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Fate of The Finnbirch - Nov. 2006
Brazil Mid-Air - Oct. 2006
Ultimate Transport Crisis - Sept. 2006
M/V Cougar Ace - Laying down on the job - July 2006
M/T Front Sunda - Exploded And Abandoned - July 2006
Powers of A Kansas Hoe - July 2006
Flying Fire Truck - June 2006
Loading Submarines - M/V RORO Star - June 2006
Indian Split - M/V Ocean Seraya - June 2006
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Mystery Solved --
"The
Legend of The Great White Dorito"
- 7 Dec. 2006 Chiquita
Did It! Thousands &
Thousands of
Dorito
Bags Doritos
In
Flavors
- Nacho - Cool Ranch - Black Pepper Jack - Fiery Habanero
A
Cargo
Law Mystery For
You To Solve --Where Did This
North
Carolina
Dorito Party Mix
Come From? Chips
Ahoy! -- As
North Carolina Locals Clean The Beach On Nov. 30 -- More
Likely They Salvage Doritos Let's Hear It For Vacuum
Packaging! The Major Health
Concern Here Is That The
Trans Fat Can
Convert To Trans-Atlantic
Fat ! A 40ft. Reefer Container
Has Delivered Doritos
To The Beach - Overside From An Atlantic Trade
Vessel We're
waiting For A 20ft. Container With
Dip Frequent
readers of The
Cargo Letter
know that our pal Dr.
Curtis
Ebbesmeyer
-- known to his pals as
"Dr.
Beach"
-- is the world's leading scientist studying
global open ocean drift patterns.
This
Is A
Cargo Law
Mystery For You To
Solve
-- We think this was likely U.S. export cargo
-- for Puerto Rico or Latin
America. Our
Cargo
Law
Mysteries & Adventures With
Dr.
Beach -
Dr.
Curtis
Ebbesmeyer
-- all these mysteries were solved - 100% record so
far - with reader help. "Overboard
With Dr.
Beach"
- Nov. 2004 "Container
Pool"
-
A Cargo Law
Mystery
- May 2002 Our Dr. Beach -
Dr.
Curtis Ebbesmeyer Our
Guest Flotsam None of Our
Mysteries Have Ever Gone Unsolved Solved In 3
Days! -- Thanks Readers! The
Cargo Law Mystery Solved!
-- by our reader Philip
Smith
of Centerville, Ohio. -- after 4 days
Online! M/V
Courtney L
is a 475 FEU capacity vessel, one of 12 ships in
The
Great White
Fleet.
The Great White
Fleet
carries bananas to the United States from South
& Central America & offers cargo
services to other companies for the return trip.
The crew learned that the 4 containers were gone
while taking inventory on Nov. 23 - Thanksgiving
Day. The U.S.
National Park
Service
spent most of Nov. 23 securing the site &
getting the container removed from the beach --
while dozens of scavengers arrived with garbage
bags to collect the booty. The
Cargo Letter[428]
for November 2006
--
a The
Great White Fleet article
appeared by coincidence -- The
United Fruit Company's Great White
Fleet Images
of The Great White Fleet Contributors For This
Feature: Dr. Thomas C.
Royer -- Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography
Dept. of Ocean, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Old
Dominion University Philip
Smith
-- Centerville, Ohio. Emirates Airbus Rolls
Royce engine Cowling Went to pieces....No Details On
Why. Happened 18 Oct. 2006 En
Route From BHX (Birmingham Int'l Airport) to DXB
(Dubai Int'l Airport) This Happened On
Approach Over Water To Land. The logical explanation
would be a bird strike. But it would have had to
be a very heavy bird. They don't make them that big
anymore. That's what's got
everyone perplexed. What Caused This Airbus
- To Go To Pieces? Contributor For This
Feature: M/V
Finnbirch
In Better Days Home
port: Stockholm Dead
weight: 8,500 GT:
15396 NT:
4656 Class:
Lloyds Reg. +100A1+ LMC+UMS,
Ice 1A Main
engine: 2 NKK Pielstick 12
PC 2,5V Auxiliary
engine: 2
Daihatsu Bow
thruster: Kawasaki 735
kW Length
o.a.: 156 mt. Breath:
22,70 mt. Draught:
7,30 mt. Service
speed: 17 knots Lane
meters:
2100 UPDATE>>
Wreck of
M/V Finnbirch
--
now lying in a depth of 80mt.-100mt. on position
56º 49,143'N 017º 12,998' E. A
part of the 260 tons of oil escaped but is
currently drifting towards the open sea.
Meanwhile
critizism arose against the private Swedish
rescue service AB Norrlandsflyg AB which only
had one Sikorsky helicopter for up to 8 people
on scene. Just the Finnish Coastguard brough
relief after
M/V Finnbirch
sank
& 14 people were drifting in sea --
2
people died in sinking
of
M/V Finnbirch,
the search for one of them had been called off
10 hours after the ship went down. The other
died on hypothermia in a hospital in Kalmar.
Capt. who had suffered a broken leg when the
ship heeled over was rescued by his crew mates
& survived. From
our Sr.
Correspondent
Tim Schwabedissen.
(Fri.
Nov.3 2006) Lindholm
Line
--
Opererator of M/V
Finnbirch The
Plane Which Survived The press
pictures of the 737 impact site show what may be
a nearly vertical impact into a tight area the
jungle floor -- with no survivors. A suspect in
the crash is this US$25M
Embraer
Legacy 600
business jet that was on it's delivery flight
from the Brazil factory to its new owner in the
U.S. No injuries
suffered aboard the business jet. Note the
impact damage to the winglet and horizontal
stablilizer. It is not
surprising that
the
Embraer
Legacy 600
business jet survived -- only that the B-737-800
did not. Now 155 are
dead. Eyewitness
Account: "Without
warning, I felt a terrific jolt and heard a loud
bang, followed by an eerie silence, save for the
hum of the engines. And then the three words I
will never forget. "We've been hit," said Henry
Yandle, a fellow passenger standing in the aisle
near the cockpit of the Embraer Legacy 600
jet. "'Hit? By
what?' I wondered. I lifted the shade. The sky
was clear; the sun low in the sky. The
rainforest went on forever. But there, at the
end of the wing, was a jagged ridge, perhaps a
foot high, where the five-foot-tall winglet was
supposed to be." Embraer
Legacy 600 Business Jet Contributor For This
Feature: M/V
Cargo Ace
In Better Days M/V
Cargo Ace Laying
Down On The Job US$72,000,000
Worth of Mazda
Automobiles Now "Piled" Along The Port
Side. Truly
Ship
Happens© The
Cargo Letter For
July 24 2006 - FLAG:
Singapore Line:
Misui O.S.K. Built:
1993. Call Sign:
9VKE. BRT-55328. Laying
Down On The Job
--
Continuing News Coverage & Many Photos - Follow
Our M/V
Cargo Ace
Feature If
There Is A Vessel In
Distress, The
Statistical Chances Are That
Rescue, Will
Come - From One Agency , More
Any Other -- Index For This
Feature: World
Car Carriers
-
from Tugspotters U.S.
Coast Guard Contributors For This
Feature: Hilde Krause -
Roanoke
Trade Insurance
Services,
San Francisco The single-hulled
M/T
Front Sunda
was abandoned after no. 6 cargo tank exploded at
17:00 Singapore time on 19 June. The tanker was in
ballast at the time, about 200 miles northeast of
Singapore when the blast occurred. One crew member
is missing of the 22 crew aboard the tanker. The
Marshall Islands registered
M/T
Front Sunda
was built in 1992 at the Brodogradiliste Split
yard, is classed with DnV and managed by
International Tanker Management, Dubai . She was
scheduled to load for Royal Dutch Shell in
Singapore on July 2 for a voyage to New
Zealand. M/T
Front Sunda was
recently involved with an oil spill at Hawaii on 20
May when up to 2,000 gallons of crude oil spilled
into the ocean while the vessel, more than a mile
off the coast, was pumping oil ashore to the Tesoro
refinery from the single-point mooring terminal at
Oahu. Flag:
Marshall Islands Signal
Letters: V7FO9 Home Port:
Majuro Owner:
Southwest Tankers Inc. Class
Notation: 1A1 Tanker for Oil ESP E0 Sister Ships In
Operation: 1991 M/T FRONT
GRANITE 1990 M/T FRONT
TARGET 1989 M/T FRONT
TRANSPORTER 1990 M/T FRONT
TRAVELLER 1992 M/T
MARBLE 1989 M/T SONGA
ANCORA Contributor For This
Feature: While all modern air
tankers just open doors for a dead drop of water onto the
fire, they do not "shoot" like a real fire truck ....... the
Evergreen
747 Supertanker is
truy a real "Fire
Truck". A battery of nozzeles shoot
the water in a spray directed flow to where the water is
needed. Not like a bomber -- but
more like a fighter plane -- hitting the exact targets from
a higher, safer altitude. With a giant
fire storm last year having delivered it's threat
quite close to my backyard off the mountains of
Calabasas, Calif. -- the concept of an
Evergreen
747 Supertanker
seems just fine. As we watched
the water drops last year from helicopters &
a
Lockeed-Martin
P-3
there was little difference to the blaze for any
one drop --multiple drops were
required. Our brave
firefighters did one hell of a job -- but
an
Evergreen 747
Supertanker
might really make a difference next
time.
McD Our largest current water
carrier is the Lockeed-Martin
P-3 Orion at 3,000
gallons. But the
Evergreen
747 Supertanker
delivers 20,500 gallons of directed hits. Proponents
in New York argue the added ability of the
Evergreen
747 Supertanker
to deal with the recurring problem of great apes
mounting skyscrapers in Manhattan, as depicted
in the Evergreen
coprporate photo, above.
The
Empire
State Building
(in
newsphotos pictured above, left &
below)
has
been a particular target of these curious
attacks. New job for the
Evergreen
747 Supertanker? Index For This
Feature: Comparrison
of 747 Supertanker To Lockheed-Martin
P-3 Contributor For This
Feature: The RO/RO Ramp Goes
South Here the crew
is trying to secure the ramp to the vessel and then
re-connect it. It could be a long job. No
submarines arrived. Index For This
Feature: Contributor For This
Feature:
On
Nov. 28 2006 -- A cargo container that
apparently fell from a ship washed up on the
Outer
Banks of North
Carolina
& spilled thousands of bags of
Doritos
brand tortilla chips on the beach. People
collected the chips, which were apparently
still fresh due to their airtight packaging.
Unknown which ship had lost the cargo or for
what port she was bound.
One
of our Readers knows which ship
carried ths cargo & the details
of
loss..
McD
Write
To
Us
--
our rules of confidentiality
apply.
"Dr.
Beach's Mystery
Buoy"
- Jan. 2005
Years
of The Rubber Duckie
Doritos
The
subuct vessel was container
M/V
Courtney L,
owned by Great
White Fleet Ltd.
of Cincinnati, a subsidiary of Chiquita Brands
International. M/V
Courtney L loaded
the cargo in Wilmington, Del., and was destined
for Costa Rica. The
"Doritos
container"
that grounded off a Hatteras Island beach was 1
of 4 that fell off a ship during the recent
nor'easter -- lost somewhere near the
Virginia-North Carolina border during early
morning hours of Nov. 22 and 23., as confirmed
by U.S.
Coast Guard.
***Goodbye
Great White Fleet After 135
Years......
as Cincinnati-based
Chiquita
Brands
is considering selling off its fleet of reefer
vessels operated by subsidiary
Great
White Fleet following
this past summer's scare over fresh spinach,
plus sagging prices for bananas. It suspended
shareholder dividends in late Sept. as its
shares plummeted by 14% &endash; the largest
drop since spring of 2003. It has retained
Fortis
Securities
to explore strategic alternatives including a
sale of the Great White Fleet, a sale-leaseback
& other options.
Chiquita's
Fresh Express
bagged-salad brand was heavily hit by the
U.S.
Food & Drug
Administration's
ban on bagged fresh spinach over E. coli
contamination while bananas, the main cargo of
the Great White Fleet, witnessed a price drop
since the European Union eliminated a quota
& raised tariffs on banana imports from
Latin America. The value of Chiquita's shares
fell 32% this year. The company was formed in
1871 as the United
Fruit Company
and became the United
Brands Company
in 1970, changing its name to
Chiquita
Brands Int'l
15 years later.
Dr.
Curtis Ebbesmeyer
Emirates
History
Our Faithful
Doc - to The
Cargo Letter
Call
sign: SLNK
The
Cargo Letter For
Nov. 1 2006 -
ALERT>>
500ft M/V
Finnbirch of
the Lindholm
Line
,
with 14 crew - Helsinki in Finland for Aarhus in
Denmark --
capsized & sank
Nov.
1 -- 2
dead & 12 others rescued
--
crew flown to hospital in Kalmar on the Swedish
mainland, suffering from hypothermia. Officials
reported ship was on her side & crew sitting
on the hull.
(Wed.
Nov.1 2006)
The
Cargo Letter For
Oct. 1 2006 -
ALERT>>
Brazilian
Gol Airlines
flight 1907, Boeing
737-800,
Manaus to Brasilia
and Rio
de Janeiro,
crashed
after colliding
with
Excel Air's Brazilian-made
Legacy
Executive Jet
in midair on Sept. 29. Wreckage of
Boeing
737-800
located in dense Amazon
rainforest,
1,090 miles northwest of Sao Paulo in the state
of Mato Grosso. 149
passengers and 6 crew feared
dead --
Brazil's worst air disaster in history. Legacy
Executive Jet stablized after the collision and
landed at a Brazilian air force base in the
Amazon state of Para. Gol Airlines reports that
the Boeing 737-800 had been delivered by Boeing
just three weeks ago and had been flown for only
200 hours. (Sun. Oct. 1 2006)
"With
the window shade drawn, I was relaxing in my
leather seat aboard a $25 million corporate jet
that was flying 37,000 feet above the vast
Amazon rainforest. The 7 of us on board the
13-passenger jet were keeping to
ourselves.
J.
Sharkey - freelance assignment for
Business
Jet Traveler
Magazine.
Cockpit
Our Faithful
Doc - to The
Cargo Letter
courtesy of a friend in the
Brazilian
Air Force.
ALERT>>
22 Crew & US$72M of Cars In
Jeopardy>>
654ft. Singapore-flagged
Mitsui
O.S.K Lines
car carrier M/V
Cougar Ace,
Japan for Vancouver B.C., Canada with 4,813
automobiles & 22 crew --
sent
SOS late
July 23 --
suffered 80 degree list (press says 90 degrees,
but that is hard to do)
in N.
Pacific, 230 miles S. of the
Aleutian
Islands.
One
crew has broken
leg,
but no other reported injuries at this time --
crew
wearing survival suits. Vessel taking
water.
378ft. U.S. Coast Guard cutter USCGC
Rush
(WHEC-723)<<
Webfeature,
from Hawaii
is in Alaska waters & beating to scene. U.S.
Coast Guard helicopter, two
U.S.
Army
Pave Hawk helicopters, two refueling planes and
a U.S.
Air Force
C-130 plane arrived from a
U.S.
Air National
Guard
base in Anchorage -- helicopters hoisted
stranded all 23 crew members to safety. Bravo
Zulu! Heavy seas. Things do not look good.
(Mon. July
24 2006)
Foss
Maritime
USCGC
Morgenthau
U.S.
Coast Guard
The
Cargo Letter For
July 5 2006 -
"Marshall
Islands registered,
Frontline Suezmax
149,999 dwt tanker M/T
Front Sunda (built
1992), Singapore for Persian Gulf in
ballast,
suffered explosion in one of its
tanks
200 NM off the NE coast of Singapore, June 19
--
one crew
missing.
Our photos will be posted shortly, but show
major
upward blast
forward.
From our
Correspondent
Hilde Krause. (Thurs.
July 6 2006)"
1993 M/T
FRONT COMOR
Hilde
Krause -Roanoke
Trade Insurances
Services, San
Francisco
June
is the start of fire season, here in Southern
California.
Here,
two Evergreen
747 Supertankers
demonstrate
a unique urban advantage for a modern problem
which began in the 1930's and has continued as
late as 2006.
Evergreen
Aviation
Christoph M.
Wahner, Esq. -- Countryman & McDaniel -
LAX
In
sunny Manzanillo, Mexico --
M/V
Roro Star
makes port in the coastal trades to transport
pallets of cement and superbags on Tues., 25 April
2006.
The
Ro/Ro ramp has become dislodged from the turntable
at the base of the ramp, perhaps now only able to
accommodate submarimes.
Port
of Manzanilo
-- a great site
Anonymous For
Many of Our Other Features -- but the person who took
these photos
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The Cargo Letter For June 2 2006Major Loss>> 230mt. Panama flagged , 75,000gt Japanese M/V Ocean Sekaya (also reported "Ocean Saraya"), in ballast to pick up iron ore with 22 crew -- damaged after hitting a rock & partially sank in rough seas in early hours of May 30 -- vessel anchored 4 days waiting to be berthed at Port Karwar, India -- anchor snapped following gusty winds around 2 a.m. started drifting & dashed against a rock on an island that housed the lighthouse-- suffered structural damage & began sinking -- 21 of 22 crew rescued -- i swept away & presumed dead. INS Kadamba<< Webfeature, standing by. (Tues. May 30 2006) UPDATE>> Indian Coast Guard reportedly working round-the-clock to contain an oil spill near the grounded Japanese Merchant Navy M/V Ocean Sekaya, in bid to limit damage to the pristine and as yet untouched Karwar coast in Northern Karnataka. (Thurs. June 1 2006) UPDATE>> Vessel has split in two. (Fri. June 2 2006) |
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