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Shipping News and information / Re: Emma Maersk in trouble

« on: February 05, 2013, 03:00:41 PM »

In one of the aft thruster tunnels divers have found a gear having been torn
loose and apparently caused the hull damage.
Due to the damage the 120 meter propeller shaft and, subsequently, the main
engine room was flooded causing a black-out to the main engine as well as to all
the auxillary engines.
At present there is 16 meters of water in the engine room. In order not to inflict
further damage to the installations the water has not been pumped out yet.
Emma Maersk will be out of business for 3 months.
The use of the aft thrusters on all the E-vessels has been terminated until the
exact reason for the damage has been determined.
Niels

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Shipping News and information / Re: Emma Maersk in trouble

« on: February 02, 2013, 11:33:19 AM »

Info from Maersk:
The ship was in no danger of sinking.
The water ingress occurred at one of the aft thrusters, where a propeller
apparently has been damaged.
All 14000 containers to be unloaded. Investigation by divers to follow.
All crew is unharmed.
Niels

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Shipping News and information / Re: Sad news: website faktaomfartyg.se has been closed down

« on: January 09, 2013, 01:16:18 PM »

Some more details from Micke/www.soefart.dk :
The website has grown too large to work with, considering a demanding full-time job and a family life as well.
The contents of the server has been preserved for a possible future project.
The site contained updated and historical data on 5700 ships - primarily ferries, ro-ro's, and cruise vessels.
27000 photos, 13200 interior/yard photos, and further a lot of general arrangement plans/drawings.
Daily readers 4000, hobby folks as well as professionals.
On some occasions - like the pilgrim ferry Al Salam Boccacio disaster in 2006 - more than 15000 readers/day on the site.

Agree with you, Phil, would have been nice to have access still to this vast pool of information even with no updates, however, respect of course for Micke's decision.

Btw: some members with close contacts to Micke?

Niels

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Shipping News and information / Sad news: website faktaomfartyg.se has been closed down

« on: January 09, 2013, 11:30:06 AM »

Creator and webmaster Micke Asklander has decided to close this excellent
website after 15 years due to the heavy work load involved, according
to a Danish maritime web portal.

Lots of thanks to Micke.

Niels

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Shipping News and information / Re: No noses anymore on 10 Maersk ships

« on: December 28, 2012, 09:45:05 AM »

Thanks, Ancient Mariner, for your photo, and also for your previously posted excellent photos of the ship. I recall a photo of BOSTON in the Maersk Group Magazine showing her extremely slim aft section of the sub-surface hull. Not much buoyancy here. Besides it must have been an interesting process to view the operation of getting the ships from dry land into the water.

The yard (now P+S Werft) is now unfortunately in serious problems. On top of financial problems Scandlines has recently cancelled the contracts for two - almost finished - ferries for the Gedser/Rostock run. The ferries - BERLIN and COPENHAGEN - had added around 800 tons of extra "fat" during the construction, and have a lot of other defects.
Niels

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Shipping News and information / No noses anymore on 10 Maersk ships

« on: December 27, 2012, 09:17:19 AM »

10 vessels of the BOSTON and STEPNICA-CLASS (5 of each) are in the process of having their bulbs cut off at the Chinese Qingdao shipyard. The objective is to save 5% fuel as the bulbs instead of reducing drag at the design speed of 25 knots or more actually increase drag at the  lower speed of the slow steaming mode.  
MAERSK BUFFALO and MAERSK BALTIMORE have already had the cut, and have now been Danish registered with the names of SEAGO BREMERHAVEN and SEAGO ANTWERP indicating that they will now be serving the European short sea strings of SEAGO LINE.
So what have we now: the most powerful coasters in the European waters ! Especially sad to see the BOSTON-ships reduced to nothing. Apparently they have even had some new paint on the funnels.
For a photo check www.maritimedanmark.dk
For more photos of the process go to the last line of the text and click "HER" - which actually means "HERE"

Niels

Correction: Still some noses around. On www.maerskline.com go to the flickr-logo. The comments to some of the 11 photos indicate that new redesigned low-speed noses have been added to the ships. By the way a lot of interesting photos on the Maersk Line Flickr in case you should not have noticed yet.

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Shipping News and information / Re: maersk fleet

« on: July 19, 2012, 08:12:16 PM »

Well, bruno,only the hard way left: drop the deep water trawl and search
Maersk Line schedules, - and don't forget MCC, Seago Line and Safmarine !!!!!!!!

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Shipping News and information / Re: maersk fleet

« on: July 19, 2012, 06:51:19 PM »

Try www.maerskfleet.com for owned vessels.

Not sure whether this site is updated recently.

Regards
Niels

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Shipping News and information / Re: some questions on some of Maersk AE10 European ports calls

« on: May 26, 2012, 08:00:22 PM »

Hi polsteam
Regarding Aarhus, Gothenburg, and R'dam it is APM Terminals.
Bremerhaven is North Sea Terminal
APM Terminals (www.apmterminals.com) usually shows a map of the terminal, I havn't
checked it lately.
To my knowledge there is no harbour tours at the port of Aarhus, however, there
is public access to the former containerterminal, which is now partly a ferry terminal and a messy construction area.
...Forgot this :-(  :from the construction area (previous pier 4)there is an good view with no obstructions across the harbour entrance to the APM Terminal. Map ("kort") also at www.aarhushavn.dk

If you check the schedule of one of the AE10 vessels it will show the name of the terminal in each port.

Regards
Niels

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Shipping News and information / Re: Containership newbuildings > 4.000 TEU - deliveries April 2012

« on: May 16, 2012, 08:44:58 PM »

Thanks again, Klaus, for your continued updatings on this interesting
issue.
Very much appreciated.

Regards
Niels

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Scale Models / Re: GA Drawings of the danish Torm Reefer "Yugala" later "La Lima"?

« on: March 28, 2012, 07:31:12 PM »

Burkhard,
Quite a few differences between Yugala/La Lima and Dragoer Maersk (built at the old yard of Odense Steelship Yard, not the Lindoe yard).

The two ships differ with respect to superstructure, gear arrangement, design of funnel,
forecastle, and poophouse.

In general Yugala is a typical Elsinore-ship, very streamlined, while Dragoer Maersk
is of a more classic design, very much like the Maersk liners of that time.

Niels

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Shipping News and information / Re: MAERSK LINE SUSPENDS CARGO BOOKINGS FROM NORTHERN EUROPE TO ASIA

« on: March 25, 2012, 07:29:14 PM »

Alarming: maybe, .. or maybe it could look like
Maersk Line is playing games with its customers !

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Shipping News and information / 100 years of ocean going diesels

« on: February 13, 2012, 09:21:27 PM »

MAN Diesel & Turbo - previously Burmeister & Wain - celebrates the delivery of
M/S Selandia 17 February 1912 as the first ocean going diesel vessel in the world
by a new website www.selandia100.dk/diesel , - English, German and Danish.

Regards
Niels

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Trip reports / Re: shipspotting Rotterdam, 120108, Vale Rio de Janeiro at 14:10

« on: January 09, 2012, 12:25:49 PM »

Thank you, Fred, for this video, which probably is among the best of
your long list of excellent videos from this shipspotter's paradise
you have got around you.
Also nice to see the old lady, Nedlloyd Hongkong/Maersk Miami in action,
still with the PONL orange belt on top of the superstructure. However, on
some of the photos on the site (like Hannes vR/April 07/2011) her hull
steel plating looks rather "tired" :-)

Regards Niels

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Shipping News and information / Video: Helicopter landing on ship in rough seas

« on: November 29, 2011, 10:21:19 AM »

Interesting video of a helicopter landing on a Danish inspection/patrol
vessel in the North.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC2XIGMI2kM

It is a commercial video, however, gives a good insight in naval and helicopter
operations in harsh waters.

Rg
Niels