Ship demolition report 30/10/2012

Alang
Elbrus [BZ] IMO 8918095 Cargo vessel built 1992 - 17,493 dwt
Greet [MH] IMO 8204523 Container vessel built 1984 - 43,293 dwt
Creciente [HK] IMO 8815463 Bulk carrier built 1990 - 152,065 dwt
Amatory [TG] IMO 8113009 Bulk carrier built 1984 - 34,859 dwt
TCT Hope [KR] IMO 80242263 Bulk carrier built 1982 - 61,659 dwt
Thor Jupiter [TH] IMO 8311065 Bulk carrier built 1986 - 37,049 dwt
River Boyne [AU] IMO 8018132 Bulk ore carrier built 1982 - 76,307 dwt
Blida [DZ] IMO 7705635 Bulk carrier built 1973 - 20,586 dwt

Gadani
Dorado [LR] IMO 8715039 Vlcc built 1989 - 304,622 dwt
Longfin [MH] IMO 8700008 Chemical tanker built 1988 - 83,995 dwt
One Emerald [TH] IMO 8701844 Vlcc FSO built 1987 - 261,068 dwt

China
Frio Posiden [BZ] IMO 8811687 Reefer built 1987 - 9,360 dwt
Georgia S [PA] IMO 8009521 Bulk carrier built 1981 - 30,187 dwt
Globe Unity [PA] IMO 8716382 Bulk carrier built 1991 - 147,067 dwt
Peng Yan [CN] IMO 8020563 Bulk carrier built 1981 - 60, 050 dwt
Hua Jin Chun [PA] IMO 8005927 Bulk carrier built 1982 - 64,930 dwt

Other
Reboucas [BR] IMO 8501799 Tanker built 1986 - 20,818 dwt
Jerash [JD] IMO 7382263 Vlcc FSO built 1976 - 289,980 dwt [gadani delivery maybe]

Alang bound ship damages telecom sub cable..oops

AHMEDABAD: Sri Lanka's telecom major failed to get a compensation from a ship that had damaged its submarine cable connecting SL with Maldives on its final voyage to Alang. The Gujarat high court refused to direct the vessel owner to pay damages, because by this time, the ship has been beached at its graveyard for dismantling.

The high court ruled that since it has been beached and cleared for dismantling, it cannot be considered a vessel any longer. Because the ship is no longer in the territorial waters of India, but is beached on an intervener's plot, it becomes goods. Hence the court's admiralty jurisdiction cannot be invoked.

On its last voyage to Alang, a container carrier M V ACX HIBISCUS with Panamanian flag was anchored near Colombo in April. The ship was anchored in dangerous vicinity of the submarine cables owned by Sri Lanka Telecom PLC.

The company even warned the ship and asked it to shift its position, but the vessel damaged its submarine cables.

As the ship started sailing towards Alang, the telecom company moved the high court in May seeking arrest of the vessel and to not permit it to be dismantled till it paid a compensation of $ 2.2 million for damages done to the cable.

The company sought immediate action saying that the ship was heading for dismantling at Alangship-breaking yard and once it was broken; there was no scope to extract money. The company also claimed that the ship was owned lately by Tastec Yokohama, Japan.

The high court immediately ordered for arrest of the vessel. But this brought the ship breaker -Bhuval Industries to court, which stated that the ship could not be arrested because, before the court's order of arrest, it was beached. Hence the admiralty suit was not maintainable before a beached vessel.

The ship breaker also contended that the vessel was in a dilapidated condition and there was a possibility of oil spillage, therefore the intervener be permitted to remove the bunkers and sell them. It also assured that the amount from the sale would be kept in a separate account. The intervener purchased the vessel for $ 3.78 million.

After the arguments, Justice Abhilasha Kumari rejected the suit saying that the customs duty has been paid by an independent importer. The vessel is no longer a foreign vessel. And above all, it is not a floating vessel.

Source TOI

Ship demolition report 28/10/2012

Alang
Seaboard Cost Rica [PA] IMO 82000591 Roro vessel built 1984 - 14,466 dwt
Mellow Wind [PA] IMO 9138965 Bulk carrier built 1997 - 170,164 dwt
Advent [PA] IMO 7900261 Bulk carrier built 1980 - 38,871 dwt

Mumbai
Rahmeh 1 [PA] IMO 8100507 Cargo vessel built 1981 - 11,639 dwt

Aliaga
Milano Star [PA] IMO 7717200 Cargo vessel built 1979 - 6,474 dwt
Uranus [TZ] IMO 7383956 Cargo vessel built 1975 - 3,699 dwt

China
Ocean Trader [KR] IMO 8518003 Bulk carrier built 1987 - 39,833 dwt
Han Yang [KR] IMO 8110576 Cargo vessel built 1984 - 10,962 dwt
Saehan 7 [KR] IMO 8414427 Chemical tanker built 1984 - 2,999 dwt

Other
Choyang [PA] IMO 7818004 built 1978 - 6,902 dwt
Van Castle [KR] IMO 7322366 Tug built 1973 - 114 t

Nuclear powered Sevmorput to be scrapped.

The only ever built nuclear-powered ice breaker Mv Sevmorput is destined for the scrap heap. The vessel built in the 1980's was banned from many of the world ports and has just be lying idle for many years.

Sevmorput
Flag RU
Built 1988
33,980 dwt
IMO 8729810

Northern Vitality

Source - Ship recycling / NGO ship scrapping platform

Escaping German waters the Northern Vitality is heading for Bulgaria

Brussels, 23 October 2012 - In a letter sent last week to the Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and to the Bulgarian Executive Environment Agency, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform, a global coalition of environmental, human rights and labour rights organisations, calls on Bulgaria to prevent the export to India of the toxic ship Northen Vitality is a 15 year old container ship that is likely to  contain hazardous material such as asbestos, refrigerants and mercury within its structure. Under European waste law it is illegal to export an end-of-life ship containing toxic materials to India.

“We expect Bulgaria to step up to the plate and do the right thing: refuse to be a toxic waste dumper and ban the export of the NORTHERN VITALITY to a developing country”, said Patrizia Heidegger, Executive Director of the NGO Shipbreaking Platform. “The ship should be sent to a facility in the EU or Turkey where she can be recycled in an environmentally sound and safe manner.”

The NORTHERN VITALITY left Germany on the 10 October after local authorities had held her for more than a month in the port of Wilhelmshaven, and is now about to enter the Mediterranean Sea. 

On 6 September, the Platform had alerted Germany and the European Commission that the ship’s departure from German waters had to be prevented and the EU Waste Shipment Regulation had to be enforced. 

The regulation prohibits the export of ships at end-of-life to developing countries, including India. Probably to evade public scrutiny, the then-owners of the NORTHERN VITALITY, the Norddeustche Vermögen Holding, sold her to another German company, Erste Roland Shipping, which stated that the ship would be repaired in Bulgaria. According to data acquired by the NGO Shipbreaking Platform, the VITALITY should drop anchor in Varna around 4 November.

However, the Platform doubts that the repairs in Bulgaria will be little more than a halt for the ship on her way to the shipbreaking yards of South Asia. Two sister ships of the NORTHERN VITALITY, the NORTHERN DIGNITY and the NORTHERN FELICITY, which were reported as sold for breaking by the industry at the end of August, were both beached in Alang, where they now await their disastrous fate. Both ships’ names and flags changed during their last voyage.

Every year, about 1,000 ocean-going ships are broken to recycle steel and other items, but the majorities are simply left on the tidal beaches of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India where little or no consideration is given to proper management of the hazardous wastes they contain. Proper training and personal protection equipment is lacking. Accidents and lethal injuries remain common in the shipbreaking yards. Twelve workers died this year while working in the Alang yards. On 6 October, six workers were killed in a fire that broke onboard a beached ship, the Union Brave, a British-owned ship. For the first time, the Indian authorities arrested the shipbreaking yard owners.

In July, India’s Supreme Court held that all ships imported for breaking should be pre-cleaned of the hazardous wastes they contain.

“There is a need to end this transfer of toxic waste to India and other countries and it’s time that the countries responsible for creation of the waste take on the responsibility of cleaning and disposing off the same,” said Ritwick Dutta, a lawyer from New Delhi-based Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment and a member of the NGO Shipbreaking Platform. “It should be the shipowners, not the environment or the workers, who should pay for the management of end-of-life ships’ hazardous wastes.”

Last March, the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on ship recycling, deemed to bring an end to the export of European toxic ships to sub-standard facilities. The NGO Shipbreaking Platform is now working with the European Parliament and the European Council to strengthen the proposal.

Demolition report 25/10/2012

Last noted in Greece
Panormitis [PA] IMO 7705788 Tug built 1977 - 978 t

China
Xin Tong Hai [CN] IMO 8005587 Tanker built 1981 - 61,335 dwt

Alang
Theresa Mediterranean [TV] IMO 8308111 Tanker built 1982 - 77,788 dwt
Opal II [PA] IMO 7920027 Bulk carrier built 1979 - 20,027 dwt

Other
Sea Resolve [VC] IMO 8126812 Cargo vessel built 1983 - 11,243 dwt
Alexander I [MT] IMO 8302260 Cargo vessel built 1990 - 13,864 dwt [euroafrica]

Ship demolition report 24/10/2012

Alang
Ganga Sagar [IN] IMO 8409783 Bulk carrier built 1987 - 47,281 dwt
Flaminia [IT] IMO 7602132 Passenger vessel built 1981 - 3,250 dwt
CCNI Vado Ligure [AG] IMO 9082790 Container vessel built 1995 - 23,190 dwt
Reunion [MH] IMO 8907917 Bulk carrier built 1991 - 15,010 dwt
VSP Titan [PA] IMO 8408399 Bulk carrier built 1985 - 66,995 dwt
Frio Gaspar [KN] IMO 7508348 Reefer built 1978 - 4,229 dwt
Invicta [PA] IMO 8201791 Cement carrier built 1983 - 16,171 dwt
MSC Lugano [PA] IMO 8714217 Container vessel built 1988 - 42,795 dwt
Trave Trader [KN] IMO 9080534 Container vessel built 1994 - 22,525 dwt

Chittagong
Markella [GQ] IMO 90122771 Container vessel built 1993 - 9,410 dwt

Aliaga
Pioner Moldavii [RU] IMO 7741263 Cargo vessel built 1979 - 6,070 dwt

China
Sin Yuan [PA] IMO 7714741 Bulk carrier built 1980 - 27,463 dwt
Zeesh Glory [PA] IMO 7929138 Bulk carrier built 1980 - 39,729 dwt
Sea Link [PA] IMO 7908897 Bulk carrier built 1980 58,557 dwt
Sea Brilliance [PA] IMO 8307167 Bulk carrier built 1984 - 38,309 dwt

Gadani
Erradale Star [BS] IMO 9041033 Bulk carrier built 1994 - 163,534 dwt

Other
Speedy Falcon [MG] IMO 8004466 Bulk carrier built 1981 - 64,285 dwt
Teval [MT] IMO 9081734 Container vessel built 1994 - 20,140 dwt
Marwan [MT] IMO 9070008 Container vessel built 1994 - 18,950 dwt
Silver Bay [LR] IMO 9134567 Container vessel built 1998 -  22,286 dwt
Indrani [ID] IMO 856689 Bulk carrier built 1986 - 69,611 dwt

Ship demolition report 22/10/2012

Alang
BILOXI BELLE [PH] IMO 8316261 Bulk carrier built 1984 - 39,225
FRONT DRIVER [MH] IMO 8906884 Bulk carrier built 1991 - 169,178 dwt
INDIAN FORTUNE [PA] IMO 8412948 Bulk carrier built 1985 - 23,352 dwt
IOLCOS GLORY [PA] IMO 8103535 Bulk carrier built 1982 - 74,841 dwt
KIMON A [VC] IMO 8115320 Bulk carrier built 1985 - 23,817 dwt
REUNION [MH] IMO 8907917 Bulk carrier built 1991 - 150,108 dwt
SILVER BAY [LR] IMO 9134567 Container vessel built 1998 - 22,286 dwt

China
INDRANI [ID] IMO 8516689 Bulk carrier built 1986 - 69,611 dwt

Ship scrapping report 17/10/2012

Alang
Saligna [KN] IMO 9078153 Wood chip carrier built 1994 - 46,790 dwt
Great On [TU] IMO 7918268 Bulk carrier built 1981 - 64,911 dwt
Dubai [AE] IMO 8117225 Container vessel built 1982 - 35,615 dwt
Elbe Trader [LR] IMO 9080522 Container vessel built 1994 - 22,525 dwt
Frigia [ PA] IMO 7507485 Bulk carrier built 1978 - 35,246 dwt
Langeron [PA] IMO 8312136 Bulk carrier built 1984 - 28,086 dwt
MP Panamax 3 [IN] IMO 8109149 Bulk carrier built 1983 - 63,883 dwt
Tegesos [LR] IMO 9122215 Container vessel built 1996 - 38,380 dwt
Tim Buck [CY] IMO 8319861 Bulk carrier built 1983 - 19,240 dwt
Cape Preston [LR] IMO 8122579 Bulk carrier built 1983 - 22,351 dwt
Qinfa 6 [VC] IMO 8400440 Bulk carrier built 1984 - 69,841 dwt

Chittagong
Atlantic Express [PA] IMO 8412223 Bulk carrier built 1985 - 24,344 dwt
Eagle [CY] IMO 8126408 Bulk carrier built 1985 - 52,163 dwt
Gold Star [HK ] IMO 8221674 Bulk carrier built 1984 - 36,850 dwt

China
Yi Tong [CN] IMO 8114893 Bulk carrier built 1982 - 17,692 dwt
Setyawati [HK] IMO 9100281 Tanker built 1994 - 3,189 dwt

Other
Fast Blu [IT] IMO 8310982 Hydro Passenger ferry built 1985 - 25t
Kaduna [PA] IMO 7128796 Roro vehicle ferry built 1972 - 4,700 dwt
Kano [MD] IMO 7236139 Roro vehicle ferry built 1972 - 2,120 dwt
Nafplio [GR] IMO 7011254 Roro vehicle ferry built 1970 - 1,186 dwt

Aliaga
Zagore [KM] IMO 7425259 Cargo vessel built 1978 - 10,703 dwt
Union Triumph [TG] IMO 8416578 Chemical tanker built 1984 - 7,554 dwt
Lady Dina [BO] IMO 7047368 Cargo vessel built 1971 - 1,553 dwt

Ship demolition report 11/10/2012

Alang
Carina K [PA] IMO 8701533 Bulk carrier built 1991 - 30,000 dwt
Gem of Safaga [IN] IMO 8022444 Bulk carrier built 1982 - 65,163 dwt
New OJI Pioneer [PA] IMO 9088574 Bulk carrier built 1994 - 46,832 dwt
Tycoon II [PA] IMO 8503072 Cargo vessel built 1986 - 23,929 dwt
Balticland [UK] IMO 7514414 Bulk carrier built 1977 - 17,161 dwt
Champion 1 [KN] IMO 9137909 Container ship built 1997 - 38,502 dwt

Chittagong
Oceam M [PA] IMO 8025525 Bulk carrier built 1982 - 39,925 dwt

China
Xing jian Da [CN] IMO 7926124 Bulk carrier built 1981 - 40,750 dwt
Hong Qi 201 [CN] IMO 8033637 Bulk carrier built 1980 - 18,886 dwt
Peng Feng [CN] IMO 8025458 Bulk carrier built 1983 - 65,024 dwt
Da Qing 434 [CN] IMO 8879328 Tanker built 1992 - 5,726 dwt

Aliaga
H.E.F Express [MH] IMO 8918796 Cargo vessel built 1995 - 6,985 dwt
RFA Bayleaf [UK] IMO 7342031 built 1977 [A109]

Other
DP Genoa [CY] IMO 8901937 Container vessel built 1992 - 12,583 dwt
Fareast Sun [PA] IMO 7921203 Bulk carrier built 1980 - 22,027 dwt

Blast on Union Brave at Alang

An explosion and subsequent fire on-board a beached tanker at the Alang-Sosiya Ship Recycling Yard in India killed five workers and severely injured two others on Saturday, according to Indian officials. The fire broke out at 12.45 pm on the 163-metre-long MT Union Brave, a tank-ship purchased recently by Bhavnagar-based Kiran Ship Breaking Co. for recycling. The vessel was beached at plot 82.

Witnesses said the fire appears to have broken out after workers used blow torches to cut open a compartment near the pump-room towards the rear part of the ship. Workers in other parts of the yard did much of the rescue work and cut open more parts to pull out their trapped co-workers. They apparently found two workers on a higher part of the ship and pulled them out, but could not enter deep enough to rescue five others who were trapped in the inferno. The fire was brought under control and emergency responses wrapped up around 6 pm, said a witness. More than half of the tank-ship had already been cut apart as part of the recycling process.

Source ShipRecycling

Maritime Bulletin Casualty List

The excellent web site "Maritime Bulletin" has produced a page dedicated to
Maritime Casualties 2012, and is well worth a visit.
Click on the link below to take you there.

Casualty list

Ship demolition report 9/10/2012

Alang
Erradale Star [BS] IMO 9041033 Bulk carrier built 1994 - 163,544 dwt
Jasmin [PA] IMO 8314457 Bulk carrier built 1985 - 36,663 dwt
Montevideo [LR] IMO 8312033 Reefer built 1983 - 8,489 dwt
Union Force [HK] IMO 8315047 Tanker built 1984 - 19,862 dwt
Venus N [KN] IMO 8130289 Bulk carrier built 1983 - 41,829 dwt
Conti Asia [LR] IMO IMO 9053244 Container vessel built 1993 - 23,596 dwt

Gadani
Okoltchitza [BG] IMO 8120375 Bulker built 1982 - 25,573 dwt [TBC]

Ship demolition report 6/10/2012

Alang
SCI Prestige [UK] IMO 9017032 Container vessel built 1992 - 39,424 dwt
Cape Natal [LR] IMO 9112894 Container vessel built 1995 - 22,148 dwt
Frontier Si [KR] IMO 8028072 Bulk carrier built 1983 - 65,224 dwt
Ocean King [KN] IMO 8012270 Bulk carrier built 1983 - 47,409 dwt
GS Beauty [KR] IMO 8010958 Bulk carrier built 1983 - 139,650 dwt
Atlantic Trader [AG] IMO 9123104 Container vessel built 1996 - 22,024 dwt
Al Wajba [QA] IMO 8117251 Cintainer vessel built 1983 - 35,615 dwt
BK Duke [KR] IMO 911943 Bulk carrier built 1995 - 45,320 dwt [TBC]
Red Strength [PA] IMO 9118836 Container vessel built 1995 - 40,055 dwt [ex MOL Strength]

China
Chi Hao [PA] IMO 7322550 Reefer built 1973 - 5,281 dwt
Grand Anemi [ MT] IMO 8111958 Bulk carrier built 1983 - 76,650 dwt

Aliaga
R Partner [ MH] IMO 9057161 Container vessel built 1996 - 20,566 dwt
GadaniWugang Star [LR] IMO 8902644 Bulk carrier built 1991 - 187,575 dwt

Other
Tanto Sahabat [ID] IMO 7640005 Container vessel built 1977 - 8,706 dwt
Amal S [TG] IMO 8411853 Container vessel built 1986 - 7,706 dwt
Rania [GO] IMO 7825643 Reefer built 1979 - 1,800 dwt
Chi Hao [PA] IMO 7322550 Reefer built 1973 - 5,281 dwt
Navigator [GO] IMO 7707425 Cargo vessel built 1980 - 7,682 dwt
Yi Xing [PA] IMO 8015582 Cargo vessel built 1982 - 9,636 dwt
BM Warrior [PA] IMO 8412534 Cargo vessel built 1986 - 20,482 dwt
VNL Dynamic [CN] IMO 8715261 Container vessel built 1988 - 14,101 dwt
Phoenix [DM] IMO 8911217 Bulk carrier built 1990 - 151,227 dwt
Ocean Universe [ KR] IMO 8707513 Bulk carrier built 1988 - 123,020 dwt