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The "4th of July" On 12 November 2002
Feature Date: December, 2002
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On The Scene --Off Sri Lanka
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"T-E-U Bar-Be-Cue". The "4th of July" On 12 Nov. 2002 Amazing Damage - Remained Afloat |
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A Cargo Nightmare Prize Contender !
November 2002
The Vessel Is M/V Hanjin Pennsylvania
The Time Is November 12, 2002
"Thar She Blows"
Page 1 Explosion At Sea - How This All Began - THE BIG BANG!Page 2 The Aftermath
"T-E-U Bar-Be-Cue"
Page 3 The Incredible Damage - Yet She Remained Afloat! - This Page
M/V Hanjin Pennsylvania in better days
Note: A "TEU" is a standard "Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit" steel ocean shiiping container. Thus containers are called "TEUs."
In this feature you will mainly see "Forty Foot Equivalent Units" or "FEUs" -- but "TEU" is the standard term regardless.
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Vessel Code: HNPS Built: March 2002 Flag: PANAMA |
Length: 930-foot Metric Tons: 50,242 Dead Weight Tons: 58,750 TEU Capacity: 4,389 |
Singapore -- Nov 8 -- for Hamburg With Container Cargo & 21 crew
-- A Fire Aboard ! --
It Was The Fire of Fires -
Containers Laden With Fireworks - Exploded - geeez!
19 crew rescued, 1 dead & 1 missing.
M/V Hanjin Pennsylvania Continued To Burn For More Than 4 days. A tragedy.
She Remained Afloat - How?
Interor of A Container Cell After
"Fireworks": Laden Containers Burned For 4 Days
Those Twisted Shapes Down There Were 40 Foot Containers -
An Entire Container Cell Destroyed - One of Many
Cargo Long Gone -
Goodbye Barbie Dolls, Dell Computers & Unwanted Shipments of "The Clapper"
This Disaster Is "Frozen" In Time By A Deck Photo
Taken By The Master of Hanjin Pennsylvania
He Looks Forward From The Bridge
He Surveys A Once In A Career Event
This View Will Haunt
But Hanjin Pennsylvania was saved - At Least US$50M Later
POSITION: lat 05 43.39N, long 82 27.28E
What Cargo Was Declared?
The Manifest Information For These Containers Could Even Relate To Charges of Murder.
News Reports -- Nov. 20 2002
Hanjin Pennsylvania fire "has gutted accommodation & engine room" At least 6 rows of containers on deck & under deck have been effected by the blaze, which is understood to have started in a container carrying fireworks & spread to engulf the area immediately forward of the superstructure. But as the ship continues to burn, and salvage crews are still hampered in their attempts to board the vessel to carry out firefighting operations, experts are already suggesting the likely cause of the explosion was not a container full of fireworks.
The fire was understood to have started in below deck spaces, according to Hanjin sources. Fireworks should be carried on deck & are regarded as hazardous cargo. The similarity of the explosion & fires onboard Hanjin Pennsylvania present an uncanny resemblance to those onboard other containerships, where a commodity known as calcium hypochorite (more commonly known as a purifying or bleaching agent used in swimming pools for example), has been identified as the main cause.
Back in April 1998, the container M/V Sea-Land Mariner suffered explosions & subsequent fire off Crete while on a charter voyage to COSCO. The explosions came from a container carrying calcium hypochorite loaded in China.
In July 1999, the 2,000 teu M/V CMA Djakarta suffered an explosion & subsequent fire off N. coast of Egypt. Vessel was on passage from China to Europe on charter to CMA-CGM. The fire started in a container loaded with calcium hypochlorite.
In both these cases, the subsequent fires were nowhere near the intensity of that onboard M/V Hanjin Pennsylvania. China, along with India and the U.S., have emerged as major exporters of the commodity, and Europe is the major importer. The 2000 amendment to the IMDG Code, effective Jan. 1st 2001, states that calcium hypoclorite should be stowed in areas shaded from direct sunlight & away from heat sources. There should be adequate air circulation through the cargo.
Sources suggest this afternoon, photographs taken of M/V Hanjin Pennsylvania burning off Sri Lanka, and what looks like a "gigantic firework display", show containers loaded with fire crackers igniting after the explosions and fires in containers loaded with calcium hypochlorite.
Sadly, 19 crew were rescued, 1 dead & 1 missing.
Dutch professional maritime salvors, Smit & Wijsmuller awarded a Lloyds Form contract to salve ship & cargo.
Heard On The Warf -- Nov. 23 2002
"There are reports that the fire is still burning as of 23 November. M/V Hanjin Pennsylvania is without power as the engine room has been flooded. We look to the actual cause of the explosions and the repurcussions of misdeclaring hazardous freight (class 1) as general cargo. I strongly feel that this incident will be a defining moment for shippers who import class 1, fireworks importers. It is too early to feel the magnitide of this terrible accident but I will be interested in following The Cargo Letter web site during the coming months.".... from our reader - Wishig Confidentiality"In todays port & shipping newspaper, published in Hamburg, one reported that one was able making a connection between "Hanjin Pennsylvania" and tugboats yesterday morning -- Nov. 21 2002. Vessel will now be towed to landside. Crew accomodations & engine room are burned out. Fire is under control, just in bay 14 fire still continues. It seems that the your site photos were taken by crew member(s) of other tugboats or vessels."
.... from our reader Malte Witt
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Continue Your Reading --
"Thar She Blows"
Page 1 Explosion At Sea- How This All Began - THE BIG BANG!Page 2 The Aftermath
"T-E-U Bar-Be-Cue"
Page 3 The Incredible Damage - Yet She Remained Afloat! - This Page
M/V Hanjin Pennsylvania in better days
EDITOR'S NOTE FOR SURVEYORS, ATTORNEYS & MARINE
ADJUSTERS: The Internet edition effort of The
Cargo Letter now celebrates it's
8th Year of
Service -- making us quite senior in
this segment of the industry. We once estimated container underway
losses at about 1,500 per year. Lloyd's put that figure at about
10,000 earlier this year. Quite obviously, the reporting mechanism
for these massive losses is not supported by the lines. News of these
events is not posted to the maritime community. Our new project is to
call upon you
-- those handling the claims -- to let us know of each
container loss at sea-- in confidentiality. Many of you
survey on behalf of cargo interests with no need for confidentiality.
Others work for the lines & need to be protected. As a respected
Int'l publication, The
Cargo Letter enjoys full press
privileges & cannot be forced to disclose our sources of
information. No successful attempt has ever been made. If a personal
notation for your report is desired -- each contributor will be given
a "hot link" to your company Website in each & every report.
Please take moment & report your "overside" containers to us. If
you do not wish attribution, your entry will be "anonymous."
This will will benefit our industry -- for obvious reasons!
McD
NOTE: The Cargo Letter wants you to know that by keeping the identity of our contributors 100% confidential, you are able to view our continuing series of "Cargo Disasters." Our readers send us materials which benefit the industry. The materials are provided to our news publication with complete and enforceable confidentiality for the sender. In turn, we provide these materials to you.
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