Shipping Trade and Transport News 29th October 2015
Vessel News
M.V. Sestrea
Greek owner Chandris has agreed to pay a $1m fine for dumping pollution into the Texas Gulf CoastThe chief engineer failed to document that the ship had dumped directly into the sea oily waste that should have been disposed through a separator aboard the vessel or burned in the ship’s incinerator.
Chandris was sentenced to three years of probation
Port News
Port of Tema
The first power ship, to help to alleviate the power cuts in the country has begun its journey to Ghana. The ship is expected to dock at the Tema port in approximately 15 days.Karadeniz Holding is expected to build two electricity-generating vessels to produce over 450 MW of power, which is expected to contribute about 22 per cent of the country's electricity needs for 10 years.
Liverpool
The Port of Liverpool became part of the biggest carbon saving project in Europe this week. Phase 1 of the new £100m terminal began business with the first-ever shipment of sustainable biomass pellets bound for Drax Power Station, near Selby in North Yorkshire.
Port of Gioia Tauro - Italy
October 30 will see a strike at the Italian port of Gioia Tauro as workers protest against the current management of the port and of the local container terminal. Virtually all the workers under labour unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl, Uitrasporti, Ugl Mare and Sul will down tools at Italy’s largest container transhipment port. Dockers are protesting against several issues including port and bunker taxes and the continued decreasing volume of boxes handled at the Medcenter XContainer Terminal.The terminal is join owened by Gitaurco Ltd an MSC and Contship.
De Nang, Vietnam
Da Nang Port is going to invest VND1 trillion ($47.6m) for the second phase upgrade of Tien Sa Seaport in the second quarter in 2016. he port is designed to handle 14m tons of cargo including container throughput of 200,000 teu by 2025
Vessel News
M.V. Foxhound
21 Filipino crew members of the "Foxhound" were assisted by the Philippine Consulate General (PCG) in Sydney, Australia after their vessel sank in Northern New Guineain the Vitiaz Strait in Northern New Guinea on Oct 17 due to inclement weather. They were rescued by the "COSCO Shanghai" from their lifeboat.
Trade News
Cameron warns against Norway-EU model for Britain
Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday warned against calls by some eurosceptics for Britain to adopt a Norwegian model for relations with the European Union as debate heats up ahead of a membership referendum.
MEP's throw out GMO compomise law
The European Parliament on Wednesday rejected by a huge majority a hard-won compromise which would have allowed EU Member States to decide for themselves whether or not to import Genetically Modified Organisms for use in food and animal feed.Transport News
Lorry driver jailed for smuggling tobacco
A Polish lorry driver, who smuggled 445 kilos of tobacco into Dover’s Eastern Docks, has been jailed for 14 months. Adam Zbigniew Tyszkiewicz, 42, was arrested by Border Force officers in September 2015.They discovered 445 kilos of hand-rolling tobacco in his lorry. Following his arrest, HM Revenue and Customs carried out an investigation and discovered that around £82,747 of duty had been evaded.Did you know?
1. Eighty-five per cent of everything we buy, eat, wear and use is moved by a UK-registered lorry
2. The word lorry was first seen in English in 1838 when it referred to the luggage truck on a train
3. The Oxford English Dictionary says its etymology is obscure but it may be related to the dialect verb lurry, meaning to lug or drag along, which dates back to the 17th Centuary
4. . The earliest record reference to a “lorry driver” was in 1926.
5. In the US, lorries are called trucks which comes from the Greek word for wheel: trochos
6.. The amount of beer carried by UK lorries in a year would be enough to fill Wembley stadium.
7. The first motorised lorry was built in 1896 by Gottlieb Daimler who also produced the first motorbike and the first taxi.
8. Peter Lorre (pronounced lorry) was the first actor to play a James Bond villain when he played Le Chiffre in a TV version of Casino Royale in 1954
