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"Dutch Harbor Debacle" - Dec. 5 2009"Singapore Sling" - M/V MSC Kalina- Nov. 12 2009
"Road Warrior" - Nov. 2009
"World's Most Stupid Pirates - Part Deux" - Oct. 2009
"This Is My Way To Work?!" - Washington State Ferries - Oct. 2009
"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished" - M/V Waker - Sept. 2009
"Just Out of Reach" - Sept. 2009
"Not My Job 2" - Why We Pay For Public Employees? - August 2009
"Pee Wee's Big Adventure" - Oh Noooo, Mr. Autopilot! - August 2009
"Holy Ship!" - M/V Marti Princess & M/V Renate Schulte - June 2009
"Not My Job" - June 2009
"Just Visiting" - M/V Livarden - June 2009
"What Cruise Ship?" - June 2009
"Taichung Tumble" - May 2009
"World's Most Stupid Pirates" - May 2009
"LAX Lunch Deja Vu" - 13 April 2009
"Lucy .....I'm Home" - April 2009
"MV Maersk Alabama - 2006 Year Deja Vu" - April 2009
"FedEx Disaster At Narita" - March 2009
"The Russians Never Disappoint" - M/V New Star - Feb. 2009
"Collision At Dubai"- M/T Kashmir - Feb. 2009
"Loving The Parking Brake" - M/V HSS Stena Voyager - Jan. 2009
"Bull Riding In The Med" - M/V Balmoral - Jan. 2009
"Ruba-Dub-Dub" - Jan. 2009
"Transport History?" - all pirates are not on the high seas - Jan. 2009
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MAIN INDEX Winds As High As 125 mph
Toppled a 110-foot Gantry Crane At The
American
President Lines
Shipping Facility In Dutch
Harbor, Alaska. A Spokesman For
American
President Lines Ltd.
Says No People Or Other Structures Were Damaged When The
Crane Fell At 8:45 p.m. Dec. 4 2009 Evening. The Crane Fell Onto
Gravel At The Terminal. The Terminal Loads
Bering
Sea Pollock, Crab
& Other Seafood Onto Asia-Bound
Container Ships APL
Ships Are Expected To Shift Local Loading & Offloading
Operations To The Container Terminal At The City Dock,
Operated by Horizon
Lines. APL
Is The World's 5th Largest Container Shipping
Company. Contributors
For This Feature: Frank
Kelty M/V MSC
Kalina In Better
Days -- Nov. 11 2009 Night Was A Bad Evening M/T
Aljalaa Seems To
Have A Shorter Bow Than Normal M/T
Aljalaa: 2009
Built - 243 Meters - Lybian
Gov't Owned The Large Swath Across
M/V
MSC Kalina Was
Not Made By Zorro. M/T
Aljalaa Has
Collided
with M/V
MSC Kalina
In The
Singapore
Straiits M/V MSC
Kalina Has
Sustained Major Damage At The Waterline -- But She Is
Understood To Remain Serviceable. There Are No
Injuries. Both Vessels Navigated
Safely To Port. This Was Not A Direct Hit Collision -- Just
A Sinapore
Sling. Meantime, follow
any breaking developments for
M/V
MSC Kalina at
our DAILY
VESSEL
CASUALTIES
feature. Contributor
For This Feature: The
Cargo Letter -
Nov. 10 2009 But the natural
forces governing Earth's
rotation went slightly out of balance today! The
eBay
bid was not honored! Perhaps we should call out the
National
Guard. The winning
"real"
eBay
bidder, 24 year old
Clayton
Adler
placed the final bid of US$10,099.99 on
eBay
for the retro-fitted
Lazy-Boy
recliner auctioned by the
Minnesota's
Proctor
Police Dept.
-- but he nown reneges. Proctor
Police Dept.
Chief, Walter
Wobig,
says "Mr.
Adler claims
the bid was a mix-up."
Mr.
Adler
may not realize it, but a bid placed at auction is
a contract. The police chief has turned the matter
over to the Proctor
City Attorney. While it's
unlikely that Mr.
Adler
will face serious consequences for the entering a
bid he does not intend to honor, perhaps
eBay
will choose to pursue prosecution in this case to
make an example of him. It would certainly be
within their rights, and after a spate of reneging
at some recent high profile eBay auctions, perhaps
they should consider it. The police chief
said "Everyone loses when this kind of foolishness
prevails. Not only is there lost revenue on the
fees for the chair, but there's reputation damage
to consider as well." Editor
Note That
technological giant --
Dennis
LeRoy
Anderson
-- tied a lawnmower engine to his recliner -- got
all liquored up -- drove down the highway -- and
hit a car. While historians
may debate the worth of this great innovation in
"Transportation History" -- perhaps we should just
put this recliner chair back in the double-wide and
make peace. Behold
: The Motorized La-Z-Boy Note The
Cup Holders, TV Remote &
National
Hot Rod Association Insignia. We'd All
Be Proud To Drive This Baby Away From Our Local Bar &
Back To The The Trailer Park Along With
Newton
For Modern Physics, Bell
For The Telephone & Edison
For The Lightbulb Where Modern
Transportation History Is Concerned ...... ....... There Will Always
Be Dennis
LeRoy
Anderson
For The Motorized
NHRA Branded
La-Z-Boy
Recliner Chair They Look So Focused. So
Directed With Razor Sharpe Intent & Tactical
Superiority. Right? Wrong!
These Idiot Thugs Have Done It
Again! The
Cargo Letter -
April 22 2009 In their
clever attack fury -- the hapless
Somali
pirates had mistaken French
Navy Light Surveillance Frigate
Nivose
for a helpless commercial vessel on April 22,
and tried to attack her, according to a
Reuters
report. The
Somali
pirates carefully cornered their prey -- then
attacked -- and then Whoops! It didn't
take long for the
French
Navy
to correct this case of mistaken identity: They
seized 11 suspected pirates 600 miles off the
coast of Somalia. They confused
the Nivose
with a commercial ship and rushed toward it, to
intercept it," [a French defense
spokesperson] said
Reuters. The
Nivose
then put her own craft in the water with her
commandos and sent out a helicopter and stopped
these 11 pirates who were on these three
boats. The pirates,
who had a mother ship as well as the two assault
boats, were held for questioning on the
Nivose.
The vessels were carrying AK-47 rifles and
rocket-propelled grenades, but the pirates did
not fire -- a flash of brilliance for them under
the circumstances. Actually, a
French
Navy helicopter
intervened before the attackers had time to
fire. The incident
took place about 1,000 km (620 miles) east of
Mombasa,
Kenya,
at 8:30 a.m. local time (0430 GMT)
. In the prior
three weeks, the
Nivose
has intercepted 24 suspected pirates as part of
a European
Union
anti-piracy operation off the coast of
Somalia,
which has become THE piracy
hotspot. Please
Visit Our Feature:
World's
Most Stupid
Pirates
(The Orginal) World's Most
Stupid Pirates -
Part
Deux - 6
October 2009 The events of 6
October 2009 make very cleary that the
Marx
Brothers
could not have been a proper warm-up act for these
Somali
Pirates.
Naval fleets of the
U.S.,
NATO,
the EU,
China,
Japan
& others have assembled to counter the
Somali
Pirate
threat. This marshaling of force is all directed
toward the control of teen-age, thug, idiots.
The
Cargo Letter -
Oct. 6 2009 After due
consideration & proper planning -- the
Somali
Pirates
- MADE A NEW ATTACK UPON -- the 18,000-ton flagship
of the French
naval operation - La
Somme. With
dreams of ransom riches dancing in their heads,
they grabbed their AK-47s, jumped into small
skiffs, and tried to take on a passing ship -- the
French
flagship! Geeeez
-- exacly how stupid do you need to
be? Editor
Note: You
be the judge. First the
French
cleverly
paint their huge vessels in international naval
gray and then take great care to festoon the ship
with massive radar arrays.
Shameless! What
we really object to is these
French
masters of disguise having taken the sly route to
place -- right there on deck for all to see
-- a Bofors
40 mm gun --
plus 2
Oerlikon 20 mm
cannons,
plus 2
12.7 mm M2 Browning machine
guns
-- plus 3 Simbad
Mistral missile launchers. What
nerve these French
have! How
the Hell is any self respecting
Somali
Pirate
to know that he is not about to safely sit in his
little skiff & "capture" a passing tramp
steamer? How Unfair! French
Commandos From Command
& Replenishment Ship
Somme
Great The "Genius
Competition"
Finalists Late
Comers Are Given Stretching Exercises By The
French
Navy One
of The Mensa
Candidates Is Welcomed Aboard Single Feature
Index: Special Note To
Readers: This Is The Daily Manner of
Transit To Seattle
For Workers Living In
The San
Juan Islands of
Puget
Sound Can We Get Off
Now? Living On The
San
Juan Islands of
Puget
Sound Presents
Unique Challenges For Commuters To
Seattle M/V
Cathlamet Proves
Her Daily Metal. Geeez -- Just Imagine If This Was
Winter! I'm Glad
My Car Was Not On The Bow! The
Story of M/V
Cathlamet The
Chinook
word calamet
meaning "stone," was given to the tribe because its
members lived along the rocky stretch of the
Columbia
River. A
city also bears its name. Editor
Note: This
is not some sunshine shipping line, but an all
weather service for the people of
Puget
Sound
& the San
Juan Islands
which operates in all conditions except the most
extreme -- to move cargo & passengers back
& forth from Seattle
& the islands. It
is the nature of Puget
Sound
for conditions to be extreme & unpredictable --
so Washington
State Ferries
plans for this for their many vessels which ply the
hundreds of miles of routes each
day. My
family has numbered among the thousands who live on
the many islands of
Puget
Sound
and who commute daily
to
Seattle
for their office work. This
sea service of the
Washington
State Ferries
is known to be scary at times of the year -- but
not once in my lifetime has there been a
greater mishap than a mechanical breakdown or a
grounding. The
Washington
State Ferries
stand alone in the world for their hundreds of
daily runs throughout the angry seas of the
Puget
Sound's
-- covering thousands of square miles without a
major mishap. These
photos were taken by our contributor about two
years ago -- but this fact is of no matter. The
daily risks & challenges of navigating the
Puget
Sound
are constant & legendary. Single
Feature Index: Contributor
For This Feature: On Aug. 30 2009
M/V
Waker (Left)
Was one of The Hero
Ships - Saving Container Vessel
M/V
MSC Nikita Off
Rotterdam A Dramatic Rescue of
Vessel & Crew -- Clearly A Good
Deed! M/V
Waker On Her
Triumphant Return To Rotterdam
On Sept. 2 2009 -- But The Good Deed Was Not To Go
Unpunished Photographed By Our
Reader Marcel
van IJperen Five Days Later, While on
Sept. 7 2009 North
Sea Patrol,
M/V
Waker Suffers
Engine Room Fire In The
North Sea Her 33 Year Service Life
Devoted To Save Others -- M/V
Waker Must Now
Fight To Save Herself The Public Must Come To
Understand That For These Brave Ships -- It Is Very
Dangerous Out There When It Comes To Your
Cargo -- Only A Fool Has No Marine Cargo Insurance. Tomorrow
It Will Be Worse Sept. 9 2009
M/V
Waker
was towed to the naval base of
Den
Helder
and arrived at 17:00. Background
For M/V
Walker
- Renamed
M/V
Walker in
1995 by the next owner
SWI,
the ship, stationed at
Den
Helder,
will remain at least until 2010 with the
Netherlands
Coastguard.
The ship, chartered by its present owner
Svitzer,
has a length of 67.50 m with 6.23 m of draught.
Propelled by two 6-cylinder Stork Werkspoor diesel
engines with a capacity of 2 x 4.600 HP (2 x 3.380
kW), it reaches the operational speed of 14
knots. Single
Feature Index: Construction Model
Kit of M/V
Walker Contributor
For This Feature: Here At The
Finnsteve Oy Terminal
In Finland-Helsinki-West
Harbour -
Something Seems Just Out of Reach The New Driver Had Only
Been Working A Few Days When Taking This Container Down From
A 7 High Stack. He Just Kept Driving With
Boom The Extended. Add A Little Little Braking & OOPS!
Love Your Center of
Gravity -- Keep It Close. A
Reach
Stacker
is one of the most flexible handling solutions with
which to operate either a small terminal or a
medium sized terminal.
Reach
stackers
are able to transport ocean containers over short
distances very quickly and stack them in rows for
efficient use of container yard
space. Reach
stackers
have gained favor in container handling in most
markets because of their flexibility and higher
stacking capacity when compared to lift trucks.
We can't resist
the opportunity to remind that this under-trained
Reach
Stacker
has your valuable cargo in his sights! Make sure
you arrange high quality marine cargo insurance to
protect your valuable goods. Single
Feature Index: Finland Contributor
For This Feature: Not My
Job? There was a time
when working to improve public transportation was a
goal -- perhaps even an honor. To perfectly
understand our current "Not
My Job"
campaign -- you must see "Not
My Job"
from June 2009 -- our first review of this
subject. Take a look at
-- "Not
My Job"
-- then you will understand. Contributor
For This Feature: Oh Noooo, Mr.
Auropilot! Pee Wee's Big
Adventure While Dry Docking Is
Certainly An Option, Most To Prefer To Simply Drop
Anchor Thanks
Richard
-- And For Your Photos From The Deck of
RMS
Queen Mary 2
-- of M/V
APL Panama
-- During Our Day
At The Beach
Feature. Editor
Note: Wile
visiting San
Clemente island
by boat is a great
California
experience -- doing so with an unattended helm at
high speed by autopilot -- is a very good way to
become dead. Single
Feature Index: Contributor
For This Feature: M/V Marti
Princess On The Job
With M/V
Renate Schulte Not
Photoshop -- No Injuries No casualties
were reported, however, as a precautionary measure,
13 crew members of the Marti Princess were
evacuated upon request from the master of the
ship. The 2008-built
6,019 gross tonnage general cargo
M/V
Marti Princess
was involved in a collision close to
the
Dardanelles
Straits
in the early night of June, 27 with the 1994-built
14,619 GT German flagged containership
M/V
Renate Schulte. The
Merchant Shipping
Directorate
is informed that following the collision water
flooded the 2 cargo holds of the
MV
Marti Princess.
M/V
Marti Princess is
reported to have been carrying 8,000 tons of bulk
cement. By June 30 evening, a salvage team was
already on board the
Maltese
ship to assess the situation and carry out the
necessary stability calculations. No pollution has
so far been reported and operations are underway to
pump out the Maltese
ship's bunkers to a special barge in order to
minimise the potential of any leakages. At around
10.20h, July 1, morning, both vessels were
successfully separated, with no serious
repercussions and the current situation being
reported as stable. The salvage team is now
deliberating the next task of towing the Maltese
vessel to a safe area. Since June 27,
officials from MMA's
Merchant
Shipping
Directorate
have been in constant contact with the
International Safety Managers of the Maltese
general cargo ship and the appointed inspector in
Turkey. The
Maltese
authorities will liaise with both the local
authorities and the
German
marine accident investigators in their
investigation of the accident. Our Other "90 Degree"
Features "T-Boned"
- historic collision at sea - May 2003 Contributor
For This Feature: The International
Transportation of Any Product Requires Many Companies &
Innumerable Hands. The
"Bad
Thing" Can Happen
At Any Stage -- Including Infrastructure
Failure. This Picture Is A Symbol
of The Little Things Which Can Make The Big Bite To Your
Cargo. This Guy's Brother Loaded
Your Perishable Cargo Today. What Required Precautions "Were
Not His Job?" Here Is Just Another
Example of The Many Reasons Why Shippers Need High Quality
Marine Cargo Insurance. In
any language -- cutting corners is seen in all
industries -- including transport -- when they have
you valuable cargo. Quality marine cargo insurance
is available from qualified brokers around the
world. Contributor
For This Feature: Stephanie
Warren
- former President - Calabasass Chamber of Commerce,
CA What Cruise Ship Is This?
Well, We Actually Knew The Answer. Editor
Note:
SS
United States
is one of our The
Cargo Law Charities
--
check them out! Our other
charity,
The Los Angeles Maritime Institute's TopSail Youth
Program,
which
hepls at-risk youth. When you donate to save lives
-- please mention
Cargo
Law. Contributor
For This Feature: 1,000- N.M. West of
San
Francisco - U.S. Coast Guard
Photo April 8, San Pedro
--
Reader Photo To The
Cargo Letter Due to
The Conditions & Delicate Situation -- 24 Total Crane
Hours To Discharge This Bay Material
Reported Falling All Over The Dock As Operations
Continued From
Our Reader M/V
YM Taichung called
on
Port
of Long Beach
about April 14, 2009.
Yang
Ming Line
will soon begin to receive the
claims. Editor
Note: The
loss of cargo due to imporper stowage or Perils of The
Sea -- are commonplace. These incidents are seldom
photographed, but daily reminders of why 99% of savy
shippers secure quality marine cargo
insurance. Single
Feature Index: Contributor
For This Feature: The Dreaded Skull &
Crossbones -- Striking Fear Into The Hearts of Mariners For
Hundreds of Years
Modern,
Mortorized, Machinegun Marauders! Who Can Be Safe From Their
Bold Attack? In their clever
attack fury -- the hapless
Somali
pirates had mistaken French
Navy Light Surveillance Frigate
Nivose
for a helpless commercial vessel on April 22, and
tried to attack her, according to a
Reuters
report. The
Somali
pirates carefully cornered their prey -- then
attacked -- and then Whoops! It didn't take
long for the French
Navy to
correct this case of mistaken identity: They seized
11 suspected pirates 600 miles off the coast of
Somalia. They confused
the Nivose
with a commercial ship and rushed toward it, to
intercept it," [a French defense
spokesperson] said
Reuters. The
Nivose
then put her own craft in the water with her
commandos and sent out a helicopter and stopped
these 11 pirates who were on these three
boats. The pirates, who
had a mother ship as well as the two assault boats,
were held for questioning on the
Nivose.
The vessels were carrying AK-47 rifles and
rocket-propelled grenades, but the pirates did not
fire -- a flash of brilliance for them under the
circumstances. Actually, a
French
Navy helicopter
intervened before the attackers had time to
fire. The incident
took place about 1,000 km (620 miles) east of
Mombasa,
Kenya,
at 8:30 a.m. local time (0430 GMT) . In the prior
three weeks, the Nivose
has intercepted 24 suspected pirates as part of a
European
Union
anti-piracy operation off the coast of
Somalia,
which has become THE piracy hotspot. The Shame
of "Disguised" French
Navy Light Surveillance Frigate
Nivose
-- Here Making Herself Look Like A Freighter -- Especially
The Large Bow Gun. Dah! Frigate
Nivose
Arrives At Mombassa,
Kenya
With The Somalia
Scholars
DAH! Single
Feature Index: LAX
Airport Officials
Say The Vacuum Created By A Port Engine On
Japan
Airlines Flight # 61
Pulled
The Container Off A Baggage Trolley.
The
Boeing
747
Engines Were Operated With Material Within "The
Cone of Danger" This Guy Gets A Picture
of LD3
For Lunch #2 All
Pilots Know There Is A Cone of Danger In Front of The
Engines -- Engines Will Ingest Everything In The
Area The accident
occurred about 1:30 p.m. when Flight 61 to Narita,
Japan, pulled back from
Gate
101 at
the Tom
Bradley International
Terminal.
The vacuum created by the air intake of the left
outboard engine was so strong it pulled the empty
container off a baggage cart that was either parked
or driven too close to the aircraft. The LD3 model
air cargo container, which is used by airline
baggage handlers to haul luggage to and from
aircraft, measures approximately 5 feet by 5 feet
by 4 feet. The LD3
container became lodged in the engine's
housing. Japan
Airlines
took the crippled 747-400
out of service and made other flight arrangements
for the passengers and 18 crew members, who were
returned to the Bradley
Terminal.
The airplane, which has four engines, was towed to
a hangar for inspection. The Federal
Aviation Administration is investigating the
incident. This Happened
Before - Feb. 1999 We firgured at
the time that the LD3 was too large to reach the
fans of the Boeing
767
involved in the incident. Empty cargo
containers remain an obvious danger. VISIT OUR VINTAGE 1999
FEATURE:
LD3
For Lunch
-- the
Boeing
767 that
ate the cago container for lunch! MV
Maersk
Alabama
In Better Days The
Cargo Letter -
April 9 2009 The
Cargo
Letter
World Exclusive -"206 Year
DejaVu" The first
American
warship to the rescue of
MV
Maersk Alabama
was
USS
Bainbridge
(DDG-96) which arrived on scene at
approximately 10pm Eastern time on April 9
2009. That last
American-flagged
vessel to be captured by pirates was the
USS
Philadelphia,
when she ran aground off
Tripoli
on 31 October 1803 and was captured by the
Tripoli
pirates. The captain
of USS
Philadelphia
-- who was the last U.S. captain to lose his
vessel to pirates was
Captain
William
Bainbridge
-- namesake of the current
USS
Bainbridge
(DDG-96) -- the first warship now to the
rescue of MV
Maersk
Alabama
off Somalia. What amazing
irony -- as the spirit -- or ghost of
Commodore
William Bainbridge,
USN
now
rises up -- again -- to take his vengence on
the pirates after 206 years. Indeed, you
can't make this stuff up! We
will contiune to follow this amazing story as
USS
Bainbridge
(DDG-96) should
address the situation at dawn, as few hours
from now The
Cargo Letter
is proud to be first in the world with this
part of the story. It pays to study maritime
history! This is
one of the greatest ironies in world maritime
history. (Wed.
Apr. 8 2009) Commodore
William Bainbridge,
USN
Looking
Down Tonight -- Perhaps
Smiling Editor
Note: Reader
Letter: An
armed assault by
U.S.
Navy
and U.S.
Marine Corps
personnel secured the ship, and the crew was
mysteriously released and set adrift in a
fishing boat shortly
thereafter. EditorResponse: SPECIAL
NOTE: Continue
to follow this important story at our photo
feature - "The
Retaking of MV Mearsk
Alabama" Single
Feature Index: 0649 Local Time, Monday
23 March 2009 Japanese Meteorologists
Warned of A Risk
of Wind Shear The
accident happened as the
Federal
Express
Flight
80
arrived at Narita
Airport,
near Tokyo,
from Guangzhou,
north
of Hong
Kong
in China. The
aircraft crashed on the longer of
Narita's
two runways. A video shown on television
shows that the aircraft's main gears touched
down first but the nose then dropped heavily.
The aircraft bounced and flipped over as
flames exploded from the wing. Dozens of
flights were cancelled as one runway
at
Narita
remained closed. The two
pilots were taken to hospital but confirmed
dead. The pilot,
Kevin
Kyle Mosley,
was 54 years old and the co-pilot,
Anthony
Stephen Pino,
was 49. Both were American. It took
firefighters about 30 minutes to bring the
fire under control. Footage of
the crash shows the plane landing hard,
tipping on to its left wing and bursting into
flame as it then rolled over. The plane
landed in strong winds, of up to 72 km (45
miles) per hour, and
Japan's
meteorological agency had issued a gale
warning for the area around
Narita. Japanese
meteorologists warned of a
risk
of wind
shear
at Tokyo's
Narita
Airport
the night before a FedEx MD-11 crashed on
landing this morning, killing the two crew
members aboard. "We have
information that strong winds caused the
plane to divert from the runway," a
Narita
Airport
spokeswoman told reporters. But officials
said it was too soon to confirm if the winds
caused the crash. Airlines
cancelled more than 30 flights and diverted
others to nearby airports, because
Narita's
longest runway remains closed. Parts of the
wreckage were still burning hours after the
crash. The U.S.
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
dispatched a team of experts from Washington
to help Japan with the investigation of the
crash. Japanese
authorities will lead the investigation. The
NTSB designated Senior Air Safety
Investigator John Lovell as U.S. accredited
representative. He is joined by two
additional NTSB investigators, along with
representatives from the FAA, Boeing and
ALPA. Kyodo
News said
it was the first fatal aircraft accident at
Narita
Airport
since it opened in 1978. Dramatic
Video: A 400-Ton Crane Worked To
Temove The Truck & Allow The Ferry To
Dock. This Was
A
Turners Ltd of
Fordham,
UK
Vehicle, Carrying Non-Ferrous Sulphate Powder M/V HSS
Stena Voyager
Only Went Back Into Service Jan. 26, After A US$1.4M
Refit. Single
Feature Index: Contributors
For This Feature: Tim
Schwabedissen Cabins: 738 --
Fully Stablized Passenger: 1400
Standard Occupancy Crew;
500 Refitted:
2008 Tonnage: 43,537
grt Length: 218.18
m Beam (width):
28.2 m Speed: 20.0
knots Other
than that: Keep up the good work! Single
Feature Index: Contributors
For This Feature: Marc
Onrust
-- Onrust
Yacht Charters Our Elected Leaders
Serving The Transportation Public -- Pirates Are Not Always
On The High Seas Governor
Rod R.
Blagojevich
-- January 13, 2003 to Present --
Currently
Under Federal Indictment And Subjct To Prison
If Convicted Blagojevich
was
the first
Democrat
to be elected governor of
Illinois
in 30 years.
Blagojevich
has struggled annually to pass legislation
and budgets, often opposed by many members
of his own party (which controls the
Illinois
General
Assembly)
who perennially disagree with him over
budget and other issues. He has been the
target of multiple federal investigations
and has historically low approval ratings
within Illinois;
Rasmussen
called him
"America's
Least Popular
Governor." Because
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Feature Index: Infamous
Chicago Politics
- the
current events are only the next step in a well
exstablished history Contributors
For This Feature:
The
Cargo Letter
APL
container
crane in Dutch
Harbor
blew over in heavy wind storm on Dec. 4.
[From
our Correspondent
Steve Tucker,
6-12-09]
Steve
Tucker
The
Cargo Letter -
12 Nov. 2009
243-m,
115,577-dwt crude tanker
M/T
Aljalaa,
built 2007, was in collision with 366-m, 14,000-TEU
container M/V
MSC Kalina,
built 2009, in the
Singapore
Strait
on Nov. 12 at 0300LT. No injuries reported. Both
vessels made it safely to port but reported
significant damage, with
MSC
Kalina
suffering hole / hull breach on it's port side
amidships. [From
our Correspondent Hilde E.
Kraus,
12-11-09]
Editor
Note:
We will
continue to follow this important incident, but due
to travel schedules -- there will be no updates
here before 16 Nov. 2009.
Hilde
Krause -
Roanoke
Trade Insurance
Services,
San
Francisco
The
Cargo Letter -
29 Oct. 2009
Transport
Comfort Mayhem .....
as a Minnesota
man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized
La-Z-Boy
chair (recliner) while drunk. A criminal complaint
says 62-year-old Dennis
LeRoy
Anderson
told police he left a bar in the northern
Minnesota
town of Proctor
on his chair after drinking 8 or 9 beers.
Prosecutors say Anderson's
blood alcohol content was 0.29, more than 3 times
the legal limit, when he crashed into a parked
vehicle in Aug. 2008. He was not seriously injured.
Police said the chair was powered by a converted
lawnmower and had a stereo & cup holders.
Sixth
Judicial District Judge Heather
Sweetland
stayed 180 days of jail time & ordered 2 years
of probation for Anderson.
His attorney did not immediately return calls for
comment. Yea, he had to be named
LeRoy.
See
The La-Z-Boy
The
sainted, motorized recliner went up for auction by
the Proctor
Police Dept.
on eBay
-- with bids ranging as high as US$37,000!
Before we
all get carried away on the moral indignity of some
likely spirited or drunken guy placing a late night
Internet auction bid on a motorized
La-Z-Boy
chair -- let's review the original
premise.
McD
World's
Most Stupid Pirates
-- Part
1 - 22
April 2009
Some 6
months ago we all marveled at the absolute
stupidity of Somali
Pirates
who could confuse their target of a passing tramp
steamer --- with an armed frigate of the
French
Navy
.......
In a
move that may well earn them a spot in the
"World's Most Stupid Pirates"
Somali
pirates tracked what they took as an innocent
merchant frieghter --- and massed for the attack
with three "attack craft" -- large fiberglass
boats.
IT
HAS HAPPENED AGAIN! The
Stupidity Continues........
Back in
April 2009, we had reason to belive the word of the
judgment disaster must have gone forward to
the
Smalia
pirate community -- and down to all members of the
general Somali
public down to the level of house wife &
mentaly challenged want-to-be pirates -- that those
large gray colored ships with the guns on them
might not be the first choice for attempted
capture. The 22 April 2009 "attack" on
French
Navy Light Surveillance Frigate
Nivose
had not gone all that well for the befuddled
pirates.
As if the
Somali
Pirates
had not learned their vessel identification lessons
from the April 2009 "attack" on the
French
frigate -- on 6 October these genius tacticians
leveled their cunning & skill upon a new target
vessel.
These
unfair tactics of
the
French
must be stopped! It is outrageous for the
French
Navy
to disguise their vessels in order to lure poor,
unsuspecting Somali
Pirates
into an attack.
McD
The
French Navy
Command
& Replenishment Ship Somme
This posting was
delayed two weeks while our internet system battled a
viral infection.
McD
Photo
Credit: Peter
Doetch
Photo
Credit: Peter
Doetch
Photo
Credit: Peter
Doetch
The name
of this vessel -- M/V
Cathlamet --
is from the
local
Kathlamet
tribe.
I
have likely covered a thouand miles & more on
the Washington
State Ferries --
surely some in
M/V
Cathlamet.
McD
Washington
State Ferry Routes
M/V
Cathlamet
Barry
Campbel -
Burnaby, B.C., Canada - 5 Oct. 2009
From
The
Cargo Letter
-
Aug. 30
2009 -- 32,629-gt, 2,816-TEU
Panama-flagged
container M/V
MSC Nikita
(IMO 7820942),
Lithuania
for Antwerp
with crew of 25, collided with 8,861-gt,
903-TEU
Isle-of-Man-registered
container M/V
Nirint Pride
(IMO 9214575), Rotterdam
for Bilbao
with crew of 17, off the coast of the
Netherlands,
20 miles away from the
Hook
of Holland,
on Aug. 30. The collision caused a breach in the
Nikita's
stern near the engine room, causing the
Nikita's
stern to submerge.
Nikita's
crew was evacuated and rescued without report of
injury. The Nirint
Pride
suffered severe bow damage, lost two containers
overboard and suffered a brief fire as a result of
the collision, causing 1 inhalation injury. The
vessels were taken under tow to Rotterdam.
[From
our Sr.
Correspondent Tim
Schwabedissen,
2-9-09]
UPDATE>>
MSC
Nikita
determined a constructive total loss. The ship will
be towed to Keppel
Verolme
shipyard on Sep 9 and after some basic welding
probably be sold to
breakers.[From
our Sr.
Correspondent Tim
Schwabedissen,
9-9-09] VISIT
OUR PHOTO FEATURE PAGE ON THIS AMAZING
CASUALTY
From
The
Cargo Letter
-
M/V
Waker suffered
engine room fire which was extinguished Sept. 7
2009 night by a cooperative action of the
Royal
Dutch Navy
and a specialist fire brigade.
Built
in 1976 as M/V
Smit Houston,
this 16.000 hp class tug has been chartered in 1990
to Greenpeace
by the owners SmitWijs.
The crane of the foredeck has been removed to make
place for the extension of the top of the
forecastle into a helicopter deck was capable of
carrying a total weight of 4 tons.
Nethlands
Coast Guard
-- Currently Underway
Netherlands
Emergency Towing Veseel Walker
M/V
Waker
Revell
Plastic Ship Kits
Marcel
van IJperen
Editor
Note:
Following
our Straddle
Carrier
mishap feature this month --see
"Auckward
Straddle"
-- we decided to continue the container yard
equipment theme with a previously unpublished item
from March 2006.
McD
Reach
Stacker
Reach
Stacker Database
Finnsteve
Oy
Kosti
-
Finland
Editor
Note:
Our
Contributor Beth
Silverman points
out -- another "Not My Job" incident. I don't think
my boss would look kindly on this work.
McD
Beth
Silverman
From
Our Contributorof These Photos:
"Saw
this at San
Clemente island
this last weekend [Aug, 8 7009]. Owners wre
running at 18 to 20 knots on autopilot and missed
the end of Pyramid
Head
on mainland by China
Point.
Nobody on board injuredbut hope they have good
insurance."
Robert
Bents
San
Clemente Island or
SCI
is
the southernmost of the
Channel
Islands of
California.
It is owned and operated by the
United
States Navy,
and is a part of Los
Angeles County.
he U.S.
Navy acquired
the island in 1934. It is the
Navy's
only remaining ship-to-shore live firing range and
is the center of the integrated air/land/sea
San
Clemente Island Range
Complex
covering 2,620 nm2 (8,990 km2). It is an
active sonar base and has a US$21M simulated
embassy for special operations training. The
U.S.
Navy
also uses the island as an auxiliary naval
airfield: Naval
Auxiliary Landing Field San Clemente
Island.
The main runway 23/05 is used for carrier training
by the Navy.
Other branches also use this airfield, including
the United
States Coast Guard.
Pilots that use this airfield find it to be one of
the most demanding airbases in the
United
States;
it is known for its high winds and dangerous
terrain that surrounds the runway. The airfield is
also home to the United
States Navy SEALs
training facilities located north of the
runways.
Mapr
of San Clemente Island & The Channel
Islands
Naval
Auxiliary Landing Field San Clemente Island
Robert
Bents
- Newport Beach, CA
The
Cargo Letter
- June 27 2009
6,019-gt
Malta-registered
cargo M/V
Marti Princess,
Turkey to France with cement,
collided
with 14,619-gt German-flagged
M/V
Renate Schulte,
Morocco to Istanbul, in the
Aegean
Sea of
Turkey's northwestern coast on June 28.
M/V
Marti Princess
sustained damage and reported water ingress, and
evacuated 11 of 18 crew despite not being in danger
of sinking. No injury or pollution reported.
From our
Sr. Correspondent Tim
Schwabedissen
(Wed. July 1 2009).
The
Malta
Maritime Authority
with the assistance of its appointed inspector in
Turkey
is investigating the collision involving
Malta
registered M/V
Marti Princess
& German-flagged
M/V
Renate Schulte that
happened in the Aegean
Sea on
June 27 night.
"For
The "L" of It"
- - M/V Action Alpha - August 2007
Kris
Fantasia
-- Vessel Planner, Hapag
Lloyd Operations,
Tampa, Fla
The
Cargo Letter
- June 23 2009 -
Once
in a while a reader of ours clearly surpsasses our
own effort. Here, Marc
Onrust
of Onrust
Yacht Charters
in The
Netherlands
has us all laughing -- big time -- with some "not
my job" commercials from the
Centraal
Beheer
insurance company. These are in the Dutch language
-- but the words are not important for
these.
Not
My Job #1
McD
Marc
Onrust
- Onrust
Yacht Charters,
The Netherlands
Reader
Comment - 2
June 2009
This
cruise ship is the
SS
America,
sister ship of the
"Big
U"
-- SS
United States.
She broke from tow and went aground on the
Canary
Islands.
Christoph
Wahner, Esq.
- Countryman
& McDaniel
- LAX
This is a
preview to our exciting
new
Photo Feature by
Christoph
Wahner, Esq. about
the lives & strange current circumstances of
America's
pride --
SS
Uninted States &
SS America.
Coming Soon!
McD
Bill
Greulich
The
Cargo Letter -
April 8 2009
261-m,
40,300-gt container vessel
YM
Taichung (IMO
9280811) lost 14 containers overboard and suffered
26 damaged containers in reportedly heavy weather
1,000-nm west of San
Francisco on
Apr. 5. The vessel arrived at the
Port
of Los Angeles
where inspections will take place.
From our
Sr. Correspondent Tim
Schwabedissen (Wed.
Apr. 8 2009).
M/V
YM Taichung
suffered container losss in unexpected "crazy seas"
about 1,000 miles of San Francisco on April 5.
According to our crew source:
"Ship
hit some crazy seas about 1000 miles off of
San
Fran.
They lost I believe 14 boxes off of the
starboard aft end, with 21 more damaged. Bad
times for them. It took us about 24 total crane
hours to discharge that bay. There was stuff
falling out all over the dock from them. It was
very interesting to watch as well."
Captain
Mike Linbeck
McD
U.S.
Coast Guard Report
Captain
Mike Linbeck
- Regional Manager, Ewig International Marine Corporation
The
Cargo Letter -
April 22 2009
In a move
that may well earn them a spot in the "World's Most
Stupid Pirates" Somali
pirates tracked what they took as an innocent
merchant frieghter --- and massed for the attack
with three "attack craft" -- large fiberglass
boats.
Editor
Note:
It is difficult to comprehend how even the the most
challenged of us could possibly have made this mistake
in the broad daylight of 8:30 am. So what does this
tell us about the "enemy" we are fighting in these
waters. These are stupid thugs. No more ransom
payments to these guys, please. These guys get a
Darwin
Award
for sure.
McD
French
Navy Light Surveillance Frigate Nivose
The
Cargo Letter -
May 12 2009
A metal
cargo container was sucked into the engine of a
Japan
Airlines Boeing
747
today as the giant jetliner prepared to depart with
245 passengers from Los Angeles International
Airport.
In the
early years of The
Cargo Law website
we published internal photos from
Delta
Airlines
of an
LD3 air
cargo container -- taken for lunch.
17,000-ton
U.S.-flagged
M/V
Maersk
Alabama,
sailing from
Salalah
in Oman
to the Kenyan
port of Mombassa
via Djibouti and delivering humanitarian aid
to Africa,
was seized
by Pirates
240-nm southeast of the Somali port city Eyl
on Apr. 8 at 0730LT.
The
incident is the first pirate attack on a
U.S.-flagged vessel in over 200
years.
The vessel's crew of 20 managed to overpower
the pirates and regain control, but the
ship's
captain is being held hostage on a
lifeboat.
A spokesman for
World
Food Program
confirmed that part of the ship's cargo was
being ferried on its behalf, including 4,000
metric tons of corn headed for
Somalia
and Uganda,
and 1,000 metric tons of vegetable oil
earmarked for refugees in Kenya. It was
expected to dock in the
Kenyan
port of Mombasa
on April 16. At the time of the attack, the
closet U.S. warship was 300 miles away and
unable to respond. U.S. officials say an
American
warship
and a half dozen others are headed to the
scene where pirates captured a vessel with a
U.S. crew off
Somalia's
coast.
(Wed. Apr. 8 2009).
Here is
the rest of the story you won't read in the
press -- not yet -- until this article is
circulated.
Michael
McDaniel,
your Editor
We
are very aware that
Capt
Richard
Phillips
of MV
Maersk Alabama
was
taken hostage by the pirates and remains at
risk in the lifeboat of
MV
Maersk
Alabama
under pirate control. We will continue to
watch this situation.
Someone
made a point yesterday on the
Massachusetts
Maritime Academy Alumni
Network
about the statement of the incident with
MV
Maersk
Alabama
being the first such attack in 200 years. The
press has seemed to overlook the ambush and
seizure of the
Sea
Land
container ship
SS
Mayaguez,
which occured off of
Cambodia
in May of 1975. 39 crew were taken hostage
and removed from the ship by members of the
Khmer
Rouge.
Best
Regards,
Jim
McGowan
- MMA
'95 -
April 10 2009
Jim
- Your example of the
SS
Mayaguez
incident was not "PIRACY." The
Khmer
Rouge
were a political organization of
Cambodia
in 1975. Under,accepted insurance definitions
-- PIRACY must be non-political to be PIRACY.
Thus the attack on
SS
Mayaguez
was not piracy. We are thus are back to the
last pirate seizure of an
American
vessel
in 1803. Our story stands -- and
Captain
William
Bainbridge
continues to smile.
McD
USS
Bainbridge
The
Cargo Letter -
March 23 2009
A
FedEx
MD-11
freighter crash-landed in high winds at
Japan's largest airport, killing both crew
members on board.
Video
#1
The
Cargo Letter -
Jan. 28 2009
Ferry
M/V
Stena
Voyager,
Stranraer
for Belfast
with 156 passengers and 33 crew, suffered
incident where a tanker-trailer broke free
and was discovered hanging off the stern of
the vessel on Jan. 28. The vessel was quickly
stabilized without report of injury, but one
of the vessel's stern doors was seriously
damaged. A mobile crane was to be used to
remove the stricken vehicle, after which
passengers would be able to safely drive
their cars off the vessel. The damaged vessel
is to be brought to
Belfast
for repairs, while a separate ferry will be
arranged to take passengers on their
scheduled journey. The tanker was laden with
non-hazardous ferrous sulphate powder and was
maintained fully intact.
From
our Sr. Correspondent
Tim
Schwabedissen
and our
Correspondent
A . L . Griffiths
(Thurs.
Jan. 29 2009).
Stena
Lines
M/V
SStena Voyager
Presemt
Location of M/V Strna Voyager
A
. L . Griffiths
The
Cargo Letter -
Jan. 18 2009
43,537-gt
cruise ship M/V
Balmoral,
Fred
Olsen Cruise
Lines,
was struck by 50-ft waves in force 8-9 gales in
the Bay
of Biscay
on Jan. 18. Many passengers were injured,
including two who suffered broken bones and were
airlifted from the vessel to a hospital in
Spain.
The weather conditions were worse than forecast,
and the ship was actually hit by much larger
motions of the sea than had been anticipated
before it left Dover. The cruise itinerary was
altered as a result of the inclement conditions.
The ship skipped scheduled calls at
Tangier,
Lisbon
and La
Rochelle.
A call at Cherbourg
and an overnight stay in
Antwerp
were added; the ship also spent one extra night
in La
Coruna
and another in Bilbao.
From
our Sr. Correspondent
Tim
Schwabedissen
(Thurs. Jan. 29 2009).
Comment
From Orr Reader
Regarding
your Singles
Only
item "Bull
Riding In The
Med"
-- I should inform you about the fact that the
Bay
of Biscay
(Gulf
of Biscay
as we call it), where this cruiseship was
hitting those freak waves, is not in the
Mediterranean
but in the Atlantic
Ocean.
;-)
Marc
Onrust
-- Onrust
Yacht Charters
Fred
Olsen Cruise Lines
M/V
Balmoral
Presemt
Location of M/V Balmoral
Tim
Schwabedissen
The
Cargo Letter -
Jan. 2009
For the
information of those of you living in caves --
virtually anywhere in the world -- the
State
of Illinois,
USA
has become unique. Indeed it's two most recent
governors are unique.
Governor
George H.
Ryan
-- January 11, 1999 to January 13, 2003 --
Currently
In Prison
George
Homer
Ryan
(born February 24, 1934 in
Maquoketa,
Iowa)
was the Republican
Governor
of the U.S. state of
Illinois
from 1999 until 2003. Although
Ryan
became nationally known when he "raised
the national debate on capital punishment"
by issuing a moratorium on executions in
2000, his 35-year political career was
tarnished by scandal. Investigations into
widespread corruption during his
administration led to his retirement from
politics in 2003 and federal corruption
convictions in 2006.
Ryan
entered federal prison on November 7,
2007, to begin serving a sentence of six
years and six months. As of December 10,
2008, he is housed at the satellite prison
camp adjacent to the
Federal
Correctional Institution in Terre Haute,
Indiana.
Milorad
"Rod" R.
Blagojevich,
born December 10, 1956) is an
American
politician from the state of
Illinois.
He previously represented parts of
Chicago
in the U.S.
Congress,
and was elected as Illinois' governor in
2002. Following
Blagojevich's
arrest on Federal charges in early
December 2008, the
Illinois
House of
Representatives
voted in January 2009 to impeach
Blagojevich
by
a 114-1 vote, the first time such an
action has been taken against a governor
of
Illinois.
The corruption charges involved conspiracy
to commit mail and wire fraud and
solicitation of bribery. The
U.S.
Justice
Department
complaint alleges that the governor
conspired to commit several "pay-to-play"
schemes, including attempting to
sell
President-elect Barack
Obama's
vacated United
States
Senate
seat to the highest bidder.
Blagojevich
was the second
Serbian
American
to be elected governor of any state of the
United
States,
after George
Voinovich of
Ohio.[8]
Governors
of Illinois
Governor
George H. Ryan
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