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FIRST VIEW: CAPE TAINARO
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The Monday masthead shows the Port of Apapa
The Tuesday masthead shows the Port of East London
The Wednesday masthead shows the Port Durban Sugar Terminal
The Thursday masthead shows the Port of Durban T-Jetty
The Friday masthead shows the Port of Durban Container Terminal, North Quay Pier 2
The Saturday masthead shows the Port of Durban Container Terminal by night
The Sunday masthead shows the Port of Durban Multi-purpose Terminal
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FIRST VIEW: CAPE TAINARO
In Africa PORTS & SHIPS this week: CAPE TAINARO (IMO 9706205) seen arriving in the port of Durban earlier in the month. Under charter to what appears to be MSC, the ship is owned by a company registered as Hyde Maritime Co, a Cyprus-based shipping organisation. The management of the vessel falls under the well-known and respected Costamere Shipping Co SA of Athens, Greece.
The 330-metre long, 40.3m wide ship of 134,869-dwt has a container carrying capacity of 11,000 TEU and a reported current draught of 15.2 metres. After concluding her cargo working in Durban the ship moved to the Eastern Cape port of Ngqura to continue working cargo before sailing again on 14 October, bound for an expected arrival in Las Palmas on 25 October 2021. From there she will proceed to Europe.
Built in 2017 the container ship is flying the flag of Malta.
Cape Tainaro (perhaps better known as Matapas or Matapan) is in the Mediterranean at the end of the Mani Peninsula on the coast of Greece. A French-built stone lighthouse built in 1882 signals to passing ships that they are sailing past the southernmost tip of mainland Europe. – trh
The above picture is by Trevor Jones
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Record, almost obscene, profits by container lines
Statistics coming from maritime research consultancy Drewry indicate a relook and revised projection of profits likely to be earned by container lines at the end of 2021.
This combined profit of US$150 billion, according to the analyst, will have been generated by the container lines in the second year of operations under the mantle of a restrictive Covid-19 pandemic. Earlier in July this year Drewry had forecast combined profits of around $100 billion but has since found reason to revise these numbers upward.
“Stronger than expected spot rate movement in 3Q21 and a longer supply chain recovery timeline are behind the upgrade of the outlook,” Drewry explained.
Individually, the major shipping lines have forecast improved earnings for the year based on a record second quarter.
As the year ticks down there remains an unprecedented demand for container ships, regardless of record amounts being paid for vessels on short-term charter, and leading to tariffs once considered impossible. Meanwhile, newbuilding continues unabated, albeit for mainly ultra-large ships, and nor is this demand likely to end soon, say the analysts.
Shippers using containers can expect a continued period of inflationary prices for containers on ships for at least another couple of years, many experts believe.
Container lines have already shown that they can afford to pay anywhere between $40,000 and $80,000 a day or even more to charter a ship and nevertheless generate record profits, based on the outlandishly high rates on containers that shippers continue to pay.
Nor will newbuildings alleviate the situation in the short term. Most orders for newbuildings are for very large box ships, of which the large majority will not be delivered until 2023-24. Thus 2022 will see more mid-size container ships being chartered for record prices.
The problems and challenges raised by these high prices on ships and cargo do not rest on the water only. Land-based operators have their own set of challenges, with an accumulation of empties to accommodate, congestion at the terminals and on the roads outside, in some areas insufficient trucks and crew, and general security issues, particularly here in Africa.
South Africa remains largely a backwater in global terms and is not affected on the scale experienced in west coast US ports and those in northern Europe and the UK. But it is equally as serious in a country that once aspired to lead the continent in port and logistic practice.
Instead we find ships having to bypass ports in order to maintain sailing integrity, not a result of overcrowding or a lack of infrastructure at the ports, though that is made the excuse, but because of general inefficiency and poor maintenance.
These local problems persist despite lower volumes of imports and exports, whether it be containerised, breakbulk or in bulk. In a country once considered to be the powerhouse of the sub-continent, South Africa continues in an economic doldrum and is fast descending into just another African backwater in the eyes of others, remaining as if dispirited by a lack of leadership to take it out into improved sailing conditions. – trh
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Walvis Bay receives two new visitors as port appeal widens
The Namibian Ports Authority (Namport) and Port of Walvis Bay played host to two noteworthy callers at the port last week, both of some significance to the growing appeal of the south-west African port.
The first to dock at Walvis Bay was the general cargo ship TOP ELEGANCE (IMO 9767900) which arrived on 12 October after a voyage lasting one month from the port of Longkou in China and calling at Malaysian ports en-route.
The 190-metre long ship, built in 2019 and a deadweight of 48,500 tons, was carrying 8330 tons of mining equipment for local and Zambian mines.
Top Elegance is, according to Namport, due to sail on 22 October for Luanda in Angola.
The second ship worth mentioning is the large, 335-metre long container ship, MAERSK SOFIA (IMO 9308637), which arrived in port on 13 October from Luanda.
The Singapore-flagged container ship, built in 2007, was in port at Walvis Bay to handle a total of 1,172 TEUs – 1,020 for discharge and 152 to be loaded. The ship berthed at the new Container Terminal and sailed from the Namibian port of Friday 15 October 2021.
This was a considerable improvement to the time spent at her previous port of call, Luanda, where she arrived at the port anchorage on 22 September. After 11 days at anchor the 102,861-dwt vessel went inside to berth at the container terminal and remained there from 3 August until 16h30 on 11 October, an 8-day stay in port.
Maersk Sofia is now en-route to Singapore.
Other ships scheduled to call at Walvis Bay from Friday 15 October are the following:
15-Oct CSCL Africa 334m Container
16-Oct Maersk Amazon 334m Container
17-Oct Cypress 336m Container
19-Oct GH Meltemi 213m Container
20-Oct Northern Jupiter 333m Container
21-Oct Kyparissia 255m Container
22-Oct Eleni T 261m Container
25-Oct Green Mountain 200m Multipurpose
25-Oct Maria Da Paz 101m General Cargo
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WHARF TALK: Apparition or patron – PATRONUS
Story by Jay Gates
Pictures by ‘Dockrat’
The majority of bulk carriers that call into Cape Town are generally in the Handymax to Ultramax size bracket (40,000-65,000 dwt), and are usually delivering cargo. Occasionally, something smaller calls in, and not necessarily to discharge anything.
On 25th September at 06h00 the Handy bulk carrier PATRONUS (IMO 9320324) arrived at the Table Bay anchorage from Buchanan, in Liberia. After a short three hour hold offshore, she entered Cape Town harbour and was taken to the Landing Wall in the Duncan Dock. A sure sign that she required shoreside assistance for an engineering issue not able to be resolved at sea.
Buchanan, her port of departure, is a small two berth harbour used almost exclusively for the export of iron ore, tropical hardwood logs and palm oil. Her previous port to Buchanan was Greenville, also in Liberia, which also has a thriving tropical hardwood log export trade. The draft of Patronus would indicate that iron ore was not the cargo she was carrying.
After being alongside for a week, and receiving the necessary repairs, Patronus sailed from Cape Town on 2nd October at 10h00, bound for Chittagong, in Bangladesh. Interestingly, again the role of the Pilot Launch, on departure, was undertaken by BLUE JAY, one of the harbour work boats, and again not by any one of the official Pilot Launches.
Built in 2007 by Cochin Shipyard, at Cochin in India, Patronus is 179 metres in length and has a deadweight of 30,587 dwt, placing her in the Handy bulk carrier bracket. She is powered by a single STX MAN-B&W 6S42MC7 6 cylinder 2 stroke main engine, producing 8,568 bhp (6,389 kW), driving a fixed pitch propeller for a service speed of 13.5 knots.
Her auxiliary machinery includes three Yanmar 6N18(A)L-EV generators providing 550 kW each, and an emergency generator providing 100 kW. She has a single composite Kangrim MC083P32 boiler. With three holds, served by four 30 ton cranes, the cargo carrying capacity of Patronus is 41,392 m3.
Owned by Universal Navigation Pte Ltd. of Singapore, Patronus is operated by Universal Navigation Pvt. Ltd of Karachi, in Pakistan, and managed by Marine Fleet Management, also of Karachi, and a subsidiary of Universal Navigation. She came under the ownership of her current owners only in June this year.
Interestingly, for those who think that there are people in the South African maritime industry who currently hold jobs for, which they are wholly unsuited, and are only there due to political connections, then fear not, as it is not just a local problem. The port of Buchanan, from where Patronus had come from, has a similar problem, but appears to be trying to deal with it.
In July, both the Port Manager and the Finance manager of Buchanan Port were arrested for alleged financial impropriety, and accused of transferring over US$300,000 (ZAR4.5 million), from Port income, to their own private bank accounts in both Liberia and the USA. Both were suspended, without pay, by the National Port Authority of Liberia.
There had already been mounting pressure for the removal of the Port Manager, due to his lack of experience, and his lacking any requisite qualifications, required to adequately manage, and steer, the affairs of the port of Buchanan.
Ironically, based on his arrest and suspension, his only background was that he has studied Criminal Law at a local university. It was said that he had little, or no, knowledge of the workings of both port and marine activities. His appointment was made directly by President Weah of Liberia, based solely on the recommendations of the governing political party.
The Buchanan Port Manager has subsequently absconded from Liberia, and fled to the United States, via Sierra Leone, without permission, and before he could be brought to court.
As well as her calls at two Liberian ports, Patronus has also called at Arzew, in Algeria, back in April. This is also not her first call at a South African port. You have to go back to shortly after she entered service, when she called at Durban in May 2007, where she was subject to her first ever Port State Inspection, under the auspices of the Indian Ocean MoU.
The etymology of Patronus is an interesting one, as there are two definitions of the word Patronus. One is a Latin word meaning a patron, from Ancient Roman society. The other is more recent, and well known by aficionados of the Harry Potter series of books and films.
According to author J.K. Rowling, a Patronus is an apparition, and takes the form of an animal guardian, which acts as a shield, and protector, between the conjuror and the Dementor. I wonder which one the shipowner was thinking of, when the vessel was purchased in June this year, and required renaming?
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USS Herschel ‘Woody’ Williams completes maintenance repairs in Cape Town
USS Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams, the US Navy’s Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB-4) which arrived in the port of Cape Town on 25 September ( SEE HERE ) to undergo some general maintenance after an exhausting programme of visits to ports around the continent of Africa.
To assist with the maintenance program for the ship, what is understood to have been the first Naval Logistic Support flight into Cape Town in support of a US naval warship took place involving a C-17A Globemaster III aircraft. The necessary repairs and maintenance were concluded on time.
Africom reported as follows:
South Africa is an important partner of the United States in promoting peace and security in Africa. Both South Africa and the United States rely on maritime shipping, and free and secure sea-lanes for economic prosperity.
During the scheduled port visit, Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams (HWW)completed a 14-day maintenance period in Cape Town’s cruise terminal. The ship received preventative and preservative repairs to the flight deck safety nets, mission deck, freeboard and superstructure, as well as the insulation and lighting fixtures.
The VR work packages, comprised of two separate work packages, one for Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center and one for Military Sealift Command including varying work items for each, solicited to multiple potential contractors within U.S. Africa Command area of operations, was completed on, or ahead of schedule. This marked a milestone for maintenance in new and unchartered territory for the U.S. Navy.
This maintenance availability also prompted the first Naval Logistic Support flight into Cape Town, South Africa, in support of a U.S. Naval War Ship. The last military flight to land in Cape Town was in 2003.
The U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. Sixth Fleet Readiness and Logistics team and U.S. Embassy to Pretoria, coordinated this critical logistic support through the Strategic Airlift Capability’s multinational Heavy Airlift Wing (HAW), based out of Papa Air Base, Hungary. The C-17A Globemaster III with a Hungarian insignia owned by the 12 Member Nations of the Strategic Airlift Capability, is operated by 12 NATO and Partnership for Peace nations including the United States under the Strategic Airlift Capability program.
“I am so proud of the incredible cooperative efforts between our partners in South Africa, HAW, and our team to enable this milestone resupply flight for HWW,” said Rear Adm. Michael Curran, Readiness and Logistics, NAVEUR-NAVAF.
“The accomplishment of the mission and level of coordination between the teams was nothing short of outstanding. This flight demonstrated what can be accomplished with our friends when we bring our collective capabilities together.”
The HAW is the first multinational military airlift unit in the world that provides worldwide airlift response capability for the 12 member nations. Operations can include national support to the European Union, NATO, United Nations operations, or national military, peacekeeping and humanitarian relief operations. In this case, the military flight carried approximately 26,000 pounds of critical medical and general material as well as mail and other items required to continue mission tasking in the southern border of the U.S. Africa Command and NAVAF area of operations.
Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams previously visited Cape Town in February to resupply fuel and promote maritime security through a persistent presence in African waters. USS Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams is the first warship permanently assigned to the U.S. Africa Command area of responsibility.
“As the only ship permanently assigned to AFRICOM, much of what we do is geared toward continuing to build ties with partner nations in Africa, and exploring how we can work together,” said Capt. Chad Graham, commanding officer, Hershel ‘Woody’ Williams. “This maintenance period was a perfect example of that, where we received mission critical repairs from a South African company, and benefitted the local economy.”
The ESB ship class is a highly flexible platform that may be used across a broad range of military operations. Acting as a mobile sea base, they are part of the critical access infrastructure that supports the deployment of forces and supplies to support missions assigned.
The US Navy said South Africa is an important partner of the United States in promoting peace and security in Africa. Both South Africa and the United States rely on maritime shipping, and free and secure sea-lanes for economic prosperity.
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OCEA awarded tender for second Nigerian hydrographic survey vessel
French shipbuilder OCEA said last week that it has been awarded the tender for the supply of a 35-metre hydrographic research vessel type OCEA OSV 115 SC-WB.
OCEA has become a principal suppier of naval vessels to Nigeria over the years, with a total of 18 vessels of all types delibvered in the past eight years. Among these was the 60-metre hydrographic survey ship NNS LANA, type OSV 190, launched in September 2020 – to see that report CLICK HERE.
The new multi-purpose survey vessel, type OSV 115 SC-WB, is a hydrographic and oceanographic research vessel from the auxiliary vessels range. The vessel will operate in support of NNS LANA and will assist in enabling the Nigerian Navy to complete the surveys its maritime territory.
The new vessel will engage in the following missions: oceanographic/hydrographic operations, oil spill operations, general patrol, search and rescue, and diving support.
The vessel’s onboard equipment includes a multibeam echosounder, a single beam echosounder, water sampling, storage and analysis equipment, and a wet laboratory.
She will also carry a 5.6 metre hydrographic boat fully equipped for surveys in small and very shallow waters.
The new vessel will have a crew of 12 personnel including any passengers and is designed for a top speed of 12 knots with a maximum cruising range of 3,000 nautical miles at 10 knots.
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Vaccine supply chain misery – no one is safe until we’re all safe
It was announced by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) simultaneously in London, Berlin, Bern and Brussels on 14 October that 376 trade unions, representing over 12 million transport workers from 118 countries around the world, have penned an Open Letter to governments who oppose removing Intellectual Property (IP) restrictions on Covid vaccines, accusing them of compounding supply chain crises and inflicting what is regarded as economic self-harm.
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights: TRIPS
These many unions wrote to leaders of the UK, Germany, Switzerland, and the EU Commission demanding that they end their opposition to a temporary intellectual property waiver on Covid vaccines, treatments and diagnostics proposed to the WTO, known as the TRIPS waiver
TRIPS waiver, otherwise as the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, see here:
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) delivered the letter to the leaders ahead of the second day of the WTO’s TRIPS Council meeting in Geneva on 13 and 14 October.
Need to speed up global vaccination
A waiver system, it said, is vital to speed up the global vaccination roll out without which the IMF has warned that US$5.3 trillion could be further wiped from global GDP in the next five years.
This follows from IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva saying that the most immediate obstacle to full recovery is the great vaccination divide, and Professor Sarah Gilbert, the Oxford vaccine creator warning a failure to provide vaccine access to poorer countries risks the rise of dangerous new variants and that the priority must be to vaccinate as many people as possible and as quickly as possible.
It is understood that today, less than 3% of people in low-income countries have received a single dose.
“It’s schizophrenic that these three countries and the EU are blocking universal access to vaccines and lifesaving tech whilst simultaneously claiming to be solving the supply chain crisis.” said Stephen Cotton, ITF General Secretary.
“These politicians seem hell bent on socio-economic self-harm to further line the pockets of Pfizer, Moderna and BioNTech billionaires. It is utter madness; these leaders are holding the recovery of rest of the world to ransom. They need to follow the leadership shown by the US, recognise the unprecedented circumstances, stand up to Big Pharma and support the waiver.”
By the correspondence the transport industry put world leaders on notice that the global transport system faces the imminent threat of collapse unless governments take coordinated action to end the global humanitarian and supply chain crisis.
Transport leaders from IATA (aviation), ICS (shipping), IRU (road) and the ITF called for urgent leadership to increase global vaccine supply by all means at their disposal in order to expedite the recovery of these industries.
Seafarers’ difficulties
It is well-known that the UK is still recovering from the impact of a nationwide fuel shortage caused by a lack of HGV drivers. Two years of inconsistent and inhumane travel bans have stopped seafarers being able to get go afloat and come ashore on leave, which has added intense pressure to already crumbling global supply chains. And in the weeks after the rise of the Delta variant in the UK, in early 2021, airlines were forced to cancel over 70% of their scheduled capacity between the UK and Germany due to new travel restrictions.
Cotton added: “Throughout this pandemic transport workers have brought citizens home, transported key workers to work, and kept critical supply chains moving. But the inequality in access to vaccines and treatments globally is an existential threat to transport workers’ personal safety, but also to the resilience of supply chains, and reinvigoration of the global economy.
“Every day of delay means more deaths, more lives lost, and more setbacks to the recovery of our industries and economies. You have no more excuses. You must pass the TRIPS waiver without delay. Our lives and our livelihoods depend on it.”
A TRIPS waiver would require a unanimous mandate from all WTO member states. Of all 164 members, the UK, Switzerland, Germany and the EU are actively opposed. The European Commission recently overruled the EU Parliament to oppose the TRIPS waiver.
The unions also announced the launch of a petition to lobby the governments of UK, Switzerland and Germany, as well as the European Commission, to end their opposition to the TRIPS waiver.
Reported by Paul Ridgway
London
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MSC leads the way by fully adopting standardised depot codes
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has become the first major container carrier to fully adopt the BIC Facility Codes (BFC) for all depots globally.
As a result, all MSC’s depots are now identifiable with a 9-character BFC, taking the company another step further along the digitalisation path.
The transition process was completed across 2021, enabling every MSC depot globally to be included.
BIC Facility Codes were created through a major harmonisation project conducted in November 2020 by the Bureau International des Containers (BIC) with the assistance of the Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA).
Active collaboration from DCSA member ocean carriers and several of the largest leasing companies means that more than 17,000 container facilities in 192 countries can now be easily identified for supply chain events without ambiguity, with enhanced addressing and latitude/longitude coordinates.
“MSC has been a vocal proponent of harmonising facility codes since the DCSA was founded and has provided significant support to this project,” said Andre Simha, Global Chief Digital and Information Officer for MSC.
“Adopting the BIC Facility Codes is a great example of a variety of digital workstreams at MSC coming together to make strides for the digital future of shipping,” he added.
The BIC manages the database and offers an open API (Application Programming Interface – a connection between computers or between computer programmes) to allow trading partners to ensure their IT systems are kept up to date.
There is a lack of a common language throughout the industry, adding extra steps to the already complex and fragmented shipment journeys from end to end. This leads to inefficiencies and time-wasting procedures, causing uncertainty or delays.
A standardised language brings simplicity, improves efficiency, and provides certainty for multimodal or multi-carrier transportation that allows for future growth opportunities. In day-to-day interactions, this will lead to smoother communication, increased data clarity and accuracy, and a simpler and more efficient process throughout.
“The digital transformation of the container shipping industry is underway,” said DCSA CEO Thomas Bagge.
“DCSA and its members are creating the framework for it, and we invite all stakeholders to become part of this transformation. Adopting baseline standards such as location code standards is a mandatory step in establishing an interoperable digital foundation which will simplify current complexities. Ultimately, customers, stakeholders and the entire industry will benefit.”
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Transnet declares Force Majeure at Richards Bay Bulk Terminal
Following two devastating fires in the conveyor line system belt routes at the Port of Richards Bay Bulk Terminal, Transnet has declared force majeure.
The latest fire was on this Wednesday night 13 October, exacty a week after the first fire on 6 October and in the same conveyor network.
The fire was contained within five hours after the terminal isolated the electrical power to the routes to ensure that firefighters were able to extinguish the fire at speed.
There were no injuries to any of the employees, service providers or customers on site although emergency services were called to the scene as a standard precautionary measure.
By Friday evening the cause of the fire remained unknown and a preliminary investigation is currently underway. Expert assessors and investigators are onsite establishing the extent of the damage.
There is some speculation that sabotage was the cause but there is as yet no proff that such is the case.
Transnet says the terminal, operated by Transnet Port Terminals (TPT), is engaging with its affected customers and is in the process of putting the necessary contingencies in place as some routes are operational. It said further details will be provided as more information becomes available.
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