Tag: containerships

Work to recover debris from beaches The lifting of sunken containers from the Rena ship wreck has begun off the Astrolabe Reef in Tauranga.Seven containers have been lifted from the seabed in the past week, from within less than 50 metres of water in close proximity to where the ship ran aground.The clean-up, carried out by Braemar Howells, is part of an extensive operation involving sonar surveys, checks by Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicles (ROV) and work by divers to prepare container wreckage for recovery.This procedure will be repeated for the remaining containers, located at a similar depth.Work to recover debris from beaches is continuing.The Rena owners have been closely monitoring the recovery operations and Braemar Howells was recently assigned to widen its sphere of interest to include overseeing the wreck's safety and security, and monitor its status. The team will also work to minimise and clear away any debris that may escape the vessel as a result of adverse weather conditions.Meanwhile, debris collected from Bay of Plenty and Coromandel beaches recently has included container wreckage, refrigerator container foam, rope, sheets of plywood and beads.Beaches continue to be surveyed by cleanup teams - including re-visiting beaches already cleared, as rough sea ...

IMO DSC 17/7 IMO issues Circlular DSC 17/7 regarding Development of Measures to Prevent Loss of Containers.In June 2012, a broad array of industry stakeholders that included the governments of Denmark, The Netherlands and the United States along with a group of fivemaritime industry associations lead by the World Shipping Council, co-sponsored a formal proposal to the IMO to amend the SOLAS convention to require that the weight of all loaded containers be verified prior to loading onboard a vessel for export. The IMO's DSC 17 will consider this proposal at its September 2012 meeting.For more information, click here.Source: IMO

Labor and terminal operator groups, along with U.S., Denmark and the Netherlands, back proposal Container line, labor and terminal operator groups, along with the Danish, Dutch and U.S. governments, want the International Maritime Organization to require laden containers to be weighed before they are loaded onto ships, rather than just taking exporters' word on the shipments' weight.The IMO's Subcommittee on Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers is expected at its next meeting in September to consider the proposal aimed at making transport safer on ships, docks and roadways. Aside from the U.S., Dutch and Danish governments, the proposal is co-sponsored by the Baltic and International Maritime Council, the International Association of Ports and Harbors, the International Chamber of Shipping, the International Transport Workers' Federation and the World Shipping Council."For years, the United States has required all its export containers to be weighed. This has not impaired supply chain efficiency, and it has improved safety. The technology exists to weigh containers accurately and efficiently, and it should be a universal, required practice," said Dr. Geraldine Knatz, president of IAPH and executive director of the Port of Los Angeles.Under the Safety of Life at Sea Convention, shippers are required to declare the ...

ClassNK has released a new revised edition of its Guidelines for Hull Girder Torsional Strength Assessment which comprise section of the leading class society's Guidelines for Container Carrier Structures.In order to respond to the rapidly increasing size of container carriers, as well as rationally address the latest theories and methods of container carrier design, ClassNK began to a comprehensive process to review and update its Guidelines for Container Carrier Structures in 2011.The Guidelines for Container Carrier Structures are comprised of a total of 4 separate guidelines developed to help shipyards and designers address a number of technical aspects of container carrier design, including guidelines for "Assessment of Direct Strength Analysis", "Hull Girder Torsional Strength Assessment", "Fatigue Strength Assessment", and "Ultimate Longitudinal Bending Moment Capacity Assessment".The Guidelines for Assessment of Direct Strength Analysis were revised and released in September 2011, with the remaining guidelines expected to be released in the near future. The revised edition of the Guidelines for Hull Girder Torsional Strength Assessment is available for free via the "Guidelines" section of the ClassNK website. ClassNK has also released a new revised and upgraded version of its "PrimeShip-HULL(DSA)/Guideline for Containers Carriers", software designed to rapidly perform the calculations laid out ...

USD 450 million contract to build ten 5,000TEU container 
ships Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction's Philippine Shipyard wins contract to build mid-size container ships for European ownersDespite the current global economic slowdown, Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction (HHIC)-Phil's Subic Shipyard has won a bid to build mid-size container ships for the first time this year.The shipbuilder recently announced that it has signed a USD 450 million contract to build ten 5,000TEU container 
ships (options included) with ship owners in Europe.These days, large vessels have been the mainstream in the container ship 
market with little demand for mid-size container 
ships (5,000TEU). Because of high expectations of an economic recovery and excessive bidding for very large container ships, mid-size container ships have become more popular.HHIC says that it hasn't been able to win a decent bid since early last year. Based on recently dramatic improvement in cost 
competitiveness, however, HHIC-Phil's Subic Shipyard has finally been able to win this bid.The container ships HHIC-Phil's Subic Shipyard have signed up to deliver are 255m 
in length, 37m in width and 22m in depth with a speed of up to 21.5 knots. They are to be state-of-the-art, environment-friendly ships.Source: HHIC

FIVE people have been charged after a shipping container holding 20kg of heroine was discovered Police say the drugs, concealed inside sports bags, were smuggled from Thailand and may have been bound for Sydney or other Australian cities.Senior detectives seized the container on May 29 and arrested five alleged members of a distribution syndicate in Sydney yesterday after raiding seven properties on the city's west and southwest.During the raids police uncovered 2.6kg of the drug ice, a further 1kg of heroin and a substantial amount of cocaine and cash.A 49-year-old Belfield man and two other men, aged 55 and 52 from Mount Annan, appeared in Sydney courts today charged with conspiracy to import a commercial quantity heroin.Two men, aged 66 and 64 from Narellan Vale, also appeared in Sydney courts charged with attempting to traffic heroin.The arrests were made after a seven-month surveillance investigation involving the Australian Federal Police (AFP), NSW Police, the NSW Crime Commission and Customs.Crime Commission Commissioner Peter Singleton called it a "textbook" example of how to catch serious criminals."The Crime Commission's role was one essentially of intelligence analysis," he said in Sydney."We've managed to identify persons of interest, intercept telephones and ultimately we were able to ...

And supply chain challenges at TOC Europe Jochen Gutschmidt, Global Head of Ocean Transport Procurement for nutrition and health giant Nestlé, is among the senior shipper executives newly confirmed to speak at theTOC Container Supply Chain Europe conference in Antwerp this June. Taking place under the headline theme Reliability, Capacity and Efficiency, the long-running event brings together shippers, 3PLs, carriers, transport companies and port and terminal providers to debate the outlook for global container supply chain operations.Gutschmidt, who took up his post at Nestlé last March following a long career with Maersk Line and the AP Moller Group, joins an opening day panel on Carriers Close up - Capacity, Consolidation and Risk, alongside other major shippers including Raf J. Cornelissen, Global Marine Dry Cargo Manager for Exxon Mobil, Jason Keegan, Head of Logistics at Marks and Spencer and Peder Winther, Senior Vice President, Seafreight for Kuehne + Nagel - the world's largest global seafreight forwarder. Joining the session from the carrier side are Stanley Smulders, SVP, Asia-Europe & West Africa Trade Management, MOL Liner and Nissim Yochai, VP Corporate Customer Relations at ZIM.At a turbulent time for the global liner shipping industry, the panel will assess how recent events are ...

Suspect hazardous substances were found in the containers Amid the stacks of shipping containers towering over Britain's busiest port, an unusual suspected-crime scene unfolded this week.Investigators wearing gas masks gingerly opened a row of 20m-long steel boxes and - after testing for noxious fumes - began inspecting the rusty entrails of 1,800 tonnes of scrap metal to see if it was sent illegally to pollute the environment 7,000 miles away.Nearly 90 containers, each weighing more than 30 tonnes, have arrived back in the bustling Suffolk dockyard of Felixstowe in the past fortnight. Their journey began last November when they left scrapyards in southern England for Indonesia labelled as "recyclable" material with a value of $500,000 (318,000).The shipments were part of a lucrative trade - about 10 million tonnes of waste metal flow out of Europe each year. But when the Indonesian authorities inspected the contents of the British containers, they did not like what they found. The cargo was declared hazardous, resealed and British authorities were ordered to arrange for its immediate return.Four UK companies are now being investigated by the Environment Agency (EA) to see if they sent contaminated and potentially toxic waste to the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, in ...

For energy-saving vessels with Imabari's strong cost competitiveness Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Imabari Shipbuilding have signed a technological collaboration agreement on containersips.The initiative aims to combine MHI's technological capabilities in the development of energy-saving vessels with Imabari's strong cost competitiveness.The agreement will see both MHI and Imabari delilver greater flexibility in accommodating bulk orders for the construction of multiple ships of the same design.The three-year collaboration agreement encompasses all containership, without setting limitations on container carrying capacity or propulsion systems. The two companies will consider the appropriate ship type, propulsion system and other technological features to match shipowners' needs, and propose the optimum solution.Given the current trend toward adoption of international marine transportation rules for reducing environmental burdens, coupled with continuing fuel price escalation, demand by shipowners for more energy-saving vessels is increasing significantly.In particular, many large containerships are now powered by marine diesel engines using heavy oil fuel, which emits much more carbon dioxide (CO2) than other fuel types.In response MHI has developed various differentiating technologies to meet the needs of customers. These include technology enabling use of liquefied natural gas (LNG), which is more environment-friendly, as fuel for a ship's propulsion system and the Mitsubishi Air Lubrication System ...

MSC containership damaged by an explosion - no pollution was reported A Mediterranean Shipping Company containership damaged by an explosion in the Caribbean nearly two weeks ago has finally set sail but not for its original destination.It's not clear how long the 4,469-teu MSC Idil (built 1992) will remain in Freeport, Bahamas, however, as repairs to the vessel's hull are only temporary and an investigation into the cause of the blast is still ongoing, according to the US Coast Guard.As TradeWinds has reported, the vessel suffered an explosion on 11 May as it travelled 60 nautical miles north of Puerto Rico during a voyage to Barcelona, Spain. Crew members blamed welding but this assessment has not yet been confirmed.Authorities say no pollution was reported by the ship or a flotilla of first responders who monitored the situation throughout the 11-day ordeal amid concerns surrounding the 588,000 gallons of fuel oil and 62,000 gallons of diesel believed to be on board.US law enforcement and the Idil were assisted by salvage specialists DonJon-Smit, Atlantic Diving, Borinquen Towing and San Juan Towing, according to a statement that indicated MSC will handle the probe from here out.Source: Tradewinds