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Rotterdam
Container throughput continues to grow in Rotterdam. Following a record year in 2018 and a record quarter in 2019, April of this year was the best month ever for the Port of Rotterdam. 13.6 million tonnes of container freight was handled in April 2019. The previous record month was August 2018 (13.2 million tonnes). Measured in TEU, the standard unit for containers, April 2019 was the second-best month ever, with 1.3 million TEU, just a fraction lower than the record month of August 2018.
San Diego
Matson, Inc., a leading U.S. carrier in the Pacific, and General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard christened the largest combination container/roll-on, roll-off (“con-ro”) ship ever built in the United States in a ceremony at the NASSCO shipyard in San Diego, CA on Saturday, June 15. The new vessel is named ‘Lurline,’ an iconic name in Matson’s long history, dating to the construction of Captain William Matson’s first ship of that name in 1887. Four more ships were given the name in subsequent years; this vessel will be the sixth. The new Lurline is the first of two new ships being built for Honolulu-based Matson by NASSCO at a total cost of approximately $500 million for the pair, and the third of four new vessels that Matson will put into service during 2018, 2019 and 2020. Named in honor of the ocean deity revered in the native Hawaiian culture, Matson’s two “Kanaloa Class” vessels under construction at the NASSCO shipyard are being built on a 3,500 TEU* vessel platform.
JENNIFER
The 'Jennifer', transporting humanitarian aid to Gaza as part of the Amalthea project, departed from Larnaca on March 29. The voyage to Gaza will take about three days. The 'Jennifer' would also tow the barge that the first ship, 'Open Arms', had transported to Gaza with 200 tons of food around two weeks ago. She will accompany the Jennifer along with another support vessel to transport equipment. The missions are organized by the World Central Kitchen (WCK) NGO.
Ho Chi Minh
Samsung C&T Corp., a construction unit under Samsung Group, said Tuesday it has won a US$179.5 million project to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Vietnam. Under the deal with Petrovietnam Gas Corp., Samsung C&T and Vietnamese firm PTSC will build the Southeast Asian country’s first LNG terminal, in the coastal area 70 kilometers southeast of Ho Chi Minh City for 40 months. The project also calls for the construction of LNG tanks and other related facilities, according to Samsung C&T. Samsung C&T has a 61 percent stake in the project. Source: Yonhap
Kribi
International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) is poised to further strengthen its position as a global ports operator giant as it looks to add the Port of Kribi in Central Africa in its extensive portfolio. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, ICTSI said it has been declared by the Port Autonome de Kribi on June 14 as the preferred bidder for the concession of the development, operation, and maintenance of the multi-purpose terminal of the Port of Kribi.
DALI
Investigators have warned it will take time to unravel what went wrong when the 'Dali' slammed into a concrete column holding up the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Aboard the ship were 764 tons of hazardous material, including sheen - used in paint - some of which has leaked into the Patapsco River. The 'Chesapeake 1000 – a floating crane – arrived on March 28, which can lift 1,000 tons of debris. One of the challenges is that the Key Bridge, which sits on top of the vessel, has a weight between 3,000-4,000 tons. Massive hunks of debris will have to be cut up before they can be removed. The crews will try to work quickly so they can resume their search for the missing victims and reopen a cargo channel critical to the local and national economies. More heavy equipment is expected at the scene in the coming weeks. That includes seven floating cranes, 10 tugs, nine barges, eight salvage vessels and five Coast Guard boats. They will be used to clear the channel of the twisted metal and concrete remnants of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, as well as the ship. The captain of the ship, the ship's mate and two engineers have been interviewed by investigators. This inquiry is likely to focus on two main areas - what was behind the loss of power and whether the bridge should have better withstood the impact. A power cut may have caused the ship's crew to lose control of its steering, ultimately making them unable to control its trajectory. Investigators are looking at whether contaminated fuel played a role in the ship losing power, and collected a sample of the ship's fuel to examine it. One of the engines coughed and then stopped. The smell of burned fuel was everywhere in the engine room and it was pitch black. Audio from the ship's "black box" recorder reveals the pilot of the ship had radioed for tugboat help after reporting the power loss, and had warned dispatchers that the ship was headed towards the bridge The crew's efforts to mitigate the impact, including steering hard to port and dropping the anchor, proved fruitless, and the 'Dali' continued moving at about 8 knots. The bridge was in satisfactory condition but it did not have redundancies, meaning if a part of the bridge collapses then the whole bridge could collapse. Of the 615,000 bridges in the US, less than 3% are built this way. The NTSB is looking into how much the support piers were protected, if at all. It appeared that dolphins were installed near the Francis Scott Key Bridge but did not prevent the vessel taking down the bridge. The authorities may have judged that the likelihood of a massive ship hitting one of the bridge's supporting columns was too low to justify reinforcing them. The Resolve Marine is now heading to Baltimore to begin recovery efforts and refloatthe ship, kickstarting efforts to restore the waterway for shipping.
Brownsville
The Port of Brownsville is closer to deepening the Brownsville Ship Channel after receiving a key permit June 6 from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to advance the Brazos Island Harbor Channel Improvement Project (BIH) to its construction phase.
Waterford
A Dutch shipping line will open up Waterford port to new international trade routes when it commences a weekly service on the Waterford to Rotterdam route which will act as a deep-sea feeder for Irish importers and exporters. BG Freight Line, in partnership with global shipping giant Maersk, is to commence the service on July 6th to support industry in the southeast. Effectively the move will allow goods travelling from Waterford to continue through Rotterdam to other ports such as Shanghai, whereas previously goods for destinations beyond Europe would typically have shipped from Dublin.