text: March 23, 2007 6 SHIPBUILDING AND SHIP REPAIR Special focus on SWEDISH shipyards Price: Denmark 50 DKK Norway: 2006 will be remembered Euro region Norway 6 EUR 55 NOK as the BLISSFUL BONANZA for shipbuilding Sweden 55 SEK UK 4 GBP AKER YARDS on the Formula 1 class in shipbuilding A CAREER OPPORTUNITY WITH ROOM FOR MY PERSONALITY Finnlines' aim is to be the leading company in Employee satisfaction are one of the main va- The competence of our personnel is ensured its field. For a company operating in the service lues of Finnlines. We are constantly aiming through continuous training. One of the chal- sector, competent and enthusiastic employees to achieve this by being a reliable and mo- lenges for the future is to attract new, talented are a key resource. tivating employer treating employees with persons as Yourself. 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Read more on www.shipgaz.com www.bergpropulsion.se and on page 73. NEWS REVIEW HIGHER PROFIT FOR RAL Royal Arctic Line A/S (RAL) can look back on a very good 2006 with a profit higher Upward trend for major than ever, and with good prospects for this year. In 2006, its turnover amount- losses continues ed to DKK 752 million (DKK 727 mil- lion in 2005). ssg-tønsberg. Only 67 ships of 500 grt or cause is grounding at approximately 25 per After deductions of expenses and above were total losses last year compared cent, closely followed by collision or con- financial items, the profit was DKK 69 with 140 in 2000, according to the Interna- tact damage – just over 20 per cent. million before tax and DKK 58 million tional Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI), after tax. In 2005, the profit after tax the reasons being better ships, better Hard driven ships and crews was DKK 16 million. The much better inspections, enhanced regulations and According to IUMI, the highly profitable profit comes after an increase in cargo technology development. times in shipping markets is one cause. volume. Total losses represented 0.1 per cent of Ships and crews are driven very hard and the world fleet, compared to 0.3 per cent in some owners neglect safety checks and rou- 4 OPERATORS GO FOR 2 ROUTES Four 1996 and nearly 0.5 per cent in 1990. tine maintenance to keep the vessels trad- Danish ferry operators are bidding for Whilst the total loss trend is down, serious ing. Older ships that should be scrapped two ferry services available for new partial losses continue to increase, having aren't, adding to the sub-standard tonnage operators in May and October, 2008. been on a strong upward movement since in operation. The two ferry services in question are 1998 when 225 serious incidents were Add to this the growing shortage of well- the service from Koldby Kaas (Samsø) reported. Nearly 700 were reported in 2006. trained and experienced seafarers. Technol- to Kalundborg, which is operated by Machinery continues to be the major ogy development has on the one hand Samsø-Linien, and the Bøjden–Fyn- cause of serious partial losses with a fre- contributed to the decline of total losses, shav service, currently operated by quency of approximately 35 per cent in the but has on the other led to more expensive Scandlines Sydfyenske. past five years. The next most frequent repairs on ships, particularly machinery. The four competing bidders are Bornholmstrafikken, Mols-Linien, Samsø-Linien and Scandlines Syd- fyenske. The operators are bidding for Aker yards shares for NOK 4.9 billion either one or both routes. The Ministry ssg-tønsberg. Aker has sold its 40.1 per sources in the market say that some of the of Transport is running the tender. The cent in Aker Yards for a total of NOK 4.9 money is likely to be invested in renewable operators selected will be contracted in billion (EUR 608.3 million) and the com- energy and in the new Aker Kvaerner Just May. pany is left with a net of NOK 2.9 billion Catch technology to catch CO2. Another (EUR 356,5 million). It is not immediately area could be a new Aker Shipping said to RECORD PRICE TAG FOR DRILLSHIP An known who the buyers are. Informed be built around a new LNG concept. unknown European owner has ordered a drillship from Samsung Heavy Indus- tries for USD 618 million, TradeWinds ZERO IMO COMPLAINTS ON LIBERIAN REGISTRY The Liberian Registry is the largest flag reports. Drillship prices has escalated so far to have undertaken the voluntary IMO audit according to the recently adopted significantly. Norwegian SeaDrill has Member State Audit Scheme. The result of the audit was zero non-conformities against two vessels on order at the shipyard the operation of the registry. The IMO Audit Scheme is intended to provide member with a price tag of USD 450–460 mil- states with a comprehensive and objective assessment of how effectively they administer lion, according to the paper. and implement the mandatory instruments of the IMO. Stena Drilling also has drillships on order at the same shipyard. Three ves- sels have been ordered at prices of USD 520–550 million, according to Need for larger tankers in Primorsk the shipyard. ssg-tallinn. In an interview with the the port would not be able to handle the Russian business journal Kommersant, increased number of calls given by the MACGREGOR BUYS HYDRAMARINE Simon Vainshtock, MD of Transneft, says sizes of vessels currently calling at the port. MacGregor buys 90 per cent of Norwe- that the company will decide in the next Larger tankers would solve this problem. gian Hydramarine. Göteborg-based two weeks whether a pipeline will be built Sovcomflot already has two 160,000 DWT MacGregor, owned by Finnish Car- from Unecha, on the Belorussian border, tankers in its fleet as well as two under con- gotec, enters the offshore market to Primorsk. struction. They have a sufficiently shallow through the take over. Hydramarine The planned pipeline would have an draft to pass through the Great Belt. Simon manufactures deck machinery, cranes annual capacity of 50 million tons of oil Vainshtock points out that this would and equipment for offshore vessels and and construction could begin as early as in mean that the number of tanker calls in rigs. In 2006 Hydramarine had 150 April. The increase in the volumes shipped Primorsk would not increase despite higher employees. out of Primorsk could be a problem since oil volumes. 4 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 NEWS REVIEW ZEE-PHOTO PASSENGER PORT TOO SMALL So many new and large ferries will be deployed between Tallinn and Helsinki that Port of Tallinn will have to enlarge the Old City harbour. According to the port company's MD, Ain Kaljurand, the new ferry Nordic Jetline is planning to deploy will be so much larger than the present ferry that it will need another berth. BEST PROFIT EVER Mols-Linien A/S came out of 2006 with the best result ever in the company's history against all odds, including high fuel prices and especially the competition from the fixed link over the Great Belt. The prof- it ended on DKK 53.2 million, 11.8 per cent better than in 2005. The turnover was up six per cent to DKK 761 mil- The Adsteam Warden from Adsteam Rotterdam-operation. lion, while the expenses were DKK 698.8 million. SvitzerWijsmuller finally buys Adsteam COSTS EAT RIGA SHIPYARD PROFITS ssg-ringkøbing. SvitzerWijsmuller has In February, the last offical hurdles were Riga Shipyard posted a profit of LVL finalised the purchase of Australian tug-com- cleared as the English competition authori- 544,400 (EUR 775,000) on sales of near- pany Adsteam. The board of Adsteam has ties made it clear the SvitzerWijsmuller ly LVL 30 million (EUR 42.6 million in finally accepted SvitzerWijsmuller's offer for would have to sell its activities in Liverpool 2006. Sales rose 2.7 per cent compared the shares at a price of AUD 2.54 (EUR in order not to create a nationwide monop- with 2005, while the profit fell 16.9 per 1.51) and SvitzerWijsmuller has accepted oly business. The purchase will add around cent. According to the yard's manage- that it will only be possible to purchase 84.78 200 tugs to SvitzerWijsmuller's fleet of ment, the reason for the lower prof- per cent of the shares in the company around 300 tugs, making the company the itability was higher metal and energy instead of the intended 90 per cent. world's largest tug operator. prices. This had the greatest impact on its newbuilding activities since these contracts were signed one and a half to NATO exercise to start in Göteborg two years earlier when prices were lower. ssg-göteborg. The NATO exercise Noble secure commercial shipping in a conflict VITOL TO CONTROL VENTSPILS Accord- Mariner kicks off with a large naval visit in between nations. ing to BNS, the Latvian competition Göteborg on April 10 to 13, two aircraft The exercise will be held in waters from authority has approved the application carriers will take part in the visit. the north of Poland all the way up to by Vitol's subsidiary Euromin Holdings The exercise is the largest in the Baltic Skagerrak. In Swedish waters, the exercise Ltd to buy 49 per cent of the shares in sea since a Russian naval exercise in the will be limited to three days on the south Ventspils Nafta's subsidiary Ventspils early 1990s. Sweden will participate with coast. Nafta Terminals. up to 700 men and one submarine, among All normal traffic rules apply, only that other vessels. The aim is to exercise the there will be boats and ships everywhere. TORM PUNISHED FOR PROFIT Damp- NATO Response Force and its ability to No areas will be closed. skibsselskabet Torm was punished on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange after the presentation of its 2006 results with Statoil and Hydro free to merge a profit 22 per cent lower than in 2005, but exactly the figure given in various ssg-tønsberg. Norwegian energy compa- StatoilHydro. Hydro's shareholders will forecasts during the year. Its value on nies Statoil and Hydro are now free to own 32.7 per cent and Statoil's sharehold- the exchange fell from DKK 369.50 per merge after the boards have approved the ers will own 67.3 per cent of the merged share to DKK 355, a drop of 3.92 per USD 30.0 billion deal. The tie-up should company. To compensate for the transfer cent. D/S Torm had a net turnover of be completed by October and the compa- of Hydro's petroleum division, its share- DKK 3.5 billion and a net profit (after nies will have a combined oil output pf 1.9 holders will receive a 0.8622 share in the tax) of DKK 1.39 billion. In the record million barrels per day this year. For the merged company for every share they own year 2005 the profit was DKK 1.79 bil- time being, the name of the merged unit is in Hydro. lion. SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 5 NEWS REVIEW MADLI VITISMANN HIGHER TURNOVER IN NORWAY Nor- way's maritime industry, comprising around 5,500 companies, had a total turnover of NOK 275 billion in 2005 and left a wealth creation of around NOK 80 billion, according to a report from research company Menon. The numbers for 2006, thought not yet col- lated, are higher. Ship owning account- ed for NOK 38 billion in wealth cre- ation in 2005. The maritime industry as a whole had 90,000 employees, who helped generate 7.3 per cent of the total Norwegian wealth creation. Maritime jobs have 50–60 per cent higher wage costs than the rest of the industry. The Regina Baltica in Riga. VENTSPILS' MAYOR IN CUSTODY The mayor of Ventspils, Aivars Lembergs, who is also the chairman of the board Daily Riga–Stockholm service of Freeport of Ventspils, has been ssg-tallinn. In the next few months, this figure dropped to 30–40 per cent. A remanded in custody, according to the Tallink will decide on whether to add a large number of passengers from Lithuania news agency BNS. He is accused of second ferry to its Riga–Stockholm ser- also travel with the service. The number of accepting bribes, incorrect income tax vice. According to the morning daily Eesti passengers passing through Freeport of returns and abuse of power. The chair- Päevaleht, the number of passengers is Riga increased 26.5 per cent to about man of the board of the holding com- expected to increase when Rigas Passenger 250,000. On April 5, Tallink will start oper- pany Ventspils Nafta, the chairman of Terminal has built a walkway for passengers ating the newbuilding Star on the the board of the port operator Venta- from the terminal to the ships. Tallinn–Helsinki route as a replacement for monjaks and a cashier have also been Last summer, the Regina Baltica was at the Vana Tallinn, which will begin to sail remanded in custody on suspicion of times fully booked. During the peak sea- on the Riga–Stockholm route on 26 April. complicity in money laundering. son, 50 per cent of the passengers came In conjunction with this, the Vana Tallinn from Sweden and during the low season, will be registered to the Latvian flag. BENT MIKKELSEN CRITIQUE GROWS AGAINST CANAL TOLL HIKES During a public hearing on its proposed toll hikes, the Panama Canal Authority, PCA, met massive critique from international shipping organisations, national shipowners' associations, diplomats from South Ameri- can states and some of the largest customers, among those Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logis- tics. All in all, PCA has received 21 written comments, which will be studied carefully, says PCA. The industry's main complaints are the large hikes during a short period of time, which the critics doubt that the market can absorb. The hikes are also larger than earlier The Nico (ex Varangerfjord). indicated. The new toll system is to be launched within a few months. DANISH CT OFFSHORE BUYS HSC The former Norwegian passenger catamaran Varangerfjord will be the flagship in the Norwegian cruise traffic Danish company CT Offshore, which purchased Varangerfjord this week and threatened by NOx fee renamed it Nico. The ship is currently ssg-tønsberg. The new Norwegian NOx Every year Norway has one million lying in Svendborg for conversion into fee could cost around NOK 1,200 per cruise passengers, each spending an esti- an offshore multipurpose vessel. The cruise passenger and cost Norway 25 per mated NOK 1,200. The cruise traffic is vessel will be fitted with cabins, galley cent of the cruise traffic, according to vital to many areas in Norway and any loss and recreation areas. There will also be Cruise Norway. The fee is applicable to all of cruise ship calls will be felt economical- a work deck aft. The Varangerfjord was vessels sailing between Norwegian ports ly. The new NOx fee, which does not apply purchased from Finnmark Fylkesrederi and could force some cruise operators to to ferry traffic to an from Norway, came as and until recently was employed trans- avoid Norway and increase visits to other a surprise to most cruise operators and the porting workers to and from the Scandinavian ports, especially in the Baltic. extra cost has not been included in cruise Snøhvit-field off Hammerfest and Cruise ships may also be forced to stop all prices. already has an approval from Norwe- auxiliary machinery while in port and buy gian Statoil. electricity from ashore. More news on page 84 > 6 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 The Genuine Propulsion Package Reduced operational costs Reduced installation costs Single point of contact - to one responsible organisation Most integrated solutions With MAN Diesel propulsion packages you are ensured an economic and most reliable power source. 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Editor: Cecilia Österman | Phone +46 31 62 95 88 | E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com | www.sesonboard.com Free enterprise holds her until the Greek owners, The- According to ITF, the crew – most of sarco Shipping, has settled their bill, a them from Myanmar – earn as little as – to what cost? tab that has run up to hundreds of thou- USD 1.50 an hour, but they have not T rinity Sierra, a Cyprus-flagged bulk carrier of 15,612 GRT has been detained in the Savannah River since last sands of dollars. Judging by the owners' previous histo- been paid since May. To date, the good people with the local Seaman's House are helping the crew with clothing for October. Reading the list of 42 deficien- ry, this will take time. On her last voyage, the cold weather, refreshments and cies regarding safety equipment, lifeboats she picked up a load of sugar in China phones so they can call home. Things and crew living conditions, I say it is for the US. On their way, the owners an employer should provide. The crew is with all right. decided on a little detour to Lagos with left in a vacuum. The Trinity Sierra is but But then there is the small issue of a deck load of steel for extra profit. The one example of free enterprise at the crew. Without a visa they have been Lagos port of call lasted a month and the freest. But stuck onboard for five months, watching resulted in one Nigerian stowaway and must it be at other ships come and go. a seriously annoyed owner of the sugar any cost? The ship is cleared by the USCG since load, an owner who even had to pay to cecilia österman end-January but now the US Marshall get the ship out of Lagos. firstname.lastname@example.com New agreement signed Baltic cooperation against crime Representatives from the Swedish cus- toms, Coast Guard and the border police in Stockholm met with their counterparts for eye in the sky from Helsinki, Turku, Mariehamn and Tallinn at a seminar on March 7–8. The aim is to The European Maritime Safety Agen- coordinate the border control in the Baltic Sea area in the fight against crime. An opera- cy (EMSA) and the European Space tive meeting is held in May to strengthen the cooperation between the authorities and Agency (ESA) have signed an agreement develop the daily joint effort. on cooperation in maritime monitoring and surveillance. Alert to EU states Inspection campaign resulted When a deliberate or accidental oil spill is detected by satellite radar images, an alert in 128 ship detentions will be sent to EU coastal states and EMSA Between February 1 and April 30, rect recording of maintenance were veri- within 30 minutes. 2006, the 25 maritime administra- fied in detail for compliance with Marpol The CleanSeaNet system will provide tions of the Paris MoU visited 4,614 ships Annex I. analysed images from Envisat and Radarsat in a Marpol inspection campaign. 3,213 deficiencies were recorded and satellites. Operations begin in mid-April During every port state control inspec- 128 ships were detained with serious defi- with receiving stations in Norway and Italy, tion, the ships' oil filtering equipment, ciencies. On 360 ships, no evidence was and the Azores from 2008. auxiliary boilers, their operation and cor- found that the ship had discharged into port facilities or burnt sludge in the incin- erator, indicating that illegal discharges at A discussion forum has been launched on SES Onboard. sea may have taken place. On 86 ships, the Join the forum for Safety, Environment and Security issues at inspectors found illegal overboard connec- tions from the sludge tank. The results will www.sesonboard.com be discussed at the Port State Control com- mittee meeting in May 2007. SCANDINAVIANSHIPPINGGAZETTE•MARCH23,2007 Life saving Barrot slams PäR-HENRIkSjöSTRöM feedback sluggish forum launched member states Intertanko, Intercargo and ILAMA The EU Commission's vice president (International Life-Saving Appliance and transport commissioner Jacques Manufacturers Association) have launched Barrot has grown tired of the resistance to a joint feedback forum. new maritime safety regulations from cer- Crew members, being the users of life- tain member states. In an interview with boats and other life-saving appliances, are AFP, he identifies three member states – encouraged to provide their comments, Malta, Cyprus and Greece – as states drag- thoughts and input on how equipment ging their feet over the latest rule package. can be improved to minimize accidents, "They have made maritime transport a enhance safety and improve ergonomic pillar of their economies. They are the least design. inclined to accept changes". Intertanko will collect and assess According to Barrot, there are member the feedback but the forum is open states, but this time without mentioning to all crews no matter the ship type. anyone, that "are hiding mediocre ships All information will be treated confi- under their flag", and these states "will have dentially. You can reach the forum at: to put their house in order". firstname.lastname@example.com Combined efforts against death traps onboard Baltic Sea temperature rises 3–5 degrees After several serious accidents with A new Helcom report projects a rise one to two months and by two to three crewmembers and stevedores enter- in the mean annual temperature months in the central parts. ing unventilated cargo holds, two Swedish between three and five ° C for the Baltic Sea The greatest effect of this climate change authorities have joined forces. as a whole, during this century. The larg- would be eutrophication and changes in The Maritime Administration and the est part of this temperature increase would the biodiversity. According to Helcom, it is Work Environment Authority has sent occur in the east and north of the Baltic necessary to improve measures to prevent an official letter to all Swedish harbours Sea during winter months and in the south ballast water releases and reduce nutrients, and other parties concerned, informing during summer months. heavy metals, hazardous organic pollutants them of the risks and of the liability as and emissions from fuel combustion and employer. decreasing length of ice season antifouling paints. The risk is especially high during load- Over the past century, the length of the ice Ships add to the eutrophication of the ing and unloading different organic mate- season has decreased by 14 to 44 days and Baltic Sea through discharge of sewage rial, such as wood-based products and the ice season is projected to decrease fur- and wastewater. The contribution is rather fish. Since hazardous gases develop that ther. Researchers believe the ice season in small, but not negligible due to the great displace the oxygen, the quality of the air northern parts of the Baltic could decrease sensitivity of the marine environment. must always be controlled before entering. The employer must also make sure that PäR-HENRIkSjöSTRöM personal protective equipment is available and used. Formoreinformation,see www.sesonboard.com loss prevention toolBox in co-operation with MorE nEws, soUrcEs And links TheBalticwillgetwarmerandtheiceseasonshorter. www.sesonboard.com SCANDINAVIANSHIPPINGGAZETTE•MARCH23,2007 EDITORIAL The art of navigation in ice D espite alarming reports of breaker fleet is by no means sufficient. ing in icy waters, training is very impor- global warming it has hap- Already during a normal ice winter, when tant. But for those visiting the area once pened again. Large areas in the Gulf of Botnia, Åland Sea and the or maybe only now and then, ice advisors the Gulf of Bothnia and whole Gulf of Finland is covered by ice, is a working solution. A pilot or a deck Gulf of Finland are covered the large number of vessels in the area will officer boards the vessel at the ice edge by ice. In the end of February most of the provide more than a match for the ice- and provides the master with ice-knowl- icebreakers in the northern Baltic Sea area breakers. Especially the large aframax- edge and information about how to pro- were in service. Without taking up a stand tankers may present a problem as they, ceed. in the emotional debate about the conse- despite their ice class, are no icebreakers. Such a service exists for example in Fin- quences of the greenhouse effect, we have So far there are only two icebreaking afra- land, but so far the interest for it has been to live with the fact that there will be cold max-tankers, which are equipped with quite low. As long as these are not manda- winters up here in the north, also in the podded propulsion and capable of sailing tory services, most of the owners and char- future for many years to come. independently in most ice conditions. terers will probably see them only as From the shipping industry's point of another extra cost. view cold winters mean nothing else than Even though the problems of winter trouble. When the ice cover grows, sched- Perhaps we one day may navigation are discussed in several forums, ules lose their significance. Shipping is left consensus about compulsory measures in the hands of the natural forces – and have an "ice class" also for still seems to be far away in the future. To the icebreakers. The costs increase dramat- the crew, certifying that the have the slightest chance to advance fur- ically as the bunker consumption may be ther from the discussion stage, all the several times higher than in open water. navigators have been Baltic Sea countries concerned must stand Navigation in ice is not easy. During the united. first half of the last century, vessels were trained in ice navigation? Today the authorities' traffic restrictions even lost as their hull structures crushed provide an efficient way to regulate the under the pressure of ice. Today the rules Sharing resources is a solution. There is traffic and eliminate unsuitable vessels. In of the highest Finnish/Swedish ice classes a long tradition in co-operation between Sweden and Finland these are connected demand such strong hulls that total losses Sweden and Finland when it comes to ice- to ice class and deadweight. Both the due to ice pressure most likely have been breaking. The key to the successful co- restrictions and the ice classes are harmo- eliminated in Baltic Sea conditions. Still, operation is of course that the two coun- nized in these two countries. The it is common that the hull, or even more tries have a similar attitude towards winter Finnish/Swedish model would certainly often the rudder and the propeller, are navigation and that the cultural differ- work in the whole Baltic Sea area. Today damaged by ice. During an icy winter the ences are minimal. there is a jungle of different ice classes, local repair yards are kept busy. issued by authorities or classification soci- It is also essential that the crews of all ves- eties. Despite stronger vessels, many of the sels regularly sailing in the northern Baltic Just a thought: Perhaps we one day may dangers of ice navigation remain. If a ves- Sea have adequate knowledge about navi- have an "ice class" also for the crew, certi- sel gets stuck in a drifting ice field, there gation in ice. The officer on watch must fying that the navigators have been trained may be a risk that it enters shallow water understand the signs of nature and the in ice navigation? Why not let this lead to and runs aground. The collisions between behaviour of an ice field to find the easiest discounts in the fairway dues? vessels in a convoy form a chapter them- way to get through. Following the direc- It is all positive that winter navigation is selves. As the ships run with maximum tives from the icebreakers is a good start, discussed in the Baltic Sea countries. The power and the distances in the convoy but this does not eliminate the need of ice problem is that this must be kept at a minimum, a following knowledge onboard the vessel too. discussion usually vessel occasionally runs into the stern of a During normal ice conditions a modern disappears with leading vessel, that loses its speed in heavy vessel built to the highest ice class should the ice in the ice pressure. It is also quite common that be able to manage quite independently spring. an icebreaker leading a convoy suddenly from icebreaker assistance. And, in theory, stops in a ridge and if the officer on watch when all vessels are strong and manned in the following vessel is not extremely with competent crews, many problems alert, it may run into the icebreaker's could be eliminated. The icebreakers stern. could concentrate their resources to areas When a severe ice winter occurs next where it is really impossible to force time – that is for sure going to happen, it through. pä r - h e n r i k s j ö s t r ö m is just a matter of time – the whole Baltic But how is it possible to reach such an Editor, Finland Sea freezes. In that stage the current ice- ideal situation? For officers regularly sail- Phone: +35 2 242 62 50, E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 11 DIY solutions on T he result from the first cycle of the MTO-Sea project (Man Technology Organisation) was presented at a seminar at Kalmar Maritime Academy (KMA) on March 1. Christer Bergquist at KMA is the pro- ject leader and Margareta Lützhöft at Chalmers, Jonathan Earthy and Brian Sherwood-Jones at Lloyds Register and last, but certainly not least, the cadet According to the MTO-Sea project study, the items of equipment for navigation have almost doubled since 1990. It is not always easy for mariners to keep up. TOVE SVENSSON Working with IBS since a decade Wallenius Marine has worked with the same ECDIS. And when we go for and machinery, which is tested by the offi- the integrated bridge system, IBS, for training, we use the simulator in Turku, cers before the prototype is fitted on the their vessels for over a decade and has where we have access to three generations new ship. an owner-supply delivery of the of our own bridges and our officers can navigation equipment to the practise with our instruments and our pan- Appreciated work newbuildings. The concept is simple. els." The story of having their own ergonomist When it is time to design a bridge on a has a long history in the company, and "You should be able to go from one ship to new car carrier, a team of captains get began when Wallenius did an inventory of another and it should be more or less the together with an ergonomist. With gained the workstations at their office in Stock- same bridge", says Per Croner, president of experiences from previous ships, they cre- holm. It was an appreciated work and Wallenius Marine AB. "The same radar and ate a mock-up, a model of the structure when the project was finished in the office 12 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 non-integrated bridges researchers at KMA compose the research BOWTHRUSTER". Innocent looking in team. all its simplicity at first sight, but ponder The project was launched with the aim the consequences. A forgotten cooling to close feedback loops between the mak- water pump may well result in a failing ers of the increasingly complex systems bowthruster or a black-out, in the worst sce- onboard and the users, in this case the offi- nario leading to a grounding or collision. cers on the bridge. methods and got a digital camera and a The captain of a German container ship More and more equipment is fitted on logbook for data collection. During four was recently released after eight months in the bridge and in the engine control room. months, they described, discussed and an American high security prison. He was According to the study, the items of equip- used the equipment on the bridge together sentenced after a failing bowthuster caused ment for navigation have almost doubled with the officers onboard. When the cadets a fatal accident. since 1990. It is not easy for the mariners returned to school, they were debriefed Margareta Lützhöft asks the audience: to keep up-to-date and find the time for and the vast job of analysing the logbooks "A note like this gives you a hint of what learning how to use it properly. Such a sim- and photographs could begin. is wrong with this design. If it is important ple device as a ship clock can have 29 but- "There were a lot of photos and com- that the cooling water pump is started tons and a manual on more than ten pages. ments in the logbooks and some students before the bowthruster, why is it not con- even came up with proposals for redesign nected to do so automatically?" even if this was not something they had to do", says Margareta Lützhöft. Paper work on the watch An officer on watch Several students mentioned that they An animated discussion began when the is obliged by regulations started seeing with new eyes and think in a pictures in the presentation showed com- new way and this is a first indicator of suc- puters and office equipment not related to to concentrate on the cess, the project team notes. the traditional bridge work. Both Christer Lindvall, president of navigational duties Disturbing lights IFSMA and managing director of the and watch keeping only. A common finding was lights disturbing Swedish Ship Officers' Association, and the night vision. The inventive solutions Christian Lindquist from the SMA stressed ranged from taping old charts over entire that office work shall not be carried out on A class of final year cadets was given the screens to custom made dimmer sheets. the bridge. opportunity to volunteer in the research Another frequent modification is notes "An officer on watch is obliged by both programme. 18 out of 42 students accepted and memos posted on various equipment. Swedish and international regulations to and in the end, eight logbooks were One example was the sign: "START concentrate on the navigational duties and returned. Before signing on for their last COOLING WATER PUMP BEFORE watch keeping only. The administrative onboard practice period, the cadets were work that goes with the prepared with lectures on usability and watch may include making human factors, ethics and basic scientific notes in the logbook and environment, it was decided to launch the est moving of the electrical panel out of activity onboard. the engine control room meant some "If we do it at the office, then naturally If we do it at the office, compromises that were not all that suc- we should do it on the ships as well, says then naturally cessful. Hopefully the issues will soon be Per Croner, and continues: It is a pro- solved. nounced part of the company's strategy to we should do it When it comes to upgrading the older be world leading in work environment ships in the fleet, the same manufacturer onboard. It is important when we want to on the ships as well. delivers the new equipment to minimize attract capable young persons." interface problems. He emphasises that the bridge design is stewards, and a lot of work has also been "There is no fitting of our own gadgets, just one part of the newbuilding program. done in the engine room, which has been the aim is to replace and install in a struc- The ergonomist has also worked with the divided into several spaces. tured way", says Per Croner. layout in the galley together with the cook However, Per Croner admits that the lat- cecilia österman SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 13 lack of basic ergonomics in consol layout. Dr Earthy stated that basic ergonomics is often not there, not even from the begin- ning, and that it worsens as the ship gets older and new machinery is fitted. "It sounds like an old skippers tale, but DIY solution to a dimming problem. we have heard stories of how the decision of where to put a new piece of equipment was perhaps the odd filling of a time sheet but based of the length of cable the service tech- nothing else", says Captain Lindvall. nician making the installation had brought onboard", says Margareta Lützhöft. The reality The clash is inevitable when old and But the photographs showed a reality not new equipment from different manufactur- always by the book and many of the new ers are connected and fitted in the worksta- office spaces that has sneaked its way in to tions somewhat haphazardly, and with the To know where an "object at two o'clock" is. the bridge offer neither good lookout posi- users introduced too late in the process. tions, nor an ergonomic workplace. And The project will continue at the academy the fact that the office equipment is not in Kalmar but it will also be extended to designed for use in the special environ- Chalmers and there include the engine ment found onboard a seagoing vessel, cre- department. ates a need for more ingenious solutions by Christer Bergquist proudly presented the the mariners. cadets with their well-deserved certificates "In terms of office equipment; whether and Dr Earthy gave his thanks to the we like it or not, it is not going away", says "guinea pigs" for their participation and Jonathan Earthy of Lloyds Register, and wished for a long term feed back. continues: "But it is not safe. Watchkeep- cecilia österman ing is a fulltime job." The photos are samples from the Not made for high seas. 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When the an unexpected setback will not deter either Aker Oilfield Services has entered into Shtokman development finally gets under- Aker (through Aker Innovation), with 75 an agreement with Aker Yards to build ves- way – and Gazprom is in no hurry, even per cent, or DOF Subsea, with 25 per cent. sels (see below), which will be operated by though the European Community coun- The company established in March will DOF Subsea. Aker Kværner will deliver tries dearly want the gas as quickly as possi- offer its customers subsea light well inter- advanced equipment and services to the ble – it will not be by 2010. Gazprom has vention services by means of both riserless new company. In a market with substantial other gas fields to handle before they take and riser-based technology. The company's and growing demand for such subsea well on the mammoth task of developing 16 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 Shtokman. Industry sources say that the could easily finance the development, but first phase (of four) will at best start in 2015 not run it. Gazprom hasn't got with a price tag of a minimum of USD At this point it is appropriate with a 15,0 billion. It is well to remember that short recap of Shtokman and its develop- the foggiest how to develop Shtokman (really Shtokmanovskoye) is by ment. The field is located some 550 kilo- far the most challenging project interna- metres northeast of the port of Murmansk. the Shtokman field. tionally. Almost none of the equipment The giant field contains estimated reserves can be bought off-the-shelf, and most of 3.2 trillion cubic metres (or 113 trillion Vyborg, is 2,980 kilometres via Germany major parts will have to be developed on a cubic feet) and 31 million tonnes of con- and the Netherlands. This pipeline project conceptual basis. It is possible to build on densate. Next year it is 20 years since the is called Nord Stream (formerly North existing hardware, but in the end most field was discovered. The development European Gas Pipeline) and will have an components will be tailor-made. Neverthe- poses formidable challenges. It is generally ultimate capacity of 55 billion cubic metres less, serious analysts state that Gazprom assumed the development would be split per year. The leg from Gryazovets to cannot develop Shtokman without western in four phases, with each phase to produce Vyborg will link the Nord Stream to the technology. But even western companies 22.5 billion cubic metres per year and important Russian Unified Gas Supply Sys- have to develop tailor-made solutions for 205,000 tonnes per year of condensate. tem (RUGSS). When the link is complete the gas field. After the completion of phase four, pro- the system will be nearly 3,000 kilometres duction should be 90 billion cubic metres in length. 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This has been a trend governments from all nine Baltic operations and investments, the challenges during the past century, when the length of Sea states and the EU is expected to ahead need to be addressed now. the ice season has decreased by 14–44 days. adopt a Baltic Sea Action Plan to reduce The number of very cold days has pollution in the Baltic Sea, one of the Eutrophication must be controlled decreased and during the past ten years, all world's most sensitive water basins. The warming will increase stress of the ice winters have been average, mild or One contribution to the minister's basis highly sensitive marine environment in the extremely mild. for decisions is a new report on the climate Baltic Sea, and the politicians will face a The scientists predict that the change change in the Baltic Sea. More than 80 sci- number of measures that the scientists say during this century will be dramatic, and at entists from 12 countries have contributed is necessary to improve the situation. the end of it, the Bothnian Sea, large areas and the result is that the warming trend is According to the scientists, eutrophica- of the Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Riga faster in the Baltic Sea area than in many tion must be controlled. The amount of and the outer parts of the south-western other regions. nutrition input to the sea has to be reduced archipelago of Finland will be on average The scientists expect the mean annual as well as input of heavy metals and haz- ice free. air temperature to increase by three to five ardous organic pollutants, and this could The length of the ice season will degrees during this century. Subject to lead to further limitations of what ships are decrease by 1–2 months in the north and uncertainties in the climate model projec- allowed to discharge into the sea. by 2–3 months in the central part of the tions, the scientists believe that the largest The report recommends that vessel emis- Baltic Sea. part of the warming will occur in the sions from fuel combustion and from Last season, traffic restrictions (when northern parts of the region in the winter antifouling should also be reduced and bal- assistance is given only to ice-classed ves- and in the south during summer. The last water releases prevented. sels) were in force for 155 days in the Bay growing season is expected to increase by Landscapes and habitats must be pro- of Bothnia, for 118 days in the Gulf of 20 to 50 days in the northern parts and by tected and native Baltic species conserved. Riga, 112 days in the Sea of Bothnia, 111 30 to 90 days in the south. Possible consequences of future decisions days in the Gulf of Finland and for 18 days During the same period, the mean sea to this effect could be alterations of ship- on the Swedish coast in the Baltic Sea. Less surface temperature will increase by two to ping routes and possibly traffic restrictions. ice will lead to changes in operational pat- four degrees, according to the projections In an operational point of view, the terns and in market conditions. Vessels based on modelling studies. largest impact of the warming process is without, or with low ice-class, will be able 18 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 Steering for Asia At Broström, we are looking forward to a doubling of our total capacity in Asia in 2007. To further strengthen our position in this region, we are now implementing our partnership with the Turkish company Dünya Shipping. 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The DAS/Azimuth alternative shows A shorter ice season of course doesn't new generation of ore carriers can operate the best performance with fuel and envi- mean lesser demand for resources to keep independent of icebreaker assistance, this ronment costs almost 25 per cent below shipping lines open during the cold peaks. resource could be deployed in another the reference vessel costs. Ice breaking is a costly business and the area. The scope of the study was to design present capacity is not sufficient to meet a three different ice-class 1A Super bulk car- No incentive for a shipowner growing demand for assistance during nor- riers and compare those with a convention- As always, there is however a snag in it. mal and severe ice seasons from a boosting al design. The DAS/Azimuth vessel is EUR 10 mil- maritime transport sector. Investments, operational costs and envi- lion, or 20 per cent, more expensive to ronmental impacts are compared. The build, and even if the vessel would be total- BIM study three designs are: ly exempted from the fairway dues, this is According to Baltic Icebreaking Manage- • a traditional ice bow vessel with a single far from enough to be an incentive for a ment (BIM), the industry and shipping CP propeller and a slow-speed diesel shipowner. companies must find alternative means to engine A conclusion in the report is that, look- secure time-scheduled traffic. The organisa- • a double-acting vessel (DAS) with ing at the overall picture, if sufficient eco- tion, which has members from all Baltic Sea Azimuth propulsion and nomic incentives are created, there is states, has therefore initiated a study aiming • a vessel similar to the double-acting ves- national economic gain to be made. An at finding solutions for frequent lines in sel, but with CRP-propulsion. independent vessel would remove opera- areas covered by ice for a long time. 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In the evening of March 6, In July 1987, a report from the public Put pressure on the first 1987, she capsized shortly after leaving Zee- inquiry on the sinking concluded that neg- brugge for Dover. 193 people, passengers ligence at every level of the company's hier- officer if you don't think he and crew, lost their lives. archy was what led to the disaster and that is moving fast enough … The investigation revealed that due to the failure of the shore management to give negligence, nobody closed the bow doors proper and clear directions was a contribu- before sailing. Less than two minutes after tory cause of the disaster. In the report, the deck to make sure the doors were closed, leaving the harbour, large quantities of wreck commissioner wrote: "From top to but the urge to keep the schedule made water began to enter the car deck. The bottom the body corporate was infected him leave the car deck and go to the open car deck had no dividers, thus allow- with the disease of sloppiness." bridge. The investigation found that this ing vehicles to drive in and out easily. was normal procedure. However, as she turned, it meant all water On schedule at all cost The operations manager in Zeebrugge flooded to one side. Apparently, the assistant bosun was had sent a memo in August 1986 that read: Within seconds, the ship began to list 30 responsible for shutting the bow doors. He "Put pressure on the first officer if you 22 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 don't think he is moving fast enough … in 1989, came the resolution adopting the Let's put the record straight, sailing late out first guidelines for a safety management sys- of Zeebrugge isn't on." tem. The purpose was to ensure safety and Finally, there was the captain who was prevent maritime casualties and pollution not able to see the bow doors from the of the sea and this was the forerunner to the bridge. He just assumed that they were ISM code that is mandatory since 1998. closed. One of the most important amendments is the SOLAS 90 that deals with the stabili- Other causes ty of passenger ships in damaged condi- Since one of the Herald's sister ships with- tion. It was actually initiated after the cap- out incident once sailed from Dover to Zee- sizing of the European Gateway in 1982, brugge with the bow doors open, it is but the work was no doubt put in higher believed that the open doors alone did not gear after the Herald disaster. Britain want- cause the capsize. But the Herald was also ed to make SOLAS 90 mandatory also on ballasted down to fit the loading ramp at existing ships, but although the IMO Zeebrugge, which was too low at high tide, member states agreed that an improvement and this together with the squat effect in the was needed, the majority felt that the stan- shallow water caused her to take in water. dard was too high and a modified, less Many of IMOs most important initia- costly alternative was agreed upon. After tives have been prompted by disasters, and the Estonia sank in 1994, further measures the shocks of the Herald of Free Enterprise were introduced and this time the SOLAS without doubt helped improve the ro-ro 90 standard was accepted. safety. The Herald of Free Enterprise was later The investigation In 1988 came amendments regarding the lifted and renamed the Flushing Range. revealed that due integrity of the hull and superstructure, She embarked on her final voyage to a to negligence, damage prevention and control. 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This project aimed at bringing all the paper from Stora's mills in Sweden to Göteborg, thereby making it a hub in Sto- ra's transport system, this was before the fusion between Swedish Stora and Finnish Enso. So far the project wasn't much about shipping. A SECU is the equivalent of 4 TEUs and in this system we handle 80 TEUs per hour. Jamie Pagara, second mate on the TransPulp, uses a remote control to operate the linkspans, upper and lower ramps, so they reach the ship's weather and main deck. "We started by looking at the railways. S tora Enso's transportation sys- today", says Stefan Horndahl, director of How many tonnes can we put on one tem, NETSS, is now complete. special projects at Stora Enso Transport metre of railroad, the only thing stopping Eight ships and 2,750 SECU- and Distribution in Göteborg. us was the overhead power transmission boxes transport the industrial NETSS, the North European Transport lines. That's how we came up with the groups paper in a fully integrat- Supply System, is Stora Enso's transport SECU", says Stefan Horndahl. ed system from the mills in Sweden and system connecting mills in Sweden, mills The SECU, Stora Enso Cargo Unit, is a Finland to the terminals on the continent, in southern and northern Finland, via very central ingredient in the NETSS since with Göteborg as the NETSS hub. Göteborg to continental terminals. Ship- this is the box into which up to 80 tonnes "There is no system more effective ping paper from the interior of the mills in of paper can be stuffed already inside the 24 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 FREDRIK DAVIDSSON mill, never to be handled again until it reaches the terminals on the continent. At a distance, or to the untrained eye, the SECU looks just like any other container but it is in fact just a weather proof cover placed on a cassette, and the SECU is also a lot larger than any standard container. The SECU never passes the terminals in either Britain or on the continent since they are built to fit so precisely into the Swedish railway system they are simply too large to be put into traffic in any other country. The cassette on the other hand is really nothing more than a very large pallet and a piece of equipment used by many other industries but in the NETSS case specially designed to fit the translifters from TTS Port equipment, a company based in Göteborg that has been involved in the project since the very beginning. The tug masters can work on both weather and main deck, as soon as the upper ramp has "Baseport and NETSS are really the been lowered. only, such large, project where suppliers have been involved from the beginning", lifters so that the translifter goes in under bit different in various ports, depending on says Lars-Gunnar Nyström at TTS. the cassettes at the bottom of the SECU, the space available. In Göteborg it is built lifts it up and takes it straight to the ship. in a way that enables the tug-masters to go Step-by-step development Since the large paper rolls are not handled up one ramp and down another, making it The traffic in NETSS has been developed at any time during the shipping the a simple one-way system. in stages where first the mills in Sweden, amount of damaged goods has been greatly The linkspans give access to both weath- via Göteborg, were connected to Zee- reduced, an achievement aimed at from the er and main deck on the purpose built ves- brugge and Immingham during Baseport. very beginning. sels with straight lanes and the dock work- In July 2005 southern Finland and Tillbury The Port of Göteborg has made large ers can roll on or off the SECUs from two were included, this was the first NETSS investments to facilitate the NETSS traffic, levels at a time. The purpose built vessels phase. Norhern Finland and Antwerp were a huge area has been laid with concrete to from Wagenborg and Transatlantic can incorporated in the system in July 2006 facilitate the handling of the SECU-boxes take 130 and 150 SECUs respectively. and finally traffic on Lübeck from January before and after loading and discharge of They have automatic lashing, either this year was the last stage. the vessels. The trains from the Swedish through special friction decks or automatic From the Swedish mills the paper arrives mills stop on the edge of this concrete area, lashing equipment. in Göteborg by train, 24 trains arrive at the reducing transports inside the harbour to a All together these components makes a harbour every week. Semi-automatic strad- minimal. very effective loading system dle carriers unload the trains. They put the Another vital part in the ports handling "A SECU is the equivalent of 4 TEUs SECUs on the ground where they are of the very heavy SECU, weighing over 90 and in this system we handle 80 TEUs per picked up by skilled drivers who manoeu- tonnes in total, is the linkspans. These hour, the best container handling cranes vre their tug masters with trailering trans- ramps connecting vessel with quay look a can do 40 TEUs per hour. That's how Find out more about us and our fire doors at NorShipping ™ in Oslo this June. Stand no. D05-23 Please read more on our website www.hellbergs.com DOORS YOU CAN RELY ON SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 25 responsible for fleet management in the NETSS traffic, which constitutes approxi- mately 20 per cent of the 17 million tonnes Veitsiluoto of cargo handled by the division. NETSS Kemi The system is profitable even if it only Shipping paper in the Oulo mill transports its own goods, the paper from same box from mill to Oulu the mills, and returns with the empty crossdocking terminal. SECU-boxes. But of course Stora Enso South Finnish does not mind filling the boxes on the Mill Cluster return trip back to the Scandinavian ports. Kvarnsveden Grycksbo Kotka Fors This, from the beginning, Skoghall Gruvön Swedish project Göteborg has been implemented Hylte on a corporate level. Running since July 2005 Immingham Running since July 2006 "To a certain extent it is already a two- Running since January 2007 way flow, for example we have made a deal Hub Ship with Volvo to ship cars from Zeebrugge to Tilbury übeck Lübeck Cross docking Train Kotka", says Jonas Wåhlin. Terminal Truck Mill There is also a considerable amount of Zeebrügge Zeebrügge Antwerp convenience goods flowing into the Port of Göteborg in Stora Enso's boxes. With the last part of the system, the northern Finland to Göteborg leg, opened effective this is", says Michel Lyrstrand, as up to 150 SECUs, they spend less than for traffic in January 2007 the system is research and product manager at TTS Port six hours in port. Nevertheless, TTS and complete and no more extensions are Equipment. Stora Enso have signed an agreement to do being planned at the moment. Any devel- Wagenborg's vessels Spaarneborg, Schie- a study with automatic guided vehicles opment lies in finding more goods for the borg, Slingeborg and Transatlantics Trans- (AGV). Where the translifter is trans- return trips. Paper, TransPulp and TransTimber are the formed into a vehicle that does not need a "NETSS has been a successful project, purpose built vessels in the system char- tug-master to pull it, and with a fleet of and the acknowledgement for that is the tered by StoraEnso, any additional tonnage AGVs in the ports, the two companies fact that this, from the beginning, Swedish needed are chartered on shorter or longer think the turn around time for the ships project has been implemented on a corpo- terms as it is necessary. The last of the spe- could be brought down to as little as one rate level. Had it not been economically cially designed vessels, the TransTimber, is hour. viable it would never have happened", says due to arrive in the middle of April. Joakim Lundman and Jonas Wåhlin at Joakim Lundman. Although the vessels can carry as much Stora Enso Logistics in Göteborg are f r e d r i k dav i d s s o n Welcome to Søby Værft AS New Dry Dock: 115x24x6 Søby Værft AS, Dokvej 5 DK 5985 Søby Ærø Ph: +45 6258 1123 www.shipyard.dk 26 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 SHIPBUILDING AND SHIP REPAIR Editor: Pär-Henrik Sjöström Cityvarvet in Göteborg. LASSE VOURIO Cruise ships – the Formula One class within shipbuilding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 DENMARK Steady flow for Danish yards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 New jobs with the new dry dock at Søby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 ESTONIA BLRT: current market situation favourable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 SRC: We are paid for quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 LTH-Baas: Big expansion plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 FINLAND Exceptional order intake at Finnish shipyards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Uki Workboat had a busy 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 GERMANY Shipbuilding never had it so good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Ship repair enjoys wide pallet of work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 LATVIA Riga Shipyard: 2008 portfolio is filling up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Tosmare Shipyard: no expansion plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 LITHUANIA Baltija: Caring about the staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Western Shipyard: Clients like our style of work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 NORWAY 2006 – a blissful bonanza for Norwegian shipbuilding . . . . . . . . . . 56 POLAND Sentenced to cut down on capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 RUSSIA Changes continue in Russian shipbuilding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 SWEDEN Shipbuilding and ship repair along the long Swedish coast . . . . . 66 Positive trend at Falkvarv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Öresundsvarvet will increase their resources for the future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Kockums – building invisible vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Landskronavarvet – with capacity for large ships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Götaverken Cityvarvet – a growing repair yard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 27 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R The Formula One class within shipbuilding Aker Yards is, together with its competitor Fincantieri, the world leader in building large cruise vessels. PÄR-HENRIK SJÖSTRÖM The Liberty of the Seas was on sea trials in December 2006 and is due for delivery in spring 2007. The market situation is extremely largest while Meyer Werft is a little bit Passenger vessels are mainly built at Aker good for shipyards building passenger smaller." Yards' shipyards in Finland and France. vessels. If the market continues to According to Mr Julin the competitive Some smaller ferries are also built in Nor- grow, Aker Yards might have to situation between these shipyards draws way, mainly for local traffic. Another increase their capacity to build cruise parallels to the "balance of terror" during exception is the two ultra-large ro-pax fer- vessels. the cold war. ries ordered by Stena. Cruise & Ferries "It is virtually impossible for any of us organisation in Finland closed the deal T he order backlog for large cruise three to grow by acquiring another one. A with Stena, but still the vessels are going to vessels is all time high with takeover is out of question not at least due be built in Germany. deliveries until year 2012. Dur- to competition legislation. The situation ing the years 2007 to 2009 nine with just two players, of which one would large cruise vessels will be deliv- be considerable larger than the other one, It is virtually impossible ered each year in the world and thereafter is not an option for any competition six in 2010, two in 2011 and one in 2012, authorities", Mr Julin states. for any of us three including letters of intent. All these vessels In today's situation he sees that the only are built on European shipyards and nine condition for expansion for the cruise ves- to grow by acquiring of them on shipyards belonging to Aker sel builders is that the market continues to another one. Yards. grow, and the three shipyards compete to President Yrjö Julin of Aker Yards, get their share of this growth. Cruise & Ferries business area, thinks that "This is a typical way to handle things in building cruise ships is the most prestigious Finland and France Aker Yards. The unit, which is responsible sector within shipbuilding. Aker Yards is divided into three business for the business area makes the deal and "It is like Formula One in racing, the areas: Cruise & Ferries, Merchant Vessels then we look at the optimal place to build most demanding class, and Aker Yards is a and Offshore & Specialized Vessels. the ships regarding to the actual situation main player in this class", he says. Cruise & Ferries count for the largest re- with capacity. We are indeed able to build "There are thousands of shipyard enter- venues, but also the other two areas are vessels across our administrative borders", prises in the world, but only three of them important. Aker Yards is for example a Mr Julin states. are today capable of building large cruise market leader regarding the types of ships "We optimize expressly the whole Aker vessels. They are all situated in Europe. included in Offshore & Specialized Ves- Yards, not the individual shipyards within Aker Yards and Fincantieri are the clearly sels. the group. There is no option, as Aker 28 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 First Class tankers: a new perspective KING Tankers are like a work of art – the more quality they offer, the more TA ERS valuable they are. Welcome to GL, your First Class partner in improving A NK the operational safety and profitability of your tankers! Y TS SL ERIOU Germanischer Lloyd Aktiengesellschaft Vorsetzen 35 · 20459 Hamburg/Germany Phone +49 40 36149-0 · Fax +49 40 36149-200 firstname.lastname@example.com · www.gl-group.com S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R AKER YARDS Yards is a true global player with activities Norwegian Cruise Line last autumn at 17 shipyards in seven countries, soon 18 ordered two very large vessels from Aker in eight." Yards in France. "We hope that this will lead to a long Successful integration customer relationship", says Mr Julin. According to Mr Julin, the integration of The other main new customer with Aker the former Alstom-owned shipyard Yards is MSC, which for several years have Chantiers de l'Atlantique with plants in placed their orders at Chantiers de l'Atlan- Saint-Nazaire and Lorient, France, has so tique. far succeeded extremely well. The large shipyard at Saint-Nazaire has built a row of More capacity needed excellent cruise vessels, such as the Queen The future development of the shipyards Mary 2. within Aker Yards, Cruise & Ferries Mr "Acquired last year, the French shipyards Julin thinks is very closely connected to the have been a positive experience for us. development of the cruise market. The There have been no strikes due to the acquisition of the French shipyards was a change of ownership. The French feel that remarkable addition of capacity for Aker they have now come into a group where Yards. However, it did not bring any new ship building is the core business." capacity to the market, as it already was an Mr Julin stresses that when they still existing facility. were a part of the gigantic Alstom group, "If the market continues to grow like they were far away from the core business. today, we have to take into consideration As a matter of fact, the owner stated that it the possibility to increase our newbuilding Yrjö Julin, President of Aker Yards, Cruise & wanted to get rid of the shipbuilding activ- Ferries business area. capacity for cruise vessels. A solution ities. might be to expand the activities in one of "When we come to France we made it our Finnish shipyards, another to convert clear that we love shipbuilding and that the "Regarding health, safety and environ- one of our existing shipyards outside Fin- French yards form a central part of our ment Aker Yards have stipulated six basic land for building passenger vessels. No group", clarifies Mr Julin. values, that are most important to us and doubt the management has to work Soon after the deal was closed on May must be followed in the whole group. But intensely with these strategic questions in 31, 2006, an ambitious programme was still we respect local cultures and habits the future", says Mr Julin. launched to streamline the organisation. and provide space for them on top of these Within a short time perspective Mr Julin Aker Yards aiming at a annual saving of common values". does not foresee an addition of cruise ship EUR 100 million until the end of 2011. building capacity coming from shipyards "We established 12 workgroups contain- New customers outside Europe. He thinks that the compe- ing some 300 people and chartered a pri- When looking at the order books, it tition from Asian shipyards is still many vate jet to fly them between Turku and becomes obvious that the different cruise years away in the cruise ship sector. Saint-Nazaire. They set up the plans that shipping companies prefer certain ship- "Today there exists not even the basic we now are starting to implement", Mr yards. For example Carnival Corporation is know-how for handling a large cruise vessel Julin informs. clearly oriented towards Fincantieri while project neither in South Korea nor in Chi- So far there has not been any clash Norwegian Cruise Line for a long time has na." between the different cultures, when inte- ordered their newbuildings from Meyer He also stresses that it is not just enough grating the French shipyards into the Werft. with shipyards building the vessels. The organisation. "It is true that there are quite long rela- shipyards need a network of hundreds of tionships between customers and ship- subcontractors, building the vessel together yards. In Finland we have been co-operat- with the shipyard, like it is made in ing with Royal Caribbean for 38 years", Europe. says Mr Julin. "Simple ferries are already built in both "Before the acquisition of the French Korea and China, but still most of the ferries shipyard group we had only one main cus- are built in Europe. In a long term perspec- tomer in the cruise segment. Now we are in tive it is possible that the skills of the ship- the lucky position that three of the world's yards in South Korea and China increase four largest cruise shipping companies gradually, allowing them to build more have ships in order at Aker Yards. An sophisticated ferries. The next step would be important reason for the acquisition of the small cruise vessels, which again leads to French shipyard was to strengthen our large cruise vessels. This is likely going to strategic position as a cruise ship builder", happen in the future, but it is by no means Mr Julin continues. reality today", Mr Julin points out. This strategy has already paid off, as pä r - h e n r i k s j ö s t r ö m 30 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R There has been a steady flow of work for Orskov's at Frederikshavn. BENT MIKKELSEN Steady flow for Danish yards T he Danish ship repair scene has not spend more on maintenance of the ships in Generally there is a shortage of hands in changed much in the past twelve a healthy circle that also keeps the Port Danish industry and therefore a number months. Most significant is the inau- State Control officers away. of Poles have been taken into Denmark, guration of a new facility at Søby on the The healthy market, with money on and a fair number of these are shipyard Isle of Ærø. both sides of the table, also has a positive workers. effect on the imbalance between Danish Denmark continues to have only two DENMARK shipyards and low price countries like shipyards that deliver new ships in large Poland and the Baltic states. Danish ship- sizes – Karstensens Skibsværft at Skagen The majority of the other facilities in yards are normally more careful with deliv- and Odense Steel Shipyard – while at least Denmark have been working with a rising ery on time from the shipyard, which can four works in the smaller segment. The number of clients in a healthy market for save the owner a number of days off hire. two Hvide Sande-based Vestværftet – ship repairs. The market is still good for One strange effect of globalization within which delivers smaller fishing vessels and earning money from the ships and this has the EU is that a growing number of work- last year a tug for Lerwick – and Hvide an immediate effect on the owners as they ers at the shipyard are imported Poles. Sande Skibs- & Bådebyggeri build all kinds SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 31 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R of newbuildings from copies of viking Frederikshavn This includes a general overhaul of the ships to the first trimaran in commercial Danish Peder Tordenskiold. use. Orskov Yard can look back on a twelve Furthermore Skagen Yachts build patrol month period with a steady flow of work vessels for the Danish navy along with on the facilities with two dry docks and Fredericia super-yachts, and this also goes for Århus two floating docks. The customers range Fredericia Skibsværft almost got themselves Shipyard, which has produced several from the ferry operators DFDS Seaways, a new floating dock in the last twelve super-yachts in the last few years. Color Line and Fjord Line to a large num- months. Last spring the Panamax dock ber of supply vessels from Norwegian own- developed some cracks during the docking ers and operators. of a vessel. A repair job was carried out at Skagen The yard has won a number of contracts the facilities of Odense Steel Shipyard leav- Karstensens Skibsværft has delivered two from the supply-owners around the North ing the yard without the biggest dock for super-fishing vessels during 2006 and is Sea area. Also a number of other ships seven weeks. presently working on the first of two new have visited Frederikshavn, which has gath- The rest of the year has been a busy job patrol vessels for the Danish Navy's sover- ered a number of sub-suppliers in a net- keeping up with all the customers. At the eignty keeping in Greenland waters. The work offering a total packet solution for moment the second of two major rebuilds fishing vessels were the Isafold and the shipowners. of a Maersk Supply vessel is well in hand. Cattlaya. The Mærsk Attender is half way through the During the year, repairs have been made conversion from a super-supply vessel to a on the slipway (capable of ships up to Århus craned offshore vessel. The first month of 3,000 DWT) on a number of ships of vari- Århus Yard A/S is about to enlarge the the year has seen the traditional ferry-repair ous types from fishing vessels to passenger facilities. A second-hand dock was pur- time with ferries from DFDS, Color Line vessels and chemical tankers. chased in Norway (originally the dock was and Scandlines in the dock in Fredericia. Karstensens Skibsværft is still waiting operated in Peterhead, Scotland) and towed for its new facility, a 110-metres long dry to Århus. At the moment the dock is being dock. It is still under construction and prepared and repaired before being placed Assens has proved to be more difficult to build at the yard in the same position where an Assens Skibsværft has recently been taken than expected. There have been some older dock worked until 1999, when the old over by two local owners after purchase serious delays in the process and the dock yard closed down. On the repair side Århus from Fredericia Skibsværft. The first year will not be ready until the early summer Yard have had a number of smaller ferries has been rather busy with a couple of big this year. along with several naval vessels for repair. conversions. They came from Rederiet M. H. Simonsen of Svendborg, which had to convert three of its double-hull tankers for BENT MIKKELSEN edible oil. Edible oil has been reclassed as from January 1, 2007, and is now an IMO II product. This changed the requirements for M. H. Simonsen's three tankers, the Oraness, Orakota and Orateca. One of the complicated things was to enlarge the side- ballast tanks by 20 centimetres on each side and fit them with piping. Søby Søby Værft started working with their new facility; the 110-metre dry dock, in Octo- ber 2006. See the special article about the yard. Marstal Marstal Værft A/S, which is a part of the Petersen & Sørensen Group in Svendborg, has had a steady flow of repairs during the year. The customers range from Norwegian coaster owners to Danish ferry operators as well as coaster owners and entrepreneurs, who needed docking of their equipment. Fyrholm is one of the new navy ships from Danish Yachts at Skagen. Also some naval vessels have been repaired 32 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R BENT MIKKELSEN in Marstal. The latest is the ice patrol vessel Agdleq. Svendborg At first sight the J. Ring-Andersens Skibs- værft looks like something from the past. A floating dock amongst a forest of wooden masts from old-fashioned sailing vessels is a reality at Svendborg and its facility. The yard, founded in the 1880s, still keeps the tradition of wooden ships and the skill attracts owners of these vessels. In February the training ship Georg Stage, the world's smallest square-rigged vessel, arrived at the dock at Ring-Andersen for a general over- haul and change of the main engine. This vessel too is built with a steel hull, which can be repaired at the old wooden yard in Svendborg. The new dock for Århus Yard A/S shortly after arrival from lay up in Norway. Odense also for a threat from the owners, which number of G-class vessels. But rumour has The A. P. Møller-Mærsk owned Odense gave the yard a last chance to become it that A. P. Møller-Mærsk as a client has Steel Shipyard made the headlines last profitable. The alternative is closing given the yard the go-ahead to try to sell year, mainly for the delivery of the down the facility. the G-class vessels (six ships) to another world's largest container carrier the At the moment the order book contains operator if possible. Emma Mærsk and its three sisters. But a further five E-class container ships and a bent mikkelsen Guaranteed to keep you going A SHELL-COMPANY Low sulphur products Sannes AB Your marine fuel & lubricant supplier All grades available Phone: +46 31 733 06 00 (24 hrs) email@example.com www.shell.com/marine S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R New jobs with the new dry dock at Søby Renewal of steel in the cargohold on a dredger. BENT MIKKELSEN S øby Værft A/S can now look back at months longer than stipulated in the con- The new dock with its new customers has the first couple of months with a tract. also generated a new problem: getting more large dry dock at the port of Søby "We have had some interesting jobs now manpower. This has turned out to be more on the Isle of Ærø. when we can offer to dock bigger ships difficult than expected. The staff has grown The readying of the dock took six than before", explains Roar Falkenberg, from around 100 persons to 183 persons in CEO of Søby Værft. "So far things are February. A number of these are Polish moving in the right direction for our ship- shipyard workers hired via an agency for BENT MIKKELSEN yard and we learn something new every workers in Poland. A few – nine – Polish day", the CEO adds. workers are permanently employed at Søby. One of the things they learned by doing "These Polish workers are doing very is that a tug on station in Søby should be well at Søby," Road Falkenberg, says. "And part of the equipment in stock at Søby if necessary we will employ more Polish Værft. people." "We thought that it was easy to call a tug in to help us in Søby, but it turned out to Finest know-how retiring be more expensive and more complicated The trouble getting the qualified workforce than expected", says Roar Falkenberg. "So has revealed another problem for Søby we are in the process of looking at a tug for Værft. purchase under our own colours." "We realised that within the next few Now that the dock is working, Søby years 20 to 30 of our staff will retire. That is The Wrist tanker Olivia is the biggest vessel Værft has started on the next stage, enlarg- an even bigger problem," the CEO adds. so far under repair at Søby. ing the facilities for the workforce. 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Box 151, SE-421 22 Västra Frölunda, Sweden Phone +46-(0)31-69 63 00, Fax +46-(0)31-69 63 97 www.jotun.se S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R BLRT: current market situation favourable MADLI VITISMANN These big factories can't survive on ship building and repairs alone. clients, including a Turkish shipping com- pany. The docks are booked solid until May, and the fast ferries, amongst others, The thousandth lashing bridge from BLRT Marketex. will be queuing up prior to the start of the high season. F jodor Berman, chairman of the man- the lack of available workers, especially Smaller vessels are repaired at Peetri har- agement board of the BLRT Group, among welders. bour, but it was also here that BLRT Lae- is in an optimistic frame of mind. "These big factories can't survive on ship vaehitus built the hull of the fishing bait Negotiations are finished with the govern- building and repairs alone," Mr Berman transporter Arctic Lady last year. The ship ment of the Åland Islands for the building says. "That's why the Western Shipyard in was then handed over for final construc- of a new ferry – the details of an exciting Klaipeda, following Tallinn's example, has tion to the Norwegian party who ordered order are being ironed out in Germany – restructured and diversified its operations." it, Myklebust Prosjekt. and with the Saaremaa Shipping Compa- Personnel director Heinart Puhkim BLRT has founded a subsidiary, called ny's ferry order comes the promise of explains what the group needs. Having Valgekaru, to carry out in-service repairs, potential subcontracting work on the con- grown so big, the company could easily but its operations are yet to fully get off the struction of its hull. There are even plans lose sight of who is doing what, and that is ground. for a new series of dry cargo ships. why it has continued with its group forum madli vitismann for a second year. Its focus this year has ESTONIA been on the implementation of communi- MADLI VITISMANN cation theory, which also meets the EU Half of the group is based in Lithuania, directive on the provision of information which is why, Mr Berman explains, a num- to and consultation of employees. ber of partnership formats operate within BLRT, like other Estonian companies, is it. The sections are produced in Klaipeda, affected by the lack of available labour, and for example, while the hull is assembled in to remedy this, salaries are being raised. Tallinn. This is practical with ships up to According to Dmitri Kubyshkin, a member 100 metres in length, but larger vessels of the management board, pay has gone up have to be built in Klaipeda from the out- ten per cent in a year despite the fact that set. Even with the prospective Saaremaa productivity is not keeping pace. Increased Shipping Company order it would have to turnover is not increasing profitability, be weighed up whether costs would be although the group should be satisfied kept lower in Klaipeda or Tallinn. with the results of the past year. Around 30 per cent of the group's pro- duction takes place in Klaipeda, as well as Dock space is booked half of its repair work and an even greater Tallinn Shipyard carried out repairs on 150 proportion of its shipbuilding. EUR 60 ships last year, and currently has the SOL's million has already been poured into it, Balticland in for hull cleaning and painting and further investments, larger than those and exchanging old metal, pipes and made in Tallinn, are in the planning stages. equipment for new. Ships belonging to However, while the market situation both Estonian and Lithuanian owners have may be good, restrictions are enforced by been repaired, as well as those of other Automated welding at BLRT Marketex. 38 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R SRC: We are paid for quality ❯ Two half-finished tankers are moored MADLI VITISMANN at SRC, Ship Repair & Conversion, in Paljassaare harbour in Tallinn. Once the work is finished on them, two more will take their place. The tanker Vedrey Tora for Svithoid Tankers will be ready in April. This is one month later than the original deadline, as Svithoid decided to convert the ship from a product tanker into a chemical tanker, and waiting on new plans saw the end date postponed. The second tanker in the series, the Vedrey Thor, is shortly to have its main engine and superstructure put in place. Installation of the engines of both ships has fallen to Estonia, after the Naantali stage originally planned for the Astrakhan- built hulls also fell by the wayside. The Vedrey Tora, just converted into a chemical tanker, is the first in a series The towing of a third tanker's hull to for Svithoid Tankers. Tallinn from the MNP Group's shipyard in Astrakhan will begin in the middle of May assembly metal workers. One of the rea- should theoretically be 10 per cent cheaper while the keel of another one will be laid. sons the hulls were ordered from Astra- than the second. Unfortunately, the cost of An option for a fifth and sixth tanker is khan is that there was less of a problem both the first and second tankers has been valid until the end of June. finding welders there than in Tallinn. the same – due, according to Mr Kaarma, "If the state was capable of providing the to the rise in labour costs. No workers of their own basic education, we could educate them Neeme Kaarma, the managing director of further and offer them experience," says Complex ships SRC Uusehitised, explains that two thirds Mr Kaarma. "Until that happens we have "We've exhibited some pretty high quality of the 200 workers are on the payrolls of to manage with welders and metal workers work, and quality is what we are being paid Estonia's five largest subcontractors, while brought in from abroad. They don't come for right now," he says. the rest belong to smaller companies. SRC cheaply, but quality and speed count." He underscores the complexity of the has no workers of their own – only masters Mr Kaarma says that where money could ships that are being constructed: "With and managers. The rise of labour costs in be saved most at present is in technological these tankers Svithoid has planned the best Estonia has already made the ships more preparation: possible level of supply, and heightened expensive, albeit not significantly. For "One of the biggest steps we've been requirements mean the ships will operate Estonian subcontractors with good special- weighing up is if we could get a 3D model to a more densely packed schedule. All ists, salary levels are such that workers are of the engine room and produce all of the operations of the ships will be controlled not inclined to leave. parts based on that and then put them from the bridge alone, and the integrated It is a sign though that shipyard workers together in the engine room itself." automation system will mean that every- in Estonia are not being trained, and as a The second tanker should cost 15 per thing on the bridge is duplicated." result there is a lack of good welders and cent less than the first one, while the third madli vitismann Kockum Sonics - our strength is your benefit ® ® ® Kockum Sonics- your supplier of TYFON , LOADMASTER , LEVELMASTER level gauging ® system , SHIPMASTER flexible cargo & ballast system and sound cleaning tools. KOCKUM SONICS, Tel:+46 40 671 88 00, Fax: +46 40 21 65 13, www.kockumsonics.com SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 39 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R LTH-Baas: Big expansion plans ❯ "Our Director of Marketing is in negoti- hostel, being dry-docked and renovated at AUGUST BÖTTIGER ations in France, we're exhibiting at a the MarinV Naval Workshops at Muskö, trade fair in Miami, we're having to bring can be completed by the ten months dead- our workers back from Spain and we're line stipulated in the tender documents working on a national tender in Sweden," from the af Chapman owner, the City of says Aleksandr Maljugin, director of LTH- Stockholm. Three months of work have Baas, reeling off a list of just some of the already gone into the ship, with the total things his company is currently involved in. cost of the order coming in at around two In March the company will be opening a million EUR. However, the chief contrac- subsidiary, LTH Oy, in Turku, Finland. tors, Wårö Stål, are only halfway through Having so far achieved success by sending their work on the hull of the af Chapman. out mobile teams of workers from Estonia to other countries, the company is being Onto the next sea The af Chapman going into the rock covered forced to establish a more static subsidiary LTH-Baas' expansion plans have taken the dry-dock of the MarinV Naval Workshops at due to changes in Finnish taxation law. company to the Seatrade Cruise Shipping Muskö. Another subsidiary may also need to be Convention in Miami, supported by the formed in France. Enterprise Estonia, as they plan to take on ki route also remain among their clients. Its existing Estonian subsidiary, LTH Inte- the repairs of such ships in the future. At According to Mr Maljugin, the price of rior, is currently engaged in the repairs of present they employ up to 150 full-time LTH-Baas' services has not risen signifi- the three-mast full-rigged vessel, af Chap- workers, with around half of them in cantly, even though labour no longer man, in Sweden. According to sales manag- Estonia. Repairs are being made to the comes as cheaply as it used to. As a lot of er Lars Nordqvist, the interior of the steel- Meloodia, for example, as it sails on the its work is abroad, the company is able to hulled ship has been stripped and a new one line leaving from Barcelona. Shipping pay good wages. is in production so that work on the floating companies ploughing the Tallinn–Helsin- madli vitismann Get the big picture of North European shipping With a monthly gazette, a weekly newsletter and a daily updated website. Sign up for a year of interesting and informative reading at www.shipgaz.com 40 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 – Always at your disposal Dry dock Crane Capacity Floating dock 195m x 34m x 7m West Quay 130 and 90 tonnes 105m x 20m x 5,5m Crane capacity The 130 tonne crane also serves Crane capacity 50, 30 and 20 tonnes the South Quay 10 and 5 tonnes Öresundsvarvet AB Phone +46 418 565 80 Telephone (outside offic hours) Box 701 Fax +46 418 565 89 Phone +46 (0) 70 565 80 68 261 27 Landskrona firstname.lastname@example.com +46 (0) 70 565 80 15 Sweden www.oresundsvarvet.se +46 (0) 70 565 80 97 +46 (0) 73 765 65 01 www.oresundsvarvet.se S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R Exceptional order intake at Finnish shipyards Aker Yards Helsinki shipyard. Tallink's ro-pax ferry the Star is at the outfitting quay. AKER YARDS After an exceptional order intake "After all the positive publicity with during 2005 and the beginning of large new orders, it seems like the ship- Young people feel 2006, Aker Yards' Finnish shipyards are building industry again has a strongly posi- now fully booked until the end of tive image in Finland. Young people feel that this is a branch 2008. that this is a branch of the future", explains Ms Railo. of the future. T wo firm orders were added to the order book in early 2006 and in Jan- First of the largest tures. The cabins and balconies are among uary 2007, increasing the contract The Finnish shipyards of Aker Yards are the most spacious ever built in a ship. The value of the vessels to be delivered by the mainly active in the Cruise & Ferries busi- double-occupancy passenger capacity is Finnish shipyards to a total of EUR 3.3 bil- ness area. The acquisition of the French 3,600. lion. shipyard Chantiers de l'Atlantique was finalized at the end of May 2006 and the Several ships from Rauma FINLAND French yard was thereafter integrated in the The Rauma shipyard handed over the third Cruise & Ferries business area. cruise ferry of the Romantika type to the Ms Sinikka Railo, communications Last year Aker Yards completed six ves- Tallink Group on April 18, 2006. The EUR manager at Aker Yards, Cruise & Ferries sels at their Finnish shipyards. 165 million Galaxy is in service with short in Finland, says that the situation is prob- On April 13, 2006, the world's largest cruises from Helsinki to Tallinn. Slightly ably better than ever for the shipyards in cruise vessel, the Freedom of the Seas, left larger than the near sisters Romantika and Finland. Also earlier problems concern- the Turku shipyard for Hamburg, where Victoria I, the Galaxy is one of the largest ing shortage of labour seem to have been she was handed over to the owner on April cruise ferries in the Baltic Sea, with a capac- at least partially solved. The outcome of a 24 after a short docking. The Freedom of ity for 2,800 passengers. massive recruitment campaign, aimed at the Seas is the first vessel in a series of The forest products carriers TransPaper getting more than two hundred new three. The design of the Freedom class is and TransPulp were also completed by the employees to Aker Yards' shipyards in based on the Voyager class, but they are 15 Rauma shipyard last year. These are includ- Finland, has turned out to be successful. per cent larger and have many new fea- ed in a series of three ships ordered by 42 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R Baltic Container Shipping for Stora Enso's ship will be named the Independence of early 2008. The project is called "Viking shipments of forest products from North- the Seas. XPRS" and the vessel is designed for the ern Finland to Sweden and Germany. The The Freedom class will be followed up Helsinki–Tallinn route. With a capacity for vessels are managed and operated by Red- by the even larger Project Genesis – a some 1,000 lane metres of vehicles and eri AB Transatlantic, which has a time char- 220,000 GT cruise ship that will dwarf 2,500 passengers, the ferry will reach a ter agreement with Stora Enso. The third most of the vessels afloat of any type. This speed of 25 knots. vessel, the TransTimber, is soon to enter vessel too was ordered by Royal Intended for the same route is also service. Caribbean International and the contract Tallink's newbuilding the Star, which is The fourth delivery from the Rauma was signed in February 2006. The proto- scheduled for delivery in spring 2007. She shipyard was the fast missile craft Pori. This type will be delivered by the Turku ship- will carry up to 2,000 lane metres of cargo is the fourth and last fast surface combat- yard in 2009 and has the impressive main and 1,900 passengers with a speed of 27 ant of the Hamina class. dimensions of 360 meters length, 47 knots. meters width and a height of 65 meters Tallink also has on order a sister ship to Arctic container vessel above the water line. She will accommo- the cruise ferry Galaxy for delivery in sum- In April 2006 the shipyard in Helsinki date 5,400 passengers. mer 2008. handed over the prototype for an Arctic Fast car and passenger ferries are also container carrier to the Russian company Large and fast on order by Color Line. Aker Yards will MMC Norilsk Nickel. Named the Noril- For Viking Line, Aker Yards is building a deliver two vessels with a capacity for skiy Nickel, the vessel is designed for carry- fast car/passenger ferry to be delivered in 2,000 lane metres and 1,900 passengers ing metallurgical products from Dudinka PÄR-HENRIK SJÖSTRÖM on the River Yenisey to Murmansk. The Norilskiy Nickel left Helsinki on March 3, 2006, for ice trials in Arctic con- ditions in the waters north of Russia and was handed over to the owners in Mur- mansk on April 11. This prototype is based on the double-acting ship concept devel- oped by Aker Yards. Even larger ships to come Although not to be delivered by any of the Finnish shipyards, two newbuildings for Stena Line are to be designed by Aker Yards in Finland. The vessels will be the largest ro-pax ferries in the world, capable of carrying 5,500 lane metres of cargo and 1,200 passengers. The vessels will be built in Germany for delivery in 2010. The Turku shipyard will deliver two more vessels of the Freedom class to Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd in spring 2007 and spring 2008 respectively. The Liberty of the Seas completed her sea trials in December 2006 and the third and final Freedom class The hull of the Color Magic was built in Turku and towed to Rauma for outfitting. Partner at sea on navigation, communication and IT Zeatec Group, +46 304 670 680, firstname.lastname@example.com, www.zeatec.com S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R AKER YARDS ter vessel to the Color Fantasy. The cruise ferry Color Magic will join her elder sister on the Oslo–Kiel route in the fourth quar- ter of 2007. Channel ferries Brittany Ferries has two newbuildings on order in Finland at Aker Yards. A ro-pax ferry will be handed over in 2007. The ves- sel is designed to carry 2,200 lane metres of road cargo vehicles between France and England at a speed of 23 knots. She will be equipped with 120 cabins for drivers. In January 2006 Aker Yards and the French company Brittany Ferries turned a letter of intent into a firm contract for building a ferry with a capacity for 1,500 passengers and 1,100 lane metres. The ves- The newbuildings TransPaper and Galaxy at Aker Yards Rauma shipyard. sel will be delivered in October 2008. Also this ferry will be employed in the English for Color Line's services between Norway for day crossings and have a service speed Channel on a route between France and and Denmark in 2007 and 2008. The of 27 knots. the United Kingdom. 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As recently as February she the first nine months of 2006 they took fur- also warned that not only low wages were a ther orders for 59 ships of more than a mil- years of bloodletting threat but that Asian competitors were lion GT worth EUR 3.8 billion, taking total gaining in technological strength and orders in hand as of last September to 236 in German shipyards. know-how as well. ships of 4.2 CGT worth EUR 12.9 billion. Statistically, that's enough to keep German ative shipbuilders are enough to combat Good times still rolling yards happy for another four years. the threats. But for that to happen, Lundt Wöhrl urged continued strong investment The German shipbuilding association stresses the industry needs not only more in research and development. An EU deci- VSM shares the happiness of its members investment in research, development and sion to continue to allow member states to but draws attention to growing competi- innovation but also more qualified workers. subsidise their shipyards for a further two tion not only from South Korea, Japan and The search for staff is a tune now being years will undoubtedly help that, even if China, but also now from Vietnam and the hummed by many and it comes as an ironic the VSM would have preferred a three year Philippines. twist after years of bloodletting in German extension. VSM MD Werner Lundt is optimistic shipyards, particularly in the former GDR. 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Earlier it delivered the port would rocket over the next few years customer-oriented smaller 1,400 and 1,600 two 93,500 GT sisters Norwegian Pearl and and fleets would have to grow enormously TEU ships, delivering six ships with 15 Pride of Hawaii for NCL and had eight to meet it. more listed for delivery this year and next. cruise ships on order late 2006, keeping it The other ships were from Neptun, now busy well into the next decade. It has also concentrating on building inland cruise just signed an LOI for two 122,000 GT Dis- East Germany's modern ships. It has delivered eleven since 2002. Its ney ships and was building passenger ships fifth TwinCruiser, the Avalon Imagery, left for Indonesia and gas tankers for Norway. shipyards now bear in February and her sister, the Avalon Tran- quility, in January. FSG in Flensburg no resemblance to the Together, the east German yards had 75 World leading ro-ro builder FSG in Flens- crumbling dinosaurs ships on order worth EUR 3.4 billion at burg took orders for two more Turkish the start of 2007 – enough to ships and said it was fully of the former GDR. keep their 5,000 employees booked to mid 2010. SSG busy until mid 2009. And they learned that the four Con- are not all boxships. Ro200 ships booked last year at Liquid cargo transport in particular Aker's list includes special FSG for an unidentified owner would increase, von Bauer added, predict- Arctic cargo ships as well as were in fact, as thought, for ing that gas shipping demand would dou- two 62,000 GT, 22 knot ro-pax Cobelfreight bringing that ble in five years with customers plumping ferries worth EUR 400 million. firm's orders to six. for ships in order to stay independent of As well as boxships, Volk- Tanker specialists Lindenau pipeline supplies and offshore production swerft has anchor handling Schiffswerft was delivering Sea- increasing. supply ships for Maersk and sprat, the third of five 40,500 Peene Werft has two fisheries DWT tankers, its biggest to East Germany protection vessels worth EUR Dagmar Wöhrl, the date, and readying a fourth for new Maritime Co- In east Germany's modern shipyards, 63 million for the German ordinator in Germany. delivery in July. They follow which still lead German production, the authorities and plans co-opera- Seatrout and Seacod last year. boom continued in 2006. Aker Wismar, tion with west German sister Rolandwerft Finally the small Cassens yard was busy up Aker Warnemuende, Volkswerft in Stral- to build tankers, reefers and lo-ro ships. to late 2009 building a new series of ten sund and Peene-Werft in Wolgast – all In what can be no more than just a men- 724 TEU, 8,600 DWT "CW 7800 gearless" rebuilt with billions in state aid after re-uni- tion of a few other achievements in Ger- feeder ships for German owners. fication in the 1990s – as well as Meyer man yards of late, the remarkable Meyer to m to d d subsidiary Neptun Werft in Rostock, now bear no resemblance to the crumbling dinosaurs of the former GDR, which used to employ five times as many people as now. The east German yards, together turning over about a billion Euro and no longer hamstrung by EU production quotas, delivered 24 ships of 524,000 CGT in 2006 worth about EUR 900 million. The deliv- ery of 28 container ships is planned this year. Improved and leaner production techniques and efficient ships have enabled them to hold their own against cheaper Asian yards. Norwegian-owned Aker yards in Wismar and Warnemünde delivered 13 container ships in 2006, three more than in 2005. A spokesman said divided production – bows built in Warnemünde and sterns and assembly in Wismar – was paying off. In future, sections will be built at a new assembly plant in Lubmin, near Greif- swald. Volkswerft, owned by A.P. Møller- The east German yards still lead the field. SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 47 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R Ship repair enjoys wide pallet of work Meiderich dry-lands in Heidelberg. T here has been a good mix of passen- Before the Britannica came in, LWB fin- work and painting, took nearly three ger and cargo ship repair and conver- ished lengthening the Italian reefer Cala months. sion in German yards of late, inland Pino. She got an additional 15.7 × 24 The yard also repaired and modernised as well as in the usual larger coastal facilities. meters section, weighing 510 tons as did the German frigate Luebeck. Lloydwerft Bremerhaven (LWB) went three sisters in for similar work, a series into 2007 brimming with orders, its new project which reports said LWB got Motorenwerke Bremerhaven partnership with Fincantieri promising because of the new partner Fincantieri. LWB neighbour Motorenwerke Bremer- more cruise ship work and future stability. All the more embarrassing, then, that one haven, MWB, meanwhile completed the Fincantieri, for its part, saves money and of the ships, the Cala Palma, should be dam- lengthening of a series of four 32,600 time by having North Sea and Baltic cruise aged by fire in August while docked at LWB. DWT German general cargo ships: the ships call at LWB rather than sail back to The yard has just recently announced a con- Toscana, the Masuren, the Algarve and the the Mediterranean. tract to repair the vessel "up to November". Normandie. Construction of a new Kaiserschleuse She was badly buckled, so the time taken for Handling one ship a month, the yard lock in Bremerhaven also means that big- insurers to decide on repair rather than inserted 16.1 meters midbody sections ger ships will have access to LWB from scrapping appeared understandable. increasing tonnage to 36,000 DWT and 2010, like the giant Maersk container ships Other recent work at LWB included the length to 189.7 meters. Cranes were also serving terminals up the road. Work on the modernisation and overhaul of the Meyer- upgraded, fuel-saving equipment installed new 305 × 55 m lock was starting this year. built, 76,152 GT regular caller Oriana. and nautical gear modernised. LWB also refurbished the 20,077 GT rail Another neighbour, Bremerhavener Lengthening at LWB ferry Rider, ex Railship II, renaming her Dock (BREDO), repaired extensive bot- Just completed at LWB was the conversion Baltiysk. The job, involving steel and track tom damage on the 304 TEU feeder Trans of Stena's 43,487 GT Stena Britannica into Frej. She grounded in January and some the biggest ro-pax ship afloat. Work on the 200 tons of new steel were needed for her 33,769 GT Stena Hollandica was getting month-long repair. under way as SSG went to press, for com- In Hamburg, and demonstrating its ver- pletion in May. Reports said LWB won the satility again, as SSG went to press was EUR 100 million job more for its deadline Blohm+Voss Repair. Two big tankers were than its price. docked for repair after a year in which The 210 meters long Britannica has been twelve passenger or cruise ships called. lengthened by about 29 meters amidships Bottom damage requiring 24 tons of while the 188 meters long Hollandica will new steel was repaired on the 74,999 DWT get a whopping 50 meters section, which tanker Summit Europe while the 118,500 reports said was the biggest passenger ship The Cala Palma lengthening plus repair DWT Navion Britannia came in with cable lengthening ever. bonus for LWB. wrapped around a propeller and shaft. 48 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R B+V also hosted another visit from the version was reported well under way for connecting rod damage on the 32,226 GT 148,528 GT Queen Mary 2. The 345 completion by about Autumn, following ro-ro ship Alyona. Both ships have spent meters long Queen replaced one of her removal of asbestos by a specialist Dutch months at the facility. four 270 ton Mermaid pod drives, squeez- firm. Plans were to extensively restore the ing into B+V's 351 meters Elbe 17 dock for ship's interiors – cabins and amenities – to Impressive work the work. The pod, damaged during an ear- their original "Sixties" look for service as a Finally, some impressive work has just been lier port manoeuvre, was removed during a floating hotel in Rotterdam. carried out at competent leading inland six day stay in the same dock earlier in Turbo-Technik was also carrying out the shipyards in Germany. Meidericher Werft 2006. The ship operated with only three conversion of engines on seven Wagenorg in Duisburg utilised the entire length of its drives in the interim until the missing pod, feeder ships from MDO to heavy oil (ifo slip to dry-land the 110 meters long inland repaired at B+V, was remounted. During 180) operation. The work was reportedly cruise ship Heidelberg for overhaul. her latest stay the yard also fitted a balcony taking about three weeks per ship and the Kötter Werft in Haren did something sprinkler system and extended QM2's first vessel, the 211 TEU feeder Geulborg, similar, dry-landing its biggest ship for over- bridge wings by two metres. called last October. haul – the 105 meters Karl Hein. It also Also in Hamburg, completion of anoth- lengthened another 85 meters vessel. Main engine overhaul er series repair job has got things off to a Finally the Schiffswerft Braun in Speyer The 24,108 GT Saga Rose called for pro- good start this year at MAN PrimeServ. not only lengthened but also widened the peller and main engine overhaul, while The repair facility tackled main engine inland vessel Bandolino and added a new work on the 8,378 GT Hanseatic included crankshaft bearing damage on the 15,074 bow. engine, gear and stabiliser maintenance, GT ferry Millenium Express and engine to m to d d cabin refurbishment and painting. Regular customer 24,202 GT Maxim Gorkiy paid her tenth visit, this time for general repair. Other recent jobs have included repair and steel and class work on one of the world's biggest offshore pontoons, S600. Propeller repairs were handled on the 31,992 DWT bulker Umiak, a job which entailed the removal and replacement of the entire propeller plant. Elsewhere the lengthening of the ro-ro/lo-lo carriers Finnpine, Finnwood and Finnfighter by 20 meters was successfully completed. Among other busy repair/conversion projects of note is the conversion of the 59,652 GT Dutch cruise ship veteran Rot- terdam at Turbo-Technik Reparaturwerft in Wilhelmshaven. Project Head Jürgen Möhring was quoted as saying the overall project was costing EUR 60 million, with TT earning a double-digit sum. The con- Queen Mary 2 gets her pod back at B+V. BerCom – to install a vacuum toilet system www.jets.no Sanitary Systems – made to please JETS VACUUM AS. P.O. Box 14, N-6069 Hareid, Norway. Tel. + 47 70 03 91 00. Fax + 47 70 03 91 01. E-mail: email@example.com SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 49 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R MADLI VITISMANN building orders are placed by loyal cus- tomers, mostly from Scandinavia, and the order portfolio for the year 2008 is already being filled. LATVIA A domestic turnkey shipbuilding order is nearing completion. One of the two ice class tugs commissioned by the Freeport of Riga has already been launched and the other one is still on the slip. The Stella and Santa tugs have 3,300 hp engines capable of a bollard pull of 65 tons. Inevitable wage increases Insufficient labour force and high labour costs are not unfamiliar issues for the Riga Shipyard. According to Mr Slyozkin, some of the necessary specialists are recruited in The hull of a live fish carrier in April 2006, delivered as Aronia Viking in July 2006. the Ukraine and Bulgaria. Wage increases are inevitable in Riga, too, and Mr Slyoz- kin remarked that these wage increases are Riga Shipyard: 2008 disproportionally high. Last year the Riga Shipyard repaired 94 vessels and head of the marketing division portfolio is filling up Edward Maltsev notes that it was a usual year with normal profitability. When there are not enough local repair workers, addi- S hips are already being built at the Norway. A Danish customer is expecting a tional workers are recruited not only in the Riga Shipyard on two slips. The trawler that is 63 metres long. Ukraine, Bulgaria and Russia, but in large well boat, with the volume of According to Gennady Slyozkin, head of Lithuania as well. its three holds at 2,000 m3, is an order from the newbuilding department, the ship- madli vitismann Tosmare Shipyard: no expansion plans ❯ The Tosmare Shipyard has reached its optimal performance level and strives to remain in its niche, focusing more on summertime. The wages were increased twice during last year, the rise totalling 30 per cent, yet this has nothing to do with requirements. There is plenty of work at the shipyard, for example five ships are cur- rently being repaired. quality than on volume. 56 ships were improved labour efficiency. Mr Galkovich Mr Galkovich explains: repaired last year and 5–6 catamarans, up believes that it is not viable to bring in "Our future plans are similar to what we to 30 metres long, are built for Norwegian more than 50–60 workers from abroad at a have now: keep the level of repairs at customers every year. time, as work quality control would suffer. 50–60 ships per year and also build smaller According to Commercial Director ships. We maintain the current level as that Boris Galkovich, the shipyard is concen- of high quality and we would rather trating its efforts on repair work. They We would rather decrease decrease the volume than yield our quality. already have loyal customers in Russia, In the future clients will make their choices Germany and even Cyprus, also repairing the volume based on the available quality, which is ships owned by Latvian companies. For than yield our quality. why we have no expansions plans." instance, three ships of the Riga Transport The Tosmare Shipyard thus intends to Fleet were docked, as well as bulkers of stay in its current niche, that of dry docks, smaller Latvian shipowners at 2,000–5,000 The Tosmare Shipyard has 290 employ- repairing ships of up to 10,000 DWT, DWT. Lithuanian shipowners also find ees of its own and some more people work- length of up to 120 metres and width of up their way to Tosmare – four Lithuanian ing for subcontractors. Those who come to 30 metres. ships were repaired last year. from elsewhere are distributed between dif- "Medium-tonnage vessels – this is the Just as elsewhere, Tosmare experiences ferent work teams at the shipyard to facili- current growth area," says Mr Galkovich. labour force shortages, especially in the tate their compliance with the work madli vitismann 50 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 Flexibility FA L K VA R V – S E R V I C E S P E C I A L I S T S F O R A L L T Y P E S O F TO N N AG E M/V Laguna owned by Lupin Shipping was the first vessel entering the new dock bought from Germany. • Rebuildings • Class works Two floating docks with • Chocking of following dimensions main engines Dock 1 Dock 2 • CAP-measuring Max. ship length 120 m 155 m Max. ship width 19 m 25 m Lifting capacity 4,500 tons 7,500 tons REPAIR QUAY Length 250 m Depth 7m Crane capacity 36 tons Change of main engine at M/S Gotland Prepairing for installation of main engine Falkvarv AB, Hamnvägen 12, S-311 32 Falkenberg, Sweden Telephone +46 (0)346 - 141 50 • Telefax +46 (0)346 - 819 85 E-mail email@example.com www.falkvarv.se S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R Baltija: Caring about the staff Baltija puts a lot of effort into keeping their experienced welders. BALTIJA SHIPBUILDING YARD T he Baltija Shipbuilding Yard had built for the Odense Steel Shipyard. Con- product research and development, expected a loss for the previous year tracts already exist for these parts of a new improved working conditions and success- but managed to avoid it due to addi- ship series to be manufactured until the ful marketing. In addition to the LTL 7 mil- tional orders. The labour force fluidity is middle of 2008. lion (EUR 2 million) invested last year, the forcing the enterprise to seek ways of better investments planned for this year total LTL ensuring that its workers choose not to EUR 43 million turnover 10 million (EUR 2,9 million) for expand- leave. One possibility is temporary work at Last summer Baltija suffered a setback ing the existing workshops and building the parent company of the group. when the upper part of the Emma Mærsk new ones. The gas-plasma cutter assembly superstructure burned down and had to be is about to be completed. The Acos plan- LITHUANIA rebuilt. ning system has been implemented that The turnover of the shipyard achieved helps with noticing unused opportunities Last year Baltija processed 55,400 tons EUR 43 million, but the inevitable increase inside the enterprise. of steel. This is a new output volume of the wages was higher than planned, record – 18 per cent more than in 2005. threatening a loss. Nevertheless, the enter- Staff should stay According to sales manager Vladislav prise managed to get a zero profit instead. Baltija has 1,521 employees and the num- Marinec, the output structure's largest part Mr Marinec remarked that although the ber of the workers remains on the same lev- comprises hull blocks (60 per cent) and portfolio is complete, nevertheless Baltija is el as last year. Yet the labour force fluidity superstructures (34 per cent) for container open for additional orders, because the prevents the enterprise from increasing the vessels. The turnkey tug production for market situation is favourable. The enter- output volume. Even though the 300 peo- Svitzer amounted to just 6 per cent of the prise also uses subcontractors, mostly from ple who left during the year have been total output but the enterprise is now in the Ukraine. This is one way of reducing replaced by the same quantity of new negotiations to make another tug series for labour expenses – they are somewhat lower workers, the newcomers are unfortunately Svitzer in 2008. at subcontractors' companies. less experienced. In the preceding years a large part of the The Lithuanian Confederation of Indus- The labour force fluidity stands at about output had also comprised hull blocks and trialists awarded the Successfully Working 20 per cent and although this has not superstructures for the container vessels Enterprise 2006 diploma to Baltija for reduced the quality to a level below the 52 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R BALTIJA SHIPBUILDING YARD norm, some quantity decreases have ocurred. The enterprise has conducted employee polls to determine the problems that worry the staff the most. A good solution to retain experienced employees has been found – such employees are sent to work at the parent company of the group for a while. Instead of going to work abroad and on their own, about one hundred of the best workers last year formed brigades to work for three months at the Odense Steel Shipyard. Annual bonus According to Mr Marinec, the wages were Today, the welders are helped by programmed welding consoles. raised by 15 per cent on average during the year and by a further 8 per cent this Janu- chance to have their vacation in the sum- The salary alone is not a sufficient moti- ary. Those who have worked at the enter- mer, the enterprise has to restore the sum- vating factor, as a long-serving worker prise for more than a year get an annual mer break, as it had been practiced in the relates in an interview in the enterprise's bonus as well. Furthermore, to stimulate earlier years. The arrangement for the com- own newspaper. The welder who has been long-term employee loyalty, Baltija pays ing summer is to stop the production here for 35 years praises the tug order as an insurance premiums for its staff. If a person process for three weeks. Baltija also offers opportunity to feel creative while perform- is still working at the enterprise when the various smaller additional benefits like ing his work. Unlike in the separate parts ten-year insurance contract expires, (s)he cheaper meals at the enterprise's diner, manufacturing process, a turnkey order will receive the insurance sum if no insur- transport cost compensation for those who gives one the chance to see how the ship is ance indemnity was paid. commute to work from outside the city, actually taking shape. To give the majority of the employees a etc. madli vitismann ANCHORS & CHAINS We supply: Engines One of the largest stockists of Spare parts anchors and chains in Europe Accessories with approx. 10 000 tonnes of Service brand new and second hand Your service partner near you anchors and chains in our yards Diesel Power Sweden AB in Norway, Scotland and The Phone: +46 (0)31 68 57 72 Netherlands. Fax: +46 (0)31 68 57 74 E-mail: email@example.com Home page: www.dieselpowersweden.se Tel: +47 56 32 68 50 Email: email@example.com Södra Långebergsgatan 26 B Fax: +47 56 32 68 60 Web: www.sotra.net Vindenes, 5363 Aagotnes, Norway SE-421 32 Västra Frölunda, Gothenburg, Sweden SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 53 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R Western Shipyard: Clients like our style of work ZYDRUNAS STASYTIS clients are thus pleased with us. The prices remain competitive – so far – because the use of foreign workers allows us to keep the prices on the same level. We hope to start building turnkey ships next year." Young people prefer to stay away 94 ships were repaired at the Western Shiprepair Yard last year. The larger docks than the parent company have allowed the enterprise to repair larger vessels. Some loyal customers already exist but this does not mean that they have all their ships repaired in Klaipeda. The prices remain competitive – so far – because the use of foreign workers allows us to keep the prices on the same level. The Monchegorsk in the dry-dock, with extensive repairs of her propulsion mechanism According to deputy marketing director being done. Dmitrij Kuzmin, one of the most difficult projects was the Murmansk Shipping Com- Just like its BLRT Group parent way to build a self-propelled jack-up plat- pany's general cargo vessel Monchegorsk, a company, the Western Shipyard in form for a German company. ship with a high ice class, which was sent in Klaipeda is comprised of several In addition to hulls, the enterprise con- for extensive repairs of her propulsion subsidiaries. The amount of work is tinues to manufacture hull blocks for the mechanism. The largest ship repaired so far not something to complain about but Odense Steel Shipyard, a cooperation that is the Panamax-tanker Citius. This vessel, labour force shortage is a problem will continue next year and negotiations 248.6 metres long and 32.2 metres wide, here, too. are already underway regarding a contract could not even fit in the dock and 200 tons for 2008–2009. of its metal parts were replaced outside the ❯ Fiskerstrand Verft, a long-time partner, has already received ten ferry hulls from Klaipeda and the outfitting level Adhere to deadlines As elsewhere at shipyards on the eastern dock. Labour force shortages are a problem in the ship repairs sphere, too, which is why increases every time. Further four hulls will shore of the Baltic Sea, the Western Ship- workers are brought in from other coun- be built this year and one earlier next year. yard experiences labour force shortages, tries: the Ukraine, Bulgaria and Romania. According to Western Shipbuilding Yard's especially welders. This situation is alleviat- According to Mr Kuzmin, young people marketing director Jevgenij Petrov, negotia- ed by recruiting foreign workers – welders are not eager to go to vocational schools to tions are taking place with the Norwegian from Bulgaria, Russia, the Ukraine and become welders as they prefer so-called shipyard to find ways for closer coopera- Romania. "cleaner" jobs, for instance in the IT field. tion aimed at joint turnkey shipbuilding. Mr Petrov answers the question why the "We had to increase the wages by 10–15 But do not exclude the possibility that shipbuilding focus is not shifted to the per cent recently to keep people working new orders of environmental ferries, like countries where the welders are recruited for us – salaries are generally on the LNG-ferries, will come to Klaipeda as well, from: increase in Lithuania. That is why we have also in co-operation with Fiskerstrand "Clients like our style of work, deadlines to slightly raise some prices and put a lot of Verft. These ships are currently in their and quality. We always adhere to our dead- attention to inner reserves", he explained. design stage. Negotiations are now under- lines, the quality is very good and the madli vitismann 54 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 All types of ships! Foto: Flight Foto Box 8045, 402 77 Göteborg. Tel 031 - 50 20 00. Fax 031 - 22 79 31 e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com hemsida: www.cityvarvet.se S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R The activity at Aker-Yards' Søviknes yard reflects the main market groups: An offshore vessel fitting out, AKER YARDS a trawler for conversion and one of the five Fjord1's LNG-fuelled ferries for the E-39 coastal road. 2006 – a blissful bonanza for Norwegian shipbuilding T he year of 2006 will surely be cy gains achieved during preceding meagre remembered for a very long time as years. the blissful bonanza for shipbuilding Production was up The volume of new orders during 2006 in Norway. Production was up to capacity, to capacity, new orders of NOK 44 billion should, however, be put new orders and order backlog exceeded any into perspective by the corresponding fig- historical precedent at prices that should and order backlog exceeded ure of NOK 3.4 billion in 2003. That was again leave a decent margin for profit. the year when shipyards were closed and Most yards are now fully booked into any historical precedent. shipbuilders and sub-contractors had to 2009, and contracts are being negotiated cut down on staff. Now everything is for delivery positions well into 2011. deepwater production. This has given a reversed; the shortage of skilled labour is tremendous incitement for the Norwegian being made up by Polish guest workers. NORWAY offshore-related marine industry in a global The singular aspect about the Norwegian market. As a related part of this industry shipbuilding industry is its fragmentation The order boom, which picked up in the cluster the shipyards have been in a posi- and flexibility; a relatively large number of autumn of 2004, is mainly driven by the tion to benefit with competitive offers, small yards relying on a high degree of sub- prospects for increased oil exploration and largely thanks to the cost cuts and efficien- contracting, from steelwork to specialist 56 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R outfitting. As demand varies, the fluctua- ORDERS WITH NORWEGIAN SHIPBUILDERS AS PER JANUARY 1, 2007 tions are being absorbed by a great number Norwegian Foreign of suppliers which to a certain extent con- account no Mill NOK account no Mill NOK Total tribute to a robust industry structure. Tankers – – 8 3,960 8 3,960 Oil-fuelled boost Dry cargo 3 355 5 918 8 1,273 Offshore 118 42,188 30 7,142 148 49,330 The global building boom has had its own Fishing/fish carriers 8 715 6 1,010 14 1,725 oil-fuelled boost as Norwegian shipyards have been able to conclude building con- Pass vessels 18 1,735 2 150 20 1,885 tracts of NOK 44.1 billion (roughly USD Other 2 100 9 135 11 235 6.8 billion) in 2006. The order stock at the Total 149 45,093 60 13,315 209 58,408 Source: SSG Bergen end of the year amounted to NOK 58.4 billion, compared to a production value of 11.9 million. Aker Florø. In this project, the Florø yard early delivery positions from the autumn The oil price is the main driver, as seen by will build the stainless steel cargo sections of 2008. the 88 per cent share of offshore vessels in and do the outfitting, while the Damen the new orders. The trend through the year Ocean shipyard in Ukraine will build the Industry structure was from supply ships to even more expen- bow and stern sections. The price of USD Aker Yards has taken another step sive vessels for subsea construction work 87.5 million per ship is, arguably, not mod- towards consolidating its five yards in and multipurpose service ships. The prices est, but will ensure quality and reasonably Western Norway, Aukra, Brattvaag, Søvik- for such ships are often in the USD 80–125 AKER YARDS million range, so even though the hulls are subcontracted to Romania or elsewhere, the largest slice goes to Norwegian suppliers. The rising shipbuilding prices globally have also restored some competitive power in other segments. This is seen by the order for four 43,000 DWT chemical carriers by Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group from Production value Billion NOK 15 10 5 0 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 Offshore vessels make out 85 per cent of the order value. Aker Yards Langsten will build four Source: SSG-Bergen UT731 for Farstad Shipping, each at a price of USD 85 million. Shipyard orders 1990–2006 Billion NOK ■ Order stock at end of year ■ New orders during year 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Source: SSG-Bergen SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 57 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R TOR ARNE AASEN The challenge for the Norwegian shipbuilders will be to retain their competitive edge through the offshore feast. invested so much in a local steel produc- tion facility, has developed a system for section building in Poland. Other yards have been less capable of finding long-term steel suppliers of the required quality, and these are already seeing severe delays in The Norwegian yards have sourced out steelwork to Baltic and Black Sea builders, like the deliveries. ferry hull at Fiskerstrand Verft to be completed as Lote to Fjord1 FSF. An increased workforce nes, Langsten and Florø. In October 2004 The next years will see higher figures, Also, the specialist subcontractors involved the commercial leadership was brought much due to the complexity and cost of at home have had to take on people to together in a common staff, and subse- the vessels. meet demand. Although figures are hard to quent new orders were concluded with There are obvious bottlenecks, though. get by, the total employment in the ship- this unit and allocated to the yards. The One has been the availability of skilled building industry has rebounded from an Florø shipyard, the only one in Norway labour, a shortage filled by Polish workers. estimated 6,000 by 2004 to more than capable of building larger vessels up to Another, and more serious, has been the 8,000 today. about 40,000 DWT , was acquired by capacity for steel subcontracting from Equipment manufacturers are report- Aker Yards in June from Kleven, valued at Baltic and Black Sea countries. No doubt ing much the same challenges and are NOK 60 million plus assets and liabili- Aker Yards has tackled this in a profession- carefully trying to attract new workers. ties. al manner, buying and integrating the Tul- Manufacturers like Rolls-Royce Bergen Other yard transactions include the cea and Bourgas yards in Romania, latterly Diesel are now fully booked until 2010, Solstrand shipyard, purchased by Per also Ocean Damen. Ulstein Verft, which and the crucial factor for delivery of Sævik's Havila group in August from the bankers. This means that Solstrand in the ARTIST IMPRESSION NMF future will be integrated with Havyard Leirvik. The year saw a few resurrections. Fosen Mek Verksteder again spurred into life with Stena Trader, a ro-pax delivered to Stena Line in June after three years' inactivity. Bergen Yards – which carries the legacy of both BMV and Mjellem & Karlsen – received its first hull from Poland for fit- ting out and has thus returned to ship- building. Karmsund Maritime delivered its first vessel in three years, and smaller yards like Eidsvik and Hellesøy secured orders that will see new activity at quiet yards. At the latest count, there are 32 shipyards actively building vessels larger than 20 meters. Production bottlenecks Looking back ten years, the annual produc- tion value has varied considerably within NOK 8-12 billion range, with 2002 and 2004 as the all-time high and low of 14.4 Aluminium shipbuilder Fjellstrand will deliver the FlyingCat 35m catamaran and 4.4 billion, respectively. Miljødronningen 2 to Norges Miljøvernforbund in September 2007. 58 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R ODDGEIR REFVIK Read more on www.shipgaz.com For complete lists of orders and ! deliveries for the year 2006 in Norway, please see our website. anchorhandlers, for example, is not steel production, but delivery of propulsion systems and winches. Technology edge Traditionally, Norwegian shipbuilders have had four main markets: Offshore, fishing, passenger and specialized vessels. From 1998 to 2004, offshore vessels have made out roughly half the annual production value, rising to 75 per cent last year and 85 The first of the Ulstein X-bow concept was the anchorhandler Bourbon Orca of the AX-104 per cent of the order stock. Fishing vessels, design, delivered in June 2006 from Ulstein Verft to Bourbon Offshore Norway. for example, used to fluctuate between 17 and 29 per cent, but was down to 3 per times complementing demands. This will As we close the book for 2006, the chal- cent in 2006. The same goes for passenger certainly continue. Typically, the Norwe- lenge for the Norwegian shipbuilders will vessels, where large vessels like the Hur- gian shipbuilding industry has its strongest be to retain their competitive edge through tigrute ships in 2002 brought the share to stand in offshore and fishing, and secondly the offshore feast. When it is all over, they 27 per cent, down to 7 last year. in passenger and specialized vessels, seg- will have to be lean and hungry to compete In a longer perspective, all these markets ments where shipbuilding is just a part of a with Polish and Indian shipbuilders. are cyclical, driven by diverse and some- larger technology cluster. da g b a k k a j r S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R Polish newbuilding shipyards: Sentenced to cut down on capacity Finntrader being rebuilt at Remontowa. OLLI LEINO W hen writing about Polish new- aged to unearth Neelie Kroes' letter take them over. Privatization is namely the building shipyards today, one addressed to the Polish Minister of Econo- basic condition to avoid the necessity of cannot help but get the impres- my, Piotr Wozniak, in which she demands paying back. sion that it does not really matter what the reduction of capacity of shipyards in Not only the very shipyards but also they produce, who they make it for, and Szczecin, Gdansk and Gdynia. The plan their owners seem to have encountered a how much it costs. Whether or not they was to be submitted by the end of February. dead end situation. Any decision they produce anything next year, who they The reductions is the price we have to make will be disastrous in consequence. belong to and what the price of their sec- pay after the support given to the sector in The European Union demands that ond denationalization will be, seem to be 2002. According to Brussels' estimates, the either there are considerable cuts in the questions of far greater importance. public financial assistance amounted to capacity, or the Polish shipbuilding sector PLN 2.2 billion. will be forced to return the borrowed POLAND amount, which for the time being is utterly Privatization to avoid payback impossible, since the shipyards cannot According to hearsay, Brussels wants to If the plan is not lodged in time, the Euro- afford it. reduce the capacity of Polish shipyards by pean Commison is going to order the ship- If the shipyards decide to get rid of the approximately 40 per cent. They insist on yard a quick payback, which is equal to part of properties essential for building appropriate steps being taken by the end of their insolvency. Kroes suggested that the new vessels, they will cease to attract any February. At least that is what Neelie reduction might be achieved by closing investors, which will result in their fall. The Kroes, the EU Commissioner for competi- down one of the shipyards. The letter from repayment of the public assistance is rather tion, expects. Most of the demands have the EU Commissioner arrived just when out of the question because the shipyards been disclaimed by her spokesperson, state-owned ARP – Agencja Rozwoju Prze- are up to their ears in debt and they make a Jonathan Todd. myslu, the main owner of the shipyards – loss. One of the Polish national dailies man- was looking for private investors ready to On the other hand, however, such firm 60 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R PIOTR STARENCZAK demands must have caused great astonish- ment. The lower capacity they have, the less attractive they are to potential investors. It seems as if there were some of them with their sights set on cheap pur- chase of Polish shipyards. It is namely impossible to reduce production capacity without putting the shipyards at risk of paying contractual fines. After the capacity has been reduced, it will not be possible to meet the deadlines, which are already agreed – 750,000 CGT. Sceptical approach The present Minister of Economy is rather sceptical about the plans, which came from Brussels, nowadays Poland is not the for- Could privatization rescue the Polish shipbuilding industry? mer GDR (German Democratic Republic) and there is no way we could talk about liquidation of the Polish shipyard sector', low production was caused by "wrong/bad are a real time bomb that can go off at any as it was suggested by Kroes. Nor are we management". He adds that their actual time. going to close down any of the shipyards. capacity is considerably higher. Wozniak If there is any understanding in Sczecin announces that the preliminary plan of for closing one of the slipways, it will take capacity reduction will be proposed by 28 place no sooner than 2011. They have We are doing our best February. already got used to the idea that around Strangely enough it seems as if Europe is 2,000 of 5,500 staff will lose their jobs. Now to push the shipbuilding trying to shoot themselves in the foot. a substantial part of them are taking leave industry out of Europe. Brussels should be aware of the fact that or sick leave and seeking better jobs abroad, shipowners are already struggling to place first and foremost in Norwegian shipyards. their orders as far as 2011. Even Asian ship- According to the latest news, the ship- The Department of Economy has decided yards are bursting at the seams as far as the yard in Gdynia would probably reduce to agree that the production will be orders are concerned. their capacity by closing the so-called small reduced to 750,000 CGT (the measure of dock for ten years, from 2010 to 2020. Such the ships under construction). The prob- Giving in to Asian pressure? a move would enable production to be kept lem is that Commissioner Kroes has The firm demands make one think that at the planned level, i.e. twelve vessels each already learned about this plan and criti- Europe is giving in to the pressure from year. The level has been described in the lat- cized it in the letter addressed to Wozniak. Asia – we are doing our best to push the est restructuring programme. The informa- Within the last 15 years the entire yearly shipbuilding industry out of Europe. This tion we have shows that other production, production of the three shipyards has nev- will yield further thousands of lay offs, not connected to shipbuilding, can be car- er reached this amount, pinpointed Com- both in the shipyards and among suppli- ried out without any obstacle. For example, missioner Kroes. ers. Therefore the Minister of Economy producing stall constructions for building The Minister of Economy agrees with has to do as much he can to negotiate the purposes should not raise any protest and this calculation, but he explains that their tiniest possible reduction. The unionists could be carried out without any restric- TIE UP YOUR LOOSE ENDS! ® Technical Management ® Crew Management ® Accounting ® Purchase ® QA Implementation OSM Ship Management AB Backa Bergögata 18 OSM Ship Management SE-422 46 Hisings Backa, Sweden Phone: +46 31 742 46 00 Fax: +46 31 742 46 04 www.osm.no SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 61 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R PIOTR STARENCZAK No one is able to focus on current production, as everybody fears the days to come. that Gdynia will have to suffer a heroic and sometimes hysterical battle for sur- vival. No one is able to focus on current production, as everybody fears the days to come. Sentence is to be pronounced in March. It is not until then that the plans of the government and the opinion of the European Comission will see the day- light. What if investors do not show up? The container vessel Hijaz before delivery from Gdynia Shipyard. Undoubtedly there is too much politics, organized labour and employees in the tions. It seems that it also will be possible to It is believed that the two Norwegian Polish shipyards. The lack of competence is assemble ship sections, which could be companies, now consolidating their posi- visible not only in Warsaw, where they assembled in a big dock afterwards. tions, are planning to build in Szczecin always have been somewhat out of the sec- As the president (MD) of Stocznia Gdy- either platforms for the offshore sector, or tor, but unfortunately also in the very ship- nia, Kazimierz Smolinski says, the Euro- windpower plants. Vegar Stokset from yards, where there has always been a clash pean Union has started to discuss the Norsk Hydro does not make any comment of political interest and not a single idea future of the shipbuilding sector. The Pol- on current projects and sales, in his cus- for a successful strategy. ish shipyard workers hope that Europe tomary manner. does not want to fall behind the Far East When it comes to the shipyard in Sluggish Government countries, where subsidies on production Gdansk, its future connected to privatiza- Both Jacek Piechota, the former Minister are tantamount to 30–40 per cent of a tion does not look bad either, as it has ten of Economy, and organized labour are ship's value. times lower debt than the former owner, convinced that the present situation has Stocznia Gdynia, whose debt is estimated resulted from the sluggishness of the Gov- Norwegian interests at approximately PLN 500 million. ernment. They believe that the situation By now, only one investor has lodged an Free from strains, numerous staff and, would be different if the shipyard was official bid for the purchase of Stocznia what is rather important, given more time already in private hands. The last restruc- Szczecinska. It is Zlomrex, the company in the plan of the Polish government (until turing programme was launched only when owned by Przemyslaw Sztuczkowski. It is June 2008), they may expect much more Brussels reacted. Consequently, it was unofficially known that Norwegian Norsk favourable solutions concerning their completed at the last moment, and now Hydro and Statoil may be willing to take future. there is great tardiness in enforcing it. over the SSN property. Being at the bottom of the list means Hardly anyone is envious of what War- saw is experiencing now. Even if they man- age to rescue some tings, the costs will be rather significant. If the shipyards fall, all or just some of them, they will leave behind debts guaranteed by the State Trea- sury. The person to pay for incompetence, taridness of consecutive governments, light-heartedness, and political games, is none other than the Polish taxpayer. 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A Company of ThyssenKrupp ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems Technologies S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R ALEXANDER KALININ SEANEWS.RU establishment of a national shipbuilding corporation, has given the supreme respon- sibility for this task – now also including civilian shipbuilding – to his new First Deputy Prime Minister, Sergei Ivanov. Unified shipbuilding corporations Just after having been promoted on Febru- ary 15, Sergei Ivanov said that he saw ship- building as one of his key tasks of develop- ment. Citing the news agency Itar-Tass, he compared shipbuilding to the national air- craft industry: "Here, as is the case with aviation, is one of the most burning problems; we are very competitive in military shipbuilding, but in the civil sector – (it is) a headache. Apart from military orders, we also need civil Sovcomflot's Tavrichesky Bridge at the Admiralty Shipyard (St Petersburg). ones; from river vessels to oil platforms, tankers and gas carriers, which we have not Changes continue in produced so far." In his new role, Minister Ivanov over- sees industrial policies and telecommuni- cations. Previously he had the position of Russian shipbuilding Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Min- ister, in which role he successfully unified the county's aviation industry designers I n February Russia's Minister of Industry seeing a Russian version of the Jones Act and manufacturers into one holding, and Energy, Viktor Khristenko, present- emerging? OAO Unified Aircraft Corporation, to be ed the Russian Duma with the Govern- President Putin had ordered the Govern- operational this year. In early February, ment's intentions to introduce new legisla- ment to prepare a proposal for shipbuilding then as Deputy Prime Minister, he told tion "to prevent Russian shipbuilding from reforms and streamlined organization of Cabinet members that "a decision in falling behind Western competitors", citing related institutes by December 1 last year. principle was made that shipbuilding will the Russian daily Kommersant. Abolishing The programme, approved by the cabi- have at least three holdings, unlike air- of VAT is proposed for equipment with no net of ministers, proposes that there should craft construction." His intention is to similar products manufactured in Russia. be one scientific centre, headed by the "try to avoid placing Russia's defence Measures include interest-free credits for Krylov Institute, two engineering centers interests at risk while creating these hold- building ships, as well as financing for and three shipbuilding centers, in the ings, and to preserve those areas of ship- shipyard modernization. Western, Northern and Far Eastern Russia, building which are well developed, while with shiprepairs to be developed in the maintaining certain specializations in the RUSSIA Black Sea and Caspian Sea areas. Accord- global division of labour on the ship- ing to Khristenko, the programme will building market." The formal phase of The intention is also "to reinforce the receive RUB 23.7 billion in funding the project was to be completed already priority right of Russian industry to create between 2008 and 2010. Of this amount, in February, to be followed by the forma- means to develop the sea shelf ", meaning RUB 16.4 billion will come from the feder- decisions for increased domestically placed al budget. From 2010 to 2015, the pro- ALEXANDER KALININ, SEANEWS.RU orders for rigs and vessels for the oil and gramme will receive RUB 84.3 billion, gas industry. RUB 80.6 billion of which will come from Repeating figures mentioned already last the budget. October, Khristenko said that about 40 Much of the programme has been drilling rigs and platforms for oil produc- worked out by the Industry Agency, run by tion and 14 rigs and platforms for gas pro- Khristenko's Ministry of Industry and duction would be needed by 2030, along Energy. The agency is in charge of the with some 85 specialized tankers and more naval shipbuilding, repairs, R&D, and than 140 service vessels for developing off- coordinating foreign trade of military and shore oil fields in the North, the Far East civilian ships at enterprises and organiza- and in the Caspian Sea. He also proposed tions directly subordinate to the agency. the limitation of the use of foreign ships President Putin, who last spring, in his The Karel at Onega Shipyard in Petroza- for coastal and internal shipping. Are we state-of-the-nation address, called for the vodsk. 64 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R DWT ships by 2010–2011, he was quoted saying. INTERIOR At the beginning of February, Minister Ivanov said the government will, in 2009–2010, decide whether to start build- ing a new shipyard for "building aircraft carriers", which makes Gnusarev's size INSULATION VENTILATION plans seem too modest. New general director PIPING On February 26 the Northern Shipyard received a new general director. Before The first sea trials of the nuclear-powered this, Andrey Fomichev held the position ELECTRICAL icebreaker 50 Years of Victory took place in the Gulf of Finland in February. The of advisor on shipbuilding to UIC's chair- construction of the vessel began at the man and earlier headed Nevsky Shipbuild- Baltiysky Zavod back in 1989. ing and Shiprepairing before which he was deputy general director of Yantar Ship- tion of holdings. By 2015 the shipbuild- yard. ing production output is expected to Admiralty Shipyards (Admiralteyskiye more than double. Verfi), the third big shipyard in St Peters- Minister Ivanov's prime task set by Pres- burg, is already state-owned, as is Kalin- ident Putin is to diversify industry in the ingrad's Yantar Shipyard. An idea to create country from today's dependence of oil a submarine holding including Sevmash and gas exports to producing high-tech together with Zvezdochka, in the Arkhang- high value products. This includes increas- elsk region, was earlier proposed. Admiral- ing the share of civil production by the ty Shipyards in St Petersburg and a plant in country's Military Industry Complex. Komsomolsk-on-Amur were also proposed Changes will be seen. At the end of Sep- for this group. tember last year, the newbuilding order- book in Russia stood at 84 vessels, Non-military sector equalling some 790 CGT, down from 106 In January Zvezdochka informed it will vessels and 990 CGT nine months earlier. focus more on the private non-military sec- tor, as submarine repairs do not provide On the verge of merge sufficient work for the yard. In February Last summer, state arms trader Rosoboron- Norwegian Aker Kværner bought Kimek export was already negotiating on taking Offshore As's 50 per cent share in Zvez- over the main yards in St Petersburg. This dochka Engineering, working on western task has apparently been difficult. Since contracts for the state-owned Zvezdochka SCANMARINE GROUP OF SWEDEN AB 2005, the Northern Shipyard (Severnaya Shipyard. Sevmach has also lately been WWW.SCANMARINE.SE Verf) and Baltic Shipyard (Baltiysky Zavod) involved in building civilian ships and Bäringe 1B, Annexet in St Petersburg have been owned by Unit- semi-sub rigs and offshore structures, SE-241 95 Billinge, Sweden ed Industrial Corporation (UIC), a sub- including, recently, the soon finalized Pri- sidiary to Mezhprombank. As speculated razlomnoye Arctic oil platform. Phone: +46 (0)413-54 40 00 in the article last spring, this yard's ship- A little more than a year ago OJSC Fax: +46 (0)413-54 41 10 building facilities would probably be Vyborg Shipyard's (then) owner Sergey E-mail: email@example.com closed, freeing valuable land for real estate Zavyalov became head of surface ship- purposes, another business sector of UIC. building of UIC, indicating the future of In this scenario, we speculated, new yard this yard. Last autumn, some new private facilities for large size shipbuilding would investors bought shareholdings in the yard, then have to be built on the Northern and in December last year, Valery Shipyard site. Levchenko, former Baltiysky Zavod general In October last year, UIC chairman director, was appointed general director of Alexander Gnusarev, who still refused to Vyborg Shipyard. sell the yards, said there are plans to build The smaller Almaz Marine Yard was Russia's most modern privately owned bought by the yard management in 2005. yard. The first facilities of Baltic Shipyard Current owner Nevsky Capital is said to be would be transferred to Northern Ship- gaining more from the yard by using its yard in 2008. After upgrading, the yard land for real estate properties. would be capable of building 80,000 henrik segercrantz SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 65 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R Shipbuilding and ship repair along the long Swedish coast Along the coast of Sweden and in the largest lake, Vänern, several ship yards are rebuilding, repairing, renovating and building new ships for domestic use as well as for foreign shipowners and administrations. Many of the yards are small and family owned and quite a few of the latter have been in the family for generations. The present owners have not only inherited the skill and tradition of shipbuilding and repair but have also developed and renewed the enterprise to meet the demands of today and tomorrow. They will continue to be in the forefront when it comes to new techniques and environmentally friendly ships and equipment. Swede Ship Marin – three customers are principally the Swedish The yard is also building five new train- different shipyards Navy, Coast Guard, the Shipping Adminis- ing ships for the Swedish Navy. tration and the Swedish Sea Rescue Soci- Swede Ship Marin, formerly Djupviks ety. Varv, on Tjörn has a more than 100-year Swede Ship Composite is also capable of Ö-Varvet – a dynamic shipyard long history. The group consists of three building ships up to 50 metres but only in in the Göteborg archipelago modern and highly specialized yards certi- composite. Since 2000 the Ö-Varvet has gone through fied according to ISO 9001: Swede Ship Swede Ship Yachtservice is a repair and major changes such as new dry dock capac- Marin, Swede Ship Composite at Lökhol- maintenance yard. ities, new piers, new workshops and the men, close to Hunnebostrand, and Swede The yard in Göteborg has a lifting capac- depth in the harbour and along the ship- Ship Yachtservice in Göteborg. ity of 200 tonnes over the slipway. The yard quays has been increased to 6.5 water is 3.5 metres deep and ships up to 30 metres. The work has also been reorganised SWEDEN metres can be accepted. and is now environmentally certified During the spring of 2007 a 24-metre according to ISO 14001. Swede Ship Marin concentrates on pro- work boat for a Danish energy company Today, when the fourth generation of duction of aluminium and steel and has a and a 16-metre rescue ship for the Norwe- the Backman family is in charge, Ö-Varvet capacity to build 50-metre long ships. The gian Sea Rescue will be delivered. offers full service in a number of different 66 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 Ö-varvet in the archipelago of Göteborg is controlled by the fourth generation of the Backman family. ÖCKERÖ HAMN areas like newbuilding, service and repairs. important part of the activities at the yard. The shipyard at Tjörn Ships up to 900 tonnes and maximum The requirements for modifications have dimensions of 70 × 12 metres can be dry- increased as the shipping companies often Tjörnvarvet AB is situated in Rönnäng on docked and marine equipment such as choose to modify and rebuild rather than the island of Tjörn in the archipelago mooring and trawling winches are manu- building new ships. north of Göteborg. The shipyard was factured. When it comes to newbuilding the yard founded in 1977 and has two owners and has an in-house design and construction ten employees. More people are hired The Hönö plant department. The philosophy is to take full when needed. Modifications, engine refitting and dry responsibility for the work from the idea to In 1996 newbuilding recommenced and docking take place at the site on Öckerö, a complete ship. Since 1997 twelve vessels until the present day the yard has built while mechanical work, minor engine fit- of sizes between 12 and 24 metres have ships for Swedish, Norwegian and Irish tings, production of mooring winches and been built. owners. steel and aluminium designs are done at The newbuildings are mainly stern the nearby Hönö plant. Major refit of Wilhelm Tham trawlers but also mooring boats, a research Some years ago the yard bought MITAB, Larger modifications have been done ship, a barge and a sailing yacht have been a key dealer for Volvo Penta on the west onboard the sailing ships Gunilla, HMS produced. coast of Sweden, and Marin In-West AB, Falken and HMS Gladan. Several fishing At the present time, March 2007, a 17 × 5 which is a specialist in marine electronics, boats have been rebuilt, as have ships from metre boat in aluminium is being built. mainly nautical equipment. the Royal Swedish Navy and the Swedish However, the main part of the work Coast Guard. today consists of rebuilding and in the In the autumn of 2006, the old passen- Dockstavarvet – specializing Hönö plant there are tailor made facilities ger ship Wilhelm Tham docked for a major in aluminium construction for building cabins. As far as possible, full- refit. Among other things the engine room The family owned Dockstavarvet is special- time personnel do all the repair work. was cleared out and new engines and sub- ized in aluminium ship construction. Large and small modifications are an systems were installed. Today 40 people work at the yard, ten of SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 67 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R DOCKSTAVARVET 2006 was a very good year, in fact the best since the renovating of the Viking twelve years before. 102 ships were dry- docked in the two floating docks and on the slipway in 2006. The largest vessel was the MS Total Impression X. Extensive steel- work was done onboard during more than 13,000 hours. Vessels from the Swedish Road Administration, Röda Bolaget and the Swedish Maritime Administration, as well as tankers, dry cargo ships and fishing boats were docked last year. As the yard is familiar with the noble art of riveting, work on veteran ships has become a niche during latter years. Among other old and distinguished ships the steamer Bohuslän, the tugboat Herkules During the last 30 years more than 40 pilot boats have been launched at Dockstavarvet. and the Norweigan D/S Børøysund have paid a visit to the yard in the centre of whom are certified aluminium welders. Ten and several sub-contractors. Strömma Göteborg. to 20 additional operators are used on a Kanal is a big customer and the yard has regular basis. The most important is the built several pilot boats for England. Docksta Elteknik AB, responsible for all The slip capacity is 100 tonnes and ships Landskrona Stål – old yard electrical installations. up to 37 × 7.1 metres can be dry-docked in a new version Since 1974 the yard has built more than indoors. The order books are filled for a Landskrona Stål took over the Far- 40 fast aluminium pilot launches for Swe- considerable time. tygsmekano shipyard in Helsingborg in den, Denmark, Turkey and the UK. The 2005 and renewed the machine equipment. first pilot boat was delivered in 1906. According to the owner, Allan Stern- Dockstavarvet has been appointed by Gotenius Varv – familiar berg, Landskrona Stål has many strings to the Swedish Defence Materiel Administra- with the noble art of riveting its bow and does all kinds of jobs on small- tion (FMV) to build the fast assault craft Gotenius Varv AB is mainly occupied with er tonnage, like ferries, minor tankers, pas- Combat Boat 90H for the Amphibious ship repair, service and lengthening. The senger ships, tug boats and barges. Electri- Corps of the Royal Swedish Navy. 147 floating dock makes it possible to dry-dock cal repairs and installations, as well as me- units are in use in Sweden and more than ships as large as 2,000 tonnes. chanical and hull work, painting and sub- 80 ships have been exported to Norway, BJÖRN ALDÉN Greece, Mexico and Malaysia. Customers in the US have also shown a great interest in the Combat Boat 90H and a prototype is being tested. The workshops have been extended and modernized continuously and are fully equipped with modern tools and machin- ery suitable for aluminium boat construc- tion. The yard has an in-house CAD office and works to a QA system type ISO 9001. Among deliveries in 2007 are two 17- metre pilot launches for Kystverket in Nor- way and six 16-metre interceptor craft. Two of them will be delivered to Russia and the Polish Border Guard has ordered the remaining four. Boghammar Marin – building pilot boats for England Boghammar Marin at Lidingö is focused on building passenger ships, pilot boats etc. The shipyard is owned by Anders and Götheborg, the newly built replica of an 18th century Swedish East Inda Man, was served at Ewy Boghammar and has nine employees Gotenius before the long voyage to China. 68 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R SÖREN STRIDSBERG Landskrona Stål for repair work onboard. The yard also equips floating houses for the Danish company Water Living. The hulls, in steel, are built in Latvia, the accommodation comes from Ängelholm and the floating homes are put together and completed at the yard in Helsingborg. In 2006 the dry dock was in use almost 300 days and the yard was fully booked – and still is, until next summer. Fridhems Varv – taking an even flow of small passenger ships Fridhems Varv is situated between Göte- borg and Strömstad. The yard mainly All types of serves the ferries from Färjerederiet, the work are carried out at Swedish Road Administration Ferry Opera- Fridhems Varv tions, but there is a well-established com- in Lysekil. petence within the company and all types of work are done. External jobs on minor contracting work are carried out. The limi- required on ships in service, both in for- passenger ships and cargo ships are carried tation is the dry dock, which measures eign ports and when vessels are under way. out and the yard is a specialist in renovat- 112 × 16 metres. Eight men and one The intension is to do fewer jobs outside ing Aquamaster propellers. woman are employed at the yard and when the yard in the future and concentrate the Fridhems Varv has two slipways; the needed additional staff are hired. business to the yard. largest is 50 metres long and 14 metres Landskrona Stål also does all jobs Nordö Link in Malmö frequently uses wide. 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The largest ship that has ever left the berth was the Eken at 720 tonnes. In latter years, the yard has focused on repairing fishing boats, passenger ships, dry cargo ships and tankers. The yard has also repaired vessels that have run aground in Vänern. The management, consisting of three brothers Jonsson, are planning to re- establish Kållandsö as a newbuilding site. Other plans for the future are both to deepen and broaden the dry dock and to dredge the fairway so the yard has the capacity to dry-dock Vänermax vessels. In latter years the Kållandsö Shipyard has focused on repairwork. Today the dry dock is 84 × 13 metres. to make it possible to dock ships with a to the prices in Norway, shipowners in the fixed keel. south of Norway have shown a great inter- Beckholmen – long-established After the winter storms that caused est in docking at the Fridhems Varv. in the centre of Stockholm severe damage along the west coast and Beckholmens Dockförening is a section destroyed the E6 motorway at Munkedal, within the Swedish Sailing Ship Associa- three ferries in the daytime and two at Skillinge Marin – always tion. The dock on Beckholmen in Stock- night were continuosly transporting lorries with a full order book holm is used for restoring old, traditional by sea, as the road could not be used. Frid- The order books have been full since ships. It is 100 metres long, 10.7 metres hems Varv was in charge of the service and Skillinge Marin was founded in 1989. At wide and the draught is 3.7 metres. maintenance of the ferries and worked the beginning of 2005 Simrishamns Varv The customers themselves organize all every night to keep the small fleet going. was bought and the old slipway was mod- the work, and they have a network of Under normal circumstances 44,000 ernized, so ships of 1,000 tonnes can be craftsmen such as carpenters, sailmakers trucks are transported on the ferries at dry-docked. and blacksmiths at their disposal. Gullmarsleden every year. In January 2007 The large slipway has capacity for ships A 100 metres long repair and fitting-out alone more than 41,000 units used the as large as 60 × 11.5 × 5.5 metres or two 25- quay can also be found on the premises. alternative route. metre ships at the same time. r o b e rt h e r m a n s s o n During the spring the yard will change Fishing boats, workboats and barges BECKHOLMENS DOCKFÖRENING engines, propellers and control equipment have occupied the slipways most of the on a ferry. An even flow of small passenger time. Next summer two fishing boats from ships – barges, tugboats and larger leisure Kaskö in Finland will be dry-docking for cruisers – are docked at the yard. the second time. As the prices in Sweden are competitive Skillinge Marin is one of three centres in Sweden for sales and service of Volvo Penta SVEN JOHANSSON diesel engines and most of the time there is a ship at the yard having a Volvo diesel installed. A water-blasting machine with a pressure of 2,500 bars will be bought in the near future, giving the yard new facilities for blasting and painting. An agreement with International has been made and the yard will use mainly their paint. Kållandsö Varv – well situated in Lake Vänern Kållandsö Varv is very strategically situated Skillinge Marin is constantly installing new on an island in Lake Vänern. 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For further information and booking, please contact your travel agent or go to www.lufthansa.com S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R Falkvarv – successful FALKVARV yard between Göteborg and Öresund ❯ Falkvarv is strategically well situated on the west coast of Sweden between Göteborg, the largest port in the country, The capacity was and the fast growing Öresund region. considerably increased Falkvarv was founded in 1987 when Falkenbergs Varv, which had been on the in 1997 when a new site since 1946, went into liquidation. floating dock was bought. Since the yard was reorganised it has been very successful and a wide circle of customers continually return. In recent network of subcontractors and collabo- years the annual turnover has been ap- rators has been established, the yard is able proximately 60 million SEK and the profit to offer great capacity at very short notice. four million. In 2006 the Falkvarv saw a very positive trend and 80 vessels were repaired at the Positive trend yard, of which 60 were dry-docked. Fur- The capacity was considerably increased in thermore, staff from the yard repaired 1997 when a new floating dock was bought approximately 40 ships in other ports or and seven years later yet another dock was while at sea. Three totally demolished During 2006, 60 ships were dry-docked added. Today the yard can dock ships up main engines were repaired last year and a at falkvarv. to 150 metres. The length of the quays is couple of Epocast foundings were per- 250 metres and the draught is seven formed. As the order intake is constantly increas- metres. At present there are six ships at the yard ing, Falkvarv is looking for more staff. Falkvarv has 50 employees and as a huge and 15 are expected in the near future. r o b e rt h e r m a n s s o n Öresundsvarvet will increase their resources for the future ❯ Like the previous years, 2006 was a suc- cessful year for Öresundsvarvet with many interesting projects. auxiliary engines and on the piping system. The icebreaker Oden was dry-docked in October and prepared for the long voyage The dry dock is used to the limit today and the plans for the future are to increase the capacity with one or two large floating Four of TT Line's ferries were dry- to the Antarctic. docks. docked and one of them, the Nils Holgers- During the two first months of 2007 the son, changed the starboard pod, with a Dry dock used to the limit Ada Gorthon and the Visby were dry- weight of 110 tonnes. The yard also works with hydraulic sys- docked. Catalytic exhaust gas cleaning was tems, ramps, propellers, rudders, steelwork, The Östanvik and the train ferries Trelle- installed on the Aurora of Helsingborg and painting, electrical installations and all borg and Skåne are among others in the the Tycho Brahe. The heating elements in kinds of service. order book and the icebreaker Oden will the exhaust gas boiler on the Birka Express In 2006 the dry dock was used 270 days return. were changed. and parallel with the work in the dry dock Öresundsvarvet will increase their On the Finnish tanker the Crystal Emer- steelwork on a number of barges has been resources to meet future demands. ald, major work was done on the main and carried out in the floating dock. r o b e rt h e r m a n s s o n 72 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R Kockums – building invisible vessels A rare photo showing all five Corvettes in the Visby series at the same time at the yard in Karlskrona. PETER NILSSON In the background is the 240 metres long production plant. T oday the Karlskronavarvet, which Kockums also operates a facility in Countermeasures (MCM), Anti-Subma- was founded as early as in 1679, is Malmö and 260 employees work at the rine Warfare (ASW), surface combat, named Kockums and has for a cou- Technology Department. marine surveillance and maritime protec- ple of years been owned by ThyssenKrupp In 2000 the newbuilding no. 454 was tion to general maritime support. Marine System in Germany. All produc- launched and named the Visby. She has a tion is concentrated to Karlskrona and the full stealth capability and in August 2006 Busy year work of the Technology Department is the fifth and final vessel in the Visby-series Kockums can look back at a very busy year. focused primarily on surface ships and was launched at a formal ceremony. The Another major project currently in mine-clearance concepts. The company vessels are constructed of carbon fibre and progress is the Landsort project: a midlife has a unique high-tech expertise and is spe- from the ship the crew can hear and see upgrade and general refit of five Swedish cialised in stealth technology. Approxi- everything while remaining undetected Navy MCMVs. The first vessel will be mately 850 people work at the Karlskrona themselves. The Visby class corvettes are delivered to the Royal Swedish Navy in plant. designed to handle everything from Mine 2008. 74 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R PETER NILSSON sion (AIP) system has been developed by Over the next five years Kockums. The system makes it possible for conventional submarines to remain sub- we will need to achieve merged for long periods without having to surface in order to get fresh air. a ratio of 30 per cent For the Stirling propulsion, the compa- domestic and 70 per cent ny has a successful partnership with Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Japan. Dur- exports. This is a must. ing 2006 Kockums supplied engines for installation on Japanese submarines. Kockums continues to invest in future Kockums' responsibilities also include the technology in several development areas in procurement of command and sonar sys- an attempt to become a Marine System tems. Powerhouse for the Swedish Navy. Besides Other deliveries are the supply of two the key areas of competence, such as new hulls to the Royal Danish Navy. The stealth technology, submarine technology contract comprises the supply of six coast- and mine clearance systems, the main guard-vessel hulls in Fibreglass Reinforced focus is in the fields of Modelling and Sim- Plastic (FRP), complete with superstruc- ulation and Netcentric Defence. tures and installation of full propulsion systems. Five-year R&D partnership Two former Swedish submarines, which Kockums and Blekinge University College One of the ships for the Royal Danish Navy is will be exported to Singapore, are to under- (Blekinge Tekniska Högskola) have signed hanging in the shiplift. Kockums is go a major refit and upgrade and they will an LOI concerning a five-year R&D part- subcontractor and responsible for hull, be modified for operation in tropical nership that will focus on IT applications superstructure and the machine installation. waters. The contract with the Republic of in the field of naval defence. Singapore Navy also includes a logistic Five years ago, the company depended 70 per cent exports. This is a must", says package and training of the crews. on the Swedish Navy for 70 per cent of the Kjell Göthe, Vice-President/PR & Commu- sales while exports did not account for nications. Air independent propulsion more than 30 per cent. Today, the ratio is The latest annual report noted orders The submarines are designed in Malmö 50 per cent domestic sales and just as much received of 2.9 billion SEK. This brings the and there is also the research and develop- in exports. current order backlog to about 3.7 billion ment department for underwater technolo- "Over the next five years we will need to SEK. gy. The Stirling Air Independent Propul- achieve a ratio of 30 per cent domestic and r o b e rt h e r m a n s s o n Landskronavarvet – with capacity for large ships L andskronavarvet, formerly Bruces cable-layer. The contract for the third ves- and a whole ship can be built in the Shipyard, is next-door neighbour to sel, a seismic ship, will be signed during the 300 × 55 metre hall. Öresundsvarvet in Landskrona. first half of March. There are not many yards in the area that Due to a tremendous drop in the new- The ships will have a material weight of can build such large ships as Landskrona- building market in 2002, the yard went approximately 3,000 tonnes each. The yard varvet. Most of the yards with similar bankrupt. The production recommenced in will also build the fundaments for the capacity want to deliver complete ships and the spring of 2006, when the building of a engines, pumps, winches etc and also lay not, like Landskronavarvet, be a sub-deliv- supply ship for the Norwegian Company the pipes in bottom tanks. erer of hulls to other shipyards. The main Voldstad began. The hull will be delivered competitors are found in Russia, Romania in mid-March 2007 and be equipped at Fos- Built the World and China, while the newbuilding prices en, in Norway, the owners of Landskrona- The passenger ship World was built at the are constantly rising in Poland and the varvet. yard. She weighed 12,500 tonnes when she Baltic states. The supply ship is the first in a series of left the yard to be equipped at Fosen. Today there is frantic activity at the yard three vessels that have much in common Landskronavarvet can build ships that are and the management are looking to the but will be built for different purposes. The 255 metres long and 39 metres wide. The future with confidence. second ship, to be delivered in August, is a assembly shop is even larger than the berth r o b e rt h e r m a n s s o n SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 75 S H I P B U I L D I N G A N D S H I P R E PA I R LASSE VOURIO Götaverken Cityvarvet – a growing repair yard G ötaverken Cityvarvet has a long borgsbron and fitting into the dry dock, and interesting history and was which is 240 meters long. The activities at the yard founded in 1841. A lot of well In 2006 more than 90 ships, with a total known ships have been built and repaired deadweight of some one million ton, were are growing continuously at the yard that played a major role during repaired and docked at the yard. As usual the heydays of Swedish shipbuilding. Due most of the vessel types were represented, and an increasing number to continuing losses the yard was reorga- though ro-ro ships, ferries and tankers were of larger ships are dry- nized in 1992 and the activities continued in a majority. The largest ship in 2006 was with reduced staff. the 95,195 DWT tanker Navion Fennia. docked at Cityvarvet. Also the Stena Saga, Stena Scandinavica, The bridge is the limit Stena Freighter and Stena Jutlandica were In 2000, Götaverken Cityvarvet was docked during 2006. Extensive work was dry-docking and rebuilding of the ferries bought by the Dutch Damen Shipyard carried out on the Norwegian seismic ves- Stena Nautica and Stena Germanica and Group. During 2006 the number of sel Geo Atlantica. The Danish frigate Væd- the rebuilding of the Norwegian paper car- employees increased by almost ten per cent deren was modified before and around its rier Baltic Excellent. The Baltic Excellent to 140. The activities at the yard are grow- world expedition. will be converted into a seismic vessel and ing continuously and an increasing num- Extensive steelwork was also carried out the work includes a new engine room with ber of larger ships are dry-docked at City- on the Greek Panamax bulk ship Velos, the new generators, a new accommodation varvet. Vessels up to 110,000 tonnes are Norwegian offshore barge Ur 111 and on deck and a new bow thruster. Almost 200 accepted at the yard. Larger ships will have the ro-ro ships Tor Flandria and Tor Scandia. tons of steel will be added to the hull. difficulty in passing under the bridge Älvs- Among the new orders for 2007 are the r o b e rt h e r m a n s s o n 76 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 fleet news Editor: Pär-Henrik Sjöström ~ Phone: +358 2 242 62 50 ~ E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Last Husum coaster leaves Danish flag In the last days of February 2007, a chapter sands of thousands of standards of sawn JENS LARSEN in Danish coaster shipping was closed with timber from the Baltic and from Russian the sale of the singledecker Othonia to an White Sea ports as well. Some has worked as American buyer situated in Miramar, USA. fish carriers taking the catch from Norwe- The vessel changes to Fifita 500 alongside gian trawlers in the North of Bear Island in Svendborg. It is a coincident that the and sailed it to Southern Norway. name change took place in Svendborg, as Gradually the ships have been sold off in Svendborg owners in the 1950'ies and the past years, leaving Othonia as the very 1960'ies were the primary Danish customers last one flying the Danish flag. Under its at the shipyard in Husum for this type of new name, she will soon leave for the spe- The singledecker Othonia. coasters. All told a number of 30 units were cial trade from Miami River to the Islands delivered to Danish owners or purchased in the Caribbean area. On the Miami River ordered by shipowner Johannes K. Sørensen second-hand from German owners. Not all trade Othonia will join several of her sisters of Odense and named Fionia, a name it kept alike, as they were offered in a 299 GT, a 399 from Husum and Danish ownership. until 1977, when was changed to Othonia. GT and a 499 GT version. The type turned Othonia was delivered in 1965 as hull no. The coaster is fitted with a MaK-engine and out to be successful and made a lot of mon- 1228 from the shipyard owned by Gebrü- is on 680 DWT and 51.8 metres. ey for the owners. They have taken thou- derne Kröger on November 18, 1965. It was bent mikkelsen Tug enters its fourth Nordic ownership Danish pusher-tug operator Britannia Bulk Panamian flag with the name Vornaes II. ing the entire SvitzerWijsmuller fleet of DK A/S has purchased the tug Baus from By joining the Danish owned fleet of push- bulkbarges. Since then a former SvitzerWi- Finnish Alfons Håkans and placed it under er-tugs, Baus has been flying all the Nordic jsmuller barge has been purchased from colours during its 37 years of service. Built Alfons Håkans and renamed Iholm II and BENT MIKKELSEN in 1970 for Norwegian account, since sold that addition needed another pusher tug to Sweden and renamed Hans Oskar, for operation even that the barge presently shortly after that sold to Russia and is used for an salvage operation off renamed Hans Oscar. Then back to the Ventspils. Norwegian flag and from 1997 under The tug Vornaes II was built by Finnish flag. First as Rauma IV and from P. Høivolds Mek. Verksted at Kristians- 1999 under its original name Baus. sand S in 1970 (as hull no. 44) for Bukser & Berging. However in these days the 32 tons Pusher tug bollard pull tug was operated international- Under the Danish ownership it will be ly for the B&B-company. The Swedish rebuilt to be a pusher tug to serve the bulk- Piteå Bogserbåts found it too big for Baltic barges, which is the backbone of Britannia operation and sold it to Russia. Vornaes II (ex Baus). Bulk DK's fleet. 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But, by all accounts, Platou is seriously looking to access and benefit from more financial instruments to strengthen their entry into the IPO - initial public offering – market. Container vessel Hyundai Fortune, 5,500 TEUs and 64,000 GT, is seen here burning fiercely They have already participated in some in the Gulf of Aden off Yemen, in March last year. After suffering this catastrophic fire she was subsequently declared a total loss. IPOs by drilling companies. Platou and ACM Shipping, which is also strong in freight derivatives, have worked together on several deals. Perhaps the most impor- Strong increase in partial losses tant basis for future cooperation is that the International Union of Marine Insurance strong upward trend since 1998 when 228 companies' client base does not overlap. (IUMI) has announced a dramatic reduc- serious incidents were reported. Last year, tion in the number of total losses of mer- 685 were logged and, like total losses, this chant ships since the year 2000. New statis- figure is likely to increase during the early Demand for KG shipping funds tics indicate that 67 ships (of 500 gross tons months of 2007 German HSH Nordbank are a bit cautious and over) were total losses in 2006, com- about the demand any further growth in pared to 140 in 2000 and a peak of 182 Rising partial losses the market for KG shipping funds. How- during the 1990s. Explaining why partial losses have risen so ever, the strong demand for ship finance However, this news is heavily diluted by strongly, Simon Beale, a leading Lloyd's generally means that institutional investors an equally dramatic increase in serious par- marine underwriter who is a member of are quite active. tial losses, up by 200 per cent since 1998. IUMI's executive committee and a past The market for new funds has been IUMI stresses these are preliminary figures chairman of its ocean hull committee, said around EUR 2,5 billion per year, but it is for 2006 as both total and partial losses or that "the highly profitable levels of mar- unlikely the volume will go any higher in constructive total losses can rise in the ear- itime trade has meant ships and crews 2007. Nordbank was involved in setting up ly months of this year. The 2006 losses being driven very hard. In fact, the IUMI he Marenave, the first stock-listed shipping equate to approximately 0.1 per cent of the statistics show that machinery continues to investment vehicle in Germany. König & world fleet, compared to 0.3 per cent in be the major cause of serious partial losses Cie launched the fund in 2006. 1996 and nearly 0.5 per cent in 1990. There (35 per cent in the past five years), followed was a slight increase in actual tonnage lost by groundings, and collision or contact in 2006, particularly in the bulk carrier sec- damage. IUMI states: Shipping index tor, but this is largely explained by the total "This 200 per cent-plus increase in partial below benchmark loss of a capesize bulker accounting for 37 losses compares with an increase of 24 per The Lloyd's List-Bloomberg index – LLB-50 per cent of the total gross tonnage. cent in the number represented by the com- – for the top 50 global shipping shares fell bined tanker, bulk carrier and container fleet, below the 2,000 barrier early this month, First IUMI statistics a 27 per cent increase in the deadweight ton- but some companies like Frontline and They are the first statistics of their kind to nage (carrying capacity) of the bulk carrier Teekay Shipping bucked the trend. LLB-50 be produced by IUMI as a basis for under- and tanker fleet, and a 115 per cent increase has since recovered some of the lost writing decisions. However, there is a in the TEU (standard carrying capacity) of ground, but remains below the peak before downside to these statistics, said Deirdre the container fleet – all since 1998." the general stock market downturn. Among Littlefield, the New York-based president of The world container fleet's capacity has the other companies in the index are IUMI. While total losses are down, serious more than doubled to over 8,000 million Finnlines and Golar LNG. partial losses continue to rise, showing a TEU since 1998, says IUMI. 82 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 it & communications Editor: Petter Arentz ~ Phone +47 33 40 12 00 ~ E-mail: email@example.com Essential float free capsules Kongsberg simulation in LNG project Nobody wishes for accidents to happen, S-VDR information available Kongsberg Maritime's process simulation but when they do occur it is adamant that even if the vessel should sink. group (including former Fantoft Process help is summoned immediately. On No need for expensive and Technologies) and Taike Engineering Beijing December 6th 2006, the Dutch semi sub- time consuming under water Co. Ltd (part of Essca Group) have been mersible vessel Mighty Servant 3 sank off search as required for a fixed contracted to supply the Operator Training the coast of Angola. The complete crew capsule. The Tron S-VDR Simulator and Gas Management System were taken off the vessel and taken to the CAPSULE will duplicate (PMS) for the Fujian LNG project, located Port of Luanda on board one of the sup- all on board S-VDR in China. The delivery to China National porting vessels, which was on stand by dur- recorded and stored Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) includes ing the offloading of a drilling platform. information. It can be an operator training simulator, pipeline leak The Mighty Servant 3 was equipped with connected to all exist- detection system and gas management sys- an S-VDR system and a TRON S-VDR ing VDR systems on tem. An integrated team with engineers from Float Free Capsule from Norwegian Jotron the market. The Kongsberg and Taike Engineering Beijing as the final storage medium. Jotron is based Tron S-VDR CAP- Co. Ltd will execute the project. a Tjodalyng near Larvik in Southern Nor- SULE is a necessi- way. A report from FMCC, in Toulouse, ty, even as optional confirms that distress signals were received equipment according Secure networking technology from the Tron S-VDR Capsule just minutes to the IMO resolu- Telenor Satellite Services, a subsidiary of after the accident. tion A.861 (20), due Norwegian Telenor, has previewed Terralink to the possibility to Secure (TM), the first in a series of secure The capsule avoid high cost for networking value added services to enable This multipurpose float free maritime safety under water search. users to more effectively monitor and filter product contains both a conventional As noted above, the security attacks and unwanted Internet con- GMDSS satellite position-indicating radio Capsule contained tent over satellite communications. Telenor beacon with integrated GPS, EPIRB and more than twelve currently anticipates commercial launch of also a storage media for S-VDR (Simplified hours of readable this new secure service during the second Voyage Data Recorder). MED B approved data including the critical seconds quarter of 2007. Terralink Secure is designed by DNV. Tron S-VDR CAPSULE will at all before the ship went under the ocean sur- to stop unwanted traffic and content com- times have in store a loop of the latest twelve face. All input-sensors from the S-VDR sys- ing from the Internet to a user's satellite ter- hours recorded data provided from the S- tem were loaded into the TRON S-VDR minal before the content enters the satellite VDR system installed on board the vessel. Capsule and were accessible for both the portion of the end-to-end connection. Ter- Floating at the water surface keeping the Investigators and Ship-Owner. ralink Secure differs from client-installed firewalls and security programs running on ShipNet/MTS extend co-operation the user's PC, which can stop unwanted traffic after it has passed over the satellite Norwegian companies ShipNet and MTS (jointly owned by Alfa Laval, portion of the connection. Marine Transaction Services (MTS) will Capgemini, Hellmann Worldwide Logis- joinly offer very advanced e-business solu- tics, Jotun and Unitor) and ShipNet will tions, by further developing the existing ensure that customers can automate their Navmaster Pilot launched integration of their systems. MTS and procurement process with their suppliers, UK based PC Maritime has introduced the ShipNet's co-operation goes back to 2003, obtain improved overview and control of Navmaster Pilot – a simple-to-use portable when the first integration between Ship- all transactions processed with the suppli- electronic chart system based on Type Net's procurement system SNAPS and ers and achieve much improved data Approved Navmaster ECDIS software MTS' e-business solution for ship owners quality. with additional features to assist pilots. and managers, BuyerLink, was made. The ShipNet will include the MTS function- Navmaster Pilot provides software and capabilities in this integration will be fur- ality as a standard add-on feature in Ship- wireless interfacing so that a pilot can con- ther developed, meaning that joint cus- Net, which is configurable for the cus- nect his own laptop to a ship's AIS (Auto- tomers of MTS and ShipNet will benefit tomers. The advanced offering will be matic Indentification System) within min- from advanced e-business capabilities available without any barriers in form of utes of arriving onboard a vessel. There is when trading with suppliers from their extra costs for the customers for using the no need for cables as communications SNAPS procurement system. MTS compliant e-business capabilities in between the laptop and the ship's AIS pilot The advanced integration between the SNAPS system. plug are wireless. SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 83 NEWS REVIEW ANDERS RYDBERG Fuel cell supply vessels by 2012 ssg-tønsberg. Ships using fuel cells should this vessel is nil and CO2 emissions will be be operational in Norway by 2012, accord- cut by 50 per cent. Eidesvik Offshore is cur- ing to Jan Fredrik Meling, managing director rently developing a fuel cell supply vessel, of Eidesvik Offshore. Eidesvik has invested and Meling believes that the Norwegian gov- The Kapitonas A. Lucka. in three LNG driven, Avant type supply ves- ernment should use the majority of the pro- sels, the first of which was delivered in the ceeds from the new NOx tax for investment LJL BUYS BULK CARRIERS Lithuanian autumn of 2003. The fuel cells will also be in environmentally friendly vessels, not only Shipping Company (LJL) has bought fed by LNG, but the NOx emissions from to line the state coffers. the bulk carriers Clipper Falcon and Clipper Eagle, both 16,900 DWT, from Norwegian Eagle Shipping. The vessels were built in 1995 and 1994, respective- Crude output paves the way for B-MAX ly. LJL recently sold its dry-cargo carrier ssg-göteborg. The new pipeline, which depreciation. The company is now expect- Kapitonas Simkus and her sister, the will increase the output of Russian crude ing tougher times ahead. Kapitonas A. Lucka, will be sold at an via Primorsk considerably, has also brought "I'm a bit worried about the massive auction on March 12. Stena's B-MAX project to the fore. deliveries of new tankers from the yards", "We are in talks with Sovcomflot to says Ulf G. Ryder. SLOW HANDLING OF TONNAGE TAX continue with the development of the B- For 2007, the company is expecting a The Swedish Parliament's Committee MAX tanker", says Ulf G. Ryder, CEO of profit of around SEK 250 million (EUR 27 on Taxation has run out of patience Stena Bulk. With B for Baltic and Bospho- million). The year has, however, started on a with the Government's slow handling rus, the B-MAX is an extremely wide positive note. Operations in January gener- of the tonnage tax issue. The tonnage tanker with a shallow draft, able to carry ated a surplus of SEK 40 million (EUR 4.3 tax commission of inquiry submitted its over 200,000 tons of crude from Primorsk million). Today, Stena Bulk has no vessels in proposal to the government more than through the Great Belt in Denmark on a its order book. Its listed sister company a year ago. The committee now propos- 15 metres draft. Concordia Maritime has, however, half a es that the Parliament urge the Govern- 2006 was another good year for Stena dozen vessels on order. Long-term charter ment to speed up its procedures and to Bulk. The company reports a profit of SEK agreements have been secured for the first present a bill as soon as possible. 1 billion (EUR 107 million) despite extra two vessels, to be delivered in 2007–2008. TOO EXPENSIVE FOR STENA Stena Line thinks that the port dues in Dun Laoghaire, on Ireland, are too high and UN to discuss Russian terminal project wants either to have the dues reduced ssg-tallinn. Regnum.ru reports that the says that the residents of Svetly have or to move to Dublin when the con- UN Commission on Human Rights will appealed to 22 different authorities and tract with Dun Laoghaire expires in discuss the construction of an oil terminal taken legal action ten times in the last three 2011. "It's about four times as expen- in Svetly in the Kaliningrad region. The years, but have failed to put a stop to the sive in Dun Laoghaire as in Dublin, Russian oil company Tatneft's subsidiary plans. and since both the ports are state- Baltnafta is planning to build an oil termi- The oil terminal will have a capacity of owned, we think that's peculiar", says nal in Kaliningrad's free zone but has met 900,000 tons per year and its planned loca- Joakim Kenndal, head of corporate with opposition from the residents of Svet- tion is close to a residential housing area. communications at Stena Line. The ly, who have appealed to the UN. Svetly (formerly Zimmerbude) lies between HSS ferry Stena Explorer is operated in The environmental organisation Bellona Kaliningrad and Baltiysk. the service, which, according to the newspaper Irish Independent, adds EUR 250 million to the Irish economy every year. Norwegian order book at NOK 60 billion ssg-tønsberg. Order books at Norwegian tion/construction vessels at a price of more MACGREGOR IN JOINT VENTURES The shipyards reached an all-time high of NOK than NOK 1.0 billion each. The vessels are MacGregor Group and the Tallinn- 60 billion in early March after having likely to be built by Søviknes Verft. DOF based BLRT Grupp AS have estab- reached NOK 57.3 billion at the end of Installer has also ordered two Anchor Han- lished the joint venture OÜ MacGre- January, according to statistics released by dling Tug Supply/Construction vessels at gor BLRT Baltic to provide service of Norske Skipsverft in Bergen and Norsk NOK 750 million each at Aker Aukra. marine cargo access equipment in the Industri. Through January, ships worth around Baltic area. This will begin in Tallinn The figure of NOK 60 billion was NOK 2.5 billion were delivered. During after approval by the competition reached when Aker Oilfield Services the last yard boom in 2001, the order book authority. ordered four combined well interven- peaked at NOK 33 billion. 84 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 NEWS REVIEW Eckerö bids for Birka Line ssg-åbo. Ferry owner Rederiaktiebolaget The offer sets a value of EUR 216 mil- Eckerö has made a bid for all the outstand- lion on Birka Line, including its net inter- ing shares in Birka Line Abp. Eckerö cur- est-bearing liability of about EUR 85 mil- rently holds a 42 per cent stake in the listed lion. The bidding process is planned to cruise and ro-ro operator. The bid is valued start on March 10 with April 20 as the at EUR 77 million and the price offered for deadline. The aim is "to create a larger the two shares (A shares and B shares) is Alandic shipowning player to meet chal- Eukor orders four car carriers. said to be 23 per cent and 29 per cent lenges and demands on the market." Eck- respectively above the three-month average erö is looking to acquire all the remaining EUKOR ORDERS CAR CARRIERS South on the Helsinki stock exchange. shares and to de-list Birka Line. Korean car carrier owner/operator Eukor – controlled by Wallenius Line (40 per cent) and Wilhelmsen Lines (40 Most of Russian fleet under foreign flags per cent) – has ordered four 8,100 car PCTC:s (Pure Car and Truck Carrier) ssg-tallinn. According to the Russian but 60 per cent of the tonnage. Last year, from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) Ministry of Transport, the Russian mer- 28 new ships totalling 1.4 million tons in South Korea with delivery in 2010. chant fleet consists of 1,536 ships totalling were completed and this year, 18 new ships The vessels will be 232 meters long, 15.3 million DWT. 1,380 vessels totalling 6 totalling 1.5 million DWT will join the making them the largest car carriers in million DWT sail under the Russian flag – fleet. the world. 90 per cent of the ships but only 40 per These figures give Russia a 13th place cent of the tonnage. among the world's shipping nations. In its SSN FACING FINANCIAL CRISIS The 98 vessels with owners in tax havens and first year, 136 ships totalling 0.5 million SSN shipyard in Szczecin, Poland, is 50 of Sovcomflot's vessels are registered to DWT were registered in the new interna- facing an acute financial crisis. If the foreign flags, i.e. 10 per cent of the vessels tional register. yard's management is unable to secure credits for the day-to-day financing of production, the shipyard could come Debt-burdened Gdynia Shipyard to a halt. The yard's management has been negotiating for credits with banks still trying to find a buyer in Warsaw since March 2. The shipyard did not pay any social security contri- ssg-kolobrzeg. Despite Gdynia Shipyard's has already bought five per cent of the shares butions for its employees in January. difficult situation, ISD, a Polish subsidiary of in Gdansk Shipyard. The purchase of yards the Ukrainian Donbas group, still appears to in Gdansk and Gdynia would secure sales 24 KILOS OF COCAINE FOUND During be interested in buying the shipyard's shares for some or Donbas' steelworks, including an inspection of the vessel San Emeral and Donbas's representatives are currently in Czestochowa. According to current plans, in St Petersburg, the Russian customs negotiations with the ministry of privatisa- Gdynia Shipyard will be privatised by the found 24 kilos of cocaine. The vessel tion in Warsaw. Donbas has made its own end of June, this year. had arrived from Ecuador and the estimate of the size of the shipyard's debt It is conceivable that Rami Ungar – the cocaine was found in the belongings of burden, which is said to be larger than indi- Israeli shipowner who has order a long a crew member. cated by official Polish sources. They claim series of car carriers – will submit an offi- that the shipyard has debts of around PLN cial offer for the yard even though he has A GOOD YEAR FOR DFDS DFDS 515 million while Donbas says that they publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with Group had another nice year in 2006. could be as high as PLN 1.2 billion. Donbas the way the Poles negotiate. Its profit was up by 74 per cent and turnover increased 20 percent. It is still DFDS Tor Line that generates the high- Grimaldi ro-ro capsized at berth est profit in the group. DFDS Tor Line provides 3/4 of the turnover. Growth ssg-göteborg. On Thursday morning, The list increased, and the vessel is now by purchase of competitors is part of one of Grimaldi's ro-ro vessels capsized lying on its starboard side on the bottom the plan for the future. during loading in Antwerp. The accident close to the berth in the Verrebroek dock. In 2006, the net turnover landed at occurred at 05.30 and started with a 20- About 300 cars and containers are said to DKK 7.5 billion with DKK 5.7 billion degree list to starboard, towards the quay- have been on board the vessel. No oil spills from DFDS Tor Line and DKK 1.8 bil- side. The crew, consisting of Italian and have been detected. The cause is not yet lion from DFDS Seaways. The operating Rumanian citizens, and the passengers known. The 42,567 GT Repubblica di Gen- profit was DKK 1.1 billion, of which were safely evacuated. All in all, there were ova was built in 1988 in Italy. It is classed DFDS Tor Line contributed with DKK 34 persons on the Repubblica di Genova. by Rina and P&I insured by Gard. 937 million. SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 85 M A R K E T R E P O RT S Newbuilding contracts in the Nordic market Month Owner Nat Size Type Shipyard Delivery Value Remarks Feb AS Prestfjord No 65.4 m trawler Solstrand 10.09 NOK 200 m Aries Offshore Gr 3,500 supply Myklebust Verft 10.08 NOK 187.5 m VS 470-2 A P Møller Maersk Den 20,000* pctc Xiamen SB 10 4,900 cars A P Møller Maersk Den 20,000* pctc Xiamen SB 10 4,900 cars A P Møller Maersk Den 20,000* pctc Xiamen SB 10 4,900 cars A P Møller Maersk Den 20,000* pctc Xiamen SB 11 4,900 cars ProdJack No jack-up Keppel-Fels 10 USD 381 m Remøy Management No 93 m coastguard Myklebust Verft 3.09 NOK 285 m VS794CGV, Østensjø No 37 m tug Sanmar Denizcilik 7.08 Cecon No 130 m offshore Davie Quebec 4.09 USD 132.5 m VS4220OCV Cecon No 130 m offshore Davie Quebec 09 USD 132.5 m VS4220OCV JCE Group Sw crane semi-sub Yantai Raffles end 08 USD 150 m JCE Group Sw crane semi-sub Yantai Raffles beg 09 USD 150 m Odfjell Invest No semisub drilling Daewoo 6.10 USD 645 m Knutsen OAS Shipping No 173,000c LNG Daewoo 6.10 O H Meling No 5,000 supply Turkey/Eidsvik end 08 NOK 300 m Lorentzen Skibs No 13,000 tanker Jinse Heavy Ind 5.08 USD 22.3 m IMO II Lorentzen Skibs No 13,000 tanker Jinse Heavy Ind 7.08 USD 22.3 m IMO II Lorentzen Skibs No 13,000 tanker Jinse Heavy Ind 9.08 USD 22.3 m IMO II Lorentzen Skibs No 13,000 tanker Jinse Heavy Ind 11.08 USD 22.3 m IMO II Lorentzen Skibs No 13,000 tanker Jinse Heavy Ind 1.09 USD 22.3 m IMO II Eidesvik No 162 m offshore Westcon 10 NOK 1.2 bn Volstad Maritime No 5,000 mpsv Fosen MV 12.08 ST-256L Ålands Landskapsstyrelse Fin 65.3 m ferry BLRT 11.08 EUR 12.5 m 62 cars DSD Shipping No 104,880 tanker Sumitomo 4.10 USD 60 m March Aker Oilfield Services No 153 m offshore Aker Yards 4.10 NOK 1 bn Aker OSCV06 Aker Oilfield Services No 153 m offshore Aker Yards 11.10 NOK 1 bn Aker Oilfield Services No 153 m offshore Aker Yards 4.11 NOK 1 bn Aker Oilfield Services No 153 m offshore Aker Yards 11.11 NOK 1 bn DOF Installer No contr Aker Yards 12.09 NOK 800 m Aker AH04CD DOF Installer No contr Aker Yards 5.10 NOK 800 m Aker AH04CD DS Norden Den 31,800 bulk Jiangmen 09 DS Norden Den 31,800 bulk Jiangmen 09 Eukor Intl 232 m pctc Hyundai 10 8,100 cars Eukor Intl 232 m pctc Hyundai 10 8,100 cars Eukor Intl 232 m pctc Hyundai 10 8,100 cars Eukor Intl 232 m pctc Hyundai 10 8,100 cars Boa Offshore No 5,000* seismic Fosen MV 12.08 NOK 350m+ MT6009 Secondhand transactions in the Nordic market Month Name DWT Built Type From Price Buyer Remarks/New name Feb Lion 48,000 1985 tanker AMA Capital Prtn, US USD 11 m Champion Tankers, Bergen Acer 1,890 1985 dry cargo Oblix Shipping, Cardiff Hav Shipping, Bergen Scotsman Sea 2,901 1982 supply Secunda Marine, Canada USD 8.2 m Sartor Sh, Bergen Active Girl 3,230 1985 supply Ugelstad Rederi, Oslo NOK 73 0m Aries Maritime, London Active Lord 2,253 1984 supply Ugelstad Rederi, Oslo en bloc Aries Maritime, London De Vries Tide 3,350 2002 supply Ugelstad Rederi, Oslo en bloc Aries Maritime, London Skandi Waveney 3,350 2001 supply Ugelstad Rederi, Oslo en bloc Aries Maritime, London Viking Swan 5,000 2005 supply Ugelstad Rederi, Oslo en bloc Aries Maritime, London Maya Princess 37,420 1983 dry cargo TBS International, USA USD 13 m Dannebrog, Cph Clipper Sussex 76,000 2005 bulk Clipper, Copenhagen USD 41 m undisclosed Nordatlantic 105.000 2001 tanker DS Norden, Copenhagen USD 59.5 m König KG, Hamburg Chengxi resale 53,000 2007 bulk DS Norden, Copenhagen USD 44 m German KG TC Chengxi resale 53,000 2007 bulk DS Norden, Copenhagen USD 44 m German KG TC Maersk Rimini 15,174 1990 container O T Tønnevold, Grimstad USD 10.85 m Dania Marine, Mariager Dynasty 133,082 1982 bulk Arne Blystad, Oslo USD 15 m Korean Sibonina 83,158 1993 obo Camillo Eitzen, Oslo USD 101 m Norwegian UK-based Siboelf 74,928 1993 obo Camillo Eitzen, Oslo en bloc Norwegian UK-based Sibotura 74,928 1992 obo Camillo Eitzen, Oslo en bloc Norwegian UK-based Sea Cat 89,000 1985 tanker Seatankers, Limassol USD 18 m Sea Production, Oslo Sea Jaguar 89,000 1985 tanker Seatankers, Limassol USD 18 m Sea Production, Oslo * gross tons c = capacity in cubic meters 86 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 M A R K E T R E P O RT S Secondhand transactions in the Nordic market Month Name DWT Built Type From Price Buyer Remarks/New name Front Puffin 113,000 1990 fpso Frontline, Oslo USD 150 m Sea Production, Oslo Crystal Ocean 10,000 1999 fpso Crystal Ocean, Oslo USD 90 m Sea production, Oslo Champion Vincita 45,574 1982 tanker Champion Tankers, Bergen breaking Seminole Princess 29,500 1996 bulk Filscan Shipping, US USD 45 m Norwegian KS Laguna Belle 29,500 1997 bulk Filscan Shipping, US en bloc Norwegian KS bb Green Frio 2,400 1979 reefer Green Reefers, Bergen USD 2.4 m Viking Reefers, Ålesund Ievoli Gold 7,100 1993 tanker Mosvold Chemical, Krs S Eitzen Chemical, Oslo bb until 6.09 Ievoli Silver 5,400 1992 tanker Mosvold Chemical, Krs S Eitzen Chemical, Oslo bb until 6.09 Torquato 5,400 1992 tanker Mosvold Chemical, Krs S Eitzen Chemical, Oslo bb until 6.09 Attilio Ievoli 6,200 1995 tanker Mosvold Chemical, Krs S Eitzen Chemical, Oslo bb until 6.09 Jo Rogn 37,572 1980 tanker JO Tankers, Bergen USD 12.0 m Indian buyers Jo Gran 37,572 1980 tanker JO Tankers, Bergen USD 12.0 m Indian buyers Høegh Galleon 87,603c 1974 LNG Höegh LNG, Oslo USD 45 m Maverick LNG, US Berge Sisu 75,685c 1978 LPG BW Gas, Oslo USD 8.9 m Benelux, Greece Golden Gunn 74,759 2005 bulk Golden Ocean, Oslo USD 50.2 m Hadley Sh, London Crystal Sea 10,200 1994 fpso John Fredriksen, Oslo USD 80 m BW Offshore, Oslo Nordatlantic 105,344 2001 tanker DS Norden, Copenhagen USD 59.5 m KGAC tc back Nord Mariner 53,000 2006 bulk DS Norden, Copenhagen USD 41.0 m German KG 3 yrs tc back Mira A 740* 1976 tug Jens Alfastsen, Horsens Italian Bro Trader 14,402 1988 tanker Broströms, Göteborg USD 15.3 m Styga, Greece Bro Transporter 14,316 1989 tanker Broströms, Göteborg en bloc Styga, Greece Nord Mariner 53,000 2006 bulk DS Norden, Copenhagen USD 41 m German KG tc back Draupner 735* 1999 catamaran Tide Sjø, Bergen USD 5.25 m Italian Sapphire Express 478* 1993 catamaran Titan Cruise, US Tide Sjø, Bergen Scot Pioneer 2,379 1984 dry cargo Scot Line, UK Vidar Sh, Finland Varangerfjord 417* 1990 catamaran FFR-Connex, Hammerfest CT Offshore, Denmark March Sichem Labrador 6,700 1985 tanker Eitzen Chemical, Oslo USD 3.4 m undisclosed Golden Dena 74,700 2005 bulk Golden Ocean, Oslo USD 50.02 m undisclosed Selah SY resale 10,000 2007 tanker Turkish Tärntank, Donsö Atlantic Swan 10,500 1982 tanker Uni-Tankers, Middelfart USD 5.9 m undiscl Miclyn Magnitor 1,047* 2006 supply Offshore Charters, Singapore Boa Offshore, Trondheim Front Vanadis 285,872 1991 tanker Frontline, Oslo USD 42 m TMT, Taiwan BBC Bornholm 3,700 2003 dry cargo Bockstiegel Reederei, Emden Scan-Trans, Denmark Clipper Eagle 16,900 1994 bulk Th Jacobsen & Co, Sarpsborg Lithuanian Sh Co, Klaipeda Clipper Falcon 16,900 1995 bulk Th Jacobsen & Co, Sarpsborg Lithuanian Sh Co, Klaipeda Baus 515* 1970 tug Alfons Håkans Oy Ab, Turku Britannia Bulk DK A/S Vornaes II * gross tons c = capacity in cubic meters BENT MIKKELSEN Correction Tarbit Shippings sale of the product ! tanker Oktavius was mentioned in our last Sale & Purchase Report. The vessel's new name is Sir Athos. Mira A, the powerful Danish tug, has been sold to Italy. SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 87 M A R K E T R E P O RT S Rates and fixtures week 11 Shortsea dry bulk market report Baltic.The Baltic market is showing further Earning estimates past 12 months improvement in activity with limited ton- EUR/day ■ 1,000–1,500 DWT ■ 1,500–2,000 DWT ■ 2,000–3,000 DWT nage supply in all sizes. Mild weather 5,000 ■ 3,000–4,000 DWT ■ 6,000–7,000 DWT throughout Baltic has improved the ice sit- uation further and ice restrictions are already removed in many ports in Sweden 4,000 and Estonia. Good activity in the scrap and fertilizer 3,000 sector has resulted in a surge in demand for 4,000–5,000 tonners especially, but ton- nage has proven very difficult to attract. 2,000 Smaller ships have also been in demand for movements of steel products and general 1,000 cargo from Klaipeda and Poland to Scandi- navian destinations. Owners are finally Week regained some confidence that the market 0 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 1 5 10 will be performing better in the weeks ahead. EARNINGS ESTIMATES ON T/C MARKET SNAPSHOT Activity level: More Active BASIS PER DAY (MODERN, BOX) This week Last week Size This week Last week Brent USD 60.64 USD 62.24 Scandinavia.Continuous brisk activity 1,250 DWT EUR 1,800 EUR 1,750 MGO Rotterdam USD 527.50 USD 538.00 along the coast of Norway has taken a lot 1,750 DWT EUR 2,000 EUR 2,000 IFO180 Rotterdam USD 283.50 USD 290.00 of tonnage out of the market and created a 2,500 DWT EUR 2,450 EUR 2,400 demand for spot and prompt tonnage in 3,500 DWT EUR 3,400 EUR 3,350 the smaller sizes especially. Several fresh 6,500 DWT EUR 4,300 EUR 4,250 ern Europe this week with salt, phosphates orders of pig iron, aluminium and minerals and minerals and owners have been focus- in the 1,500 mt size quoted from WC Nor- sizes. 4,000–6,000 tonners have been very ing on positioning for Easter holidays. way to ARAG and German Baltic this hard to attract pushing rates higher on Eastern Med is more active with good out- week, but brokers have struggled hard to ARAG-Mediterranean cargo runs. We have put of steels and minerals from Turkey and attract offers. 1,500 mt marble chips from seen rates in region of EUR 25 p/mt for Greek Island both inter Med and to WC Norway to Belgium was covered at 4,000–5,000 mt of DWT scrap from Conti- ARAG/UK. 3,000 mt of steels Turkey to EUR 16 p/mt while 1,500 mt ferro prod to nent to S.Spain while 3,000 mt of wheat ARAG has been covered in region of EUR German Baltic was covered at EUR 18 from ARAG to Irish Sea has been covered 37–39 this week depending on destination. p/mt. Good activity in project and general around EUR 17p/mt. The tugboat strike in Activity level: Stabile cargo movements to and from Norway has Rotterdam was called off last weekend, and also offered owners valuable possibilities the market was back to normal early this Fixtures this week. week. – 1,500 mt minerals WC Norway/ARAG Activity level: More active Activity level: More active fixed Eur 16 p/mt – 3,500 mt minerals SC Spain/Lower UK/Continent. rokers are reporting of Mediterranean. The Western and Central Baltic fixed EUR 20 p/mt good activity both in the fertilizer and ani- Mediterranean market is moving sideways – 3,000 mt wheat SC Spain/Algeria fixed mal feed sector especially. No significant with balanced supply of tonnage in the USD 16 p/mt change in rates from previous weeks, but larger sizes. Several ships open in SC Spain norbroker shipping & trading as, tonnage supply is getting tighter in all and WC Italy this week was fixed to North- f l e k k e f j o r d , n o rway 25,000 shipping professionals read this ad. What do you want to tell them? Advertise in The Scandinavian Shipping Gazette! (www.shipgaz.com for details and prices) 88 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 www.tts-marine.com Photo: RCCL TTS dry cargo handling RoRo equipment | side loading systems | hatch covers | equipment for cruise vessels and megayachts | After-sales service and support M A R K E T R E P O RT S Tank – clean firmer – aframax misery ❯ Clean MR (Medium Range) freight remained firm throughout the past four weeks in North Europe, while crude smiles of aframax owners faces. In fact, the aframax freight rate in the North Sea has nearly halved from WS195 to WS 102 in period. Freight was not forced below WS 100, at least not until we went to press, like in the Mediterranean where indications of loaders, like aframax and suezmax suffered the past for weeks, while freight for below WS 90 were seen. After firmer rates in a miserable market. Towards the middle 100,000 tonnes Primorsk for UK/Conti- the panamax crude carrier soon fell back of the month MR tonnage in the Trans- nent slipped a little more than 40 pr cent towards WS 200 for the UK/Continent to Atlantic trades westbound went through from WS 185 to WS 105 during the same US Gulf run. WS 360 with no sign of abating, while clean LR (Large Range) tonnage made Wet bulk freight development smaller gains. WS 400 figured also, for Worldscale ■ Suezmax North Sea–TA ■ Aframax NS– UKCont 33,000 tonnes Baltic for East Coast Cana- ■ Aframax Primorsk–UKCont ■ Clean MR UKCont–TA ■ Clean Baltic–UKCont 600 da. But it is unlikely that demand will hold at present levels. Also, as soon as position- 500 ing imbalances are ironed out, more ton- nage will be available and present freight levels will not be sustained. Some MR 400 owners will dispute this line of thought, but there is certainly no overall shortage of 300 MR tonnage in market. The story of the month is the not unex- 200 pected fall in aframax freight both in the North Sea and the Baltic. On the short 100 haul North Sea to UK/Continent route the time charter equivalent (TCE) spot rate 0 hovered around USD 15,500 per day, Apr '05 Jul '05 Oct '05 Jan '06 Apr '06 Jul '06 Oct '06 Jan '07 which is hardly the sort of rate to bring Source: SSG, March 14, 2007 Dry – time to pause for thought ❯ Dry bulk owners are having a real bonanza. One could say against all odds, but demand is still forthcoming to bulk tonnage have had a runaway start to the year. This is particularly true for the capesize dry bulker, where Atlantic time committing to up to three years, perhaps believing freight will go even higher. But even the most bullish brokers now believe create sufficient demand to cover a steadily charter equivalent (TCE) spot rates were freight will weaken shortly, but none will growing fleet. Perhaps it is time to pause more than USD 100.000 per day for vessels say when. for thought, because the current upturn is for the Far East. Even at the present freight After showing signs of slowing down very fragile. However, all categories of dry level in the Atlantic charterers were still into the second week of March, there still remained sufficient nerve in the market to continue the upturn. In the Atlantic Dry bulk freight development around USD 45,000 per day was paid for a Atlantic round voyage,USD/day ■ Capesize ■ Panamax ■ Handymax modern panamax for Atlantic delivery/ 90,000 redelivery. Because of temporary deficien- 80,000 cies of capesize tonnage in the Atlantic, panamax loader were booked for iron ore 70,000 cargoes from Brazil to China. During 60,000 March the handy market really hit the accelerator and improved around USD 50,000 6,000 per day in the Atlantic. Handy ton- 40,000 nage was particularly popular I the South 30,000 American grain trades, where scores of ves- sels were booked to the Far East. In fact, 20,000 the handy market has not been this strong 10,000 or many years. The last time it reached USD 30,00 per day in the Atlantic was 0 Apr '05 Jul '05 Oct '05 Jan '06 Apr '06 Jul '06 Oct '06 Jan '07 three years ago. Source: Fearnleys/SSG, March 14, 2007 p et t e r a r e n t z 90 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 M A R K E T R E P O RT S Offshore market report March Installer, a new company in the DOF Offshore rate development group. Eidesvik is reported to be talking to GBP 1,000 PSV: ■ 600/700 AHTS: ■ 15,000–16,000 ■ 20,000+ Westcon for a gigantic subsea construction 140 vessel of 162 meters, with a speed of 20 knots and cranes of 1250 tons. The con- 120 tract price is rumoured to NOK 1.2 bil- 100 lion–USD 190 million, the most expensive vessel of this type ever seen. 80 No doubt there are more projects in the pipeline, but yards and equipment suppli- 60 ers are now looking to 2010 for delivery. 40 Going public 20 By all marks, Remøy Offshore ASA will be launched on the Oslo stock exchange at the Week 0 end of March, following a NOK 150 mil- 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 1 5 10 lion IPO. This company, managed by Åge Remøy in Fosnavåg, will become the ❯ The winter months have seen a busy and dynamic offshore market in the North Sea. With a healthy rate level, new ships are still coming on. The quartet of 153-meter service ships for Aker Oilfield Services at USD 160 million apiece caught eighth offshore supply shipping company to go public. Following in the tracks is the seismic data supplier Wavefield Inseis. enquiries for spot and term charters and a lot of attention. Similarly, Aker Yards also Money is still abundant for new oil-related ample opportunities, the mood is still secured two ultra-large anchorhandlers for service companies. buoyant throughout the industry. Com- deepsea construction work for DOF da g b a k k a j r pared to the end of 2006, the market has been less turbulent, with anchorhandler NEW TERM CHARTERS IN THE NORTH SEA: rates mostly in the GBP 30,000–60,000 seg- Charterer Vessel Type Operation ment and platform vessels in the 20,000– Team Marine Far Strider psv ext 1 yr until Jan 08 30,000s. However, some vessels have expe- MLS/Total Eidesvik Avant tbn psv 3 yrs firm + 2x1 yrs opt from 2q08 rienced idle days between jobs. Oilexco Rig Express psv 1 yr support Sedco 712, April 07 Most offshore brokers are expecting a firm market this year, too. The confidence ConocoPhillips Highland Promise psv 3 years of the owners is apparent from a general DPT North Traveller psv 3 yrs from April 07 reluctance to offer for medium term peri- Peterson Sical Torino psv 1 yr + 2x1 yrs opt, end March 07 ods, which is a much-used practice by char- Statoil Edda Frigg psv 85 days firm + 2x15 d opt, pipehaul, April terers. As expectations are running high for Statoil Normand Carrier psv 30 days pipiehaul April the summer season, many owners prefer to Apache Highland Citadel psv ext 2 yrs have ships in the spot market, or alterna- Apache UP Sapira psv ext 2 yrs tively only go for longer periods of 3–5 BP UK Taurus ahts 3 months firm + opt, April 07 years. Statoil Normand Draupne ahts ext 1 yr New orders NEW CHARTERS OUTSIDE THE NORTH SEA: For order boom for conventional supply Charterer Vessel Type Operation ships have been petering out, however, Total Sea Halibut psv 6 months form + 2x3 opt, May, Congo some projects are still coming out. The Total Bourbon Borgstein ahts 28 months firm + 4x6 opt, Aug, Congo Myklebust Yard managed to squeeze a SPECIAL VESSEL CHARTERS: VS470-2 type PSV into their schedule for delivery in September 2008, at a price of Charterer Vessel Type Operation NOK 183 million; this going to Greek Acergy Normand Tonjer subsea 3-4 months W Africa (Deep Ocean relet) Aries Maritime. Volstad Maritime has tak- Seabird Expl Munin Explorer seismic 5 yrs + 3x1 yrs opt, bb July 07, purch option en a fourth ST-256 vessel from Fosen, slat- Diavaz Aquanaut subsea 225 days ext until Oct 07 ed for delivery in December 2008. Fosen Veolia Nor Sky ROV 5 yrs from April 07 also secured the option for a MT6009 to CCG Veritas Veritas Viking II seismic 6 yrs ext Boa Offshore/EMGS, also for December various clients Geosea survey until Sept 07, Australia/Sakhalin 2008. OT2K Bothnica subsea subsea work August-Dec 07 More demanding projects for specialized Based on information from R G Hagland Offshore, www.hagland.com SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 91 M A R K E T R E P O RT S BUNKERS AND CRUDE OIL TRENDS SHARE PRICE INDEX Week Rotterdam Bunkers Crude Oil Index 16/3 9/3 380 cSt, USD/t MDO, USD/t Brent, spot IPE, USD/brl Broström Logistics* 102.56 99.24 05 247 464 57.06 06 263 468 58.60 OSE2030GI** 351.43 356.93 07 250 463 56.18 *Broström Logistics is a share price index that includes seven Swedish as well as non-Swedish transportation and logistics 08 259 473 60.64 companies, publicly listed on European Stock Exchanges. For 09 265 486 61,47 further information, visit www.brostrom.se. 10 268 487 61.00 **OSE2030GI includes the shipping companies listed on the 11 264 477 60.56 Oslo Stock Exchange. Quotations Friday each week. Source: Stockholm Chartering, www.stochart.com CRUDE TANKER MARKETS DRY CARGO MARKETS, LARGE CARRIERS Size Route Week Worldscale Earnings Size Route Week USD/t (USD/day) Single voyages VLCC Persian Gulf–UKC C/S 05 55.0 38,600 Capesize Tubarao–Rotterdam 05 21.00 280,000 06 50.0 31,000 165,000 Iron Ore 06 21.30 07 50.0 32,800 07 22.20 08 55.0 39,200 08 21.50 09 57.5 42100 09 24.00 10 70.0 59,800 10 24.00 11 75.0 67,600 11 24.90 Suezmax Cross Med 05 135.0 57,500 Tripcharter Av. Earnings 130,000 06 130.0 53,500 (USD/day) 07 125.0 51,200 Panamax Cont–Far East 05 34,000 08 115.0 44,500 70,000 06 35,500 09 90.0 28,700 07 38,000 10 90.0 28,500 08 38,900 11 100.0 34,900 09 43,500 Aframax North Sea–UKC 05 160.0 50,500 10 44,700 80,000 06 160.0 50,000 11 44,000 07 195.0 68,200 Handymax Transatlantic, round voyage 05 31,500 08 130.0 34,800 06 30,750 09 120.0 29,400 07 30,750 10 102.5 20,400 08 31,750 11 160.0 49,800 09 33,250 Quotations Friday each week. Source: Stockholm Chartering, www.stochart.com 10 35,000 11 38,750 Source: Fearnleys, www.fearnleys.no Norwegian ship and rig orders drilling rigs for a total of NOK 154 billion. tonnes. This is the first time that this sort for NOK 220 billion Total investments are 60 per cent higher of statistics has been compiled, but the ssg-tønsberg. Norwegian and Norwegian- than a year earlier. Baltic Exchange promises annual numbers controlled shipowning companies and for the tanker FFA trade. Those participat- drilling contractors had ships and rigs ing in the market are oil companies, ship worth NOK 220 billion on order at the USD 5.5 billion worth of FFAs owners and companies in the financial sec- end of last year, according to market last year tor. sources quoted by the Norwegian financial ssg-tønsberg. Thanks to a growing num- daily Dagens Næringsliv. These numbers ber of oil market participants who trade include Norwegian-controlled companies risk, Baltic Exchange statistics show that SFI sells single-skin VLCC registered abroad, such as entities con- 12,758 tanker Forward Freight Agreements ssg-tønsberg. John Fredriksen controlled trolled by John Fredriksen. Statistics from (FFAs) worth USD 5.5 billion were traded Ship Finance International (SFI) has sold the Norwegian Shipowners' Association last year. Translated into oil, carried these the 285,000 DWT single-skin Front (NSA), excluding those companies abroad, transactions, both over the counter and Vanadis, built in 1990, to Taiwan Maritime show investments in 356 ships and 25 cleared trades, equate to 329,4 million Transport for USD 42.0 million. 92 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 www.shipgaz.com The next issue of Scandinavian Shipping Gazette Tanker Technology Don´t miss out on the latest developments in the tanker sector. The comprehensive bi-annual review Tanker Technology will give you the BIG picture. Publishing day: Mars 23, 2007 Deadline for space: Mars 9, 2007 Lars Adrians +46 -31 62 95 71 Odd-Einar Reseland +47-47 33 29 96 Stig-Johan Lundström +358-45 13 24 499 Inga Nielsen +45 -76 10 11 36 HÅKAN SJÖSTRÖM The Montagne: Adventures of an Old Lady I t is nowadays very rare for a ship to old that he could hardly walk, he still goal was to take her to the Caribbean and have a life span for more than 40 insisted in continuing to drive his even sell her to a local shipowner. After the visit years. But many disappeared ships older ship. His crew had to carry him to in Cyprus, the Montagne departed to Las of the past lived much longer than the wheelhouse where he then could sit Palmas where her fuel tanks were filled up that, often having a very variable career, and steer. A true skipper to the last. as much as possible. After this Maijala cast operated by owners whose lives were Eventually time comes to an end for off and headed for Barbados. somewhat more adventurous than what is everything and Johansson was forced to After 16 days at sea, when finally arriv- usual in today's shipping world. part from his ship after almost 30 years. In ing at Bridgetown, she had only 60 litres In 1876 the Motala Mekaniska Verkstad 1979 the Montagne was sold back to Swe- of fuel left! But now new problems at the Swedish Lake Vättern launched the den, but this time to a Stockholm-based ocurred. The prospective buyer ran into small steam cargo ship the Vieille Montagne diver, Karl Hillgren. The new owner also financial difficulties and Maijala could not II. She was especially built for the Belgian had new plans for her. The Montagne sell the Montagne as he had planned. company Vieille Montagne. The company sailed down to the Mediterranean and to Instead he decided to operate the Mon- operated zink mines in Åmmeberg, Sweden, the Red Sea, where Hillgren and his friends tagne himself, trading cargo in the and built eventually four coasters for carry- dived to numerous shipwrecks in search for Caribbean. Surely no one in the Finnish ing the zink to Göteborg. In their private valuable items. In 1982 this business came Maritime Administration knew there was harbour it was loaded into bigger ships. to a sudden end, when Hillgren disap- such a cargo ship under the Finnish flag The Vieille Montagne II remained peared on a dive. His friends dived to on this deep sea trade. After one year of almost unchanged all her career, plying search for him, but found something else trading the local skipper Bernard Tavernier back and forth on the Göta river. In 1961 instead: two big sharks swam around in the from Dominica bought her. Still bearing her trading in Sweden ended and she was area where Hillgren last was seen. the same name, the Montagne shifted to sold together with the Vieille Montagne IV the Dominican flag. In 1986 she ran to Borgå in Finland. Renamed the Mon- The Montagne was laid up in Israel and ashore on Martinique after a hurricane but tagne, she spent her following years on the was put for sale. But instead of being was refloated under the assistance of a US busiest domestic coastal trade between bought by a local owner she ended up to fly navy ship. Cheating scrapping, nature ele- Borgå and Helsinki carrying sand materials. the Finnish flag again, as the Finnish adven- ments, and unforeseeable sales, the Mon- Her Finnish owner Evert Wilhelm turer and mariner Markku Maijala somehow tagne's end came in 1995 when an over- Johansson was a coaster skipper of the old- managed to acquire her. The Montagne board valve broke and filled her engine er breed, who had spent all his life on this now got Helsinki as her home port and she room with water. She sank on deep water, particular trade. Even in the end of the was registered as a pleasure craft. Maijala loaded with cargo for a nearby island. 1970's, when Johansson was becoming so sailed her to Limassol for dry docking. His ja n g r au tawa a r a 94 SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MARCH 23, 2007 Material costs Scheduling Productivity Innovation Technical solutions Communication Support matters Availability Market knowledge Impartiality Trust Rule clarity Life is about reaching new heights. Our design and build expertise can help take your ship construction to new peaks of productivity without compromising safety, thanks to our in-depth knowledge of emerging technologies, markets and designs. If you need a hand up, trust us – when support matters. 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