ship the world's largest Pipelay completed its work in the Nord Stream project in the outside, Finland

Completed Solitaire Allseas', the ship the world's largest pipelay, and work on Line 2 pipeline Nord Stream natural gas across the Baltic Sea before the deadline. and put the ship 342.5 km of pipelines in each of the twin Gulf of Finland.

"The tragedies have not lived up to our expectations all," Nord Stream construction manager Ruurd Hoekstra, " The diamond is a ship dynamically positioned, which operate without anchors, and only in the pipeline at the bottom of the sea touches itself along the way agreed. This was crucial for us in the Gulf of Finland with the lines of the historic mines and the busy sea lanes. using Solitaire helped us to minimize the impact on the environment and maritime traffic in this section a safe area around the pipeline could be smaller than that. "

"All in all, and has developed some of the Solitaire 57 000 and 24 tons pipe along this section is 342.5 km from the main road. the quality of work was excellent, and they were not to be able to fulfill its mission a few weeks before the deadline, " said Hoekstra.

In the 300 meters in length and 40.6 meters, the team Allseas Swiss-based Solitaire is the length of three football fields. the vessel has a large pipe carrying 22000 tons of capacity and workstations at multiple levels to enable them to receive and store 12 meters 24 tons pipe and welding together, test welds, and join tubes for pipelines, it lies on the seabed along the route agreed upon. Solitaire has been running with a crew of 405, has been planting tube 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for Nord Stream for almost a year.

Completed the first of the Nord Stream pipeline double miles in June, in June 1224 and is currently in the final stages of pre-commissioning. It is expected the flow of gas to the pipeline by starting in the fourth quarter of this year. will line 1 has the ability to transfer 27.5 billion m cubic of natural gas annually to Europe. is set in the second pipeline to be operational in late 2012, doubling the transport capacity to 55 billion cubic meters.

WFS ACQUIRES MONTREAL CARGO ASSETS

WFS ACQUIRES MONTREAL CARGO ASSETS

FOLLOWING the purchase of assets belonging to Excel Cargo at both Montreal’s (Canada) Dorval and Mirabel airports, Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) has become the largest cargo handler in the city.

The combined operation of both airports, including the existing WFS operation at Dorval, will have close to 150 employees and will function under the WFS name and brand.

Since January 2011, WFS has been awarded 24 new cargo contracts in North America worth US$11 million and retained a further 10 contracts that were part of competitive bid processes.

In Canada WFS also provides handling in Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.

“This acquisition provides the opportunity to develop not only our customer base to include numerous freight forwarders, but also to expand our service offerings with the addition of cargo running at Dorval and ramp and warehouse handling at Mirabel,” Olivier Bijaoui, President & CEO of WFS, said:

On completion of the takeover WFS’ existing customers British Airways, Finnair, Forwardair and US Airways transferred operations into the larger Excel premises at Dorval, adjacent to Customs, to achieve greater efficiency. The new operation will continue to provide services to Excel’s Dorval airline customers: Aer Lingus, Air Transat, CSA, Cubana, First Air, Qantas and SAS as well as to more than 45 freight forwarding organisations.

WFS says customers will benefit from access to these larger facilities and to the x-ray equipment for cargo screening that will be transferred. More than 2,700 tonnes of airfreight per month will be handled in the new Dorval operation.

In related news, WFS has recently appointed Michel Defays as senior vice-president

Malaysia: Flag States Sign Declaration Condemning Acts of Violence Against Seafarers

Malaysia: Flag States Sign Declaration Condemning Acts of Violence Against Seafarers

Three of the largest flag states, accounting for around 40% of the world's commercial shipping tonnage, have signed an agreement condemning the acts of violence against seafarers by pirates. The flag states agreed to pool information on the mistreatment of seafarers at the hands of pirates.

The flag states signed a Declaration in Washington on 3 August 2011, condemning the acts of violence against seafarers. The Declaration recognised that the increasing use of violence against captured seafarers was underreported and noted that there were significant sensitivities associated with such information.

The Declaration affirmed their commitment to provide information on the levels of violence faced by seafarers to the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) from reports received by them in accordance with their internal procedures.

The IMB will collate and disseminate aggregated data of the levels of violence. The reports will omit their names, the names of the vessels, owners, operators and flag states to protect identities and privacy.

The project is supported by the One Earth Future Foundation (OEFF) and the TK Foundation.

So far in 2011, there have been 176 attacks on vessels by suspected Somali pirates which resulted in 22 successful hijackings with 378 crew taken hostage. Taking into account those vessels hijacked in 2010 which remain unreleased, there are presently 20 vessels still held off Somalia with a total of 398 crew still held to ransom.

IMB Director Pottengal Mukundan commented: “This new initiative will help to publicise the human cost of piracy, which at times can go unnoticed amongst reports of hijacking and huge ransoms. Current figures for 2011 suggest that the number of worldwide piratical incidents is on course to match or surpass those for 2010- though currently, attacks off Somalia account for a greater percentage of worldwide attacks than in previous years.”

This agreement is a result of the OEFF's Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP) working group, which in June 2011 produced the Human Cost of Piracy Report. The OBP report found that thousands of seafarers were subjected to gunfire, beatings, confinement and in some cases torture, though these cases were underreported and misunderstood by the public.

Mr Mukundan continued: “Attacks reported off Somalia this year have been characterised by a greater degree of violence against crew than before. Also, there have been worrying reports of violent attacks on crew during hijackings of vessels in the Gulf of Guinea. These intimidating and sometimes brutal attacks on crew must end – hopefully we can bring these instances to wider public attention as a result of this Declaration.”

The total number of attacks worldwide stands at 304, with 31 successful hijackings.

IMB strongly urges all shipmasters and owners to continue to report all worldwide actual, attempted or suspicious piracy and armed robbery incidents to the IMB's Piracy Reporting Centre.

للمرة الثالثة في شهر واحد: ضبط حاويات ملوثة بالإشعاع بميناء السخنة قادمة من اليابان

كشفت هيئة مواني البحر عن قيام هيئة الصادرات الواردات بضبط حاويتين مصابتين بإشعاع ذري واردتين داخل سفن البضائع القادمة من اليابان للمرة الثالثة خلال 30 يومًا، والذي تم رفع درجات الاستعداد القصوى داخل الميناء.
كانت الحاويات التي تم ضبطهاوصلت منذ 30 يومًا ضمن 8 حاويات إلي الميناء قادمين من اليابان وبداخلها معدات كهربائية وميكانيكية والتي قامت باستيرادها شركتان للتصدير والاستيراد والذين حاولوا إخراج الحاويات ولكنهم فشلوا والتي أكدت هيئة الطاقة الذرية في خطاب لها لإدارة هيئة الصادرات والواردات بميناء السخنة إصابة الحاويتين بالإشعاع.
أكد المسئول بالميناء، قيام وزارة البيئة وإدارة البيئة بمواني دبي التي تدير الميناء بنقل الحاويات داخل منطقة ترابية لمنع انتقال الإشعاع إلي البضائع والسفن كما قررت هيئة مواني البحر الأحمر مراجعة جميع الرسائل القادمة من اليابان عبر الشركتين اللتين قامتا باستيراد الحاويات المشعة।
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CHARTERS ANSWER HORN OF AFRICA’S CALL

CHARTERS ANSWER HORN OF AFRICA’S CALL

10-Aug-2011

CHARTER brokers are seeing a huge increase in demand for charters to carry desperately needed humanitarian aid for the starving people of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.

Air Charter Service sent its first aid flight on 19 July carrying cargo such as tents from Asia and medical supplies from Europe. It has been sending either a 747 or an MD-11F once a day or every other day since.

“North eastern Kenya has experienced the added hardship of growing numbers of refugees – every day between 1,000 and 1,500 Somalis cross the Kenyan border to the largest refugee settlement in the world, Dadaab, where there are already close to 400,000 people. The medical supplies are desperately needed, and the tents that we are bringing in will go some way to helping to house these extra people.” Justin Lancaster, cargo sales director for ACS Group, commented.

Since 24 July Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has overseen the delivery of hundreds of tons of relief cargo from Europe and the Middle East on behalf of charities and international aid agency clients.

Aid cargo has been flown into airports including Nairobi (Kenya), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and Mogadishu (Somalia) utilising full and part charters on IL-76, 767 and 747 aircraft

KOREAN SHOWS MIXED RESULTS

KOREAN SHOWS MIXED RESULTS

09-Aug-2011

KOREAN Air’s operating revenue for the second quarter rose 1.5 per cent to KRW2.83 trillion (US$2.6 billion). However, the company ended up with an operating loss of KRW37.5 billion (US$3.4 million) for the period due to the high price of oil and slow outbound cargo traffic, which fell 30 per cent.

Cargo, which contributed 31.8 per cent to the company’s revenue, saw a drop of 8.4 per cent in freight tonne kilometres (FTK) to 2.29 billion (FTK). The airline blamed the drop on decreasing exports of IT products, although exports of auto parts and semiconductors rose.

Traffic from Europe, Japan and the US rose 12 per cent, 13 per cent and eight per cent respectively.

New cargo routes to destinations such as Qatar, Spain, transatlantic regions and Turkey were also added in the second quarter

Philippines: Cargo Ship Sinks After Collision with Another Vessel

Two crewmen were missing after a cargo ship sank in Sarangani Bay Tuesday evening following a collision with another vessel, officials said Wednesday.

Commodore Roy Echeverria, local Coast Guard station chief , said the smaller vessel M/V Bulk Carrier 1, which was bound for Dumaguete, sank when it collided with the Liberian-flagged container ship HS Puccini, which was heading toward this city from Davao City, around 7:42 pm some seven nautical miles off Maasim town in Sarangani province.

Jing Burgos, representative of M/V Bulk Carrier 1, told reporters that 23 crew members of the ill-fated ship, two of them in serious condition, were rescued. But two more crew members of M/V Bulk Carrier 1 remained missing, he said.

Echeverria said their operations were focused on finding the two missing men.

“As soon as the rescue operation is over, we will investigate what really caused the collision,” Echeverria said.

He said the Coast Guard was alerted to the collision Marco Krank, HS Puccini's captain, sent a distress call around 8:20 pm

Echeverria said he immediately dispatched a team to conduct search-and-rescue operations and to conduct an initial investigation.

The Coast Guard also sent out medical team and marine environmental protection personnel to contain a possible oil spill, he said.

Tuesday's collision was the second disaster in Sarangani Bay this year.

In May, the MV Double Prosperity, loaded with 66,000 tons of coal enroute to

India from Australia, ran ran aground seven kilometers off Kiamba town.

Dubai Maritime City Reports Increased traffic

The Industrial District of Dubai Maritime City, the enclosure for maritime related businesses, reported a twofold increase in number of operations from last year at the half-year mark of 2011. A total of 318 vessel docking and undocking operations were carried out till the end of June 2011. The facility recently recorded 50 vessels berthed in its wet and dry berths in a single day. The District was officially opened earlier this year and accommodates 3000-ton and 6000-ton ship lifts.

The Dubai Maritime City operations team has successfully docked vessels of various types and categories such as General Cargo Vessels, Tankers, Anchor Handling Vessels, Tugs, Supply Vessels, Fishing Trawlers, Utility Vessels, Malty Cats, Yacht, Wooden Dhows and Barges

غرق الحوض العائم بترسانة السويس البحرية وإنقاذ السفن التي يحملها

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الحوض العائم لترسانة السويس البحرية التابعة لهيئة قناة السويس

تعرض الحوض العائم لترسانة السويس البحرية التابعة لهيئة قناة السويس للغرق، اليوم الثلاثاء، بمنطقة بور توفيق بالسويس المطلة على المجرى الملاحي لقناة السويس، وهو الأمر الذي تسبب في توقف عمليات الإصلاح الخاصة بالسفن داخل ترسانة السويس البحرية.

وكانت غرفة عمليات هيئة قناة السويس قد تلقت بلاغا بغرق الحوض العائم المخصص لحمل سفن تصل حمولتها إلى 55 ألف طن، فيما قامت هيئة موانئ البحر الأحمر بالسويس بسحب السفن والقاطرات الخمس التي كان يقوم بحملهم الحوض قبل غرقه، والتي تم ربطهم برصيف ميناء بور توفيق بالسويس، وذلك بعد أن تم دفع عدد من القاطرات الخاصة بها من أجل سحب السفن التي يحملها الحوض العائم الغارق، حيث إن هذه السفن كان يجري بها عمليات إصلاح داخل ترسانة السويس البحرية منذ مساء أمس الاثنين، والتي لم تكتمل بعد غرق الحوض.

أكد مسئول بهيئة موانئ البحر الأحمر على قيام اللواء عبد القادر جبا الله، رئيس هيئة الموانئ، المتواجد حاليا في العاصمة لندن، بإعطاء أوامر لنائب رئيس الهيئة ورئيس غرفة العمليات بتوفير جميع الإمكانيات لمساعدة هيئة قناة السويس في محاولاتها لإنقاذ الحوض العائم.

جدير بالذكر، أن الحوض العائم لترسانة السويس البحرية هو الأضخم من نوعه داخل نطقة المجرى الملاحي للقناة، والمخصص لعمليات إصلاح السفن المارة بالمجرى الملاحي للقناة وموانئ السويس، والمعروف عنه سمعته العالمية في جودة إصلاح أعطال السفن والعبارات بمختلف أنواعها।
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