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FIRST VIEW:   BAHRI YANBU

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FIRST VIEW:   BAHRI YANBU

We’ve featured several of these attractive Saudi-flag ro-ro vessels in the past, Bahri Jeddah and Bahri Tabuk being two of at least six in the fleet.  Now we have a third to add, BAHRI YANBU (IMO 9626534), which arrived in Durban port during June 2021. Built in 2014, she has a gross weight of 50,714-tons and is 225 metres in length and 32m wide.

Although flagged in Saudi Arabia (Dammam) the ship is managed by a Dubai-based shipmanagement company, Mideast Ship Management. Since departing from Durban on 24 June Bahri Yanbu has crossed the South Atlantic to call at Salvador in Brazil before proceeding to Houston in Texas, USA and is now due in Wilmington, on the US east coast, on Monday 2 August.

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Transnet lifts force majeure as ports begin the recovery phase

Transnet is lifting force majeure at its container terminal operations at the ports of Durban, Ngqura, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town, with effect from Monday 2 August.

Transnet said on Friday it believed it was now in a position to service its customers and meet all contractual obligations reliably.

The declaration of force majeure was applied retrospectively to 22 July after Transnet’s IT network was hacked, leaving the company’s NAVIS N4 terminal operating system compromised and having to be shut down.

After restoration of the NAVIS operating system towards the end of the week the remaining systems were being brought up in a staggered manner, to minimise further risks and interruptions, it was announced.

Transnet described the hacking as a cyber attack – the word among Transnet personnel suggested that a ransomware attack had caused the problem.

Although Transnet terminals resorted to manual working this led to inevitable delays, with resultant congestion following on from that caused by the week on civil unrest in KZN and Gauteng, during which the Durban and Richards Bay terminals as well as much of the railway network connecting the two ports to the hinterland were shut down.

While this was happening, Transnet Port Terminals continued applying the berthing principals of the container operations contract in the container terminals. It said this was the most practical way of normalising operations and maintaining a complimentary port schedule for shipping lines.

TPT revealed at the weekend that at Durban Container Terminal Pier 2 it was achieving an average of 160 container moves an hour against the target of 150 moves.

That’s the equivalent of 3,840 TEU a day, about half of what the port normally would handle.

The Durban terminals continued functioning although not at full speed, as was the case with waterside and landside operations. The recently applied truck booking system was reactivated.

Much publicity was given to frozen import meat supplies and other perishables trapped in the port of Durban and at risk of going rotten unless quickly evacuated. During the unrest the delivery of citrus to Durban for export was curtailed with some export citrus from Mpumalanga and Limpopo reported as having been diverted to Maputo.

Since then the arrival of reefer ships has continued seemingly without disruption, and Transnet said it was facilitating the evacuation of urgent containers for the automotive, FMCG and agricultural sectors.

The Bulk, Break Bulk, Automotive sectors which include Iron Ore, Coal and Manganese, cars and some of the agricultural commodities that use the General Cargo system (GCOS) switched immediately to manual. This resulted in minimal operational disruptions in these operations across the port system.

There is no evidence of any significant number of ships diverting to ‘other’ ports.

Generally there has been satisfaction with the way in which Transnet responded to the cyber attack and with the process of recovery and contingency planning to what could have become an overwhelming catastrophe, particularly as it occurred immediately following the civil unrest, leaving questions as to whether there was a connection.

Those questions need to be asked and examined. Included with the inevitable speculation has been the suggestion that the cyber attack came from one of a number of ransomware cyber gangs operating out of Russia or some Eastern European country – ‘Death Kitty,’ ‘Hello Kitty,’ and ‘Five Hands, are a few that have been mentioned.

Bloomberg News reported having had sight of a ransom note on Transnet computers, claiming the encryption of company files, financial reports and general documents and advising the firm to visit a chat portal on the dark web to ‘enter negotiations’.

It shouldn’t be forgotten or overlooked that former president, Jacob Zuma, now in jail on a contempt of court judgement, has a long and close association with Russia and such an attack could well have been retaliatory in nature, even if triggered from within South Africa.

According to Noëlle van der Waag-Cowling, cyber specialist at the Security Institute for Governance & Leadership in Africa at Stellenbosch University, ransomware gangs often acted on behalf of other states or third parties.

The ransomware attack on Transnet’s IT infrastructure that caused activity at South Africa’s ports to slow to a crawl was an act of cyberwarfare, Rapport and its sister paper City Press reported.

As a research officer at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria has written, “the fact that this attack targeted critical infrastructure elevates it to a matter of national security.”

No matter the background and causes of this latest disruption to the country’s important maritime logistics chain, when combined with the disruptions during the week of unrest the damage to the economy has been immense and long-lasting. Don’t forget that South Africa’s ports were recently rated as among the worst in the world – a rather harsh and perhaps unwarranted judgement. That leaves a mountain to climb, of gaining recognition that South Africa’s ports are on the mend and have improved since the previous evaluation. – trh

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ONE provides for South African children
Free transport of educational materials

It was announced from Singapore at the end of July that Ocean Network Express (ONE) had transported educational materials for children free of charge to support the non-profit organisation Together with Africa and Asia Association, otherwise known as TAAA1, a specified non-profit organisation*.

ONE Japan loaded educational materials including donated English books, maths sets and soccer balls for children in one TEU, shipping them on 25 April from Yokohama to Durban in mv Allegoria. The container arrived at the local TAAA South Africa office on 18 June and the educational materials were delivered to schools in remote areas of South Africa by TAAA staff.

According to TAAA, rural schools in South Africa are constantly in short supply of educational materials and they have been severally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many children are missing school due to school closures and attendance levels are low with many students not returning. Moreover, even if the students do turn up to school, the teachers are sometimes absent, so classes cannot be held.

Co-operation between the TAAA and ONE has provided emergency education support through the Covid-19 pandemic.

Under such circumstances, ONE has been able to provide an environment where South African children can study and read books at home during school closure through the free transport of educational materials. It is hoped that the arrival of these educational materials will drive engagement with the children and further support their studies.

It is understood that ONE will continue to engage in social contribution activities, using its global network to support worthy causes.

* This organisation provides comprehensive school education support in poor areas of Africa and Asia. More information can be found on their website HERE

 

 

 

Reported by Paul Ridgway
London

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WHARF TALK: A unique trawler – NIKKO MARU No.1

Story by Jay Gates
Pictures by ‘Dockrat’

The South African fishing industry is quite diverse in its use of fishing methods in targeting almost every species that has a commercial value. Along with the large Far Eastern fleets utilising South African ports as their home base away from home base, spotters get to see most almost every different type of fishing vessel operating in almost every different fishery, including those in Antarctica.

One fishing vessel that uses Cape Town as its home base is quite unique, insofar as it is the only vessel of its type based in South Africa, and is known as a Deepwater Pinnacle Trawler, a description that no other vessel operating either from South Africa, or sailing under the South African flag, can lay claim to.

Arriving back in Cape Town on 19th February at 16h00 from the Southern Indian Ocean, the stern trawler NIKKO MARU No.1 (IMO 8707032) entered the Duncan Dock and went straight to K berth to offload her precious frozen cargo. She had been away from Cape Town since early December 2020.

She then entered into a period of lengthy maintenance when she shifted over to the Landing Wall. After a period there de-storing and completing some minor maintenance, she moved just along the wall and entered the Sturrock Drydock for a hull survey, and to gain a new coat of paint on her hull, emerging in a pristine state in June. From the drydock she was shifted across to berth 502 in the Ben Schoeman Dock, which is the berth utilised by Dormac to conduct project engineering work, and major maintenance, which is where Nikko Maru No.1 lies today.

Built in 1987 by Niigata Shipbuilding at Niigata in Japan, originally to exploit the North Pacific Pollack fishery, Nikko Maru No.1 is powered by a single Niigata 8M40CFX 8 cylinder 4 stroke main engine producing 2,900 bhp (2,134 kW), to give her a service speed of 13.8 knots. Her bridge design is also unique for a modern vessel, as all of her bridge windows are round portholes, which gives her the look of a vessel built in the United States during WW2.

Her auxiliary machinery includes two Yanmar M200AI-EN generators providing 750 kW each, which goes towards the power required for her seven plate freezers ability to freeze 45 tons of fish per day, with a frozen hold capacity of 888m3, or 600 tons of frozen fish.

Despite her Japanese name, Nikko Maru No.1 is owned and operated by Orafco Limited of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, and she is managed by Flantrade of Cape Town. Her unique fishing designation is because she is one of only four trawlers, worldwide, whose owners are members of the Southern Indian Ocean Deepwater Fishers Association (SIODFA). SIOFDA vessels only operate in international waters on the many ridges, knolls, hills and seamounts found throughout the fracture zones which criss-cross the tectonic plate boundaries of the South Indian Ocean.

Operating on those deepwater mid-ocean ridges located within FAO fishing Area 51.3a and 51.3b, located between 30 degrees and 45 degrees South, and 40 degrees and 50 degrees East, Nikko Maru No.1 trawls in waters between 600 metres and 1,200 metres in depth, and due to the topography of seamounts and the general difficult nature of the seafloor found in the fracture zones, her bottom trawls are limited to only a maximum of 20 minutes at a time.

All of the fishing areas in this region of the South Indian Ocean are to be found in international waters, and are regulated by the South Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA), which has ten nations as signatories. Yet, despite the resource being both on its doorstep, and adjacent to the South African territorial waters of Marion and Prince Edward Islands, surprisingly South Africa is not a signatory to this agreement. SIOFA maintains jurisdiction over fishing operations for non-tuna species within the agreement area.

The demersal target fish species of SIODFA vessels are the Orange Roughy and the Alfonsino. The Orange Roughy catch is almost exclusively exported to the USA and Japan, and the Alfonsino to Japan. The fishery is FAO monitored, and uses independent observers, and the SIODFA members are extremely conscious of the need to responsibly manage the exploitation of the resource, and to ensure its future sustainability.

So much so that they have entered voluntarily into an agreement with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), called the Seamounts Project, and SIOFDA have set aside 11 seamount and mid-ocean ridge areas throughout the South Indian Ocean, and which covers over 300,000 km2 of seafloor, as areas that will not be fished at any time by any of the vessels under SIODFA management. The area of the South Indian Ocean that Nikko Maru No.1 fishes in is also considered to be an Ecologically and Biologically Significant Marine Area (EBSMA) by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

As part of the SIOFA requirements to control IUU activities, and as back-up for the UNDP Seamount Project, Nikko Maru No.1 carries not one, but two, Automatic Location Communicator (ALC) devices to ensure that she remains only within the agreed seamount areas when fishing. Both ALC sets are contained within sealed and tamper proof units, and the satellite antennas are also housed within sealed and tamper proof domes.

The High Seas constitute about 64% of the Earth’s surface area, and very little of this area is either accessible, or exploitable, by deepsea fishing methods. The South Indian Ocean seamount fishery was first exploited back in the 1970s and 1908s by units of the huge trawler fleet of the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 the fishery was ignored until the turn of the century when South African managed vessels began exploiting the fishery. The SIODFA was formed in 2006 by the existing operators of the fishery, with Nikko Maru No.1 being based in South Africa and Namibia for most of SIOFDA’s existence.

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Women in Maritime new association inaugurated:
West and Central Africa

Galvanizing women in the maritime industry

Diversity and maritime security were in focus at the inaugural event for the Women in Maritime of West and Central Africa (WIMOWCA) according to a briefing from IMO on 30 July.

Women in Maritime took centre stage at the inauguration of the Women in Maritime of West and Central Africa (WIMOWCA), the newest IMO-supported regional association for women in the maritime sector (WIMA).

In the words of WIMOWCA Interim President, Sylvia Asana Dauda Owu: “The objective of WIMOWCA is to harness the potential and contribution of women in West and Central Africa to ensure the sustainable development of the maritime industry in Africa.”

She continued: “Women, as you are all aware, form over 51% of the world population and the same is true for Africa, as such they cannot be left out in any global effort to confront the challenges we face today in the global maritime industry. Sustainable maritime development would require inclusive participation of all, men and women, if we are to succeed in our endeavour in that regard.”

Accra, Ghana event

The hybrid event was held on 23 July at the MT Addico Conference Hall in Accra, Ghana and livestreamed to a global audience.

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim said in his keynote speech: “For sustainability and success in the modern world, shipping needs diversity in the workforce and we need women to drive the decision-making processes.

“We are on the right path and progress has been made. However much still needs to be done to help the maritime industry progress toward gender equality. WIMOWCA is a welcome addition to the global network of WIMAs. This special event provides a unique opportunity to discuss and celebrate two topics: women in the maritime community, and Africa as a maritime continent.”

Already established widely

Seven other WIMAs have already been established across Africa, Arab States, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Pacific, supported by IMO’s long-running Women in Maritime gender programme. Between them, the WIMAs count more than 700 participants from across 152 countries.

Individuals joining the newest WIMA, which will focus on Anglophone West and Central Africa, will have access to similar collaborative and networking opportunities and access to IMO sponsored training through the WIMAs.

Network of Professional Women in the Maritime and Port Sectors for West and Central Africa (NPWMP-WCA), which was launched in February 2007 in Benin focuses on Francophone West and Central Africa.

For the total list of WIMAs on the IMO’s Women in Maritime page readers are invited to CLICK HERE

Ghana’s Minister of Transport, the Hon Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, emphasised in his speech the role that women would play in the African perspective of the Blue Economy: “The Blue Economy has quite rightly been described as the New Frontier of the African Renaissance.

“Our continent is indeed a big island, with 38 coastal countries. Over 90% of Africa’s international trade, imports and exports are conducted by sea. The potential runs into many trillions of dollars and promises to combine enormous economic growth for our respective countries.

“Inclusive development is one of the surest ways and sustainable means to harness the full potential of Africa’s blue economy. Women must be at the heart of this agenda.”

The inaugural WOMOWCA event also featured a panel discussion on The impact of maritime insecurity on shipping in the Gulf of Guinea, challenges and the way forward, which provided a regional perspective on the situation.

Development partners

Additional presentations from development partners touched upon the work of the U S Naval Forces Europe and Africa Women’s, Peace, and Security Working Group in West and Central Africa, the IMOGEN IMO Member States delegates’ gender initiative and the importance of galvanizing women in the maritime industry.

For the full programme, visit the event page HERE

IMO’s Women in Maritime programme has been running for more than 30 years, supporting women in both shore-based and sea-going roles. (To read more readers are invited to SEE HERE

Women in Maritime – IMO and WISTA International Survey 2021

IMO and WISTA International have launched the Women in Maritime – IMO and WISTA International Survey 2021 to examine the proportion and distribution of women working in the maritime sector, from support roles to executive level positions. Member States and companies/NGOS are invited to fill in the survey to provide essential baseline data.

For NGOS/Companies survey: Women in Maritime – IMO and WISTA International Survey 2021 readers are invited to CLICK HERE

For Member State survey: Women in Maritime – IMO and WISTA International Survey 2021 readers are invited to CLICK HERE

 

 

 

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Swiftnova Engineering raises the bar in excellence with welding certification

Specialist fabricator, SwiftNova Engineering (SwiftNova) has been certified with ISO 3834-2 Comprehensive by accreditation body TUV Rheinlund AG.

The certification is a globally-recognised welding quality requirement which signifies the company’s competencies relating to the welding process from design phase to final handover. The certification provides client confidence in that the fabricator complies with an internationally-recogised welding quality management system which is assessed and audited independently of their existing quality management system. This ensures a high-quality product output.

SwiftNova’s ISO 3834-2 certification covers the fabrication, installation and repairs related to pressure equipment such as pressure vessels, steam boilers, pressure piping, hydrocarbon storage tanks and includes ship repairs, structural fabrications and installations. The company has an extensive list of approved welding procedures in their portfolio which covers the latest edition codes of ASME IX; AWS D1.1; EN ISO 15614-1 and EN ISO 15609-1.Their competent and qualified staff, including their International Welding Engineer (IWI), are continuously working on the innovation of arc welding processes in their organisation.

“Having started as a family-owned business in Mossel Bay, we have over the years perfected our craft and positioned ourselves as specialist fabricators for the oil & gas and petrochemical industries,” said Danie Otto, Director of SwiftNova.

“This certification, together with our ISO 9001:2015 quality management system certification, puts us in a better position to provide the best certified quality products and services in our field of expertise while complying to customer statutory and regulatory requirements. We are extremely proud of our ISO 3834-2 achievement as it serves as confirmation of our endeavours to be recognised as global competitors in our industry, he said.”

This achievement comes off the back of another significant certification for SwiftNova; that of being certified as a Level 1 B-BBEE Contributor which came into effect during May 2021. Otto added, “This past year we’ve seen lots of positive change and are confident we will see the fruits of our labour. My team and I are dedicated to the sustainability of the business and with the support of the other sister companies within Sturrock Grindrod Maritime (SGM) Technical, we will exercise agility so we can succeed.”

In December last year, Hesper Engineering as the ship repair company in the SGM Technical Division, acquired a 51% shareholding in SwiftNova Engineering. There had been a synergy between the companies in the past and an opportunity arose which suited both parties.

“The decision to acquire shareholding in SwiftNova Engineering was driven by their track record and reputation in the oil and gas and petrochemical markets as well as their work ethic and company culture,” explained Marcus Twine, CEO of SGM Technical. “We saw great potential in aligning our businesses and realised there was a pool of skills we could draw across to our other technical companies within the group.”

SwiftNova was established in 1982 by Mr JDT Otto who decided to seize the opportunity of the development of the oilfields in Mossel Bay. Danie Otto took over the business in 2004 after completing intensive training and gaining experience in related fields to assist with business expansion. Their clientele includes state-owned entities such as PetroSA, GTL and Logistics & Offshore/Onshore, oil majors Shell SA, Total, Astron Energy, Engen SA as well as internationally renowned shipping companies.

SwiftNova Engineering along with its sister companies Hesper Engineering, NovaMarine and UCD, make up the SGM Technical Division within Grindrod Limited. SwiftNova offers EPCM, construction, fabrication, piping, ship repair and plant maintenance services from their workshops and office in Mossel Bay and have fabrication support from Hesper Engineering in Cape Town and Saldanha as well.

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Modular onshore beacons for marine infrastructure

Logistics in marine works are frequently more expensive than the equipment installed. This is certainly true with marine aids to navigation equipment in locations with difficult access, where occasionally placing equipment with helicopters is the most cost-effective solution. At a much smaller scale installing beacons at the end of inaccessible moles or piers poses the same challenge. The equipment may cost a few thousand euros and the logistics tens of thousands per hour.

To address this issue Almarin has developed modular steel towers. Each component is light enough to be transported and assembled by two people however each is strong enough to resist the harsh marine environment.

Read the rest of this report in the TRADE NEWS section available by CLICKING HERE

 

 

 

Reported by Paul Ridgway
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Israeli-connected tanker Mercer Street attacked by drone in Gulf of Oman

An oil products sailing in the Gulf of Oman last week came under attack by what is believed to have been an aerial drone, killing two crewmen.

The 49,992 dwt MERCER STREET (IMO 9539585) was sailing in ballast from the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam bound for Fujairah in the UAE when what appeared to be a drone attack took place. The resulting explosion left two seafarers dead, one from the UK and the other from Romania. The UK citizen is reported to have been employed on the ship as a guard.

Mercer Street was about 60 miles north of Al Masirah island when the vessel came under sudden attack in the early hours of Thursday morning. There are reports that a missile, possibly two, was fired from a drone, with at least one striking the ship, which is Japanese owned and operated by an Israeli firm.

The US Navy responded to the call for assistance and escorted the 182 metres x 32m tanker to ‘a safe position’

The attack is being reported as a tit-for-tat in the ongoing exchanges between Israel and Iran, in which several vessels have been targeted while sailing in either the Persian or Omani gulfs.

Mercer Street is Japanese-owned though registered to a Singapore address, and is managed by London-based Zodiac Maritime, whose chairman is Israeli businessman and ship operator, Eyal Ofer.

The strike against the Mercer Street is seen as a significant escalation of the shadowy warfare taking place between Israel and Iran.

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NSRI called out to perform medical offshore evacuations, at Durban & Stilbaai

The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) has been involved in another two patient evacuations from vessels at sea in the past week.

Station 5, Durban

One of these was offshore of the port of Durban, when NSRI Station 5 based at Durban was placed on alert to prepare for the medical evacuation of a 33 year old Filipino crewman, suffering a medical condition, from a bulk carrier motor vessel approaching Durban.

According to Tim Edwards, NSRI Durban duty coxswain, this was at 22h16 on Wednesday 28 July. The vessel involved, which identity has not been disclosed, was obviously some distance from the port for it was almost 24 hours later at 22h11 on Thursday 29 July that the NSRI duty crew, accompanied by two Netcare rescue paramedics, launched the sea rescue craft Alick Rennie and rendezvoused with the motor vessel approximately 8 nautical miles off-shore of the port.

In swells of between 1 and 2 metres the paramedics transferred used the pilot’s ladder to board the ship. After assessing the patient, he was transferred to the sea rescue craft and then in the care of the paramedics, the Alick Rennie returned to the harbour where the patient was taken by ambulance to hospital where the seafarer is expected to make a full recovery.

The evacuation by sea was complete at 23h43.

Station 31, Stilbaai

Nadine Hansen, NSRI Stilbaai duty controller, reports that on Friday, 30 July at 12h53 the Stilbaai duty crew were called on to evacuate an injured local fisherman from a fishing vessel 20 nautical miles off-shore of Stilbaai.

The sea rescue craft Breede Rescuer was launched and on arrival at the fishing vessel two NSRI medics went on board the vessel to assess and provide immediate treatment to his injuries.

Following this, and secured into a Stokes Basket stretcher, the patient was transferred onto the Breede Rescuer which returned to the NSRI Stilbaai sea rescue base, from where he was transferred by ambulance to hospital. Hansen reported that the injured fisherman is expected to make a full recovery.

The operation was completed at 15h41.

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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

– Marie Curie

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EXPECTED SHIP ARRIVALS and SHIPS IN PORT

Port Louis – Indian Ocean gateway port

Ports & Ships publishes regularly updated SHIP MOVEMENT reports including ETAs for ports extending from West Africa to South Africa to East Africa and including Port Louis in Mauritius.

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QM2 in Cape Town. Picture by Ian Shiffman

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