MARITIME NEWS

Monday, March 17, 2014 International maritime news for seafarers

Single maritime body to look after PH seafarers

Filipino seafarers will henceforth be trained and certified under a single maritime administration as President enigno !"uino III formally signed into law #epublic !ct $o10%&'( )he new law puts the *epartment of )ransportation and +ommunications, through the Maritime Industry !uthority ,Marina-, in charge of the education, training and certification of Filipino seafarers( Marina bac.ed the measure, stressing the need to ha/e a single body to implement the appro/ed 1071 International +on/ention on 2tandards of )raining, +ertification and 3atch.eeping for 2eafarers ,2)+3-( )he mo/e is e4pected to impro/e the "uality and training of Filipino merchant mariners, who comprise at least 2'5 of the world6s professional seafarers( )he Philippine shipping industry is co/ered by no less than 14 go/ernment organisations spread across fi/e +abinet departments( 7fforts at industry de/elopment are highly diffused, prone to corruption and fre"uent infighting( Meanwhile, the Presidential Palace has welcomed the signing of the new law, saying that it is a significant de/elopment for the maritime industry, P$! reported( 8nder the new statute, Marina will ha/e the authority to 9assume all powers and functions of the Professional #egulation +ommission, the +ommission on :igher 7ducation, the )echnical 7ducation and 2.ills *e/elopment !uthority, the *epartment of :ealth and the $ational )elecommunications +ommission relati/e to the issuance, /alidation, /erification, correction, re/ocation or cancellation of certificates of competency, endorsement, proficiency and documentary e/idence re"uired of all seafarers and all such other matters pertaining to the implementation of the o/ersight in the implementation of the 1071 2)+3(9

SAFETY STUDY Unguarded Machinery and Lone Work - a Fatal Combination

! chief officer conducting rounds during self;discharging operations of a cargo of slag found the body of a wiper in one of the con/eyor belt tunnels( )he wiper was wor.ing alone but had not been re"uired to do maintenance wor.(

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*uring self;discharging operations of a cargo of slag, the wiper called the cargo control room on his personal radio set to report that he was on watch in the con/eyor belt tunnels, which were beneath the cargo holds( !bout 4' minutes later, the chief officer went down to the tunnels to carry out routine rounds of the self;discharging system( 3hen he reached the after end of the port side con/eyor belt, he found the wiper6s body between the con/eyor belt roller and a supporting beam( )he chief officer acti/ated the emergency con/eyor belt stop system and called for help( !lthough the emergency ser/ices were "uic.ly on scene, the wiper had already died of se/ere head in<uries( )he wiper had not been re"uired to carry out any maintenance wor. on watch and no mechanical faults were found in the self;discharging machinery( )he reason for the wiper becoming caught in the system is un.nown( )here were no witnesses(

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; )he machinery at the end of the con/eyor belt system was guarded by only a waist;high hand rail( )herefore, it was easy for a crew member to intentionally or unintentionally bypass the rail and come into contact with the mo/ing belt or end roller( )here was no safety stop in the immediate area( ;)he wiper wor.ed alone during his si4;hour watch( :is only contact with the cargo control room was through his personal radio set if he wished to go to the mess( )here were no procedures in place to regularly chec. on a lone wor.er( ;)here were no ris. assessments on board the /essel( ! proper ris. assessment of the area could ha/e identified control measures such as enhanced guarding or ++)= co/erage, which e4isted in other areas of the con/eyor belt system, and e4tension of the safety stop arrangements( ;)he wiper had been gi/en only /erbal instructions on his duties during cargo discharge operations( )here was no written <ob description for this wor.( ! more defined <ob description might ha/e deterred him from carrying out any e4traneous wor. that could ha/e placed him in danger( 2ource> 8? M!I

US "a%y Seals take control of rogue Libya oil shi&' Pentagon

82 $a/y 2eals boarded and too. control of an oil tan.er that had loaded crude at a rebel;held port in eastern @ibya and escaped to sea, the Pentagon said Monday(

$o one was hurt 9when 82 forces, at the re"uest of both the @ibyan and +ypriot go/ernments, boarded and too. control of the commercial tan.er Morning Alory, a stateless /essel seiBed earlier this month by three armed @ibyans,9 Pentagon press secretary #ear !dmiral Cohn ?irby said in a statement( )he operation was appro/ed by President arac. Dbama and was conducted in the early hours of Monday ,<ust after 0200 AM)- 9in international waters southeast of +yprus(,9 !FP reported( )he Morning Alory 9is carrying a cargo of oil owned by the @ibyan go/ernment6s $ational Dil +ompany( )he ship and its cargo were illicitly obtained from the @ibyan port of !l;2idra,9 the statement read( )he 82 2eals operated from the 822 #oose/elt, a guided missile destroyer, which 9pro/ided helicopter support and ser/ed as a command and control and support platform(9

Caution urged for shi&s entering Singa&ore (aters

Protection and indemnity organisation 2tandard +lub has ad/ised ship masters to ensure that they ha/e up;to;date information on conditions in the 2ingapore 2trait before going in( )he 2tandard +lub is concerned following two collisions in the strait( )his caused the 2ingapore Flag 2tate to release an update to the Auide to the 2ingapore 2traits( 2tandard +lub director of loss pre/ention E/es =andenborn said the main causes of the collisions were insufficient adherence to the rules of the road and poor bridge team management( 9Masters should ensure that a proper loo.out is .ept on the bridge at all times( 2ufficient crew should be a/ailable on the bridge to assist the master and officer on watch,9 he added( 9+ollision regulations should be adhered to at all times and /erbal agreements o/er =:F radio which contradict the collision regulations, and can cause confusion, should be a/oided(9 =andenborn also highlighted the importance of ha/ing a proper passage plan that should contain the latest na/igational warnings and corrections( 9! proper pre;arri/al and pre;departure meeting should be held to discuss the passage plan and a meeting should be held prior to transiting or entering a busy shipping lane,9 he said(

en Chinese %essels on standby for )et search

)en +hinese /essels are on standby for further instructions as the search for the missing Malaysia !irlines <et continues( 7ight /essels are on call o/er the Aulf of )hailand, while the other two are in waters near 2ingapore, according to :e CianBhong, director of the +hina Maritime 2earch and #escue +entre, Finhua reported(

!nother /essel is on its way to 2ingapore and e4pected to reach there )uesday night, :e disclosed( )he search for flight M:&70, a oeing 777;2007#, entered its 10th day on Monday after the plane went missing on its way to ei<ing on March 1, carrying 12 crew and 227 passengers, including 1'4 +hinese( In the 24 hours till Monday noon, se/eral +hinese merchant ships had assisted in the searching across the designated waters of the 2trait of Malacca, with no disco/eries after scouring 7,001 s"uare .ilometres in the area, according to :e( +hina on 2aturday urged Malaysia to continue pro/iding more 9thorough and correct information9 about the <et after the Malaysian Prime Minister claimed the plane deliberately steered off course(

REGULATIONS Unified standard in maritime security &ushed

! maritime security company has urged the international shipping industry to properly regulate pri/ate security contractors( Maritime security company Ao!A) noted how substandard security firms put the li/es of e/eryone onboard at ris.( 9It is e4tremely important that the shipping industry demands that internationally recogniBed standards such as I2DGP!2 21007 are implemented to ensure PM2+s are capable of deli/ering a professional ser/ice,9 Ao!A) +DD Aerry $orthwood said( )he official stressed that some security firms try to cut corners and do not adhere to standards set by the International Maritime Drganisation(

INCIDENTS *ody of +,a&anese di%er+ found in !ndonesia

! body belie/ed to be that of a Capanese di/er who went missing with si4 others off ali a month ago has been found far from where she disappeared, Indonesian police said Monday( )he body, thought to be that of di/ing instructor 2ho.o )a.ahashi, was found at the wee.end on 2empu island, 7ast Ca/a pro/ince, some 400 .ilometers from where the di/ers went missing, )he Ca.arta Post reported( Fi/e of the other female Capanese di/ers in the group were rescued days after they went missing on February 14 while the body of a si4th washed up on the Indonesian resort island(

)he body found at the wee.end was barely recogniBable ; the head was missing ; but )a.ahashi6s alinese husband belie/es it is her due to the clothes inside the di/ing suit, police said( 9)he body was found on 2aturday on a beach on 2empu island in Malang district,9 Malang marine police chief 2lamet Prayitno told !FP( 9)he husband, who came to the hospital last night, said he is 015 sure that the body belongs to his missing Capanese wife(9

Sal%adoran casta(ay meets com&anion+s family

Cose 2al/ador !l/arenga, a 2al/adoran who sur/i/ed adrift at sea for more than a year, met with the family of his shipmate o/er the wee.end( )he castaway said 24;year;old 7Be"uiel +ordo/a died four months after their fishing boat bro.e down( In his earlier inter/iews, the 2al/adoran e4plained that his companion was unable to sur/i/e /ery long since he could not eat turtle blood and raw fish, the only food they could caught while lost at sea( !l/arenga says that he and +ordo/a made a pact that if one of them sur/i/ed, they would /isit the other one6s family to tell the astonishing tale, !FP reported( 9I feel better now( I am more at peace because now I .now what happened,9 said +ordo/a6s grie/ing mother #oselia #Hos +ueto( 9$ow I .now what my son6s last words were( )hat fills me with peace(9 +ordo/a6s family had said it did not blame !l/arenga, who has risen to worldwide fame because of his story of sur/i/al, but wanted to .now what happened(

PORT OF THE WEEK Port of ian)in

)he Port of )ian<in is the largest port in northern +hina and is the main maritime gateway to the capital ei<ing( 8It was formerly .nown as the Port of )anggu( )he name 9)ian<in Fingang9 literally means )ian<in $ew Port( )he terms also is used to refer to the whole port comple4( 2ituated at the #i/er :aihe, the )ian<in port is ran.ed fifth among the biggest ports in the world( )he terminal is located about 170 .ilometres south;east of ei<ing and %0.ms east of )ian<in city( In terms of siBe, the )ian<in port is the third largest port in +hina and the single;largest port in the northern part of the mainland(

It co/ers 121 s"uare .ms of land surface, with o/er &1(0.ms of "uay shoreline and 1'1 production berths as of the end of 2010( )ian<in Port handled '00 million tonnes of cargo and 1& million )78 of containers in 201&, ma.ing it the world6s fourth largest port by throughput tonnage, and the ninth in container throughput( )he terminal conducts trade with more than %00 ports in 110 countries and territories around the world( It is ser/ed by o/er 11' regular container lines run by %0 liner companies, including all the top 20 global liners( +ontinuing e4pansion in the last two decades has been enormous, going from &0 million tonnes of cargo and 400,000 )78 in 100& to well beyond 400 million tonnes and ten million )78 as of the end of 2012( )erminal capacity is still increasing at a high rate, with ''0;%00 M) of throughput capacity e4pected by 201'( !s the port is part of the inhai $ew !rea district of )ian<in Municipality, the main special economic Bone in northern +hina, it lies directly east of the )7*!( )he port comple4 is at the core of the ambitious de/elopment programme of the $!, and as part of that plan, its aims to become the primary logistics and shipping hub in the northern mainland( )he massi/e comple4 is di/ided into nine port areas> the three core areas of ei<iang, $an<iang, and *ong<iang around the Fingang fairway, the :aihe area along the ri/er, the eitang port area around the eitang.ou estuary, the *agu.ou port area in the estuary of the :aihe #i/er and three areas under construction, namely :anggu, Aaoshaling and $angang(

SHIPPING DATA
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