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DAILY COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS 2005 – 114

PSi-Daily maritime press clippings 5/3/2005

Number 114*** COLLECTION OF MARITIME PRESS CLIPPINGS ***Wednesday 04-05-05

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The (104.000 ton) largest container vessel (335 meter in length – 8750 TEU) in the world, the COLOMBO EXPRESS arrived during her maiden voyage in Rotterdam/Europoort.

The COLOMBO EXPRESS is powered by 1 main engine of 93.500 HP for a service speed of 25 knots

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in Shanghai. The complete round trip takes 56 days.



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EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS From a Voith Schneider tug to a

Tractor Plus = Rotor®tug "When the idea first started leaking out, most of us wanted the company to up the horsepower and put bigger new Voith Schneider drives in," explains Capt. Doug Hajek onboard the Foss Maritime’ tractor tug

Wedell Foss.

The idea that Hajek refers to was the need to increase the bollard pull of the company’s fleet of 1982 built 3000 HP cycloidal drive tractor tugs. Over their 23 year life the boats in this class have proven themselves to be fine boats. "Most of us were skeptical," explains Hajek, "These have been extremely friendly boats to operate and we were afraid this would get compromised." But a lot has changed in ship docking since 1982. This is especially true with the container ships that come into port such as Tacoma where the Wedell Foss earns her keep. A big modern container ship presents a huge wall of windage that can make them a challenge to handle when threading into slim waterways. "The Foss Design Committee did their work and even our most mild concerns have not come about," concludes Hajek in the kind of praise of the shore staff that is all to often lacking in the pilot houses of tugs. The committee to which he refers is headed by Foss Engineering Director Don Hogue and includes staff naval architects Warren Snider and Gisli Olaffsson along with deck machinery specialist Joel Altus. With a number of successful projects under their belt the group was tasked to find the best way to bring the bollard pull of the 23-year old boats from the existing 35-tons to at least 50 tons. "The team grows and shrinks as needed," explains Hogue, "from time to time we include people from our own engineering,



shipyard, operations and marine personnel departments. We also had engineering support from The Glosten Associates, Kooren Shipbuilding and Trading B.V. (the patent holders of the Rotor propulsion system) and then we bring in our other valued vendor partners like Cummins and Schottel. The team studied all the options for the boats including the full repower and addition of larger cycloidal drives. The addition of an azimuthing propeller drive was favored as the most operational and cost effective, "But co-mingling of the wake fields was a real concern," explains Hogue. In the design stages they were able to determine that water flows to the cycloidal and prop drives would not be a problem if the z-drive was placed far enough aft. But this then presented a problem of what to do with the big skeg that was central to the operation of the cycloidal drives when working a ship off the stern. But even this was solved when it was found that dramatically reducing the depth of the skeg to fit the z-drive simply meant that they went from a static to an active skeg. "The ASD (azimuthing stern drive) unit becomes an active powered skeg," explains Hogue, "We get some lifting body effect from the nozzle by feathering the controllable pitch prop and turning the nozzle appropriately." The same principle is used on the famous Rotortug(s) of KOTUG International in the ports Rotterdam, Bremerhaven and Hamburg. During the design and development of the project, Kooren Shipbuilding and Trading B.V. invited Foss Maritime to have two senior Captains do some familiarizing and training on the RT Magic of Kotug International B.V. in the port of Rotterdam. Both Captains were exited about the way they were able to handle the triple propeller tug in all kind of situations. Capt. Hajek concurs, "Cavitation is not a problem. This addition of the Cummins engine and azimuthing drive has not only enhanced the bollard pull, it has enhanced the over all performance when handling barges and assisting ships." The final modification design, which has now been completed on the Henry Foss as well includes the addition of a Cummins KTA50 M-2 engine facing aft and set between the front end of the boats’ two big 900 RPM 1500 horsepower EMD engines that face forward toward the cycloidal drives. The Cummins turns up to 1800 RPM, to push 1700 HP down a 15-foot Centa carbon-fiber shaft to a Schottel SRP 1212 CP z-drive unit. To accommodate the engine and drive addition space in a storage room aft and fuel tankage was reduced. And one of the two generator sets was relocated. Fortunately the engine spaces were roomy and well able to accommodate the relatively small envelop of the Cummins KTA50. Cost of the modification is about US $2 million for each vessel which is between 1/4th and 1/3rd the price of a new vessel. The well maintained boats were built with a 40-year operational life and this modification promises to push that out to and even beyond the planned vessel life. While Hajeck and other Captains had grown fond of the tugs over the years, they are delighted with the modifications. The addition of the z-drive has increased the bollard pull from 75,000 pounds or about 21.5



pounds per horsepower to 114,900 pounds for about 22.5 pounds per total HP. The Cummins / Schottel drivelines thrust at about 28 lbs per HP by themselves.

The controllable pitch prop in a nozzle adds strong and immediate thrust while not sacrificing any of the strong directional abilities of the cycloidal drives. Using the z-drive as a powered skeg it is now possible to walk the tug sideways at over five knots. This allows amazing flexibility in handling containerships that are notorious for their high minimum speeds as the tug can travel sideways while still having cycloidal thrust available to apply to the ship’s side. With two more 3000 HP boats in their own fleet and large numbers of this type of boat in operation world wide, Foss is pleased to share their hard won knowledge in moving these boats from a 35-ton to a 57-ton bollard pull while enhancing their overall operational abilities.



For further information: Donald G. Hogue Engineering Director Foss Maritime Company 660 West Ewing St. Seattle, WA 98119-1587 Phone: 206 281 3875 e-mail: [email protected] www.foss.com Karel Kaffa Vice President Kooren Shipbuilding and Training b.v. Parklaan 2 3016BB Rotterdam Phone:31-10-2170257 e-mail: [email protected] www.rotortug.com

Aussie aboard missing boat is OK A FISHING vessel missing in the Solomon Islands for more than two weeks has been found with six remaining crew members, including an Australian man, reportedly in good health. Australian authorities received a distress signal from the MV Ability on Friday, after aerial searches last week failed to locate the boat which was first reported missing on April 14. A French Navy aircraft sent from New Caledonia sighted the Ability on Saturday morning after responding to a request from the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) in Honiara. The MRCC confirmed the Ability was found near the island of Santa Ana in Makira-Ulawa Province, east of Honiara, more than 500 kilometres from where it was believed to have developed engine problems and lost communications north of Isabel Province, north-west of Honiara. The MV Paola, a Panama-registered container ship en route to New Zealand, detoured from its course and reached the boat . Solomon Islanders from a nearby local community also sent small boats to assist. Sixty-three year-old Australian man Wolfgang Meiners, a long-term resident of the Solomon Islands, was onboard, along with five Solomon Islanders. The Ability was reported missing two weeks ago with its crew of 11 Solomon Islanders and Meiners. Five crew members left the stricken vessel and paddled for nearly four days in a fibreglass canoe before reaching Malaita Province, but a sixth man who followed in a small dugout canoe is still unaccounted for. Aerial searches for the Ability, involving planes from the Royal Australian Air Force and French Navy, as well as local aircraft, were called off last Wednesday after failing to locate the boat despite covering over 204,000 nautical square miles. "This vessel was very far out of the search area," said MRCC head Captain Jack Bana. "I can't imagine how she drifted that far."



Greek navy investigates incident on Norwegian ship

The Greek navy sent armed forces on Monday to investigate an incident aboard a Norwegian cargo ship which could be an attack by pirates or a mutiny, a defence ministry source said. The navy sent a frigate, a helicopter and a special forces team to the scene in Greek territorial waters southwest of the town of Pilos on the Peloponnese peninsula, the source said. "The captain of the Norwegian vessel has sent a coded signal to Greek authorities which signifies that pirates have boarded his vessel," the source said. "Then the Norwegian consul asked for Greece's assistance." But the source said a mutiny was also a possibility. In Oslo, the Norwegian Shipowners Association said it had heard of the incident but its information was contradictory and it was too unclear to make any comment on. "It is a very small ship," association spokeswoman Marit Ytreeide said. The Greek navy has dispatched a surveillance plane to track the ship, some 80 nautical miles southwest of Pilos towards the Ionian Sea, a defence official said. The ship has been ordered to sail towards the port of Pilos. The merchant marine ministry confirmed the incident but could not give any further details. There were no details on the ship's cargo.

Moeller, Nippon Yusen, Euronav Boost Ship Purchases, Risk Glut

Shipowners led by A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S and Nippon Yusen K.K. are using record profits and cheaper loans to finance the industry's biggest-ever expansion, raising the risk of a glut that may reduce earnings from hauling oil, coal and iron ore. Shipyards received a record $51 billion in orders last year for tankers and dry-bulk carriers, according to London-based Clarkson Plc, the world's largest shipbroker. Prices for second- hand ships have doubled in two years, with buyers paying $29 billion last year for 1,668 vessels, Clarkson estimates. ``Money is a commodity, and there is too much of it seeking a home in shipping,'' Jan Haakon Pettersen, who runs the Oslo- based gas-tanker unit of Bergesen Worldwide Ltd., the world's largest closely held shipowner, said in an April 12 interview. The 1,100 oil tankers and 884 dry-bulk carriers on order at shipyards are enough to swell capacity by more than 20 percent in the next three years, Clarkson said. Demand this year will probably increase 4.5 percent for dry-bulk ships and 2.8 percent for oil tankers, slowing from 2004, London-based shipbroker Simpson, Spence & Young estimates. ``Shipowners have become overzealous,'' Martin Stopford, head of research at Clarkson, said in an April 12 interview in Athens. ``It could easily turn out that the spot market doesn't generate the cash that operators need.''



Achilles Heel Tanker rates already have plunged 70 percent from last year's record, and dry-bulk rates are down 35 percent. Daily revenue for oil tankers may drop as much as 43 percent on average in two years, said S. Magnus Fyhr, an analyst at Houston-based investment bank Jefferies & Co. ``Ordering new ships during the good times is the Achilles heel of the shipping industry,'' said Fyhr, who correctly predicted in October that shipping costs would reach the highest since 1973. ``Those very ships help bring down the freight rate once they are delivered.'' Supertankers were signed up for a record of more than $250,000 a day in November as oil producers struggled to meet fuel demand in the U.S. and Europe. Trade with China drove dry- bulk rates to a record in December, according to the Baltic Exchange in London. Companies such as Frontline Ltd. and Teekay Shipping Corp. reported record profits, encouraging banks led by Royal Bank of Scotland Plc to loan a record $32.4 billion to Greek shipowners last year, said Theodore Petropoulos, co-managing director of Petrofin SA, an Athens-based consulting company. Citigroup Inc. and Nordea AB, the two top arrangers of loans to shipowners, cut borrowing costs to an eight-year low. Record Prices Shipowners used the loans, plus money raised in share sales, to bid vessel prices to record highs. Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. of South Korea, the world's second-biggest shipbuilder, said April 18 it won an order for three tankers costing a record $124 million each. Euronav SA, based in Antwerp, Belgium, last month agreed to spend $1.5 billion on 20 tankers in four days, financing the purchases with a credit line arranged by Stockholm-based Nordea and Oslo-based DnB NOR ASA. One 2 million-barrel vessel, to be delivered in June, cost a record $142.5 million, twice as much as two years ago, brokers said. Copenhagen-based A.P. Moeller, the world's biggest shipping company, has more than 40 tankers on order, including seven that load 2 million barrels of oil. Yusen, Japan's largest shipping company, plans to spend 1.38 trillion yen ($13 billion) in the next six years to buy and lease 278 ships, expanding its fleet of container and commodity carriers to 880. Inflated Values Shipping shares are below their peaks. Bermuda-based Frontline had dropped 20 percent from a March 1 record and Bahamas-based Teekay was down 23 percent since Nov. 25. D/S Norden A/S, a Copenhagen-based owner of tankers and dry-bulk ships, has declined 15 percent since April 14. The Lloyd's List/Bloomberg index of the 50 biggest shipping companies by market value, including Frontline and A.P. Moeller, more than doubled in the two years through 2004. By comparison, the Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 39 percent. ``In some cases, we see inflated ship values and companies with inflated share prices,'' said Lars Mohangen, who helps manage the equivalent of $2.4 billion at Odin funds in Oslo. ``That's when it's time to get concerned.'' DryShips Inc., based in Athens, has spent $520 million for 10 dry-bulk vessels since February, when it sold $269 million of shares in New York. Athens-based Top Tankers Inc., whose shares began trading in July, said April 27 it paid $570 million for 15 dry-bulk ships and two tankers. Pendulum Swings Past shipping booms have turned into busts. Five years ago, oil-tanker rates soared as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries boosted production. Rates plunged almost 90 percent by April 2002, to a 15-year low, after OPEC cut output to shore up prices.



Jonathan Chappell, shipping analyst at JPMorgan Chase & Co., remains bullish, saying on April 14 that tanker rates will be higher than previously forecast this year and next. Braemar Seascope Group Plc, a London-based shipbroker, said April 12 that rates may reach a record this year. Bergesen's Pettersen isn't so sure. ``U.S. investors often have a short history in shipping and as long as they are interested, the sky is the limit,'' he said. ``The pendulum will swing back.''

Passenger ship hits whale A WHALE warning has been issued after a high-speed passenger ship from Busan in South Korea to Fukuoka became waterlogged on Friday after hitting a whale, Yonhap News Agency has reported, quoting the coast guard. The report said the coast guard came to the tentative conclusion about the incident after an investigation and issued a whale warning today for high-speed passenger ships travelling between Busan and Fukuoka in south-western Japan. Eighteen passengers and a crew member were injured in the incident. Of those, six people, including four Japanese, were hospitalised in Busan, said the vessel's operator, Mirejet Co. The ship was carrying seven crew members 163 passengers, including 96 Japanese, 31 South Koreans and 36 Americans and other foreigners. Mirejet's ships travel between Busan and Fukuoka in about three hours with a cruising speed of about 80kph.

NAVY NEWS Navy launched stealth destroyer

The Korean Navy launched its fourth 4,000 ton-class destroyer May 3rd, advancing its maritime combat capabilities and ability to better respond to regional conflicts. The warship will be deployed for operations late next year after a one-year trial period. It was launched at a shipyard off the southeastern city of Ulsan.

Top : The third KDX-II (4000 ton) class Guided missile frigat Dae Jo Young (977) during trials

Photo : Capt Jan Berghuis ©

Navy officials said the destroyer carries high-tech weapons such as SM-II and RAM anti-aircraft missiles and two LYNX anti-submarine helicopters, as well as radar-evading stealth functions. The 150-meter-long,17-meter-wide warship also has a Harpoon ship-to-ship missile and five-inch cannons, and can do a maximum 30 knots. "The destroyer will provide the Navy with an enhanced, multidimensional



mid-range anti-aircraft, anti-ship, and anti-submarine warfare capability," the Navy said in a statement. The vessel was built by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. under a substantial shipbuilding program code-named Korean Destroyer Experiment or KDX. The Navy commissioned three 3,000 ton-class destroyers in the late 1990s under the KDX-I program, and plans to build two more KDX-IIs by 2007, and three 7,000 ton-class Aegis-equipped destroyers by 2012 under the KDX-III project. The first KDX-III will be launched in late 2008. "The Navy has devoted itself to developing destroyers and new generation submarines in the belief that we need to build a mobile naval fleet capable of conducting operations far out at sea," said Cmdr. Hong Young-so at the Navy public affairs office. The launching ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan, Defense Minister Yoon Kwang-ung, and Navy Chief of Staff Nam Hae-il and other top brass. The destroyer was named after Wang Geon, who operated naval forces near his hometown of Gaesong, currently North Korean border town, and founded the Goryeo Dynasty in 918. South Korea has traditionally named its warships after famous kings or admirals credited with defending the country from outside hostility. However, the Navy said it is considering naming the first KDX-III destroyer after "relatively ordinary" sailors. The candidates include Chief Petty Officer Chi Duk-chil, who died in 1967 during an operation in the U.S.-led war in Vietnam, Ahn Yong-bok, a fisherman who helped drive Japanese fishermen from the Dokdo islands in the East Sea around 1696, and Lt. Cmdr. Yoon Young-ha, killed during a battle with North Korean vessels on the western maritime border in 2002.

CBO analyzes implications of Navy shipbuilding plans

As recently as 2003, the U.S. Navy was telling Congress that its long term goal was a 375 ship Navy. On March 23, 2005, the Department of the Navy released An Interim Report to Congress on Annual Long-Range Plan for the Construction of Naval Vessels for FY2006. That report includes projected inventories for a 260-ship fleet and a 325-ship fleet through 2035. However, in recent testimony before the Congress, the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Vern Clark, stated that the Navy's total requirement could be reduced to between 260 and 325 ships through increased use of technology, forward basing of ships in Guam and Japan, and crew rotation. According to Admiral Clark, the 260-ship plan would cost about $12 billion a year for ship construction, and the 325-ship plan would cost about $15 billion a year for shipbuilding.(Those figures exclude the cost of refueling nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines.) In response to requests from both the Senate Committee on the Budget and the House Projection Forces Subcommittee, the Congressional Budget Office has assessed the near-term and long-term demands for shipbuilding resources associated with sustaining either a 260-ship or 325-ship fleet. The CBO analysis indicates that under either plan, the shipbuilding industry will face substantial peaks and valleys in demand. CBO estimates that the Navy would need to spend an average of $15 billion annually (in 2005 dollars) on ship construction to achieve a 260-ship fleet in 2035. Achieving a 325-ship fleet by that year would require an average shipbuilding budget of $18 billion per year. Those estimates are based on a number of assumptions that CBO made about the size and characteristics of the various types of ships that the Navy would buy and when it would buy them. It says different assumptions could produce different estimates. Under the 260-ship plan, ship purchases and spending would show a peak-and-valley pattern over the 2006-2035 period. Through 2015, the Navy would buy an average of 9.5 ships per year, at an annual cost



of about $14.4 billion. The peak in purchases reflects large numbers of littoral combat ships (LCSs)and the size of the fleet would initially rise as the first 63 LCSs purchased under this plan entered the inventory over the next 20 years. The fleet would peak at 326 ships in 2020 and then gradually decline to 260 by 2035. The mid to late 2020s would be a period of low ship purchases under the 260-ship plan. That procurement valley would directly result from purchasing and deploying large numbers of LCSs through 2020 and then not needing to buy many ships for about a decade thereafter, because fewer would be required to meet the 260-ship force goal by 2035. With LCSs excluded, the remaining fleet would number 197 ships under the 260-ship plan, compared with 287 today. Thus, 90 ships would not have to be replaced if the Navy wanted to aim for a 260-ship fleet. A similar, but less pronounced, valley occurs in the 325-ship plan because that fleet numbers 243 ships excluding LCSs; thus, 44 ships would not need to be replaced, compared with 90 under the 260-ship plan. By the 2030s, however, the Navy would have to buy large numbers of LCSs again, as well as new fleet air-defense surface combatants, to replace LCSs and Arleigh Burke class destroyers that had reached the end of their nominal service lives. That pattern is similar to the decline in ship purchases that occurred in the 1990s, when the end of the Cold War caused the Navy to cut its total requirement for ships almost in half. The oldest ships were retired, leaving a relatively young fleet that did not need an influx of many new vessels to maintain its size.

SHIPYARD NEWS CONTAINERSCHIP ‘CENTURY’ GEDOOPT

Op vrijdag 29 april jl. is bij Shipyard K. Damen BV te Hardinxveld-Giessendam het containerschip ‘CENTURY’ gedoopt. Het containerschip is gebouwd in opdracht van de firma Ruytenboer V.o.F. Het schip is gedoopt door de 9-jarige Rick Ruytenberg,

Het containerschip ‘CENTURY’ heeft een lengte van 110 meter, een breedte van 11.45 meter en een holte van 3.68 meter. Het schip heeft een ladingcapaciteit van 208 stuks 20-voets containers. Voor de voorstuwing zorgen twee Cummins hoofdmotoren van het type KTA50 M2 elk met een vermogen van 1193 kW. Het schip is geschikt om als koppelverband te gaan varen met maximaal 5 bakken, elk met een lengte van 67,5 meter. Het casco van de ‘CENTURY’ is



gebouwd bij Shipyard Begej te Servië en de afbouw is verzorgd door Shipyard K. Damen BV. Bij Shipyard Begej zijn momenteel een groot aantal schepen in aanbouw waaronder een aantal containerschepen en een binnenvaarttanker met gecoate tanks. Binnenkort zal gestart worden met de bouw van een aantal binnenvaarttankers met Duplex ladingtanks. Bij het zusterbedrijf K. Damen in Boven-Hardinxveld is het ook druk. In 2004 heeft de werf van de Duitse rederij Bugsier te Hamburg reeds opdrachten ontvangen voor de levering van twee sleepboten. Onlangs heeft de werf de opdracht ontvangen voor de levering van een derde sleepboot. De sleepboot heeft een lengte van 32.80 meter, een breedte van 11.75 meter en een trekkracht van 65 ton. De eerste sleepboot van deze serie is momenteel in aanbouw op de werf in Hardinxveld; van de overige twee sleepboten worden de casco’s in Servië gebouwd waarna de afbouw bij K. Damen zal plaatsvinden. Ook is met de firma Stemat BV te Rotterdam een contract getekend voor de levering van een werkschip met een lengte van 60 meter en een breedte van 24 meter. Voor de voorstuwing zorgen vier roerpropeller-installaties elk met een vermogen van 537 kW. Dit multi-purpose werkschip kan wereldwijd ingezet worden als o.a. transportschip, kabellegger, kraanschip en voor diverse andere werkzaamheden.

Prompt Hyundai earns bonus Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) earned a $10 million bonus for sticking to "three strict conditions" laid down the US oil giant Exxon Mobil that had ordered an FPSO from the Korean shipbuilder. The $800 million FPSO had been ordered in December 2002 and Exxon Mobil laid down three conditions, i.e. the vessel must be delivered in 34 months, must be of flawless construction, and there are to be no accidents in the shipyard during construction. Exxon promised a US$10 million bonus if the conditions were met. Not only did HHI fulfill the conditions, it finished construction with three months to spare, allowing Exxon Mobil to advance to early August drilling operations off Angola that were supposed to start in October. When the oil company puts the 285 metre long, 63 metre wide, 88,000dwt FPSO into operation, it will be able to produce 240,000 barrels of oil a day.

Hanjin HI wins boxship quintet Hanjin Heavy Industries in Korea has won an order for five 4,000TEU container ships from an unidentified European shipowner at a total cost of $365 million. All units will be delivered by the first quarter of 2009.

Tyneside yard faces closure More than half the workforce at a troubled British shipyard has been made redundant. About 160 of the 240 workers employed at McNulty Offshore in South Shields, South Tyneside, will lose their jobs, while the future of 82 sub-contractors remains uncertain. The firm, which is one of the largest employers in South Tyneside, with a turnover last year of $67 million, went into receivership earlier this month following a contractual dispute with a major customer. The redundancies came as work on a Nigerian gas platform was completed at the weekend. However, administrators KPMG still hope to sell the shipyard as a going concern. Joint administrator Julian Whale said: “Following the completion of the platform for Technip SA, approximately 160 workers involved in the project are being made redundant. The future of the yard and the remaining 100 employees is dependent upon continuing negotiations with customers and interested parties.”



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Cummins Inc. neemt distributie in Nederland over

Vanaf 1 april 2005 zijn de activiteiten en het personeel van Cummins Diesel Sales + Service BV overgenomen door Cummins Holland B.V. en onderdeel geworden van de multinational Cummins Inc. Tegelijkertijd is de distributie van Cummins in Noorwegen ook overgenomen door Cummins Inc. Cummins had de distributeurs van België en Zweden al in bezit en met deze overname wordt de distributie gegroepeerd voor Scandinavië en de Benelux, met behoud van regionale vestigingen. Doelstelling van deze overname is realisatie van verdere groei door optimaal de beschikbare kennis, voorraad en ondersteuning over de gehele regio te gebruiken. Domien Loockx is aangesteld als Managing Director voor Cummins Scandinavië en de Benelux. De heer Loockx, welke bij Cummins al 23 jaar werkzaam is, heeft verschillende posities bekleed binnen distributie en aftermarket. Zijn meest recente positie was General Manager verantwoordelijk voor Cummins België.



Cummins is met meer dan 28.000 werknemers, een omzet van 8,4 miljard dollar en een productie van meer dan 700.000 motoren per jaar, de grootste zelfstandige en onafhankelijke fabrikant ter wereld van dieselmotoren met vermogens boven de 200 bhp. Cummins is wereldwijd vertegenwoordigd met meer dan 680 distributeurs en 5000 dealers, die niet alleen in Europa, maar ook in de USA, Zuid-Amerika, Afrika, Oost-Europa, Azië en het verre Oosten een uitstekende service kunnen bieden. Dat de in de Verenigde Staten gevestigde multinational vertrouwen heeft in de toekomst, wordt onder andere ondersteund door een fors investeringsprogramma voor de ontwikkeling van nieuwe dieselmotoren in de range van 31 t/m 3500 bhp en gensets in de range van 11 tot 3300 kVA en de verbetering van de bestaande producten. Kenmerk van dit investeringsprogramma is, dat de nieuwe generatie Cummins dieselmotoren en gensets (met als toepassing scheepvaart, vrachtwagen/bus, landbouw, generatoraandrijving, industrie, en treintractie) naast hun voortreffelijke prestaties en levensduur, voor de klant het voordeel bieden van eenvoud en een verantwoorde bedrijfseconomische inzetbaarheid. Cummins in Nederland In Nederland draaien vele Cummins motoren en gensets in de binnenvaart, visserij, zee en kustvaart, werkboten en de baggerij. Speciaal voor de pleziervaart is de joint-venture Cummins MerCruiser opgericht, die ook wordt vertegenwoordigd vanuit de vestiging in Dordrecht. Cummins is dit jaar 70 jaar vertegenwoordigd in Nederland. Sinds de oprichting in Nederland in 1935 is er intensief gewerkt aan een brede klantenkring van zowel eindgebruikers als bouwers en leveranciers van materieel met Cummins dieselmotoren.

Diamond Offshore goes to Keppel for two jackups

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Keppel FELS Limited in Singapore for construction of two high-performance premium jack-up rigs. One is to be constructed in Singapore and the other at Keppel AmFELS Brownsville, Texas. Diamond Offshore says the two rigs are expected to have an aggregate cost of approximately $300 million, including spares, commissioning, site supervision and other costs the company may incur. Both rigs will be 350-ft. KFELS MOD V B-Class (Super) design, capable of drilling depths of up to 35,000 ft. with a hook load capacity of 2 million pounds and a cantilever reach of 70 ft. Delivery of both units is anticipated in the first quarter of 2008. The letter of intent also provides an option for construction of a third jack-up rig at a later date. The transaction is subject to execution of a definitive construction contract. Diamond Offshore President and Chief Operating Officer, Larry Dickerson, said, "The primary focus of the company has been enhancing our deepwater rigs, while at the same time we have significantly modernized our jack-up fleet. Based on the strength of the market, we believe the construction of these premium jack-up units will augment our ability to offer a full range of services to our customers."

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SCHEEPVAARTBERICHTEN AALSMEERGRACHT 2 te Kashima, AGENOR 3 300 o Gibraltar nr La Pallice, ALBLAS 3 pas Bornholm nr Riga, ALBLASGRACHT 3 te Ningbo, ALLIANCE 4 verw te St Petersburg, ALSERBACH 3 te Corinth, ANET 3 vn Basse Indre nr Aviles, ANTJE K 3 te Huelva, APOLLOGRACHT 2 pas Gibraltar nr Suezkanaal, AQUATIQUE 3 te Galway, ARKLOW SURF 3 vn Marin nr Blaye, BALTIC SHAMROCK 1 15 z Oland nr Valkom, BASTIAAN BROERE 2 8 n West Terschelling, BENGUELA STREAM 3 te Aegion, BESTEVAER 4 verw te Vlissingen, BETTINA K 2 vn Oristano, BLUE SKY 3 te Pasajes, BOTHNIABORG 3 te Sheerness, BRO GALAXY 30 verw te Fawley, BRO GEMINI 2 vn Fredericia, BRO GENIUS 2 vn Amsterdam, BRO GLOBE 2 vn Brofjorden, BRO GLORY 3 vn Rotterdam, BRO GRACE 2 vn Aarhus, BRO GRANITE 2 vn Pembroke, CHRISTINA 3 te Tornio, CLEARWATER 3 te Tees, CLIFFWATER 3 vn Tees Port nr Coryton, COASTALWATER 3 120 n La Coruna nr Aveiro, CORAL MEANDRA 2 vn Rotterdam nr Brofjorden, CORAL RIGIDA 3 vn Caojing nr Tokuyama, CORALWATER 3 te Algeciras, DANIEL K 10 verw te Rotterdam, DEO VOLENTE 2 vn Schiedam nr Bilbao, DINTELBROG 3 te Izmir, DUTCH EMERALD 3 60 wnw Vigo nr Fawley, DUTCH ENGINEER 3 te Terneuzen, DUTCH FAITH 3 t a Humber, DUTCH MARINER 3 pas Cromer nr Tees, DUTCH NAVIGATOR 3 140 n La Coruna nr Barcelona, DUTCH PROGRESS 3 17 zo Wight nr Cork, DUTCH SPIRIT 3 onderw nr Rotterdam, EENDRACHT 3 te Scheveningen, EGBERT WAGENBORG 3 180 z Newfoundland nr Windsor, EGELANTIERSGRACHT 3 350 nno Sulawesi nr Dampier, ELISABETH K 17 verw te Livorno, ELKE K 3 te Gent, FAIRLIFT 3 pas Sicilie nr Marina di Carrara, FAIRPARTNER 2 330 wnw Freeport nr Freeport, FAST JEF 3 pas Kielerkanaal nr Seaham,



FAST SUS 3 te Immingham, FLINTERBORG 3 te Kaukas, FLINTERDIJK 3 te Fowey, FLINTERDUIN 3 50 w Brest nr Pasajes, FLINTERHAVEN 3 te St Petersburg, FLINTERSPIRIT 3 360 zzo New Orleans nr Corpus Christi, FLINTERZEE 3 70 n Terschelling nr Terneuzen, FRANCISCA 3 te Amsterdam, HAM-311 2 90 zzw Ouessant, HAM-318 4 verw te Mumbay, HANSEATIC SCOUT 8 verw te Barry, HAPPY BUCCANEER 3 pas Buru, HAPPY RIVER 3 pas Gibraltar nr Piraeus, ICE STAR 3 te Odda, IJSSEL TRADER 4 verw te Kaohsiung, ILSE K 3 vn Ribadeo, IRINA 3 te Mantyluoto, IVER EXACT 2 95 o Vitoria nr Montevideo, IVER EXAMPLE 3 90 zw San Jose, IVER EXPERT 3 210 z New Orleans nr Lake Charles, JACOBUS BROERE 2 te Rotterdam, JAGUAR 3 38 n Tunis nr Vlissingen, JAN VAN GENT 3 45 o Gibraltar nr Middlesbrough, JFJ DE NUL 3 90 n Graciosa nr Hull, JO CALLUNA 3 te Rio Haina, JO EIK 3 te St Helena, JO SPRUCE 2 20 nw Sao Vicente nr Rotterdam, JOHN PAUL K 2 vn Rotterdam, JUMBO JAVELIN 2 180 z Kreta nr St Petersburg, JUMBO SPIRIT 3 60 wzw Nisos nr Varna, KASTEELBORG 3 pas Hanstholm nr Barcelona, KATJA 3 onderweg nr Wilhelmshaven, KONINGSBORG 3 25 zzo Messina nr Bari, KWINTEBANK 3 pas Kielerkanaal nr Mantyluoto, LADON 3 pas Ouessant nr Rotterdam, LAURIERGRACHT 3 te Kaohsiung, LECKO 3 vn Nordenham, LOOTSGRACHT 3 te Guzla, LURO 2 vn Emden, MAINEBORG 3 50 no Tunis, MAKIRI GREEN 3 50 o Pattani nr Port Klang, MARIANNE K 2 vn IJmuiden, MARISSA GREEN 3 te Chittagong, MATHILDE 3 te Ronnskar, MENNA 3 40 o Barcelona nr Kotka, MIGHTY SERVANT-1 2 230 wnw Kaapstad nr Corpus Christi, MIGHTY SERVANT-3 2 200 w Madagascar nr Richards Bay, MISSOURIBORG 3 te Livorno, MOEZELBORG 3 450 o New York nr Philadelphia, MSC POLAND 3 vn Bremerhaven nr Antwerpen, MUNTEBORG 3 120 w Casablanca nr Agadir, NAVITAS 3 vn Kristiansand nr Leith, NEDLL AMERICA 4 verw te Jeddah,



NEDLL CLARENCE 2 280 nw Fortaleza nr Charleston, NEDLL HONGKONG 4 verw te Hongkong, NEKTON 3 te Burgas, NOLA 3 vn Soraker nr Muuga, NORA 3 te Malmo, NORDLAND 3 te Emden, NORMED GEMLIK 3 pas Stretto de Mesina nr Hamburg, NOVA 3 pas Rotterdam nr Antwerpen, NOVA FRIESIA 2 90 no Vitoria, OCEAAN KLIPPER 3 vn Uddevala nr Nouadhibou, OLGA 3 te Vlaardingen, OOSTERSCHELDEBORG 3 te Frederiksvaersk, ORANJEBROG 3 te Aberdeen, P&O NEDLL AUCKLAND 9 verw te Antwerpen, P&O NEDLL BARENTSZ 11 verw te Vancouver, P&O NEDLL JAKARTA 2 280 o New York, P&O NEDLL SYDNEY 2 90 w Bishop Rock nr Elbe, PACIFIC 3 40 o Cabo Verde nr Campana, PAUWGRACHT 2 100 z Str Lombok nr Bunbury, PELAGIA 3 16 nw Cascais, PRINCE OF SEAS 3 te Tampa, PRINSENBORG 3 pas Dardanellen nr Huelva, RUFINIA 3 te Hull, SCHIPPERSGRACHT 3 700 o Paramaribo nr Kotka, SINGELGRACHT 3 60 o Stockholm nr Rauma, SLOTERGRACHT 3 180 zw Miami nr Tromso, SMARAGD 3 vn Les Sables d'Olonne nr Schiedam, SNOW STAR 2 vn Vallcarca, SOMERS ISLES 3 te Fernandina, SPUIGRACHT 3 te Stephenville, STADIONGRACHT 3 vn Charleston nr Rauma, STELLA LYRA 3 te Mosjoen, STELLA POLARIS 3 120 z Freetown nr Santa Cruz de Tenerife, SWING 3 pas Rosenburgh nr Bermeo, TANJA 3 vn Gdynia nr Hamburg, THEODORA 2 60 nw Esbjerg nr Villagarcia, TRACER 3 t a Vitoria, TROUT 3 pas Kaapduinen nr Antwerpen, TUNA 3 vn Taranto, UAL AFRICA 3 pas Kingston nr Antwerpen, UMIAVUT 3 150 z Lagos nr Bonny, VAASABORG 3 te Pori, VANCOUVERBORG 2 120 n Pulau Laut Isl nr La Coruna, VARNEBANK 3 te Duluth, VLIEBORG 3 te Oulu, VLISTBORG 3 50 z Plymouth nr Casablanca, VOORNEBORG 3 t a rede Haraholmen, VOSSDIEP 3 15 z Sicilie nr Ashdod, WESTERBORG 2 pas Skagen nr Ellesmere, ZEUS 3 50 wzw Ouessant nr Casablanca, ZILLERTAL 3 vn Liepaja.

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