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Offline Sven

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Berge Stahl
« on: January 05, 2010, 12:58:30 PM »
Berge Stahl Laid up????
because the ship was not Long Rotterdam Europort

Offline Phil English

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Re: Berge Stahl
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2010, 01:20:45 PM »
Svene,

According to AISLive she was last seen off Tubarao (Brazil) on 20/12/2009 headed for Rotterdam, ETA 7/1/2010 18:00:00 UTC.

So she isn't laid up, not yet anyway.

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Re: Berge Stahl
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2010, 01:54:51 PM »
Ist jetzt H

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Re: Berge Stahl
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2010, 04:46:53 PM »
No it's is verry simple
She was on a another route
between China and Brazil and now back to Rotterdam,
Why she coming to Rotterdam i don't know
In Rotterdam people where saying that the Berge Stahl not coming back anymore
after the last vistit 17-01-2009

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Re: Berge Stahl
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2010, 07:20:03 PM »
It would not make sense to lay up your largest, and therefore most cost efficient, ship! IT would make much more sense to lay up two smaller vessels as they use more fuel pr ton cargo and you save twice as much on crewing as you would with one ship.

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Re: Berge Stahl
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2010, 07:29:45 PM »
Quote

dama wrote:
No it's is verry simple
She was on a another route
between China and Brazil and now back to Rotterdam,
Why she coming to Rotterdam i don't know
In Rotterdam people where saying that the Berge Stahl not coming back anymore
after the last vistit 17-01-2009

Dave


Has this not happened in the past when they wanted to dry dock her in a port near China, I am sure I read this somewhere.

I found it , she went to china for her 20 year survey in 2006 :-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Berge_Stahl

Here is a video of her in dry dock:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxrs-dZfOF4

Offline Glenn Towler

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Re: Berge Stahl
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2010, 09:06:12 PM »
She was Dry docked in Japan a while back and then she came down to Australia to the port of Dampier on the Australaian Mainland's west coast and partly loaded before heading to South Africa to complete he loading and headed back up to Rotterdam and on to her regular run.

I am constanly keeping an eye out on her in the case she ventures down under again!!
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Re: Berge Stahl
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2010, 08:58:09 AM »
Coming Sunday (10/Jan) she will arrive in Rotterdam again.
The port authority reported that the vessel has been chartered
again by Thyssenkrupp for the whole year again, so we'll see
her again in Rotterdam every 6-8 weeks.

I also remember I saw the Berge Stahl being idle (looks like to
a dry dock position) in Qingdao, China last year (cannot remember exactly when).

According to AIS extra's info she anchored off Singapore for 3 days (11-14/Nov), transit Malacca Strait (15/Nov) and loading in Tubarao (19-21/Dec) and now underway to Rotterdam,

Departure draft from Brazil according to vessel's input into the AIS system: 21.3m  :lol:
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Re: Berge Stahl
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2010, 05:10:55 PM »
Consider this: Berge Stahl was built to carry ore from Brazil to Rotterdam. It is only on this route that the economy of scale applies. This of course deminishes when she has to be partly laden to reach other destinations. Fully laden she cannot enter European ports other than Rotterdam, but perhaps in China there are now deep water berths where she can dock. Also remember that the economic crisis hits the demand for steel in the first place. In Germany steel makers closed a number of plants last year. This was felt in the port of Rotterdam, where the handling of iron ore and scrap fell with nearly 50 percent to 23 million tons (provisional port statistics for full year 2009). So, the news that ThyssenKrupp chartered her again for 2010 is very welcome indeed!

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Re: Berge Stahl
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2010, 07:18:30 PM »
For those who want to appreciatte the size of this vessel, the clip attached is interesting viewing, note the crew man walking across the deck !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG450wWQeT4

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Re: Berge Stahl
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2010, 08:11:00 PM »
Spotted today in the Bay of Biscay (N45*32,7' W008*37,3') at 1435 UTC, heading towards Rotterdam. ETA on AIS: 08.January. Draught 21.3m.

7,5 nm away, so no good pictures to upload, but she's got a new look on her funnel. At least since I last saw her in Rotterdam. It was green (looked liked the old Bergesen green) and white, not the BW-blue. To long distance to see any details of company-logo or something.
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