Following the successful delivery of the ‘Eagle’ and the ‘Falcon’, the final ship, the ‘Hawk’, will set off this week from China to the United Arab Emirates. The bulk carriers were specially designed to transport iron ore over shallow water. The vessels have a length of 130 metres and a width of 27.5 metres, with a draught of 3.5 metres. Four Caterpillar engines generate 3,280kW in total and propulsion is via four Jan Verhaar Omega jet thrusters.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Delivery of ‘Eagle’, ‘Falcon’ and ‘Hawk’
Netherlands-based Transport & Offshore Services has embarked on the last voyage to deliver a series of three identical newbuild bulk carriers.
Following the successful delivery of the ‘Eagle’ and the ‘Falcon’, the final ship, the ‘Hawk’, will set off this week from China to the United Arab Emirates. The bulk carriers were specially designed to transport iron ore over shallow water. The vessels have a length of 130 metres and a width of 27.5 metres, with a draught of 3.5 metres. Four Caterpillar engines generate 3,280kW in total and propulsion is via four Jan Verhaar Omega jet thrusters.Read More
Following the successful delivery of the ‘Eagle’ and the ‘Falcon’, the final ship, the ‘Hawk’, will set off this week from China to the United Arab Emirates. The bulk carriers were specially designed to transport iron ore over shallow water. The vessels have a length of 130 metres and a width of 27.5 metres, with a draught of 3.5 metres. Four Caterpillar engines generate 3,280kW in total and propulsion is via four Jan Verhaar Omega jet thrusters.
Bharati Shipyard to take over Great Offshore?
Mumbai: Indian media is predicting Bharati Shipyard will soon take over Great Offshore having yesterday snapped up close to 15% of the cash strapped firm.
Great Offshore’s VC and MD Vijay Sheth pledged a 14.89% stake with two Bharati Shipyard group companies for a Rs 200-crore loan to clear some of his dues. "We have decided to acquire the pledged shares and hold it as a strategic long term investment," Bharati Shipyard MD P C Kapoor said. Bharati has acquired the shares at Rs 315 a piece, translating into Rs 174 crore.
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DCT Gdansk Heavylift Cargo Capabilities
Since it opened in 2007, the new DCT Gdansk container terminal has had several opportunities to demonstrate its versatility, notably with the transhipment of motor vehicles from deepsea to feeder car carriers and even the handling of a cruise vessel.
It has also handled several heavylift vessels including, of course, the vessels that delivered its ship-to-shore cranes and RTGs.More recently though, the terminal has handled a number of very heavy pieces destined for the adjacent Gdansk oil refinery, operated by Group Lotos, and further shipments are programmed for later in 2009. This current shipment and a second, scheduled for July, are being handled by the Polish freight forwarder Hermes, which is headquartered in Gdynia.Read More
It has also handled several heavylift vessels including, of course, the vessels that delivered its ship-to-shore cranes and RTGs.More recently though, the terminal has handled a number of very heavy pieces destined for the adjacent Gdansk oil refinery, operated by Group Lotos, and further shipments are programmed for later in 2009. This current shipment and a second, scheduled for July, are being handled by the Polish freight forwarder Hermes, which is headquartered in Gdynia.
Framo gets contract to boost Gullfaks South reserves
NORWAY: StatoilHydro has awarded Norwegian company Framo Engineering a contract to develop a solution for subsea wet gas compression which could extend the production life of Gullfaks South field.
StatoilHydro awarded the contract to Framo on behalf of the Gullfaks licensees. The other member of this partnership is Petoro. The solution aims to improve recovery of natural gas which contains condensate and water, a mix known as wet gas. The goal is to boost recoverable gas reserves in Gullfaks South by 3 Bscm (105.9 Bcf), a six percent increase from the current estimate. The development solution is based on a subsea compressor template tied back to the Gullfaks C platform and will be developed in competition with a topside compressor solution.
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Changes to the IMO code of safe practice for solid bulk cargo
Members will be aware of the general concerns that exist with regard to the carriage of Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) by sea.
These concerns have increased significantly since the loss of life arising from the incidents involving carriage of DRI on board the Ytha (2004) and the Adamandas (2003). We have previously provided information on DRI and refer in particular to the Loss Prevention Advice which published in 2006.The explosion and accompanying tragic loss of life on the Ythan, resulted from the interaction between the vessel’s cargo of “HBI Fines” and the fresh water (moisture) contained in the cargo at the time of loading. At the time of the incident the IMO Code of Safe Practice for Solid Bulk Cargo (the Code) categorized two types of DRI, namely hot moulded briquettes or hot briquetted iron (subsequently redesignated as DRI (A)), and pellets, lumps etc. (subsequently redesignated as DRI (B)). The DRI/HBI fines cargo could not in reality be categorized as either (A) or (B) under the Code and the expert advice was to treat it as the more dangerous and reactive type of DRI (B).Following the above mentioned incidents and their subsequent investigation, the IMO Sub-committee on Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers (DSC) considered amendments to the relevant Schedules of the Code as part of a review of the Code.
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