Laid Up Ships

[portagent]

Containerships laid-up

units              TEU-category
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65                    500 -> 1.000
75                 1.000  -> 2.000
33                  2.000 -> 3.000
40                  3.000 -> 5.000
33                  5.000 -> 7.500
 9                   > 7.500

in total ard. 255 ships with a total capacity of ard 675.000 TEU were reported mid. January 2009.

source: AXS-Alphaliner

[brimar]

Re Laidup Ships.

'EDEN MARU' LOOKS A GOOD CUSTOMER FOR LYME BAY ANCHORAGE TO 'AWAIT ORDERS'...ALTHOUGH SHOWING DESTINATION 'SAN LORENZO'

[brimar]

Additional overnight arrivals in Torbay/Lyme Bay Deep Water Anchorage.
to await orders.
 
'HANJIN IMABARI', SHOWING DEST TUBARAO, BRAZIL
'EDEN MARU',       SHOWING DEST, SAN LORENZO, ARGENTINA
'WORLD SWAN',   SHOWING DES, MONTE VIDEO
'IVS KINGBIRD',    SHOWING DES, ICDAS, TURKEY.

[holedrille]

AUTO TRANSPORTER due to move from Falmouth Bay to the River Fal Monday afternoon.
David

[brimar]

Torbay & Lyme Bay Anchorages have seen a large exodus of vessels early this morning including several Bulk Carriers,Vehicle Carriers and some smaller vessels that have either sheltered or were also awaiting orders...Now only around 6 vessels remain at anchor at 1000hrs this morning.....just checked on my ais and looks like the Bulker...'Panagia' inbound from the West (although showing destination as Al Khums, Libya) is heading towards Lyme Bay..may be to embark a deep sea pilot, but my guess is anchor to await orders.
                                       Brian

[Krispen Atkinson]

Autotransporter arrived alongside Autoline in the River Fal at lunchtime today.

The current list of ships in the River Fal is as follows:

In King Harry Reach-

Autoline (car carrier)
Autotransporter (car carrier)
Pietari Glory (reefer)
Pietari Bright (reefer)
Pietari Cliff (reefer)

Tolverne Reach:

Adventure II (bulk)
Challenger II (bulk)
Autocarrier (car carrier)
Windsor Castle (yacht, previously Lighthouse tender)

In Falmouth amongst the shelterers and ships taking bunkers, Delmar (bulk) has been lying off for over a month, Methania (LNG) for a while and MCP Amsterdam (General cargo).

Krispen

[brimar]

Thanks for the interesting info Krispen
               Cheers,
                Brian

[brimar]

Another 'Bulker' ...''Brillant Arc'' enroute from Rotterdam to the Torbay Deep Water Anchorage to await orders....
Plenty of room there now after the mass exodus of yesterday.

[jbalfeuk]

It seems to have passed unreported that a couple of large tankers have been anchored "for orders" of the Norfolk/Suffolk coast for some time.Difficult to remember when I first noticed them but I think the SKS SKEENA has been there since the end of last year. I think it was off Southwold at first but then moved to about 10 miles off Lowestoft. The FRONT CIRCASSIA is further out (maybe 20 miles from AIS) and has been there several weeks.I seem to remember there was another FRONT tanker there at one time but that has now gone.
    Regarsd Jim

[Krispen Atkinson]

Hi Jim,

Yes, I'd noticed them off there - Front Shanghai is the other. I think Leander (ex Elisabeth Maersk) was there as well for a time, though can not confirm this now.

Krispen

[henrycourt]

Please don't lets get too downhearted that ships are being 'laid up' for a while due to current economic conditions. There's still plenty about. Yesterday I spent three hours ship-spotting on the Leas at Folkestone, the visibility wasn't great and you could hardly see anything in the NE Lane. I managed to identify 38 ships--20 Tankers--10 Cargo--1 Dredger--3 Large Containers--1 Bulker--2 Reefers--1 Heavylift Vessel(Heavylift Eagle) bound for Mexico at around 9k. Rgds.

[brimar]

New arrival at the Deep Water Anchorage Torbay/Lyme Bay at 2100 today 28/01/09...Tanker ''Morning Express''..not sure how long for.

[Darren]

Hi Jim,

Front Shanghai has been there since 19/12/08
Front Circassia there since 27/12/08
Sks Skeena there since 1/1/09
Leander now the longest serving resident arriving  28/11/08

Seems there is more oil on top of the sea than under it !

Darren

[jbalfeuk]

Thanks Krispen/Darren for supplying names/dates that I had forgotten.
If we get any good weather I must go down to Lowestoft to see if you can see them with binoculars.......however,good weather in short supply at the moment.
       Best wishes         Jim

[Kelvin Davies]

Lloyds were reporting yesterday that Shell has started to move some of the oil currently being stored afloat.
I don't remember the ships involved but one load was transferred yesterday at Scapa Flow. I do remember one of the tankers involved was one of the "Front" family (not the Shanghai).
I think the piece mentioned that there is approximately 60M barrels stored off shore at the moment and they were surmising that the move by Shell may start the beginning of movement of a lot more of this stuff to refineries.
By the way, you may get your good weather tomorrow! The BBC says pretty good weather Thursday and tropical sunshine Friday!