Maritime News Thread

neris · 30-12-2013 3:06pm

Was on howth yacht clubs web cam a minute ago and looks like theres a ship between irelands eye and portmarnock beach. On ais there is only one ship in the area a 100 meter cargo ship called the ulrike g but ais has its position slightly further north. Says it draws 3.5 meters but over the last few years the sands have shifted there and has become very shallow in parts

goldie fish · 31-12-2013 8:42am

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/navy-and-coastguard-secure-safety-of-13-crew-aboard-stricken-bulk-carrier-253898.html

A slow process last night. This morning the job of getting it tied to a quay begins.

Red Nissan · 31-12-2013 11:29am

goldie fish wrote: »

A slow process last night. This morning the job of getting it tied to a quay begins.

I was figuring they would not attempt a tow into the harbour last night. If one watches the tracks seemingly Abul Lion was anchored and the Celtic Isle Tug steamed up and down the coastline.

roundymac · 31-12-2013 2:35pm

I was in Myrtleville about an hour or so ago. The two tugs Alex and Celtic Isle were standing off the Abuk Lion, weather conditions were very bad, squalls and driving rain, sometimes hail. I had hoped to take a picture of them but the visability was very poor.

Tabnabs · 21-01-2014 4:06pm

Hard times in Stena and worse for any new entrants.

http://gcaptain.com/stena-line-strategic-plan-ambrose/

Jambo · 24-01-2014 10:09am

Scary Stuff

Cmdr. Martin Arriola, left the pilothouse to attend to other matters.

Meanwhile, the destroyer was on a course to dart through tankers headed in the opposite direction.

Arriola returned to the bridge. He and his watchstanders saw a ship ahead that seemed to show the international signal warning other ships to stay clear. Porter turned to port, an unusual move, and crossed ahead of it. Then they spotted something a mariner never wants to see: the bow of another ship, which had been hidden behind the other vessel.

The officer of the deck recommended turning right immediately, the standard maneuver. Cmdr Arriola disagreed...........

Taken from Navy Times

Its worth listening /reading though and following some of the other links below Taken from gCaptain

The pilothouse recording above begins immediately after Porter turned left to pass ahead of a ship going the opposite direction. The destroyer, with another warship following, had been headed southwest on course 230 at 20 knots.
The officer of the deck wanted to steer right to come back to this base course. This aggravated Porter’s commanding officer, Cmdr. Martin Arriola, who was focused on shipping traffic headed the opposite way and converging on the channel back through the Strait of Hormuz. Arriola and the OOD are the most prominent voices in the recording. Others relayed course and speed changes to the amphibious dock landing ship Gunston Hall, which was following Porter.
After clearing the vessel, the OOD spotted another ship later determined to be a supertanker, behind it and realized Porter was in danger. Arriola decided to turn left, an unusual maneuver, to streak ahead of a ship’s bow a second time.

Tabnabs · 24-01-2014 10:19am

Not the first time I've heard/seen about a naval ship manoeuvring erratically

I never envy the Navy style of having so many bodies on the bridge. Two lookouts, two radars and a cadet plotting positions every six minutes was enough for us in the heaviest traffic situations on much larger, but much slower and less manoeuvrable ships.

Still, they are getting the book thrown at them. However, in true shipping fashion, they'll probably get promoted out of command to good safe desk jobs...

Snowc · 04-02-2014 12:53pm

The recent weather has being causing a few problems around the coast.It most have being awful on board the endurance that day seeing as two 100 + meter Spanish trawlers were taking shelter in Galway bay that day :eek:

Jambo · 06-02-2014 10:02am

See this on gcaptain and a few other sites yesterday.
2014-02-05T145913Z_1871724756_PM1EA25183M01_RTRMADP_3_FRANCE-SHIP.jpg

News Report, Pictures and Video here

And a video of the moment she broke up here, just shows you the raw power of the sea when you see the bow section getting thrown around like a cork

Tabnabs · 03-03-2014 5:15pm

Rolls-Royce Testing Drone Technology for Unmanned Cargo Ships

http://gcaptain.com/rolls-royce-testing-unmanned-drone-cargo-ship/

Fair to say that it will probably happen within our lifetime.

LiamoSail · 03-03-2014 6:59pm

Tabnabs wrote: »

http://gcaptain.com/rolls-royce-testing-unmanned-drone-cargo-ship/

Fair to say that it will probably happen within our lifetime.

I'd be sceptical. From the numerous regulatory issues,to the shipping business being notoriously slow to embrace change, to the need for basic maintenance, ships need to be manned.

Theoretically, it could be possible, but I don't believe its practical

murphym7 · 04-03-2014 9:14am

LiamoSail wrote: »

I'd be sceptical. From the numerous regulatory issues,to the shipping business being notoriously slow to embrace change, to the need for basic maintenance, ships need to be manned.

Theoretically, it could be possible, but I don't believe its practical

I would intend to agree.

Where I am quite sure, technically you could get a ship to navigate from A to B safely, there are far more things to consider. We assume we don’t want the ship tied up for any unnecessary time alongside for a “human” crew to board to undertake maintenance. The article states that increased level of automation will mean preventative maintenance etc… can be carried out without need for human intervention. This I would highly doubt. I would imagine the level of automation required to actually perform these tasks would be cost prohibitive for a start, never mind the likely impracticality of having a deck/engine room packed with automated equipment, all whirring along doing different tasks. Who’s going to maintain the automated maintenance equipment??? Who will look after fridges on container ships, who will monitor and adjust the lashings of containers/cargo? There are things like mechanical breakdown, we have all been on a ship when a hose has blown, a valve gets stuck etc…. these are the unplanned things that you have to have a human there to deal with. My last point is the protection of life at sea. An unmanned vessel isn’t going to be much use to another vessel in distress.

There are too many variables that humans need to deal with each day on board.

bladebrew · 03-04-2014 12:55am

Here is a video released by the German navy of pirates attacking the MV Taipan back in 2010, I had never seen the second video (released in 2010) of Danish Marines landing on containers on deck and taking the ship back off the pirates,
I'm not really sure why the pirates even attacked the ship if there was a helicopter watching them?!

Tabnabs · 04-04-2014 3:51pm

A pretty grim but worthwhile interview with an American captain who was kidnapped in Nigeria whilst at sea on a supply ship.

http://gcaptain.com/captain-wren-thomas-kidnapped-off-nigeria-c-retriever/

Tabnabs · 16-04-2014 3:27pm

Iceland’s first PSV launched in Turkey

The vessel, named Polarsyssel, is a Havyard 832L WE design and it is Iceland’s first platform supply vessel.

Polarsyssel is an Ice Class B vessel and can accommodate 30 people. The ship is 88.5 meters long and 17.6 meters wide. The deck area is 850 square meters with a modular helideck. The ship is equipped with a fire fighting unit, an emergency oil recovery system, a dynamic-positioning system (DP2) for optimal position keeping during operations, refueling system for Jet A-1 fuel, and a night vision detection system for identifying people, oil, and ice in the dark. On board there is a twin-jet rescue boat as well as two work, search, and rescue boats.

The launching ceremony took place last Saturday in Cemre Shipyard in Turkey, and according to a statement issued by the shipyard, including this project Cemre has launched 29 ships so far.

The ship will service the Arctic island Spitsbergen 180 days a year, first season beginning in spring 2014. On their website the Ministry of Justice and Public Security in Norway stated that the new ship and two helicopters will strengthen the service in the Svalbard region substantially. The vessel will, in addition to servicing Spitsbergen, patrol, prevent pollution, conduct rescue services, and monitor environmental developments in the Svalbard archipelago, Bear Island, and Hopen.

http://www.offshoreenergytoday.com/icelands-first-psv-launched-in-turkey/

I wonder will we ever see such a vessel flying an Irish ensign (other than the Granuaile)?

tricky D · 05-05-2014 6:25pm

Crew missing after cargo ships collide near Hong Kong
Chinese vessel Zhong Xing 2 sank after collision with large container ship in waters off Hong Kong

more

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/05/cargo-ships-collide-hong-kong-hong

07-05-2014 10:17pm

One here some might be interested in. Worldwide maritime and shipping news sent (free) as a .pdf daily.

Used to get this daily collection of maritime related news years ago to a work email when working for a Dutch company, had forgot about it.
Seen another on board reading it a few days ago and signed up again.

Sign up at http://www.maasmondmaritime.com/Inschrijven.aspx

Tabnabs · 11-06-2014 10:27am

Sweet mother of divinity, imagine being rescued by that thing?!

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, sailors aboard the small craft “Barents 1100″ sent out a distress signal on Sunday afternoon when they found themselves in the middle of some severe weather while in the White Sea.

To their surprise, the Oscar-class cruise-missile submarine “Voronezh,” belonging to the Northern Fleet, happened to be right in the vicinity and was on hand to provide assistance. After coming alongside the small craft, the crew of the Voronezh transferred the five sailors aboard the sub, and took the Barents 1100 in tow.

http://gcaptain.com/russian-nuclear-submarine-rescues-sailors-distress-photos/

Tabnabs · 27-08-2014 9:40am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11W-xM0coHY

You've heard of the x-bow, well Ulstein have now come out with the X stern

Tabnabs · 03-09-2014 10:24am

Here's an interesting tale of how geo-political wrangling can make the simple sailors life a misery. There's one (and possibly more) VLCC knocking around, full of "Kurdish" crude oil. There is a big legal dispute over the ownership of the oil and this has resulted in the ship just anchoring up and/or drifting in the US Gulf waiting for the legal side to be resolved.

They had apparently switched off her AIS and this naturally made the USCG nervy, but the USCG, aka

"sea scouts with guns"

have found her again and the saga rumbles on.

http://rt.com/usa/184264-usa-kurdish-tanker-oil/

Tabnabs · 09-09-2014 4:19pm

Elsewhere, oil is being stored in the worlds largest floating tanks until the price goes up and someone makes a killing...

http://gcaptain.com/chinese-oil-trader-books-ultra-large-crude-carrier-ti-europe-stash-crude/

Another cheap-as-chips tanker and a most unpleasant work environment for her crew.
http://www.aukevisser.nl/supertankers/id176.htm

islanderre · 09-09-2014 9:51pm

Another cheap-as-chips tanker and a most unpleasant work environment for her crew.
http://www.aukevisser.nl/supertankers/id176.htm[/QUOTE]

Why do you say this Tabnabs..... surely its no different to any other VLCC / ULCC except maybe a prolonged period drifting and attending to maintenance that may not get done if the vessel was underway.

Just curious!!!!!!!!

:):)

Tabnabs · 10-09-2014 9:24am

She was built in 2003, but the bridge and Cargo Control Room are decked out in basic 90s technology. You put that much crude oil into a ship, worth millions of dollars, send it around the world, and you don't even invest in a modern integrated bridge design and the CCR, the heart of operations when working cargo, you stick in the cheapest installation for controlling the loading and discharge of cargo.

This philosophy will extend to the standard of accommodation for the crew also. These ships rarely tie up ashore due to their immense size and normally lighter many miles offshore, so the crew may not get a minutes break for 4/6/8/12 months of their contract. So they are stuck on a floating oil tank with no comforts or small luxuries. Having spent months on a similar sized and spec'ed ship, it's what drives excellent and talented officers to leave the industry and take up work elsewhere.

islanderre · 10-09-2014 6:24pm

Thanks for the reply Tabnabs.

Yes it was one of the issues I too encountered sailing on VL & ULCC's was the lack of shore leave but in hind sight I think the Master(s) been quite tight when it came to paying for a launch may have something to do with it too.

Cheers,

Islanderre

Tabnabs · 11-09-2014 12:01pm

I wonder what kind of readiness her engines are kept at? :pac:

http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/Ferry-is-New-Home-to-Libyan-Parliament-2014-09-10

Tim the Enchanter · 30-09-2014 12:23pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ktwo-k-onk

Tabnabs · 30-09-2014 2:19pm

Nightmare!

islanderre · 30-09-2014 7:06pm

How the feck...... thought all this would be proven before the ship leaves the yard....
Presume its down to the angle the lifeboat leaves the mother ship.....

Courtesy of gcaptain.com

who the fug · 30-09-2014 7:52pm

Tabnabs wrote: »

Nightmare!

Can see that vast tome that is the Suez Canal book being pulled out and blaming everything on the Captain, as he failed to declare his first born child is left handed

Nought to do with Pilot in a rush

LiamoSail · 30-09-2014 9:32pm

islanderre wrote: »

How the feck...... thought all this would be proven before the ship leaves the yard....
Presume its down to the angle the lifeboat leaves the mother ship.....

Courtesy of gcaptain.com

I'd say its more likely to be a consequence of the weight distribution on the lifeboat, too much up fwd, coupled with the ship being in ballast

LiamoSail · 30-09-2014 9:35pm

who the fug wrote: »

Can see that vast tome that is the Suez Canal book being pulled out and blaming everything on the Captain, as he failed to declare his first born child is left handed

Nought to do with Pilot in a rush

Still down to the Capt. In most countries, the Pilots liability is is extremely limited anyway, irrespective of them being found at fault. Iirc, it's only a few hundred euro in Ireland, and similar in the UK

Tabnabs · 01-10-2014 9:00am

"Courses Various to Masters Orders and Pilots Advice"...

Tabnabs · 08-10-2014 9:26am

Ro-Ro / cargo vessel Parida carrying radioactive concrete from Scotland to Belgium had a fire in her funnel and is currently adrift in the Moray Firth. The Beatrice platform was evacuated as a precaution. I know Aberdeen is only around the corner with plenty of tugs ready to go, but once again the lack of the proper CG towing vessels leaves the UK vulnerable.

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands/367722/vessel-carrying-radioactive-waste-drifting-moray-firth/

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/219471000

Tabnabs · 16-10-2014 3:19pm

Hapag-Lloyd’s vessel – the Kiel Express – broke free from its mooring in Port Botany as winds reached 126km/h, causing a trail of destruction.

ship%20crash2.jpg

The Hapag-Lloyd ship cut the mooring of the OOCL Hong Kong, sending it free. The stern of the Kiel Express then collided with a stationary Safmarine vessel, the Makutu. The Kiel Express then swung around to collide side-by-side.

http://www.porttechnology.org/news/container_ships_collide_in_sydney_storm#.VD-nQs5crct

26-11-2014 11:35am

Still seems to be a fairly healthy interest in exploration in Irish waters

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2014/10/21/Ireland-seeing-momentum-offshore/8801413889437/

Tabnabs · 27-11-2014 11:09am

The current very low price for crude oil will probably hamper any projects in the medium term, there's talk of the North Sea becoming uneconomical if it continues for any prolonged period.

Sadler32 · 05-12-2014 4:44pm

Yeah there are quite a few drill ships stopping work. I believe a few companies are laying off people and some contracts being stopped.
Luckily the ROV ship I work on is booked up for jobs next year that have to be done....

Tabnabs · 09-12-2014 12:34pm

Ireland gets it's first privatised port

Burke Shipping acquires Greenore Port in Co Louth

First major port to be 100% privately owned in State

Greenore is strategically located next to the Dublin-Belfast economic corridor, so it is capable of servicing both cities

Burke Shipping Group, the principal operating subsidiary of the family-owned Doyle Group, has acquired Greenore Port in Co Louth. The port was previously jointly owned by One51 and the state-owned Dublin Port Company.

The price Burke Shipping paid for the port is not known but it is thought to be in the region of €5 million. Burke did not respond to requests for comment.

The company, which employs 300 people and has offices in all major Irish ports, is understood to plan to invest a substantial sum in improving Greenore. It will be the first significant port to be entirely privately owned in the Republic.

Burke Shipping plans to target the container and bulk shipping market and compete with the Dublin Port Company and other ports for this business. Greenore is strategically located next to the Dublin-Belfast economic corridor, so it is capable of servicing both cities.

Burke Shipping is owned by Connor and Frank Doyle, whose grandfather founded the original company DF Doyle Stevedoring in 1886. The company is led by Brian McCarthy who has worked with the company since 1980, and been chief executive since 2006.

Greenore port’s potential has been recognised by An Bord Pleanála, which has described it one of Ireland’s “critical infrastructure assets.” The Port was owned equally by One51 and the Dublin Port Company via a company called Renore Ltd. This was set up to buy the operations of the port in April 2002. The sale was handled by IBI Corporate Finance.

In November Burke Shipping announced that it was investing further in its container terminal in Dublin Port by investing in a new rubber tyred gantry (RTG) crane used to move containers, bringing to seven its total RTGs in Dublin. In total it said it had invested €30 million in Dublin Port.

The Doyle family was previously involved in a consortium with One51, then led by businessman Philip Lynch, which unsuccessfully tried to buy Irish Continental Group, the owner of Irish Ferries.

Source: The Irish Times, December 2014

http://www.imdo.ie/IMDO/newsroom/BurkeShippingacquiresGreenorePort.htm

vicwatson · 04-01-2015 1:44am

Crew being rescued.

Listing to 45 degrees

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-30670746

Atlantic Dawn · 04-01-2015 11:22am

Crazy time for accidents, yesterday a cement carrier sinks off Scotland and the day before a Norwegian bulk carrier sinks off vietnam.

tricky D · 04-01-2015 3:21pm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Crazy time for accidents, yesterday a cement carrier sinks off Scotland and the day before a Norwegian bulk carrier sinks off vietnam.

Merged with News thread

Search continues for crew of overturned cargo ship
Shipping company confirms eight members on board vessel in northern Scotland

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/search-continues-for-crew-of-overturned-cargo-ship-1.2054151

pedroeibar1 · 05-01-2015 12:33pm

vicwatson wrote: »

Crew being rescued.

Listing to 45 degrees

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-30670746

Apparently the grounding was deliberate - she had developed a bad list and was put aground to avoid a capsize:-

A car carrier stranded next to a busy shipping lane was grounded deliberately to prevent it from capsizing, its owners have said.
The 51,000 tonne Hoegh Osaka became stricken on the Bramble Bank between Southampton and the Isle of Wight last night after it sailed from the Hampshire port with its cargo of 1,400 cars.
The incident prompted a major rescue operation with the 24 crew members and a pilot having to be taken to safety by Coastguard helicopter and RNLI lifeboats. Two people suffered non-life threatening injuries and were taken to hospital.
The 180-metre Singapore-registered ship is currently listing at 52 degrees and the salvage operation is expected to take days, possibly weeks.
A 200 metre exclusion zone has been set up around the ship to prevent small vessels interfering with the tugs and other shipping.
Ingar Skiaker, CEO of Hoegh Autoliners which owns the vessel, said that no oil had leaked from the vessel and preventing any environmental impact was his key priority.
He said: "Our vessel Hoegh Osaka is currently grounded at Bramble Bank in the Solent outside the port of Southampton. All crew plus one pilot, in total 25 people were evacuated from the vessel and all are safe and accounted for.

Tabnabs · 05-01-2015 12:39pm

I understand the engine room was pumping fuel between tanks and put too much into a wing tank and this problem was compounded by her large turn to port at the same time, she kept listing over and without many options, the pilot and captain agreed to run her ashore rather than allow her to capsize in a deep water & busy channel.

Lots of great comments online about the ugliness of the ship and therefore inherent instability of the design...

Tom44 · 07-01-2015 4:38pm

Tabnabs wrote: »

I understand the engine room was pumping fuel between tanks and put too much into a wing tank and this problem was compounded by her large turn to port at the same time, she kept listing over and without many options, the pilot and captain agreed to run her ashore rather than allow her to capsize in a deep water & busy channel.

Lots of great comments online about the ugliness of the ship and therefore inherent instability of the design...

Somebody is going to be docked a day's pay !

Tabnabs · 07-01-2015 5:08pm

According to social media, the Hoegh Osaka is currently under tow by three Switzer tugs. Still at the same angle though...

Tabnabs · 07-01-2015 5:48pm

Anyone know what that large green pipe running across the deck is for?

neris · 07-01-2015 7:32pm

Bit late but seems to a few eye witnesses/on lookers reports from today

http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showtopic=162923&&page=2

Tom44 · 08-01-2015 10:36am

Anyone know what that large green pipe running across the deck is for?[/quote]

Balance ?

Sorry, couldn't resist.
T.

dvcireland · 08-01-2015 2:23pm

The world's biggest ship - for 53 days

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30696685

The world's largest container ship, the Globe, is docking in Britain for the first time as it continues its maiden voyage. But how vast and powerful is it and how long until it's superseded?

Tabnabs · 08-01-2015 3:04pm

More of her arrival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V58U8Aaay3E

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