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Oceans will soon be emptied of fish: WWFThe Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) warned on Tuesday that if present fishing practices continue, theworld’s oceans would soon be emptied of fish.

WWF spokesman Thomas Kaissl said in a statement that every year, 80 million tons of fish and othermarine animals were caught, four times more than half a century ago, throughout the world.

"If we do not put a rigorous halt to the global exploitation of our oceans, they will soon be fished empty,"he said.

Top : The Russian trawler YAGUAR seen here discharging a few hundreds of tons Horse MackerelPhoto : Piet Sinke ©

The WWF called on consumers only to buy fish, which they knew, came from secure and replaceablestocks. But at present, financial interests still often prevailed over ecological ones, even if it ultimatelymeant an end to sea fishing.

The statement said it recommended the purchase of sea fish with the blue label of the "Marine StewardshipCouncil" (MSC).

The MSC initiative was founded in 1997 by the Unilever concern and the WWF to stop the extinction ofmaritime species. The MSC says products with its label come from fish caught with methods aimed atpreserving their stocks.



Navy commander blamed in sub crashA Navy nuclear submarine commander was largely responsible for a 2001 collision with a Japanese fishingboat that killed nine people, according to a federal investigation requested by victims' families upset withthe Pentagon's handling of the incident.

The National Transportation Safety Board report, released Wednesday, largely mirrors the findings of aNavy court of inquiry conducted months after the accident.

The NTSB concluded that Cmdr. Scott Waddle's hasty order to conduct an emergency surfacing drill off theHawaii coast caused the submarine's rudder to slice into the hull of the Ehime Maru - a vessel used totrain teenagers to fish commercially.

Also responsible were the crew's failure to communicate and to manage 16 civilian visitors so they didn'tget in the way, the report said.

The Navy has acknowledged that the emergency manoeuvre was performed for the benefit of the civilians.

The safety board concluded that the Navy has adequately overhauled its training and oversight proceduressince the accident. The Navy has also placed strict restrictions on visitors who embark on submarines. Forexample, civilians are no longer allowed to sit at the controls, crowd into the control room or talk to crewwhile their operating the submarine as they did during the Ehime Maru accident.

"The Navy has recognized the detrimental operating conditions that existed on the board the Greenevilleand has taken additional measures to address the safety of operations on board its submarines," the NTSBreport said. "No further action is warranted."

The report found that Waddle rushed through manoeuvres in the afternoon because the 16 "distinguishedvisitors" aboard had lingered over lunch and they were running behind schedule. Most importantly, hedidn't allow enough time to search the area for other vessels, the report said.

"The commanding officer continued to rush, pushing his crew and truncating recommended steps for safeoperation," the NTSB report said.

The Navy's court of inquiry decided against a court martial for Waddle and let him retire at full rank andpension.

In Japan, people were outraged that Waddle wasn't punished more severely. In Dec. 2003, the families oftwo of the victims sent a letter requesting that the NTSB scrutinize the Pentagon's program allowingcivilians on board military equipment.

Lt. Ryan Perry of the Pacific Fleet said the Navy continues to extend its condolences to the families of thevictims and to the Japanese people. "We continue to be very remorseful and regret the accident," he said.

Waddle has since written a book about the tragedy in which he takes responsibility for it. He also visitedJapan in December 2003 to place flowers at a memorial for the dead and met four young survivors andtheir families

Coast guard seizes 6 Chinese boatsnear Incheon



Six Chinese fishing boats were seized and escorted to Incheon after entering Korea's Exclusive EconomicZone (EEZ) and fishing illegally in the Yellow Sea, the Incheon Coast Guard said yesterday.

According to the coast guard, the six boats crossed the EEZ near Ongjin-gun, Incheon and fished illegallyfrom 1 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Reportedly, 48 fishermen and 410 boxes of squid were found on the boats. Thecoast guard said the Chinese fishermen intentionally breached the EEZ and fished from midnight to earlymorning when thick fog and unstable weather would hinder inspection.

Including two other Chinese boats detained on Monday, 85 Chinese fishing boats were seized by the SouthKorean coast guard this year and 121 fishermen from 47 Chinese boats arrested. A coast guard officialsaid, "Because Chinese fishing boats have been fishing illegally as the fall fishing season reaches its peak,we dispatched patrol ships around areas they are expected to be."

More brazen shark poachers caught in netJUST hours after the completion of a two-week operation targeting illegal fishing in Australia's northernwaters, authorities caught another crew of Indonesian poachers with a load of plundered shark finyesterday.The poachers were sprung 74km west of Broome with a stash of 20kg to 30kg of shark fin, worth up to

$US30,000 ($40,000)by the time it reachesrestaurant tables inAsia.

Left : frozen sharksare offloaded from afishing vessel

Photo :Piet Sinke ©

Five Indonesianswere held by thecrew of the navypatrol boat HMASIpswich.

The haul came asfederal Fisheries Minister Ian Macdonald and Customs Minister Chris Ellison visited Darwin and Broome toannounce the seizure of 31 illegal vessels in Operation Clearwater II, which ended on Wednesday.

While federal authorities hailed the latest crackdown - which led to 59 arrests - as evidence of Canberra'scommitment to combat illegal fishing, fisheries ministers in Western Australia and the Northern Territorywent on the attack. The ministers said a $88million federal commitment announced last week was notenough and it needed to be accompanied by tougher penalties and the mandatory burning of poachers'boats.

"It has reached crisis point," West Australian Fisheries Minister Jon Ford said.

"While we've got governments battling each other, up to 25,000 tonnes of shark is being taken from ourwaters. We could be looking at a marine desert within a year or two - then there will be nothing for theIndonesians to come here for."



Overfishing was driving Indonesian crews closer to the Australian shore and Mr Ford said there was "nodoubt" some were landing on remote stretches of coast.

He said the federal Government had ignored valuable community, police and state fisheries resources bytaking sole responsibility for illegal fishing.

"What we need is a 'team Australia' approach where we use all available resources in the most effectiveway," Mr Ford proposed.

Northern Territory Fisheries Minister Kon Vatskalis said the "tag and release" policy of federal authoritieswas failing. Although fishing equipment was confiscated, Indonesian crews were hiding nets on shore orkeeping spare supplies on "mother ships".

"They confiscate the gear, and the day after they are found fishing again," Mr Vatskalis said. "I think thecommonwealth should look seriously at increasing the penalties and getting tougher.

"They should burn every single boat that is seized. That would send a real message." Authorities alsoneeded to work with Indonesia to target the big companies controlling the operations.

"(The fishermen) get penalised and the people who are financing it get away with it. Somebody is makingmoney in Indonesia," he said.

Alert issued on Singapore bunkersBUNKER samples from Singapore, tested over the past two weeks, have indicated the presence of'substantial' amounts of highly abrasive particles, testing agency DNV Petroleum Services has observed.'Several' Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) samples are said to have been found with combined aluminium and silicon(Al+Si) content exceeding the maximum limit of 80 mg/kg prescribed by ISO 8217:1996. Al+Si levelssamples tested over the last two weeks have ranged from 86 mg/kg to 276 mg/kg and averaged 144mg/kg, the samples the Singapore-headquartered laboratory has noted. Abrasive particles could contributeto accelerated wear of diesel engine components such as piston rings, cylinder liners and particularly fuelpumps, DNVPS has cautioned. A supplier involved in the high Al+Si deliveries has already offloaded the fuelfrom one of the affected ships, the agency has said. DNVPS was recently involved in a testing controversywith Singapore’s Maritime and Port Authority over samples said to exceed sulphur levels prescribed underIMO’s Marpol regulations.

Fisherman charged with makingfake distress calls

A Fairhaven fisherman was charged with making two fake distress calls to the Coast Guard last year,triggering costly searches for sinking ships, one of which did not exist and one that was safely docked in itshome port.

The four-count federal indictment alleges that Brian Feener was at home when he called the Coast Guardon his marine radio on July 10, 2004, saying that he was captaining a vessel called the Why Not and that itwas taking on water in Buzzards Bay.

After an eight-hour search with a jet, two Jayhawk helicopters, and three patrol boats at a cost of about$58,000, the Coast Guard found no sinking boat and later learned there was no commercial fishing vesselcalled the Why Not, according to the indictment.



Feener was at home again on Sept. 24, 2004, the indictment alleges, when he transmitted another signalto the Coast Guard, saying his vessel, the Determined, was sinking some 20 miles southeast of Nantucket.

''I am taking on more than we can handle," said Feener, pleading for the Coast Guard to send a cutter tobail him out, according to the indictment. ''This is fishing vessel Determined. . . . I'm going down."

The indictment alleges that Feener had previously worked as a crew member aboard the Determined,which was in port at the time of the second distress call. That call prompted a three-hour helicopter searchby the Coast Guard at a cost of $24,000.

Feener, 20, who is currently working on a lobster boat, was away on a fishing trip yesterday and could notbe reached, according to a relative who didn't want to comment on the charges.

He'll be summoned to US District Court in Boston to be arraigned on the charges, but no date has been set,according to the office of US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan.

Russians hand over Norwegian inspectorsRussia handed two relieved fisheries inspectors back to Norway on Thursday after they had spent six dayson a Russian trawler which fled after the Norwegian navy accused it of illegal fishing.

The investigators had been trapped aboard the rusting Elektron as it escaped through stormy Arctic seas toRussian waters, where Norway is powerless to arrest it.

Lieutenant Colonel John Lien, of the Norwegian military's northern command, said: "I can imagine that theyare very happy to be back on board their own ship with their own colleagues."

The Norwegian navy arrested the Elektron on Saturday for illegal fishing off the Svalbard islands north ofthe Arctic Circle. At first the Elektron followed orders and trailed the Norwegian patrol back to Tromsoe innorthern Norway.

Missing catamaran found after stormA 12m catamaran missing for two days was found on Thursday after sparking concern when a life jacketwas spotted floating near the Plettenberg Bay coastline, said the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI).

Ray Franham, NSRI station commander in Plettenberg Bay, said the institute was alerted by the family ofthe crew who had not been in contact with the Abalone for two days.

The catamaran is a commercial fishing craft from Mossel Bay and was carrying a crew of eight.

"The vessel reported by the owner to be somewhere between Mossel Bay and Plettenberg Bay had leftMossel Bay approximately Tuesday to fish between Knysna and Plettenberg Bay and was expected back inMossel Bay yesterday [Wednesday].

"Although the owners reported that they don't usually have contact with the vessel during such a trip, alltheir efforts to raise the vessel by cellphone and radio had failed, and with the rough sea conditions,concerns were being raised," Franham said.

He said the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre was alerted. The NSRI Plettenberg Bay crew was put onfull alert and NSRI Mossel Bay, Wilderness and Knysna were alerted to be on standby.



At 4.58pm, the NSRI Plettenberg Bay crew conducting shore patrols along the coastline spotted a life-jacket floating about 800m off-shore of Robberg Point.

They immediately launched rescue craft into the rough sea, but failed to find the life jacket.

Further searching for the vessel led to it being spotted 15 nautical miles from Mossel Bay at about 6pm.

"At that stage we were relieved to see the vessel upright and under way, having feared the worst," saidFranham.

When the crew arrived in Mossel Bay, they reported having run into a violent storm, which led to structuraland equipment damage, and knocked out communications and an engine.

None of the eight crew members was injured

Ship hijacked off Somali coastGunmen have hijacked yet another ship in the pirate-infested waters off the coast of lawless Somalia in thelatest of a spate of such attacks which have prompted dire maritime warnings, officials said on Thursday.

Pirates seized the Maltese-registered MV Pagania on Wednesday as it sailed northward from South Africato Europe with cargo of iron ore and have demanded a $700 000 ransom for its release, they said.

"They took over the vessel about 90 nautical miles off the Somali coast, near the Puntland region," saidAndrew Mwangura of the seafarers' assistance programme from the Kenyan port of Mombasa.

"They are demanding $700 000 before they release the ship and the crew," he told AFP, adding that thenumber of crew on board, all believed to be Ukrainian, was not immediately known.

In Mogadishu, officials with Somali militias in control of the capital confirmed the attack and saidnegotiations between the hijackers and the vessel's owners had already begun.

"The gunmen are inside the ship now," one official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "The negotiationsare under way, some money must be paid."

Piracy has become epidemic in the unpatrolled waters off the coast of Somalia, where are least 23hijackings and attempted seizures have been recorded since mid-March, according to the internationalmaritime bureau (IMB).

"Ships are advised to keep as far away as possible from the Somali coast," the IMB said in its latest weeklypiracy alert issued on Tuesday before the Pagania was seized.

Fuel row halts ferriesAt least 1,000 passengers were stranded at Sekupang and Telago Punggur in Indonesia following a strikeby ferry owners.

The action involving 100 ferries on Thursday took place in protest at a directive from state oil and gascompany Pertamina that requires operators to buy subsidised diesel fuel only at its terminal on SambuIsland.



Halia Maliki, the owner of Surya Gemilang Ferries, told the Jakarta Post that operations from Batam wouldnot resume until the policy was reviewed.

Owners prefer to use suppliers near their local ports. “Pertamina announced the policy without any priorwarning. They should have told us a long time ago to allow us to make the necessary preparations," Haliaadded.

Pertamina’s diesel costs IDR 6,000 ($0.60) per litre, while owners were previously paying IDR 4,250 perlitre.

Ferry operators have increased ticket prices following the government's move to raise fuel prices by 126%on 1 October. The head of Pertamina's office in Batam, Dani Adriananta, said the policy was intended toprevent fuel being smuggled abroad.

Armed decoy tugs mooted to deter piratesA Singapore-based tug and barge operator has suggested using decoy tugs manned by the littoral states'armed forces to help curb piracy in the Malacca Strait, which he warned may rise after a lull through muchof this year.

'The littoral states should charter a couple of tugs and barges and operate them as decoys in the MalaccaStrait in scenarios under which attacks typically occur,' said the shipping executive who declined to benamed out of fear for the safety of his company's crew and vessels, one of which was involved in a kidnapfor ransom incident.

The number of tugs and barges being attacked in the Strait has been rising, in part because they makeeasy and relatively lucrative targets due to their slow speed and low freeboard, making them easy toboard.

According to the theory, if pirates attack one of the decoy vessels they will be surprised by a military forceand once word gets out, 'pirates may think twice about attacking a vessel because they don't know if thereare armed forces onboard', he said speaking at a maritime piracy conference yesterday. He also warned ofan impending upsurge in pirate attacks in the Malacca Strait in the coming weeks due to the end of themonsoon season which traditionally results in an upsurge of attacks.

'The monsoon has only just finished and many tugs will be moving from SE Asia to India and we expectmore attacks starting within the next six weeks,' he told BT.

Only 10 pirate attacks have been recorded in the Malacca Strait in the first nine months this year comparedwith 17 for the whole of last year, according to Capt Jayant Abhyankar, deputy director of the InternationalMaritime Bureau.

The decrease in attacks has been partially attributed to the Boxing Day tsunami after which many warships from various countries converged in the area to assist in disaster relief efforts. This led the pirates tolay low through January and February.

Concurrentie tussen de bergers is voorbijdoor Wout Bareman

Het zijn twee mannen van de waterkant, Adrie en Adri. De één nam vorige week afscheid als coördinatorvan de Verenigde Bootlieden, de ander vertrekt over precies een maand als kapitein bij de Unie van



Redding- en Sleepdienst (URS). Allebei zestig jaar, allebei van kinds af verslingerd aan het water. Adri vande Wege heeft er 33 jaar opzitten bij de ’bootmannen’, Adrie de Zeeuw zat 42 jaar aan boord van slepersvan de URS. Hun conclusie: het is allemaal ontzettend veranderd, gemoderniseerd, zakelijker geworden. Endaarmee is jammer genoeg een stuk gezelligheid verdwenen.

De Zeeuw begon z’n loopbaan bij de URS in 1963 als matroos op de Leon Letzer. Niet lang daarna werdhij stuurman en in 1968 kapitein. Zonder papieren (’dat was toen nog niet nodig; later moest je cursussenvolgen’). Hij voer op bijna alle slepers, maar is uiteindelijk helemaal verslingerd geraakt aan de Zelzate,een moderne sleepboot waarmee hij kan lezen en schrijven. „Ik heb ook op de Terneuzen gevaren.Hetzelfde type, maar toch anders.” Met een grijns stelt hij vast dat er een wereld verschil zit tussen toen ennu. „Toen ik pas begon, heb ik nog met een touw langs het kanaal gelopen. Was het potdicht van de misten moest je er op die manier achter komen of er geen spitsen lagen afgemeerd. Tja, je had nog geen radaraan boord.”

De Zeeuw maakte de concurrentiestrijd tussen de bergers op de Westerschelde in al z’n hevigheid mee.„Op het kanaal verleende je samen braaf assistentie aan zeeschepen, maar zodra je buiten de sluizenkwam, was het ieder voor zich. Spannend, maar ook leuk. Die concurrentiestrijd is helemaal verdwenen.”

De laatste jaren was het één week op en twee weken af. En: het is prima van de kost. De ijskasten en devriezer worden wekelijks bijgevuld. „En dan moet je weten dat we vroeger een pannetje met eten - sla metspekjes - mee aan boord namen. Je deed zelf boodschappen. Mijn favoriete kost? Appelmoes, liefst van dieBelgische compote.” Het leverde hem één van z’n bijnamen op: Appelmoes. De andere, met een knipoognaar z’n gestalte: Bolletje.

Adri van de Wege: „Die band met de scheepvaart... Zo gek is dat toch niet? Ik ben in de Eendrachtpolderbij Zaamslag geboren, pal achter de zeedijk. M’n vader had daar z’n koeien lopen. Hij had altijd eenverrekijker bij zich en zag ieder schip passeren. Ik ben er van jongs af mee opgegroeid. We visten in datwater, we zwommen erin en we keken naar de schepen. Je begon ze op een gegeven moment teherkennen. Je keek naar de schoorsteen, naar de kleuren, naar de hele bouw en wist hoe het allemaal inelkaar zat. Nu is er geen touw meer aan vast te knopen. Het zijn allemaal Liberianen, Panamezen,Grieken... Vaart zo’n schip voor een Nederlandse rederij, dan zit er meestal alleen een Nederlandse kapiteinaan boord en verder allemaal bemanningsleden uit de goedkope landen.”

In 1968 werd hij kapiteinsbediende, een soort steward, op schepen van de Holland-Amerika Lijn. Vier jaardeed hij dat werk. Hij voer een vaste dienst tussen Rotterdam en Mexico. In 1972 stapte hij aan de wal enging aan de slag bij de Verenigde Bootlieden. Vorige week nam hij afscheid, als coördinator.

Voortaan kan hij zich nog intensiever dan tot nu toe wijden aan zijn passie: het fotograferen van ’alles watdrijft’. Al legt hij zich een duidelijke beperking op: het object moet absoluut iets te maken hebben met dehaven van Terneuzen. Van de Wege is tuk op schepen met een verhaal. Maar ook op splinternieuweschepen, een droogdok voor De Schroef in Sluiskil, speciale transporten via het Kanaal Gent-Terneuzen,cruiseschepen, sleepboten, met hun acties bij strandingen en rampen. „Wat dat betreft is Terneuzenideaal; als je het allemaal wilt volgen, kom je haast tijd tekort.” Z’n werk in de toren van de Bootlieden aande zeesluis gaf hem een flinke voorsprong op de mannen die op de dijk hun kans afwachtten. Nu hoort hijzelf bij dat clubje.

Ze hebben allebei met stijgende verbazing de commotie rond het gestrande containerschip Fowairet, eenkleine maand geleden, gevolgd. De beste stuurlui stonden opnieuw aan wal. Adrie en Adri eensgezind: „Debergers hebben de kennis, maar ze worden met steeds meer regeltjes geconfronteerd en dat bemoeilijkthun werk. Vroeger liep er een schip vast en dat trok je los. Zo simpel was het, gevaarlijke stoffen of niet.Nu moeten eerst de bestuurders op de wal toestemming verlenen. Daarmee gaat tijd verloren. Met allerisico’s van dien.”



Kiperousa sheds last cargoThe stranded bulk carrier, the Kiperousa,has almost fully disintegrated after strongwinds and stormy weather off the EastLondon coast, sending her last cargo oflogs into the ocean.

Photo : SMIT Amandla ©

"The last storm and strong winds causedthe ship to break up and lots of logs todisperse," national ports authorityspokesperson Terry Taylor said.

Most of the timber had washed up in theHamburg area as well as towards theharbour entrance area.

"We have helicopters monitoring thelocation of logs and making sure ships can enter and leave the port safely," Taylor said.

Small craft and fishing vessels were assisting in towing the massive logs to shore and a mobile crane wasstanding by at the quayside.

Attempts to refloat the 14 921-ton log carrier were abandoned in August.

Taylor said there was no choice in the matter as repeated efforts to pull the stranded vessel off the Bhengareef south of Hamburg, using some of the most powerful tugs available, had been unsuccessful.

The ship was on its way from Gabon to Durban to take on fuel oil before making its way to the Far Eastwhen it ran aground on June 7.

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Top : the German minehunter M 1064 GROMITZ enroute AmsterdamPhoto : Dirk Dijksman ©

The German Minehunter support vessel A 514 Werra, together with the minehunters M 1059 Weilheim, M 1060 Weiden , M 1061 Rottweil , M 1064 Grömitz and M 1068 Datteln arrived in the Port of

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‘Navy must gear up for global role’As India evolves a higher maritime security profile in the South Asian region, an immediate concern to theNavy is its lack of heavy sea-lift and mass landing capabilities to deliver forces at larger distances.

Highlighting this as a void that will define strategy and shipbuilding over the next decade, Navy ChiefAdmiral Arun Prakash said this was a lesson learnt from post-tsunami relief operations.

‘‘The Navy’s diplomatic role has expanded, not just in terms of the number of countries we deal with andthe variety of issues we interact on, but also in terms of expectations that others have from us today,particularly in the wake of the tsunami. We stand to reap rich dividends from our active international role,particularly in our immediate neighbourhood,’’ the Navy Chief said today at the Naval Commanders’Conference.

After the tsunami, the Navy’s internationally recognised role as a relief mobiliser has also thrown up theabsence of largescale machinery and strategy to deliver forces and equipment quicker, to far-flungterritories in the Indian Ocean region (IOR).

Consequently, the Navy has almost finalised the purchase of a 34-year-old, 16,590-ton US Navy landingvessel, the Austin-class USS Trenton for Rs 200 crore. A Navy spokesman indicated that the vessel, to beoperated for 15 years, will be used as a platform for indigenous construction of landing platform dock



(LPD) vessels, capable of landing large numbers of troops or relief workers and hosting a fleet of utilityhelicopters.

It will also be given a demonstration of the new French Mistral-class landing vessels, made by the firmthat manufactures Scorpene submarines, early next year. The Navy currently operates two Magadh-classlanding ship tanks (LSTs), though these are insufficient for the huge demands of an enlarged ‘‘strategicevent horizon’’.

The Navy had actually begun displaying its upgraded post-tsunami profile in June this year when AdmiralPrakash took his force’s sole aircraft carrier INS Viraat on its first ever trip to the South East on aceremonial visit.

It was a subtle sign that the Navy had recognised its matured profile and responsibility as a regionalmaritime power and an exercise in strategic projection.

It is also significant that this recognition was followed by an expeditious consolidation of Naval accessagreements with the Asean countries.

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TUI GETS CPGERMAN travel and shipping conglomerate TUI has received the approval of over 66 percent of CP Shipsshareholders for its proposed euros1.7bn (US$2.0bn) takeover of the Canadian shipping company.

The news follows a green from the European Commission, conditional on Hapag-Lloyd’s exit from certainliner conferences.

The deal will make Hapag-Lloyd the world’s fourth biggest carrier, with 139 operational ships 17newbuildings on order.

VOLUMES AND REVENUES UP AT OOCLHONG Kong-based Orient Overseas (International) Ltd, which operates Orient Overseas Container Line,says the line’s Q3 revenue was US$1.06bn, up 9.3% on the same period in 2004.

Liftings were up 5.5% to 894,143 TEU and average revenue per TEU rose by 3.6%. Volumes rose 11% ontrans-Pacific routes 7% on European trades.

For the first nine months of this year revenues rose 16% to US$3.01 billion, volumes were up 9.4% andaverage revenue per TEU rose 5.9 per cent.

Corsica Ferries wants compensationCORSICA Ferries is to claim financial compensation for losses incurred as a result of the SNCM conflict andwarns it will watch its rival's restructuring very closely to make sure there are no breaches of ECcompetition rules. "We have had to cancel more than 140 crossings and someone will have to compensatefor this loss," the company said, adding that it would file a claim with the French state very soon.

The CORSICA VICTORIA seen here departing from the port of Nice – Photo : Piet Sinke ©

Corsica Ferries is hoping that more ferry operators are allowed to bid for the public service tender betweensouthern France and Corsica when it opens in 2007. Anger over the privatisation of SNCM severelydamaged the company before agreement was reached last week just ahead of the company's bankruptcy.The two companies involved in the process, Butler Capital Partners and Connex, confirmed earlier this weekthat they were making a 'long-term commitment' of at least five years to the ferry operator. However,



Corsica Ferries warned that the investors could pull out if SNCM fails to win the public service tender,although one analyst believes this is "unlikely as the French government will lean heavily on the Corsicanauthorities to make sure SNCM wins its share of the cake."

Superfast cuts Scottish serviceGREEK ferry operator Superfast is transferring Superfast IX, one of its two Rosyth-Zeebrugge ships, tothe Baltic route linking Rostock, Germany and Uusikaupunki, Finland “in response to market demand".While both the Baltic and Scottish routes are losing passenger traffic, freight activity is growing by 27% ayear in the Baltic compared with just one per cent on the North Sea. In the Baltic the company runs theSuperfast VII and Superfast VIII on the Hanko service and two freight-only vessels, Marin and Nordia,on the Uuskaupunki route.

Top : The SUPERFAST IX seen here departing from Zeebrugge bound for RosythPhoto : Piet Sinke ©

It is understood that the Superfast IX will operate only to Uusikaupunki. The cut in the Rosyth servicewas described by a spokesman for the Scottish Executive (government) as “disappointing”. The Executiveoriginally put up money to help launch the service but the spokesman indicated that none of this will haveto be paid back because the environmental gains initially sought have been delivered as a condition of thefunding. Scotland's transport minister has been in extensive negotiations with the company to ensure thatdirect links are maintained with Continental Europe. Superfast carried 76,700 passengers in 1H05 (down4% on a year earlier) and almost 31,000 freight units (down 1%) on the Zeebrugge service.

FARSTAD’S US$11.5M CHARTER DEALNORWEGIAN-based Farstad Shipping's subsidiary P/R International Offshore Services ANS has beenawarded a 14 month contract with extension options by Shell Sarawak for the AHTS vessel Lady Sandraworth about US$11.5m. The vessel will support the semi-submersible Atwood Falcon on Shell’s Malaysiandeepwater drilling program which is scheduled to commence in December 2005.

Grimaldi buys ‘world’s oldest ships’Italian shipowner Emanuele Grimaldi is pulling no punches about formerly state-owned Sea Malta, which hehas just finished acquiring.

Grimaldi-controlled Atlantica Spa di Navigazione and Maltese officials signed a share transfer agreementtoday.

Although Grimaldi thinks the ro-ro operator has a “bright future” now that he owns it, future brightnesswould seem relative to present dimness.



“This is a great development for Sea Malta. Abroad, the perception is not good at all and we are set tochange that,” said Grimaldi. “Sea Malta is not giving a good service to Malta at the moment.”

New investments of more than EUR 10m will help change that, says Grimaldi, who calls Sea Malta’s twovessels “two of the oldest in the world”. See Malta operates the 15,000-gt Maltese Falcon (ex-MedferryExpress, built 1978) and the 3,600-gt Zebbug (built 1970).

Seafarers will have to get used to a new way of doing things. If they make “exaggerated requests” atcontract renegotiation time, he could not guarantee that their jobs were safe, according to the local MaltaIndependent. “Sea Malta is now a private enterprise,” he said.

Havila Princess deliveredHavila Princess, the first in a series of four Vik-Sandvik designed VS470 PSVs, has been delivered byKleven Verft in Norway.

The vessels were originally ordered by a London-based owner, but sold to Havila Shipping shortly beforedelivery.

The new PSV is 73.40m overall with a length between perpendiculars of 64.00m, moulded breadth of16.60m, depth to 1st deck of 7.60m, scantling draft of 6.50m, and gross tonnage of approximately 2,440GT

Rowan sells its semiRowan Companies, Inc. announced an agreement to sell its only semi-submersible rig, the Rowan-Midland,to ATP Oil & Gas Corporation ("ATP") for approximately $60 million in cash. Payment will be made over a15- month period and title will transfer at the conclusion of the payment period. The company expects torecord a pre-tax gain on the transaction in the range of $45-50 million, which will be recognized over thepayment period.

The Midland will be utilized by ATP as a floating production platform. Rowan will retain ownership of thedrilling equipment on the rig. In addition, Rowan will continue to provide a number of operating personnelto ATP under a separate services agreement.

Rowan Chairman and CEO Danny McNease, commented, "This transaction follows several others thecompany has executed over the past year in order to focus on Rowan's core business of furnishingpremium jack-up drilling rigs."

MAN B&W power for Chinesetraining ship

MAN B&W Diesel A/S, Denmark, is to supply a complete propulsion package, including computer controlledsurveillance, for a new 2,250-ton ocean-going training ship for the largest maritime university in ChinaDalian Maritime University (DMU).

DMU is made up of 12 colleges and four departments and has approximately 15,000 students. Since 1953,DMU has trained over 40,000 highly competent personnel, the majority of whom have become thebackbone of the navigation sector.



Zhang Lei of MAN B&W DieselChina says: "The DMU trainingship project was started someyears ago, with the aim oftraining the next generation ofseafarers. To integrate theorywith practice, students will betrained on the ship for about twomonths after two year's

theoretical education in the classroom and will be trained on the ship for another four months before theygraduate."

The solution chosen for the propulsion plant is a package that includes an MAN B&W Diesel 6S35MCengine, controlled by an MAN B&W Diesel Alphatronic 2000 control system. This widely respected mainengine design will bethe principal source of power for the MAN B&W Diesel controllable pitch (CP) propellerand shaft generator.

Professor Dong from the DMU states, "As a world-renowned maritime university, this is the first time DMUhas built a pure training vessel for training crew and scientists. It was important, therefore, that theequipment selected should represent the very latest technology, with a high degree of acceptance in themarket."

The 6S35MC main engine will be provided with a PTO power take off (tunnel gear) to drive a shaftgenerator. To further facilitate the operation of the ship, it will be equipped with a CP propeller that runs ata constant rate of revolutions.

The engine is equipped with MAN B&W Diesel's electronically controlled Alpha Lubricators.

This system supplies the optimal solution, not only in terms of savings in lube oil costs, but also considersenvironmental aspects as it has a positive impact on emissions.

The Alpha Lubricators and Alphatronic 2000 control system give the opportunity for engineers to learnabout the management and control of the vessel's electronic equipment.

Everything from one maker

The total solution package will be delivered in June 2006 from MAN B&W Diesel in Frederikshavn,Denmark.

To maintain the propulsion plant, DMU has acquired the latest IT technology. The Computer ControlledSurveillance (CoCoS) Maintenance package is MAN B&W Diesel's own in-house system, and has beenspecifically developed for the surveillance, diagnostics and maintenance of diesel engine plants.

The CoCoS Maintenance system comprises Electronics Spare Part Catalog, Stock Handling and Purchasing,Maintenance Planning and Trace Component Management modules.

The CoCoS Maintenance package has an open infrastructure that not only covers MAN B&W Dieselmachinery, but also gives the user the ability to select other equipment to be implemented within theCoCoS Maintenance system.

One advantages of the MAN B&W Diesel CoCoS Maintenance system is that it has been developed with allthe required specific engine data already built in. This makes it substantially more attractive thancompetitor systems, which provide only the software, without the necessary "hard" data.



The packaged solution from MAN B&W Diesel will allow DMU students to become familiar with the mostpopular equipment in the industry, making them well equipped to deal with scenarios they can expect to beconfronted with in future.

Propulsion package particulars:

Main engine: 6S35MC 4,440 kWCPP: VBS 980-ODSRemote Control: Alphatronic 2000PTO: Tunnel Gearbox model BWIV-S35/GCR650-50Maintenance system: CoCoS EDS & CoCoS Maintenance

Main particulars of the DMU training vessel:

Loa: 116 mLbp: 105 mBreadth: 18 mDraft: 5.4 mDeadweight: 2,250 tSpeed: 17.3 knotsRange: 10,000 miles at 16.7 knotsCrew: 32Students: 204

Class: The vessel is classed by CCS with unrestricted service area.

Fugro strengthens position inseismic market

Fugro has signed a long term charter agreement with Rieber Shipping ASA, Norway, for the vessel PolarKing.

The vessel was built in 2000, and will be converted for 3-D seismic acquisition and will be able to tow 8-10long offset streamers (up to 9 kilometres length). The ship will be ready for deployment in May 2006.

The charter is part of Fugro’s plan to partly replace, modernise and expand the fleet of six seismic vesselsthat it currently deploys.

It is Fugro’s objective to operate with a fleet of approximately eight ships, some owned and somechartered, as of mid 2006. Fugro has already placed orders for two sets of 3-D streamers, one of which isfor Polar King.

Stolt Offshore gets clearance forasset sale to Cal Dive

International offshore contractor Stolt Offshore has confirmed that the US Department of Justice hascleared the sale of the shallow water assets that form part of its North America and Mexico (NAMEX)business to Cal Dive.



Stolt Offshore is now undertaking pre-close formalities and completion accounts with Cal Dive, after whichinformation will be issued on the final gain on sale.

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vrijestromingsturbine ontwikkeld. Deze turbine heeft twee bladen en een diameter van 2,8 meter. Door destroomsnelheid van het water in de sluis gaan de bladen draaien en drijven daarmee een elektromotor aanwaarmee stroom wordt opgewekt.

“Bij de ontwikkeling van de Tocardo 2800 turbine hebben wij gekozen voor een concept met onderdelendie heel weinig onderhoud vergen. Hierdoor kan de turbine ook in ontwikkelingslanden voor de opwekkingvan stroom worden ingezet. Maar ook in onze zeegaten, zoals in het Marsdiep waar continu stromingaanwezig is of in de Westerschelde, kunnen deze turbines een belangrijke bijdrage leveren aan hetopwekken van ‘blauwe’ stroom”, zegt Hans van Breugel van Teamwork Technology.

De proeven in Den Oever zijn inmiddels afgerond. Zo ook het vismonitoring programma. Uit eersteevaluaties blijkt dat er geen nadelige invloed op passerende vis aanwezig is. “Dit komt doordat derotorbladen zo langzaam draaien dat vissen makkelijk kunnen uitwijken. Nu zouden we graag eendemonstratieproject willen uitvoeren met drie Tocardo’s in één koker. Zou je in de helft van alle kokers inde spuisluizen Tocardo’s plaatsen, dan kan heel eenvoudig 1,5 MW aan elektrisch vermogen wordenopgewekt. Dit is genoeg om 1000 à 1500 huishoudens van electriciteit te voorzien. Tevens is op basis vande huidige resultaten onderzoek gestart naar het opschalen van de rotordiameter van de turbine tot 7 à 10meter voor toepassingen als in het Marsdiep”.

Het Tocardo testproject is met assistentie van Rijkswaterstaat uitgevoerd door een gezamenlijk industrieverband, bestaande uit Teamwork Technology uit Zijdewind, Polymarin uit Medemblik, Lommers uitPurmerend, Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland (ECN) uit Petten en WE Engineering uit Lichtenvoorde.Het project is financieel ondersteund door de Provincie Noord Holland, Associatie Technologie Overdrachten Regionaal Economisch Stimuleringsprogramma Kop en Munt. Éen van de doelstellingen van Kop & Muntis namelijk dat de milieukwaliteit in de Kop van Noord-Holland verbetert en dat er gebruik gemaakt gaatworden van duurzame energie.

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