in Great Britain and in France, where more than 100 ships must be disposed of in the next three years." He said that it is "difficult to estimate the budget without a detailed analysis of the vessel." Two months ago the French ministry of defence had said the investment would have to exceed 45m euros. The Clemenceau is expected to arrive in Brest on the French coast at the end of May.

Staking legt Noordzee-ferries plat Het ferryverkeer van en naar de Engelse havens ligt woensdag vanaf 7.15 uur stil. Vakbond FNV roept de havenwerkers van Norfolk Line, P&O en Stena Line op om de hele dag te staken. Dinsdagavond mislukte een laatste poging om het cao-conflict op te lossen. Heeft deze stakingsdag geen effect, dan gaat maandag de zaak weer plat. Dat zegt FNV-bestuurder Niek Stam. De avondploeg van P&O heeft zich al stakingsbereid verklaard, aldus Stam. Woensdagochtend vangen de vakbonden de dagploegen op aan de bedrijfspoorten. De drie rederijen varen van Hoek van Holland, Europoort en Scheveningen naar Harwich, Hull, Teesport, Felixstowe en Killingholme. Het wegvervoer kan uitwijken via de Eurotunnel. Strijdpunten in het cao-conflict zijn de lonen, pensioenen en de zogenoemde ‘havenpasjesregeling’. Vorige week stelden de vakbonden een ultimatum aan de werkgevers. Zes cao-rondes waren vanaf november vruchteloos gebleven. Ook een laatste poging dinsdag mislukte. ,,De werkgevers hadden ons hiervoor uitgenodigd, maar ze kwamen met lege handen'', aldus Stam. De rederijen vinden dat de bonden veel te veel eisen. Het ro/ro-vervoer draait slecht waardoor kostenverhogingen funest zijn, aldus Pim de Lange, routedirecteur van Stena Line in Hoek van Holland. ,,Mijn vestiging schrijft rode cijfers. Het is worstelen om het hoofd boven water te houden.''



BC Ferries faces class action suit A class action suit has been launched against BC Ferries following the sinking of the Queen of the North on 22 March in Wright Sound, 75km south of the port of Prince Rupert. The lawsuit contends that the ferry corporation failed to train the crew adequately, to supervise the crew on the bridge, to maintain a proper lookout, to operate at a safe speed and did not conduct an evacuation of the ferry in a way that prevented or minimised injuries. Investigators using a mini-submarine have determined that the ferry is upright in deep silt at a depth of 427m after hitting a rock. While the ferry is leaking diesel fuel, the flow now appears to have slowed to a trickle. Also, there has been no sign of two missing passengers, Shirley Rosette and Gerald Foisy. The lawyer in charge of the class action suit said he will be contacting all passengers to determine which suffered damages and intend to join the class action. The investigation by Canada’s Transportation Safety Board is continuing. Mechanical failure has been ruled out as a possible cause.

Fortune firework theory dampened COLD water has been poured on the theory that fireworks caused the destruction on the Hyundai Fortune. “The aft section is completely destroyed. There’s no doubt that there was a huge explosion. The size of the explosion suggests something powerful. It could have been attacked, it could have been a mine, it could have been a highly explosive cargo,” Paul Neagle of niche logistics insurers the TT Club told delegates to the Club’s financial results meeting yesterday. Neagle drew a contrast to the 4,500-teu Hanjin Pennsylvania, which caught fire of the coast of Sri Lanka in 2002 while carrying a cargo of fireworks. “If you look at the Hanjin Pennsylvania there is no major hull destruction,” he said, whereas pictures of the Hyundai Fortune circulated at the meeting clearly show a hole in the ship’s structure of about five boxes deep by five boxes wide. The metal around the edge of the missing section peels outwards. A spokesman at the club added there is a suspicion that many dangerous cargoes are fraudulently or mis-described, especially as many lines have banned the carriage of certain cargoes. “It’s getting quite dangerous out there,” he declared.

German container ship sticks around for Easter The APL Panama ran aground Christmas Day on a beach in Ensenada and stuck around for the port's popular February carnival. Now it seems she'll be staying through Easter as well. Five weeks after the container ship was refloated, the vessel remains anchored offshore, awaiting clearances from Mexican agencies, a final inspection, and the arrival of a Dutch-owned tug that will escort it across the Pacific Ocean. The vessel's German owners, Mare Britannicum Schiffhartsgesellschaft, say the wait shouldn't be too much longer. “If we're lucky, it should be (leaving) around next week,” operations director Alexander Burchard said yesterday in a telephone interview from company headquarters in Bremen, Germany. The APL Panama ran aground Dec. 25 as it prepared to enter Ensenada's harbor, during a regular trans-Pacific trip. It wasn't until 75 days later that salvors from Titan Maritime were able to get it afloat after lightening its load and removing sand from around the hull. The ship was allowed to enter the port for the first time Saturday to unload 513 remaining containers, said Capt. José Luis Ríos Hernández, the harbor master. Ríos said the ship can't leave Ensenada without his permission, and he can't authorize the departure without clearances from government agencies. The major hold appears to be one placed by the federal environmental agency, Profepa, which has ordered the ship's owners to study potential long-term damage caused by the grounding. “We're waiting for the results of the study,” said Ricardo Castellanos Percevault, head of Profepa in Baja California. “We believe that the conduct of the APL Panama (salvage effort) was adequate, but we want to make sure that there is no long-lasting impact.”



Burchard said yesterday that the study is completed, and the company is waiting for the Mexican environmental agency to act. Burchard said the ship must also undergo a final inspection by Germanischer Lloyd, a classification society. Most cargo vessels are certified by such societies, which set technical design standards. The owners have contracted with a Dutch firm, Fairmount Marine B.V., to tow the APL Panama to Asia. The tugboat Hua An is expected to arrive in Ensenada by next week, Burchard said. The APL Panama's destination remained uncertain yesterday.

Ship That Carried Illegal Bangladeshis Seized The maritime authorities in the northern Mozambican port of Nacala have seized the ship that transported 67 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, reports Tuesday's issue of the Maputo daily paper "Noticias". The Bangladeshis were dropped off clandestinely at the a coastal locality a short distance from Nacala, on Saturday, but were spotted almost immediately and arrested the same day. Despite initial fears that it would be too late to catch the ship that carried them, a patrol boat of the Mozambican navy stationed in Nacala went after it. On Sunday it successfully arrested the ship and escorted it into Nacala. The ship, the "Karibu", is registered in Madagascar, and it is believed to be used by an international syndicate, involved in the lucrative business of smuggling people. Its 13 member crew are all citizens of Madagascar. The ship's captain told the police that he had received orders from one of the owners of the vessel to stop in Nacala, to drop off the Bangladeshis. But there were arguments with the passengers, who insisted that they be landed on a beach away from the city. The place for them to disembark was chosen by the only two among the Bangladeshis who speak Portuguese. Their knowledge of the coast around Nacala suggests that they have been here before. The Nacala maritime administrator, Daniel Sitoe, told "Noticias" that the "Karibu" is unfit for the transport of passengers. On Monday the police arrested a man of Asian origin in Nampula city, suspected of being one of the middlemen in the illegal immigration racket. The police think there is an international network involved in this trafficking, with connections to business people in Nacala. Sitoe said that an infrared test has confirmed the authenticity of the entry visas on the passports of the 67 Bangladeshis, supposedly issued by the Mozambican High Commission in Swaziland. Now the police are looking for an explanation of how the Bangladeshis obtained the visas - since they travelled from Bangladesh to Madagascar to Nacala, and never went anywhere near Swaziland.

Big claims will lead to higher premiums SHIPPING is steadily getting safer. That is the key message to get over despite a widespread perception to the contrary. In 1996 about 250 ships over 100 gross tonnage (gt) were lost worldwide; by 2004 that figure was about 100. Nevertheless, casualties do still happen and this year has so far been a comparatively bad one. The worst incident has been the loss of the Panamanian ferry Al Salam Boccaccio 98 in the Red Sea with the loss of 1,000 lives. The probe into that tragedy continues and I understand good progress is being made. Rather surprisingly Ole Wikborg, the chairman of the International Union Of Marine Insurance's ocean hull committee, did not mention the Al Salam Boccaccio 98 when he said recently that recent accidents and losses should be a 'wake-up' call to marine underwriters for several reasons, says the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI). Mr Wikborg did however



refer to other costly, high-profile casualties - fires on the container ship Hyundai Fortune and the Star Princess cruise ship and also a Canadian ferry that ran aground and sank with the loss of one life. One common thread was that these claims all involved companies with very good claims records. He argued: 'It is too often forgotten that a lack of claims is not synonymous with lack of risk, which must be reflected in the pricing of marine risks. Expect the unexpected should be the governing rule.' Since he spoke, within the past week, the Mitsui OSK container ship MOL Initiative has suffered an engine room fire - another major incident involving a highly reputable company. According to Mr Wikborg the Hyundai Fortune fire followed a pattern over recent years when cargo owners and shippers have not always 'adhered to their obligation of fully describing the nature of the containerised goods and the special precautions required to handle and store the various types of cargo adequately'. He said: 'Although it is too early to make any assumptions about the potential liability of cargo owners or charterer in this case, hull and P&I underwriters have successfully proven negligence in other similar incidents in the past, resulting in subrogation actions. It is evident that the importance of full disclosure of the contents of containers, coupled with appropriate handling and storage instructions, is vital to avoid such situations in future.' Mr Wikborg said the Star Princess fire might be characterised as an accident waiting to happen. With a growing number of passengers having different perceptions of fire hazards, the cruise industry is particularly vulnerable to fire risk. He saw the Canadian ferry loss as possibly yet another example of 'the increasing number of fatal nautical errors experienced by marine underwriters lately'. As always with accidents resulting in fatalities, he said, there will be ample investigations which will allow all concerned to add to their long lists of 'lessons learnt'. He warned: 'One should question all aspects of the human element involved in these types of claims. No doubt the recruitment of seafarers and the burden put upon them is a concern of everyone in the maritime industry, even when the vessel is trading in domestic waters.' He added: 'It is the experience of underwriters again and again that accounts with apparently good records over a period of time can suddenly result in major claims.' Proper evaluation of risk and loss prevention will be the major theme of IUMI's annual conference in September but Mr Wikborg's message appears to be that even blue-chip owners can expect increased premiums as the underwriters feel the pain of these large claims. And this year has still got a long way to go. At this rate underwriters' resolve to push up the price of marine insurance will be rock solid by the time of the IUMI conference.

Boat: Rescuers abandon search Rescuers said on Tuesday that they believe they would find no more survivors after an overloaded boat carrying 150 people sank on a Ghana lake over the weekend. They were now turning to the grim task of recovering bodies - perhaps as many as 100. Rescue team leader Emmanuel Egbenyo said: "We believe strongly there are no more survivors" of Saturday's accident. He said the Ghanan rescue team had found nine bodies so far, three of them children, and planned to send in divers to retrieve the remaining bodies. Egbenyo said the number of survivors might be higher than the 40 known, as some passengers might have returned to their families without registering with authorities. According to police, the motorboat was carrying passengers across the vast Lake Volta - the world's largest artificial lake - when it struck a submerged tree trunk and sank.

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Frigate Delivered to Royal Norwegian Navy On April 5, Navantia delivered to the Royal Norwegian Navy in the Fene-Ferrol shipyard, the Fridtjof Nansen frigate, the first of five that Navantia was contracted to build. The contract was signed in June 2000. The commissioning ceremony of this frigate, launched in May 2004 was presided by the NDLO Director, General Trond Karlsen, and by Juan Pedro Gómez Jaén, president of Navantia. The Chief of Naval Forces, Admiral Jan E. Finseth, also attended as well as other members of the Norwegian and Spanish Navies.

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Aker delivers arctic container vessel Aker Yards, Helsinki, Finland, has delivered the arctic container vessel MS Norilskiy Nickel to Russia's MMC Norilsk Nickel. The vessel is intended for service on the Northern Sea Route. The ship left Helsinki on March 3, 2006 for ice trials in real arctic conditions in Northern Russia. After successful trials it was handed over to the owners in Murmansk on April 11, 2006. MS Norilskiy Nickel is a prototype based on the double-acting ship concept developed by Aker Yards. Norilsk Nickel has reported that its transportation strategy calls for



five arctic container vessels of this type to be built. The 14,500 dwt Arctic container vessel worth 70 million euro is 169 m long and 23 m wide, with 9 m draft. It is capable of breaking 1.5 m ice. It will transport metallurgical products from Dudinka on the river of Yenisey to Murmansk. The vessel can navigate the ice-bound Arctic Ocean all year round, without the assistance of ice breakers. To find the best economic and technological solutions for the vessel, several feasibility studies and ice model tests were conducted in Aker Yards Arctic ice technology laboratory. "We are pleased to see Norilsk Nickel's belief in our design concept and in the improved transport economy it provides", says Yrjo Julin, President of Aker Yards, Finland. "We believe the Arctic Market is a growing business where Aker Yards keenly participates; and this vessel is a good example." "Aker Yards in Finland is extremely good in the development and design of arctic vessels as was once again proved during the ice trials of this Norilskiy Nickel vessel" Dmitry Cheskis, the Deputy General Director and member of the board of MMC Norilsk Nickel announced in a statement.

Rodriquez Cantieri Navali, Sultanate of Oman Sign Contract

Rodriquez Cantieri Navali on April 11 signed a contract for the supply of five catamarans for the Sultanate of Oman. Rodriquez Cantieri Navali will build five fast ferries inside the yards of Messina and the times of realization and delivery are foreseen by the end of 2008. The ships will be of two different types to be used by the client for two different purposes. Three ships (South vessel), will carry 100 passengers, 10 crew units and 22 vehicles at a maximum speed of 41 knots, while the other two ones (Rescue vessel), will carry up to 200 rescued people at a maximum speed of 40 knots. Both the types will have a length of 52 meters and will be completely built in aluminum with the same propulsion. Each ship will have four engines MTU 16V4000 M71 with a power of 2465 Kw each.

Fredriksen orders six more AHTS's at ABG India's ABG Shipyard Ltd says it has bagged a repeat order for six AHTS's at a price of U.S.$9.99 million each ($59.94 million total) from Sea Tankers Management Company Ltd, a company controlled by John Fredriksen. The six vessels will be delivered at intervals of three months from December 2007 through March 2009 and brings the number of vessels on order for Sea Tankers at ABG to twelve. Last month, Norway's Deep Sea Supply announced that it was acquiring 22 newbuilding contracts from John Fredriksen's Hemen Holdings in a $394 million deal that will see Hemen become Deep Sea Supply's largest shareholder with a 20-22 percent stake in the company. The newbuilding contracts to be acquired by Deep Sea Supply include twelve 6,500 bhp AHTS being built at the ABG yard in India to be delivered in 2006-2009--presumably both the six-ship series ordered by Sea Tankers.

Graig Newbuild Cracked A launch has turned up construction problems with the first in a series of 15 bulkers from Vietnam's Halong Shipyard. Conflicting reports are emerging from Vietnamese media after last Thursday's launch went wrong. Tradewinds reports that shipbuilders found out the hard way about a six-metre crack in the hull of Halong's 53,000-dwt HL 01, to be named "Florence". After the 6 April launch of the yard's first bulker in a trailblazing series for Graig Shipmanagement, water entered the vessel and it partially sank.



The crack was said to have been located beneath the No 4 cargo hold. However, Vietnamese Communist Party youth association newspaper Thanh Nien News reports that divers today found no explanation for the entry of water that flooded hold No 4. The paper cites speculation on causes including a too-steep launch ramp, obstacles on the ramp or valves left open. Cardiff-based Graig Shipmanagement's Vietnamese orders to the Graig-Carl Bro Diamond 53 open-hatch design were first reported in February 2004. What then looked like a deal for up to 15 ships had a total value pegged at $322m. At last count Graig, a pioneer at scouting and developing newbuilding yards, had ordered some 35 Diamond 53 ships in China, Vietnam and India. It has resold a number of its contracts. Reference sources list 15 Vietnamese handymaxes as being built for Graig at Quang Ninh-based Halong and Haiphong's Nam Trieu Shipbuilding Industry Co. Both belong to Vietnamese state shipbuilder Vietnam Ship Industry Corp (Vinashin).

Odense yard struggles but survives ODENSE Steel Shipyard plays an important role for AP Moller-Maersk and will survive in the short term despite poor performance, Fairplay has been advised. Unlike in previous years, APM did not publish figures relating to the yard's performance, but noted instead that this had been "considerably below expectations." A weaker than forecast rise in productivity and problems in the supply of steel had caused problems, with the steel supply likely to plague it for years to come. “Overall, you should consider the yard as a development yard. APM does its R&D there, which gives it a lead of a year or two over its competitors,” said Brian Borsting, shipping analyst at HSH Gudme Bank in Copenhagen. Once a new design moves into volume production, APM will outsource the newbuildings to yards in the Far East to obtain lower prices. However, as there is a limit to the size of container ships that can be built, the rationale of having a shipyard of its own in the group declines with time, Borsting added.

Toisa orders construction class DSV at Merwede Sealion Shipping Ltd in the UK has announced that, on behalf of Toisa Ltd, an order has been placed with Merwede Shipyard in the Netherlands for the construction of a new, DP 3, Construction Class, Saturation Diving Support Vessel. The vessel is to be an enhanced sister vessel to Toisa Proteus and will enter service in March 2008. Designed to support worldwide offshore construction and diving operations, her outline specification will be: LOA 131.7m, beam 22.0m; depth 9.5m. The design will be known as the Toisa P-Class, will be classed by DNV, and have accommodation for 199, a deck area of approximately 1,500m2, and be fitted with a Huisman mast type, active heave compensated, 300 tonne crane with 2,000m subsea capability, plus a single 10 tonne crane. The dive system will take the form of an inbuilt 12 man saturation dive system, rated to 300m, three chambers, three man single bell, and 12 man hyperbaric lifeboat. The helideck will be rated for a Super Puma (D-value 19.5m) and propulsion will be diesel electric, giving a speed of 13.5 knots.

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IRISL to start up JVs with Iraq, Oman Iran is going to establish joint shipping lines companies with Iraq and Oman and final negotiations are underway, chief executive officer of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) said on Tuesday.

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According to the Persian service of ISNA, Mohammad Hossein Dajmar also noted, “Our active presence in different ports of the world is a condition for development of shipping business,” and participation in related international conferences bolsters the country’s readiness in this sector. “Profitability of this industry has allowed us to achieve progresses and success without relying on domestic financial resources,” he continued, adding that there is still more business to cover since only one-third of imported cargos to Iran is delivered by IRISL. “Private sector still continues to rely on foreign fleets for transferring goods in and out,” he elaborated further. IRISL operates 108 oceangoing and coastal vessels and is planning to establish a new company to export LNG. Moreover, the company has already set up joint venture companies with India, Egypt, Kuwait, UAE, Singapore, China, Korea, Germany, the Great Britain, Italy and Malta.

Scottish islanders protest new Sunday ferry service A new Sunday ferry link connecting the remote northern Scottish island of Harris with one of its neighbours has angered some residents who believe Sunday should be an undisturbed day of rest.

The first Sunday ferry to Harris, in the Outer Hebrides, left from nearby North Uist at 9am (0800 GMT) and arrived, carrying five cars and 18 passengers, about an hour later, said Hugh Dan McLennan, a spokesman for the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry company. The Harris ferry had previously run from Monday through Saturday only. Morag Munro, a member of the west Harris council, said two-thirds of the islanders were against the new service, and said more than 700 people on Harris and North Uist had signed a petition opposing it. 'It is not just church people who are opposed, but also those who have come to appreciate a day of relaxation and a chance to be together with their families for one day,' she said. Many of Harris' approximately 3,500 residents subscribe to strict Presbyterian views and nearly all of its businesses are closed on Sundays. Mr McLennan said a council member from North Uist had requested the Sunday link. Lawrie Sinclair, managing director of Caledonian MacBrayne, said the company knew there would be opposition to its decision, but that it was obliged to provide transportation to those who needed it. He said that since the company's board made its decision on March 29, it had heard from 40 people, divided almost equally between those supporting and opposing the new ferry schedule. 'The company was well aware of the opposition to the proposed service, as we were aware of the support for it from some communities,' he said. 'The company could not deny those wishing the opportunity to travel to do so.'

CapRock Communications Celebrates 25th Anniversary

For CapRock Communications April 2006 marks an important milestone in the company's history - its 25th anniversary. Founded in 1981 to meet the communications requirements of the Gulf of Mexico oil industry, the company has seen tremendous growth and expansion since its inception, and now has offices and service centers in seven countries around the world, and customers in six global markets including energy, maritime, mining, disaster recovery and government. During this time, CapRock has seen the launch of its pioneering IPxpress(TM) network architecture which makes it possible for customers to use a singe Internet Protocol-based satellite network to place a call, connect to their



corporate networks or use the Internet from virtually any remote location in the world - be it an oil rig 200 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico or a mining operation in the wilds of Indonesia. The global satellite communications provider has also grown significantly in the past quarter of a century, more than tripling in revenue and employees in just the last five years. CapRock also has significantly expanded its technology infrastructure and now offers its broadband satellite communications services worldwide to customers in North and South America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific, as well as to most of the world's oceans. "We expect the next 25 years in the industry to be just as eventful as the last," said CapRock CEO Peter Shaper, "and we plan to continue expanding to meet the needs of our global customer base well into the future."

TEN Accepts Delivery and Charter of Tanker Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited (TEN) announced the delivery of the 2005- built 53,000 dwt double-hull Medium Range (MR) product tanker, Artemis. This vessel is the first delivery from the nine-vessel fleet acquired from Western Petroleum S.A. earlier this year. The fleet consists of six 2005-built MR product tankers and three 2006-built Long Range (LR) Aframax product tankers, all with 1A ice-class designations. Upon delivery, the Artemis will operate in the spot market The remaining five MR tankers are scheduled to be delivered to the Company later this month and the three LR Aframaxes are expected to be delivered during May and June of this year. Following the delivery of the six MR product tankers this month, the next newbuildings to join TEN's fleet will be the 1A 116,000dwt LR Aframax tanker Proteas, and the TEN built 1A 36,660dwt product tanker Antares. Both deliveries from Hyundai Mipo Dockyard of South Korea are expected at the end of May of this year.

Remkes tevreden over proef met C2000 Foto’s : Roger van der Kraan / Olaf van Daalen ©

Het digitale communicatienetwerk C2000 kan bij grote calamiteiten voldoende hulpverleners met elkaar in contact brengen. Die conclusie trekt minister van Binnenlandse Zaken Johan Remkes (VVD) na de grootschalige landelijke

oefening 'Veilige haven', die dinsdag in de regio Rotterdam-Rijnmond is gehouden. Doel van de oefening was te testen of het netwerk een piekbelasting van berichtenverkeer kan verwerken. C2000 heeft volgens Remkes de test 'glansrijk' doorstaan. De bewindsman vergeleek de operatie qua omvang met de inzet bij de vuurwerkramp in Enschede. Hij trekt hieruit de conclusie dat C2000 rampen van een dergelijke omvang aankan. Op het hoogtepunt van de oefening werden ongeveer tachtig groepsgesprekken gevoerd tussen honderden hulpverleners van onder meer politie, brandweer en geneeskundige diensten. Ook in de regio Haaglanden werd, op kleinere schaal, een C2000-test uitgevoerd.



Op de Maasvlakte werd een explosie in een raffinaderij nagebootst. Voor de regio Rotterdam-Rijnmond was de oefening de 'ultieme beproeving' van het nieuwe radionet. Rotterdam-Rijnmond is als een van de laatste regio's aangesloten op C2000. De Rotterdamse burgemeester Ivo Opstelten noemt de invoering van C2000 een belangrijke voorwaarde voor betrouwbare communicatie tussen hulpdiensten bij rampen. "Rotterdam-Rijnmond is een complexe regio met een hoog risicoprofiel. Een hoogwaardig communicatienet voor de hulpdiensten is essentieel voor effectieve rampenbestrijding. Door als één van de laatste regio's C2000 in te voeren, hebben we veel kunnen leren van andere regio's." De eerste indruk van de leiding is dat alle onderdelen van C2000 tijdens de oefening goed hebben gefunctioneerd. De oefening liep enige vertraging op doordat één van de gespreksgroepen niet goed was geprogrammeerd. De oefening wordt uitgebreid geëvalueerd. C2000 werd in september 2004, een halfjaar later dan verwacht, opgeleverd. De kosten waren zeventig miljoen euro hoger dan geraamd. Eerst was gedacht aan een investering van zevenhonderd miljoen.

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VLIERODAM WIRE ROPES Ltd. - Maasmond Maritimenewsletter.maasmondmaritime.com/pdf/2006/066-13-04-2006.pdf · The ship was allowed to enter the port for the first time Saturday to unload