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SECURITY
The UN-chartered ship, "Rozen", which was seized by Somali pirates last month is now the scene of ongoing negotiations to gain the release of the vessel and crew.
There has been a spate of hijackings involving UN World Food Programme (WFP) chartered vessels, involving four ships, "Semlow", "Miltzow", "Torgelow" and "Rozen", all of which belong to the same company, Motaku Shipping of Mombassa , Kenya .
To lose one ship is unfortunate, to lose two is clumsy – but once you get to three or four...well that's plain careless.
The “Torgelow”, fell victim to pirates in October 2005 as she came to the aid of her sister vessel, the “Semlow”. The “Semlow” had been hijacked by pirates more than three months earlier while delivering aid to Somalia 's tsunami victims, both the ship and the crew were held captive for 100 days before being released.
A week later the company's other vessel, the “Miltzow”, was hijacked and held by pirates for two days before being released.
According to local press reports Motaku Shipping says, “We are the only shipping company that has agreed to take food to Somalia ," before reportedly adding, "we are very doubtful if we will continue to offer our services to Somalia . It is getting very difficult for us."
This latest attack has resulted in some 2,423 tonnes of food bound for conflict-ridden Somalia languishing at Tanzania 's port of Dar es Salaam . This is a terrible dilemma the food needs to get in, but surely the WFP has to do more to protect the vessels it charters.
The lives of the crew are at stake, as well as the starving people who so rely on such food shipments. There must be a way of providing some protection. A form of protection that goes further than simply keeping fingers tightly crossed. Perhaps UN cargoes warrant UN troops on the vessel?
These aren't normal cases of piracy, they involve vital shipments of food aid – if these drops were made by air you can bet the planes would be given real protection, both in bound and out.
Back in 2001 when discussing air food drops into Afghanistan , Pentagon spokesman, Rear Adm. Craig Quigley, said the food planes would likely have fighter escorts. So come on why not protect food ships today?
If a State cannot keep it's waters safe and secure, especially for the delivery of humanitarian aid, then perhaps the responsibility should be given to someone who can…territorial waters or no.
It seems that this is a vision shared by the Ugandan forces of the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia , who have now taken over the security of Mogadishu Air and seaports.
It just seems perhaps the Transitional Somali Government could do with a little help…their people could sure do with the food.
The bombing of the “USS Cole” has long been cited as proof that not only does al-Qaeda possess the means to perform acts of maritime terrorism, they also have the will to do it.
Reports are now emerging from The Pentagon that a key al-Qaeda operative has confessed to being the mastermind of the 2000 “USS Cole” bombing and a key participant in the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings.
Wallid bin Attash said he bought the explosives and recruited members of the team that rammed an explosives-laden boat into the side of the Cole while it was refuelling in the Yemeni port of Aden.
“I put together the plan for the operation a-year-and-a-half prior to the operation,” he told a military panel convened in Guantanamo Bay , Cuba.
Seventeen US sailors were killed and 39 others were wounded in the attack, which nearly sank the $US1 billion ($1.26 billion) state-of-the-art destroyer.
It has been a long time since the last terror attack on a maritime target; perhaps it is an indication that the many measures introduced over the past couple of years have worked?
Though to be honest it seems more likely that we have just been lucky, and that far from being complacent we need to remain alive to the threats, and must continue to be vigilant.
We would like your thoughts on the matter – have measures such as The ISPS Code, and MTSA made shipping less of a target, or will we one day come back into the sights of terrorist groups? Or is the terrorist threat just a conspiracy theory instigated by the giant, alien lizards who appear in human disguise and who run the world government?
Email your thoughts to newsroom@shiptalk.com
“We'll fight them on our bridges!”
The Twenty First Century is a wonderful age, especially for those who like to protest. One of the boons of the information boom is that you can get your message heard, 24 hours a day across the globe…however obscure it might be.
In the UK this has gone a stage further and people with a grudge can actually get any old tat though the doors of 10 Downing Street , by virtue of a new “e-petition” scheme.
According to the e-petitions website, “Everyone now has the chance to address, sign and deliver a petition directly to the Prime Minister with our new online service.”
Which all sounds like a loony's charter to us…and as such we are now being petitioned to give seafarers on UK vessels guns. Good grief.
In selling the idea of seafarers packing heat, the petition states, “The increase in piratical actions at sea, and the inability of any government or international body to crack down on violent piracy in national and international waters around the globe, has led many to question why we cannot carry and use an effective deterrent, namely firearms, thereby setting an example to those who think that murder and extortion on the oceans is acceptable.”
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to allow British merchant marine sailors to carry firearms on board vessel as a deterrent to pirates”.
Andrew Hosking has made the submission, and at the time of going to press had the support of just 9 signatories. The deadline to sign up is 16 March 2008 .
Some of the people we've sailed with, we wouldn't have trusted with a spoon, let alone an AK47…Let's hope common sense prevails and there isn't a rush to sign up, but for those of you with an itchy trigger finger, no common sense and who love the smell of napalm in the morning, feel free to visit and sign up at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/piracy
Thankfully it doesn't matter how many right wing, gun lobby nut jobs do sign up, because it just isn't going to happen!
It is a sad fact that all kinds of people go around making stories up. Life is boring, so tales of drinking twenty pints in a night, scoring hole's in one, and getting intimate with that new one in accounts, make it all a little more bearable.
News, however, reached us last month of the most weird, and barefaced lie we have heard for a long while.
You may remember we reported last month that there still remained two Philippine nationals being held in Nigeria , well it seems that one of them had, well, made the whole thing up.
Josebeth Foroozan was reported abducted on Feb. 7, but the Department of Foreign Affairs later confirmed she arrived in the Philippines on Feb. 10 aboard a Lufthansa airlines flight.
Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migrant Workers Affairs, Esteban Conejos Jr. said “We spent government resources to try and find out what really happened to her. I was sent by the President to Nigeria to personally look into her case”.
“We coordinated with the Nigerian authorities and really pushed them to produce results,” he said, adding the Foroozan case was an embarrassment to the country.
It was the Filipina's husband who brought his wife's case to the attention of the Philippine Embassy in Nigeria after she sent him a text message on her supposed abduction.
Foroozan could now face court charges for bringing shame on the Philippines , an official said.
I suppose we've all done it, don't fancy going home…just text and claim to have been kidnapped by gun toting lunatics.
We can just imagine the message…“b l8 4 dinr hav bn held 2 ransm by men trying 2 emancipate d niger delta. luv Foroozan”.
SAFETY/WELFARE
There is increasing concern across India that merchant seafarers keep mysteriously vanishing.
Manoj Joy of the India based charity, Sailor's Helpline, reports that about 80 Indian seamen have inexplicably vanished on the high seas since 2005. The tug “Jupiter 6”, which vanished two years ago with 13 sailors, tops the list of missing vessels.
It is not simply the losses that is concerning organisations such as Sailor's Helpline, but they are concerned at the lack of government support in place, "Even the Philippines has a better governmental system to handle missing sailors," Joy said. "Only after [ India 's Supreme Court] took the case [of Jupiter-6] have the authorities begun to take action." The case is pending.
According to Joy, the Indian maritime authorities have no system in place to efficiently investigate such cases. He added that some shipowners have been known to register missing sailors as suicides to avoid paying compensation to their relatives. It seems that too often Indian seafarers are open to exploitation, and have too few places to turn for support – and in the event of death, their families seem to be simply cut adrift.
According to Sunil Nair of the National Union of Seafarers of India (NUSI), 30% of Indian seafarers are subjected to bad working conditions and are paid poor wages, exploited by recruitment agents working for foreign ships.
Joy says Indian maritime institutes churn out about 4,000 sailors a year, "but there is no job for them in India and their only option is to pay huge sums of money to racketeers and end up in some 'sinking coffin' while hoping to become an officer".
Still it remains that many substandard owners don't care, and don't subject themselves to fancy notions such as crew welfare. Let's hope the Indian government awake to the frightening reality of “80 missing seafarers” and put in place measures which work, which support families and are able to investigate disappearances more thoroughly.
GENERAL
Look across the stacking area at any large port and what do you see? Just rows of steel boxes full of TV's, sofas and kids toys? Wrong – you have failed to see the true potential of the humble shipping container.
Look again, harder this time can you not see a series of state of the art correctional facilities? You can? Excellent…
You are not alone in seeing this penitentiary potential, as the UK is set to import specially converted boxes from China to be turned into temporary jails to ease the British prisons overcrowding crisis. Genius.
The containers will have 30 cells, each capable of holding two prisoners. The cells are formed by slotting specially made wooden walls into the metal sides of the containers. Each cell will have a shower, a toilet and an “anti-suicide porthole” (whatever the heck they are).
The containers are to be known as 'temporary custodial modules', and are similar to containers already in use to house British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan .
However the plan to use them in prisons has astonished criminal justice experts, who warn it may have health and safety implications. 'Using containers to house prisoners, even for short periods of time, is extraordinary,' said Harry Fletcher of the probation union Napo .
Hang on, so they are deemed good enough for troops, but not good enough for criminals! That tells you a lot…
When one of Shiptalk's special correspondents boasted of having some really good action shots of “vertical insertions”, we confess to feeling a slight schoolboy tremble of excitement.
Alas it wasn't some hot Danish style action, but the US Coastguard practising dropping out of the sky and frightening the bejaysus out of any poor unsuspecting crew below them.
Such vertical insertion tactics are now a favoured alternative to the “boat and board” techniques of the past.
Sending boarding teams by small boat has been a mainstay in the Coast Guard for more than 216 years, but a safer, quicker, more efficient way of putting teams aboard a ship has become more critical.
Boarding a vessel from a small boat is dependent on many factors. Uncertainties in the wave movements make the actual transfer of personnel extremely dangerous. Also, if a vessel refuses to slow down so a Coast Guard boat can pull along side, a boarding by small boat simply can't be done.
“Boarding by a helicopter is a lot faster than by a small boat,” said Chief Petty Officer Troy Shull, of Maritime Safety and Security Team Galveston.
“Plus, I'd rather be shooting down (from a helicopter) than up from a boat.” he added.
According to a USCG statement, “As port and maritime security continue to be major points of emphasis in the war on terror, teams capable of vertically inserting onto ships give the Coast Guard another tool”.
They stressed that ,“There are about 50 places someone could hide inside a two-foot square area aboard a ship,”. “Securing a ship is a completely different than securing a building. It's in many ways more complex.”
Yes indeed, and we have found that they tend to pitch and roll more than most buildings. We say “most”, because we have to confess the bar we were in on Friday seemed to be moving quite a lot by closing time.
UK shipping minister Stephen Ladyman has finally woken to the fact that shipowners are quite, how can we put it, a money orientated bunch, and it has prompted him to keep his own red flag flying very high.
He has branded shipowners on the UK Ship Register “international capitalists”, before saying they “ hold a gun” to seafarers' heads and would be willing to pull the trigger. Gosh, steady on Minister, you‘ll give us nightmares.
This tough talking was part of a speech given at a maritime seminar organised by the RMT union. He went on to explain that the UK often has to accept their demands, or they will switch to flags of convenience.
He stressed that bringing ships back under the Red Ensign was a way of enforcing safety standards, but warned, “At the stroke of a pen, they can become Liberian registered, they can become Panamanian registered, they can go to Singapore, along with those tens of thousands of jobs and all those billions of pounds.”
Now if Ladyman is right and the owners are indeed capitalist pigs living off the gains made by the exploitation of hired labor, then that must logically make us the oppressed, subservient money making lapdogs of the “man”.
You know how we love our heart warming animal stories here at Shiptalk, well the report of a Japanese dolphin who “is squealing and clicking with delight” after receiving an artificial tail was just too uplifting to ignore.
The dolphin in question, Fuji , needed the replacement as her original was amputated due to a skin disease.
Her handlers at the Churaumi Aquarium, Okinawa say the fake tail may have saved her life as she had put on dangerous amounts of weight from being inactive, what with only being able to bob about.
The tail was custom made for Fuji by Japan 's leading tyre company Bridgestone, who reportedly spent at least 10 million yen (about US$85,000) to develop and produce the tail.
The rubber prosthetic device is slightly smaller than the tail of a dolphin of Fuji 's size, but what it lacks in size it more than makes up for in technology.
It is made of material used for Formula One racing tyres and the black silicon rubber was reinforced with artificial bone made of carbon-fibre. Sponge rubber was then used for parts that come directly in contact with Fuji 's skin.
The Aquarium said that the freedom that it brought Fuji is priceless. It seems that after initially being frightened of it, perhaps leading to skid marks in the pool, she now leaps and swims with vigour.
All this talk of rubber appendages and squealing, reminds us of that pirate DVD of “Free Willy” we were shocked by not so long ago.
Last month we received the news that Dr Kirsi Tikka has been promoted to the position of Vice President, Global Technology and Business Development at ABS .
Congratulations are in order, but news of Dr Tikka's appointment got us talking about unusual names in the shipping industry.
All around Shiptalk Towers came ever more unlikely and saucy monikers, and we all guffawed at a list which included, Deepan Haryun, Anita Bath, Drew Peacock, and Phil McCracken …that was until someone trumped the lot by mentioning “
Odd Willy Brude” from DNV.
Parents can be a cruel bunch. Go on, put it into Google if you don't believe us…If you have any more, ahem, distinctive names, please email them to us newsroom@shiptalk.com
ENVIRONMENTAL
Emissions of choking gas from toilets don't conjure up terribly pleasant images, but usually such eruptions are not capable of hospitalising Royal Navy sailors.
The heads on “HMS Illustrious” starting turning heads recently when a crew member foolishly mixed two cleaning agents while scrubbing the loos, and managed to create overpowering chlorine-based fumes.
As a result, seven sailors had to be airlifted to hospital suffering with eye and throat irritation. A spokesman said: "A number of other sailors were affected but did not need to be sent ashore."
Navy bosses are understood to be looking into it – the problem that is, not the toilet.
Despite all the fuss about chemical weapons in Iraq , it is ironic to note that a fool with a bog brush and a couple of bottles of bleach and ammonia can poison more British servicemen than Saddam ever actually managed.
It is not the first time toilet fumes have caused problems on board a ship. In 2003 noxious fumes on a vessel off the Essex coast were reported, sparking a major emergency operation, with six fire engines and a specialist team called to Harwich harbour.
Quite what the “specialist team” were specialised in isn't clear, but the
source of the smell was traced to a portable toilet on board the ship…and perhaps that Vindaloo from the night before.
What do ship's and cows have in common?
There has been a real fuss recently over CO2 emissions and the fact ships are supposedly worse polluters than planes.
There have also been claims by Chairman of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) Spyros Polemis, that switching the world's merchant fleet to cleaner-burning distillate fuels could unwittingly raise CO2 emissions.
Now, ok, it may be true that the total CO2 emitted by the worldwide
shipping industry is greater than that from the airline industry, but yah boo sucks to the fly boys, as there are one or two key facts that such scaremongering tends to overlook:
- The emissions from aircraft are made straight into the troposphere and stratosphere, therefore have a far more devastating and longer-relative-term impact than those emitted at sea level.
- The mass of CO2 emitted per passenger or per tonne of cargo is substantially less from shipping than from air transport;
So there you have it, ships may pollute, but we do it lower, slower and with a bigger package!
We also think there are other polluters that deserve to be looked at more closely, before the green lobby sticks it to shipping. We should shout out that while ships may or may not be worse than planes - they are at least a damn sight better than cows!
Yes, you read right. Each cow emits almost 10 kg of gas per year, and in California dirty cows are the biggest single source of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a key smog-forming pollutant.
Now, when you consider the cargo lifting capacity of a cow compared to, say, a VLCC - we can see the IMO 's new environmental tag line, “Shipping…We may be dirty but we are cleaner than cows”!
Answer – Wind
INSURANCE
Marine losses down or are they?
Whenever insurers look to give some great piece of news, they then like to offset it with some bleak, sad fact…you know just to stop you wondering why your premium is still going up.
So it is no shock that a new set of very interesting statistics from the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI), have remained true to this “good news, bad news” formula.
First the good news, “there has been a dramatic reduction in the number of total losses of merchant ships since the year 2000”. Hooray!
The new statistics, indicate that 67 ships (of 500 gross tons and over) were total losses in 2006, compared to 140 in 2000 and a peak of 182 during the 1990s.
Hmm and the bad news, “there has been an equally dramatic increase in serious partial losses, up by 200% since 1998”. Boo!
They are apparently the first statistics of their kind to be produced by IUMI as part of its commitment to respond to members' requests to provide more technical information to underpin underwriting decisions.
So there you have it, big losses down, small losses up…the world continues to turn and the insurers are safe in the knowledge that their lovely young children can remain in private school for at least another term.
CAREERS
What “Brand” of Captain are you?
Conjure in your minds eye for a moment the image of a successful Managing Director…what do you see?
Leather chair, bright red braces, monogrammed cuffs, ring on the little finger and a winning smile? Gosh you are so 1980's, have you been watching “Wall Street” again and pretending to be Gordon Gekko?
It's time to move on, just like Island Cruises has. They are now recruiting for Masters, but not just any old Cap'n – oh no, they are looking for “a particularly dynamic brand of Captain”.
Hmm a “brand” of Captain…well anyway, they believe that the Captain is the 'MD' (Managing Director) of the ship 'plc'. Sounds nice and corporate to us…”Ladies welcome to my ship, this is my mission statement, I alter early and decisively, never respond to scanty information, and I always go at a safe speed….”
Now we guess that kind of nonsense translates quite well into the world of Cruising – but it's kind of laughable when one looks at the life and times of the poor harassed Master on most other ships.
Hounded by the office boy via email, tired, stressed and quite possibly banged up. No, that's not really the life of the MD we envisioned…
Anyway it may be bad being a Master, but just try being a Chief Engineer, particularly on the bulk carrier, “MV Senya”.
UK Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the "unexplained death" of the Chief Engineer on board the vessel as it arrived at a sugar processing plant in the UK .
This was the second recent death on the vessel, as he replaced another Chief Engineer who also died five months ago on board the same ship. Spooky!
Both men were Polish, while the rest of the suspe…sorry, crew are mainly Polish and Portuguese, and have worked on the vessel for significant tours of duty.
It seems that Chiefs on the “Senya” are a little like drummers in Spinal Tap…they just keep popping off. As David St. Hubbins might say, "Dozens of Chief Engineers spontaneously combust each year. It's just not really widely reported.
One can only imagine how the next Chief Engineer to walk up the gangway might feel - the only consolation being that it'll probably be a very short trip!
When faced with a problem there are usually two options:
- Hide under the duvet and hope it goes away or,
- Roll your sleeves up, get on a plane, train, or heck even a ship and go and meet it head on.
We decided that the latter was probably more constructive, and so in our determination to find the next generation of seafarers we packed our overnight bag and headed out to the 3rd China Manning and Training Conference, in Shanghai .
We at ShiptalkJOBS are determined to find the best from across the globe, and we spent the two days listening intently to talks on competency, on meeting standards, and the challenges posed by the international crew shortage.
It wasn't just listening though; we talked as well… to leading shipowners, manning agents, training centres and even the lesser spotted seafarer. A full report will be in the next issue of Gangway, but if you are impatient and want to know more about our adventures in the East please email anneley@shiptalkjobs.com
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