EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS Cargo ship rams into hillside

Number 180***DAILY SHIPPING NEWSLETTER***Friday 17-09-2004 THIS NEWSLETTER IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY : VLIERODAM WIRE ROPES Ltd. wire ropes, chains, hooks, shackles, webbing slings, lifting beams, crane blocks, turnbuckles etc. Binnenbaan 36 3161VB RHOON The Netherlands Telephone: (+31)105018000 (+31) 105015440 (a.o.h.) Fax : (+31)105013843 Internet & E-mail www.vlierodam.nl info@vlierodam.nl The TOR VIKING II departed from Flushing bound for the Hermod Photo : Wim Kosten EVENTS, INCIDENTS & OPERATIONS Cargo ship rams into hillside PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 1 9/16/2004

A CARGO ship rammed into a Greek hillside as the captain was speaking on his cell phone, authorities said today. No one was hurt when the Romanian-flagged Susie ran aground near the town of Stylida, 250 kilometres north of Athens. "The captain told us he had placed the ship on automatic pilot and was not paying attention," Yiannis Ftoulis, head of Stylida's port authority, said. "He said he was speaking on the cell phone at the time of the incident," he said. Mr Ftoulis said the Romanian captain was not detained and that all his crew of 14 Romanians and one Ukrainian was in good health. "The vessel has been dislodged, taken to a nearby port... and will be examined for damage tomorrow," Mr Ftoulis said. The Susie was carrying corn to a Romanian port Five rescued off British coast When their vessel began taking on water, the five sailors issued a series of distress calls, fired flares into the air and burned tires to attract attention. When nobody came, they even set fire to their craft, the 60-foot Ketch Inis Mil. But still nobody came, and they were forced to take refuge in an inflatable life raft. On Wednesday, eight days later, the life raft finally drifted into an area with cell phone reception off the southwest English coast, and the group - two Britons, an Australian, a German and a Frenchwoman - was able to call the coast guard, which sent a helicopter to airlift them to a hospital. "They seem to be suffering from hypothermia and they were very hungry, but, fortunately, they are not too badly off," said a spokeswoman for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which helped search for the group. "It's been fairly blustery and stormy off the southwest coast, so they are lucky to be alive." Looking tired, members of the group gave a news conference later at the hospital in Treliske, southwest England, and thanked their rescuers. "It's been a very exhausting and frightening episode," said David Faulkner, the Inis Mil's British skipper. Faulkner, his son, Ian, Australian Bjorn Bjoreth, German Jurgen Hensel and the vessel's French owner, Stephanie Preux, left Kenmare Bay in southern Ireland on Sept. 6 bound for Cherbourg in France. The vessel ran into trouble the following day but was only reported missing Sept. 10, when authorities in Ireland, France, Britain and the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey mounted a search. A spokesman for Britain's Maritime and Coastguard Agency said the captain had taken a number of steps to alert authorities, including finally setting fire to the boat, "but, unfortunately, nobody saw." He said the life raft had been loaded with food and water, but the water ran out Tuesday. The coast guard in the southwestern English port of Falmouth located the life raft off the remote, rugged Trevose head early Wednesday. Advies: Schelde kan dieper De vaargeul van de Westerschelde kan worden uitgediept tot 13.10 meter zonder dat de veiligheid en het milieu onaanvaardbaar in het gedrang komen. Het is niet reëel om te verwachten dat de havens van Zeebrugge en Vlissingen een alternatief kunnen bieden voor de verbetering van de toegankelijkheid van Antwerpen. Dat zijn de conclusies van de Technische Schelde commissie, een adviesorgaan van de Nederlandse en Vlaamse overheid. PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 2 9/16/2004

Met dit oordeel is de al jarenlang door Antwerpen gewenste uitdieping een stap dichterbij gekomen. In de Technische Scheldecommissie zijn topambtenaren uit beide landen vertegenwoordigd. Het concept van de Ontwikkelingsschets 2010 Schelde-estuarium werd maandagavond in Vlissingen gepresenteerd. Na een inspraakronde gaat het rapport medio oktober in definitieve vorm naar de politiek, die dan knopen moet doorhakken over de jaren slepende kwestie. Nederland en Vlaanderen hebben afgesproken dat nog in 2004 te doen. Als beide regeringen nog dit jaar akkoord gaan met de verruiming kan de uitvoering ergens tussen september 2007 en september 2009 van start PROEFSLUITING MAESLANTKERING Op zaterdag 18 september sluit de Maeslantkering voor een functioneringssluiting. Tussen 17.00 uur en 22.00 uur zal de kering uitvaren, afzinken en weer opdrijven. Deze tijden kunnen wijzigen in verband met de natuurlijke omstandigheden. Zondagochtend wordt de kering weer geopend. Informatiecentrum het Keringhuis verzorgt leuke activiteiten en is tot 20.00 uur geopend. Tijdens de sluiting geven gidsen op diverse punten informatie over het sluitproces en is er een prachtig uitzicht van af de berg nabij het Keringhuis. Het Keringhuis Nieuw Oranjekanaal 139 3151 XL Hoek van Holland telefoon: 0174-511222 email: keringhuis@podium.nl internet: www.keringhuis.nl QUIET WEEK FOR PIRACY ONLY two incidents were reported to the ICC International Maritime Bureau s Piracy Centre in Kuala Lumpur in the week to Monday September 13. Both were robberies involving anchored vessels. Robbers armed with knives and crowbars boarded a bulk Fangcheng anchorage, southern China. They climbed aboard at the forecastle in the early hours using ropes attached to grapnel hooks and broke in to fore peak locker and stole ship's stores. Alert crew raised the alarm and the robbers jumped overboard and fled in a waiting boat. The local port authority was informed but the harbour police did not arrive on scene until noon. An abortive robbery was also reported by a container ship at Jakarta s Tanjung Priok anchorage, Indonesia. Dutch vessels fall foul of US Coast Guard security clampdown All Dutch registered ships will be boarded by the US Coast Guard when calling in US ports, after falling foul of a targeting system for International Ship and Port Facility Security Code compliance. The controversial decision ranks the well-regarded national flag alongside Bolivia, the Cayman Islands, Russia and Thailand. A spokesman from the Royal Association of Netherlands Shipowners KVNR said the organisation was very surprised at the news, and is trying to find more details about the decision. The outcome is the result of a mathematical formula developed by the USCG to determine which countries ships are singled out for special scrutiny. PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 3 9/16/2004

Under the system, recognised security organisations are automatically assigned points to determine their priority for port state control examination. RSOs scoring six points or fewer will be boarded on a random basis. Those scoring seven to 16 points will be examined on arrival at a US port, and those scoring 17 or above will be examined prior to entry. All flags listed above are deemed to be on seven points. Non-Solas vessels flagged with the Cook Islands and Honduras are also deemed to be on seven points. The following nations are all on two points: Antigua & Barbuda, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Malta, Panama and Singapore. A spokesman for the Netherlands shipping inspectorate said that two of the four relevant control actions were down to delays in getting ISPS certification to vessels. This rating is nothing to do with real security, he maintained. Once the next calculations are made, the Netherlands will be off the target list, he predicted. The inspectorate intends to raise the issue with the USCG, but in the meantime, it seems that Netherlands owners will have to live with the inconvenience. Details of the way in which the formula is calculated can be found on the USCG website at http:// www. uscg.mil/hq/gm/pscweb/rso.htm. But essentially it is based on a so-called Control Action Ratio, being the number of denials of entry and expulsions from port for RSO, as a percentage of the number of 2004 inspections. A CAR of 1-5% starts to clock up points. If the ratio goes any higher, inspection is mandatory. Leading classes are also hit. Lloyd s Register, Det Norske Veritas and Class NK are all awarded two points, ranking them alongside such lesser known RSOs as Panama Maritime Quality Services and the Marine Security Bureau of Panama. In addition, ships which have recently called in ports at 17 countries will face additional inspections because of those countries port ISPS record. The countries in question are: Albania, Benin, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kiribati, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nauru, Nigeria, Serbia and Montenegro, Sierra Leone, the Solomon Islands and Suriname. Sevenstar Yacht Transport in Amsterdam is verantwoordelijk voor het transport van het nieuwe superjacht 'The World is not Enough' naar haar eigenaar in Florida. Met snelheden tot 70 knopen heeft deze Millennium 140 veel aandacht getrokken in de media en de industrie als het tot nu toe snelste superjacht ter wereld. ( Photo : Michel Kodde ) PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 4 9/16/2004

SHIPYARD NEWS Easy for Keppel Singapore s Keppel Corp has won the contract to refurbish Stelios Haji-Ioannou s first foray into the cruise industry, the Greek entrepreneur said. As the row over Stelmar Shipping rages in the background, Haji-Ioannou confirmed today yet another deal in his proliferating consumer businesses. Keppel will overhaul the 4,077-gt Neptune (built 1990) so that it is ready for service by mid-february, though Haji- Ioannou declined to disclose contract figures. night. The Neptune is better known as the Renaissance Two, once part of the fleet of bankrupt Renaissance Cruises. EasyCruise intends to offer cruises from GBP 29 ($55) per As part of the refit, the number of cabins on the Neptune will be increased to 250. At just 90 square feet, they will just cram in a double bed and basic en-suite facilities. EasyCruise is expected to start accepting bookings before the end of the year, with the vessel setting sail in the western Mediterranean by the summer of 2005. It will operate in southeast Asia during the winter months, avoiding the competitive fray in the Caribbean. Haji-Ioannou denied however that he would come up against stiff competition from Star Cruises, currently the dominant player in the Asian cruise market. In particular he sought to differentiate himself from the gambling-heavy focus of the company s cruises. I am targeting a different segment and I think the authorities will welcome a lack of gambling. It s not about gambling, it s about tourists, he said. The Neptune is due to be delivered on 15 April. V Ships Leisure has won the contract to provide shipmanagement services. The Singapore connection Cosco Singapore is to pay CNY 578m ($69.8m) to buy a 51% stake in the Cosco Shipyard Group, owners of seven repair yards in China. A ship being repaired at Dalian COSCO Marine Engineering CoCosco Singapore is expected to work with another recent shareholder, SembCorp Marine, which bought a 30% stake in July, to upgrade the yards. It is hoped with modernisation the yards can win future shipbuilding contracts, as well as orders for marine-energy equipment. The stake was formerly owned by Cosco Singapore s parent company, China Ocean Shipping, and several of its affiliates. Cosco Shipyards owns repair facilities in Dalian, Nantong, Shanghai, Xiamen and Zhousan. Vosta LMG levert snijkopzuigerpakket aan Maleisië PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 5 9/16/2004

Vosta LMG, een internationaal opererend engineering bureau op het gebied van baggerschepen, onderdelen en service heeft een contract ondertekend voor de levering van een engineering en onderdelenpakket voor een CSD500 snijkopzuiger. De klant, een Maleisische partner ontvangt het ontwerp van het schip, belangrijke onderdelen voor de baggerinstallatie aan boord zoals baggerpomp, snijkop inclusief snijkopladder, stuurhuis. Vosta LMG draagt ook zorg voor project management en training. De CSD500 zal gebouwd worden bij de partner in de buurt van Kuala Lumpur en zal tegen het eind van de zomer van 2005 gereed zijn. Het demontabele baggerschip zal worden uitgerust met een high performance baggerpomp van het type Vosta LMG HDP 500 met een hoge slijtvastheid. Ook zal zij voorzien worden van een snijkop die uitgerust is met het bewezen TSC04 snijtand systeem. Het schip zal ingezet worden op onderhoudsbaggerwerkzaamheden in Maleisische rivieren delta's en havens. Het contract bevat ook project management van Vosta LMG op afstand en ter plaatse. De inbedrijfstelling en baggerproeven worden ook door Vosta LMG begeleidt. Daarnaast zal Vosta LMG ook de bemanning van de CSD500 training op het gebruik van het baggerschip. Over de CSD500 Lengte overall 38,00 m Gemalde breedte 08,50 m Depth to main deck 02,75 m Baggerdiepte 15,00 m Snijkop vermogen 0175 kw Baggerpomp vermogen 0950 kw Totaal geïnstalleerd vermogen 1274 kw Diameter perspijp 0500 m ROUTE, PORTS & SERVICES THIS SECTION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY : TOTAL VESSEL MANAGEMENT K.P. van der Mandelelaan 34-3062 MB Rotterdam (Brainpark) - The Netherlands Telephone : (31) 10-453 03 77 Fax : (31) 10-453 05 24 E-mail : mail@workships.nl Telex : 24390 wosh nl PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 6 9/16/2004

APL start dienst naar Canada Boven : De APL SPAIN uitgaand op de Westerschelde Foto : Peter Andriessen APL start volgende maand een dienst tussen Noord-Europa en Canada. De rederij zal geen eigen schepen inzetten, maar slots huren op de wekelijkse Canex-dienst van P&O Nedlloyd, Maersk Sealand en MSC die Rotterdam rechtstreeks aanloopt. APL is al de zevende rederij die dit jaar een wekelijkse lijndienst naar Montreal begint. APL is als lijnvaartdochter van NOL uit Singapore wel al op de North Atlantic actief met een pendulumdienst tussen Noord-Europa, Noord-Amerika en het Verre Oosten. APL levert zeven van de twaalf schepen van 3.100 tot 4.400 teu voor deze APX-dienst. De andere schepen worden geleverd door MOL en Hyundai Merchant Marine, met wie APL samen de New World Alliance vormt. Op de Atlantische Oceaan wisselen de leden van de alliantie slots met Maersk Sealand. TOP Tankers Announces Delivery of Eighth Vessel in Series of Ten TOP Tankers announced that it took delivery of M/T Flawless, a 154,970 Dwt, double-hull Suezmax tanker, built in 1991 by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. of the Republic of Korea. The vessel will commence its dry-docking for a scheduled intermediate survey within the next few weeks, after which it is expected to be deployed in the spot market during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004. The delivery of the M/T Flawless represents the eighth of ten double-hull tankers the Company is acquiring using the proceeds of its initial public offering announced on July 23, 2004. This eighth delivery increases the size of the fleet to 15 tankers, consisting of 3 Suezmax tankers, 9 Handymax tankers and 3 Handysize tankers. PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 7 9/16/2004

Rotterdam walk-out Dutch unions are asking for support in a port walk-out aimed at changing government plans to reform the Dutch welfare state. On 20 September, the day before the Dutch Queen presents the government s plans for the coming year, workers at Rotterdam will walk out and join a protest march. Photo : Piet Sinke Unions including FNV, CNV and MHP, says the plans will contain many proposals and draft legislation which are absolutely unacceptable for the whole Dutch trade union movement and many other social organisations as well. Dutch type of welfare state. They claim they will bring about the complete destruction of the Most probably all port workers will be on strike, according to Kees Marges, FNV s dockers section secretary. On 27 September similar actions are being planned in other parts of the Netherlands, like Amsterdam. On 2 October a country-wide action day is planned. FNV has planned more strike days in the coming months for Dutch ports should that prove to be necessary. The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) has helped spread the word to other countries like Germany, France, the UK and Belgium, where cargoes may be diverted. It is supporting the action as long as nothing illegal takes place. This government also supported the draft European Ports Directive, which finally was torpedoed by the European Parliament after three year of actions by the European port workers unions, said Marges. For many observers and governments like the Dutch, that was an unexpected and unimaginable victory. The whole Dutch trade union movement is now heading for a confrontation aimed at another victory which, according to many, is also unimaginable. Well, only a few months ago the cooperation between all trade union bodies was also supposed to be unimaginable. MSC confirms Alstom cruisers Italian shipowner Mediterranean Shipping Co today confirmed an order for two cruiseships at French shipbuilder Alstom, despite failing to secure hoped-for tax breaks that would have shaved 25% off the cost of the ships. MSC will pay EUR 800m for the two passengerships. But the so-called GIE tax break, which would have cut the price by a quarter, was refused after European Commission objections. The ships, which will have 1,275 cabins, will be delivered from Chantiers de l Atlantique in June 2006 and March 2007. Reports of the orders first surfaced in March, pending the resolution of the tax issue. There was no news today on whether the company was proceeding with an option for a third vessel. The panamax- PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 8 9/16/2004

size vessels, which will accommodate 3,000 passengers and 1,000 crew, are destined for the Mediterranean and Caribbean markets. Bulkers buoy Bourbon French shipowner Groupe Bourbon has its bulkers to thank for a bigger first-half profit. Net earnings grew to EUR 44.5m ($55m) from EUR 23.8m in the same period of 2003. The group said it was buoyed by demand for the bulker fleet and a gain of EUR 18.3m from the sale of two of them. It could sell another three older vessels to take advantage of higher second-hand prices in a strong bulk market, it said. Bourbon owns 12 ships, including the three 55,000-dwt vessels to be delivered this year and next. It still has two 1985-built bulkers. It operates between 35 and 40 at any one time through charters, plus a big fleet of offshore vessels, which posted lower profit of EUR 14.7m, down 17% on 2003. oss Jacques de Chateauvieux said he expected full-year profit to be up by 10% over 2003. Plan voor ro/ro-dienst van Zeebrugge naar Leixoes Zeven grote Portugese transport- en expeditiebedrijven hebben samen een nieuwe rederij, Sea Road Serviço de Transportes Combinados, opgericht met een startkapitaal van 225.000 euro. Het is de bedoeling dat Sea Road in het voorjaar met twee ro/ro-schepen een shortsea-dienst begint tussen Leixoes, Southampton en Zeebrugge. Het Zeebrugse havenbestuur bevestigt de plannen. Volgende maand gaat een delegatie uit de kusthaven naar Portugal om verdere afspraken te maken. De Portugese onderneming Garland Laidley is één van de initiatiefnemers van het project. Het bedrijf is actief als expediteur, logistieke dienstverlener en scheepvaartagent voor onder andere Costa Container Lines en K Line. Volgens J. Azevedo van Garland Laidley, vergt de start van de nieuwe shortsea-dienst een investering van 3 miljoen euro. Daarvan zou al 1,5 miljoen gevonden zijn. Behalve Garland Laidley zullen ook Transnáutica (Grupo Tertir), Portocargo, Sunvilog, Air-Sea Lopes, Transportes Sardão en TCL met geld over de brug komen. Bremerhaven wordt Baltische hub MSC PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 9 9/16/2004

De Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) zal zijn nieuwe dedicated terminal in Bremerhaven vanaf 1 oktober inzetten als hub voor enkele Baltische feederdiensten. De rederij gebruikt nu nog Antwerpen en Le Havre als overslaghavens voor lading van en naar Scandinavië en de Baltische Regio. Beide havens behouden een deel van dat transshipmentverkeer. MSC Belgium kan nog niet inschatten hoe groot het pakket is dat naar Bremerhaven verhuist. Links: de MSC NEW YORK Foto : Piet Sinke De Duitse terminaloperator Eurogate bereikte in mei een akkoord met MSC over de oprichting van MSC Gate Bremerhaven. Die joint venture beschikt sinds 1 oktober over twee ligplaatsen met zes portaalkranen. De terminal heeft een capaciteit van vierhonderdduizend teu per jaar. Volgend jaar moet dat een half miljoen teu worden. De zusterschepen MSC India en MSC Grace van elk 965 teu krijgen de MSC Gate-terminal als vertrekpunt voor nieuwe feederdiensten. De MSC India zal wekelijks Bremerhaven met Göteborg, Aarhus en Oslo verbinden, terwijl de MSC Grace wekelijks Kaliningrad en Gdynia aanloopt. Shrinking feeling as number of UK passengers dives UK FERRY passenger volumes will halve by 2010 if nothing happens to revert the decline in the industry, Passenger Shipping Association director William Gibbons warned yesterday. There was a decline of 8% in passenger traffic between 1991 and 2003 and passenger numbers travelling to the continent fell by 21% during the same period. Travel to France is being particularly badly affected. Major market research undertaken in 2003 indicated that the effect of low cost airlines was even worse than we thought, Mr Gibbons told delegates at the conference, organised by ShipShape International and Greenwich Maritime Institute, which focused on the challenges faced by the industry. PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 10 9/16/2004

The PRIDE OF PROVENCE seen here arriving in Calais Photo : Piet Sinke In contrast, the number of UK cruise passengers is set to rise by 50% by 2010, reaching an estimated 1.5m. However, Mr Gibbons added that the ferry industry was fighting back with initiatives like the Sail and Drive Programme and lobbying activities vis a vis low cost airlines. He described the industry as a mature business in temporary decline. According to Bill Moses, chief executive of Ship Shape International, ferry operators should be looking at the business therein or perhaps more to the point, what business they should be in. Some 50% of Viking Line and Silja Line business is leisure he said and they have an on board offer to match. Mr Moses told delegates that these pioneers of the term cruise ferry are an inspiration to us all, until that is, you see their return on capital. He warned that, while competition from the low cost airline sector had so far been general, Ryanair was now flying to Bilbao while easyjet would soon be adding Tallinn, Riga and Santander to its itinerary. This all seems a bit too close for comfort, especially for companies such as Brittany Ferries, who have just brought into service a new 110m ($1.78) flag ship for their Plymouth-Santander route. Asked what might be the next step for the passenger ferry industry, Mr Moses said scale has increased and changes in capacity with it. That challenges operators to get the balance of supply right. As we know most don t and it is this feature, coupled with a dogged ego trip over market share that leads the industry into the doldrums. Capacity adjustment, he said, should be high on the agenda and the whole issue of pricing needed to be analysed. NAVY NEWS Navy To Commission New Guided-Missile Destroyer Chung-Hoon The newest Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer, Chung-Hoon, will be commissioned Saturday, Sept. 18, 2004, during a ceremony at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii at 10:30 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time. PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 11 9/16/2004

The ship honors Navy Radm. Gordon P. Chung-Hoon, born in Honolulu, July 25, 1910. Chung-Hoon attended the U.S. Naval Academy and graduated in May 1934. He is a recipient of the Navy Cross and Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and extraordinary heroism as commanding officer for the USS Sigsbee from May 1944 to October 1945. In the spring of 1945, the Sigsbee assisted in the destruction of 20 enemy planes while screening a carrier strike force off the Japanese island of Kyushu. MOVEMENTS THIS SECTION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY : MULTRASHIP Towage & Salvage Scheldekade 48 4531 EH Terneuzen The Netherlands Tel : + 31 115 645 000 Fax : + 31 115 645 001 Internet commercial@multraship.nl http://www.multraship.nl The GLOBAL SPIRIT 1 was renamed LYKES HUNTER in Cape Town on August 13 th. Photo : Ian Shiffman The MSC PROVENCE at the Westerscheldt River Photo : Willem Kruit PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 12 9/16/2004

The ROTTERDAM passing Maassluis outward bound Photo : Sander Vogelaar Received from : Joop Keesmaat - "LANDFALL" Transport & Towage bv : Position report of the tug "Fairplay XIV", which is on it's way with the newbuilding hull "Maasstroom" from Tulcea, Romania, to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as follows: Position of convoy yesterday evening Wednesday 15th September 2004 at 22:00 hours was 49º03' north - 04º57' west, which is some 40 miles north-west of Brest, entering the English Channel, Average speed 7.9 knots with north-westerly winds, force 4 Beaufort and a northerly swell of 1.5 metres, Based on present speed and position, the master reconfirmed his "eta" at Maaspilot/Rotterdam for Saturday morning 18th September 2004 at 08:00 hrs local time. OLDIE FROM THE SHOEBOX The NOORDAM seen here departing from New York Photo : coll. Stephen Card AIRCRAFT / AIRPORT NEWS Kaper Russisch vliegtuig kreeg ticket door omkoperij Een van de twee zelfmoordkapers die vorige maand twee Russische passagierstoestellen opbliezen, kon aan boord komen doordat een medewerker op het vliegveld met omgerekend 27 euro werd omgekocht. De vrouw was kort daarvoor samen met haar collega korte tijd vastgehouden wegens mogelijke betrokkenheid bij terroristische activiteiten. PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 13 9/16/2004

Dat meldde het Russische persbureau Interfax woensdag. Interfax baseert zich op een hooggeplaatste functionaris bij justitie. Na de aanhouding van het duo had een agent de twee vrouwen uit de opstandige deelrepubliek Tsjetsjenië laten gaan zonder hun papieren te controleren of ze te fouilleren. De vrouwen kochten toen tickets voor onmiddellijk vertrek voor ongeveer 140 dollar op de zwarte markt. Een medewerker van de luchtvaartmaatschappij Sibir werd omgekocht om de zitplaats te regelen. De baliemedewerker handelde in strijd met alle regels, aldus justitie. Door de aanslag kwamen alle 46 inzittenden van het vliegtuig om het leven. Het is onduidelijk of de tweede terroriste ook door omkoping in haar toestel kwam. Polderbaan tijdelijk dicht De Polderbaan van luchthaven Schiphol is tijdelijk gesloten. Volgens een woordvoerster van de Schiphol Group wordt er woensdag en donderdag niet gevlogen via die baan omdat de geluidsnormen overschrijden dreigen te worden. De Zwanenburgbaan is om die reden maandag en dinsdag al dicht geweest. De luchthaven grijpt de tijdelijke sluiting aan om onderhoud te plegen aan de banen. Volgens de woordvoerster wordt het vliegverkeer nu via de andere start- en landingsbanen geleid. Het is volgens Schiphol vooraf niet te zeggen wanneer er dergelijke maatregelen genomen moeten worden. "Dat is afhankelijk van het weer." Het is niet de eerste keer dat Schiphol dergelijke maatregelen neemt. Eerder dit jaar werd het baangebruik van noord naar zuid omgedraaid om te voorkomen dat de geluidsnormen zouden worden overschreden. De Polderbaan is sinds 21 februari 2003 in gebruik. Omwonenden van Schiphol hebben sinds de ingebruikname van de Polderbaan, de vijfde baan van de luchthaven, meer last van het geluid van vliegtuigen. Ook in de gebieden waar sinds de komst van de Polderbaan het geluid minder zou moeten zijn, blijkt de overlast niet te zijn afgenomen of zelfs groter te zijn. Dat was de uitkomst van een onderzoek van bureau Intomart. Ruim een week geleden verloren de gemeenten Haarlemmerliede en Spaarnwoude een rechtzaak over geluidsoverlast van opstijgende vliegtuigen die gelijktijdig vanaf de Zwanenburgbaan en de Polderbaan vertrekken. Piloten krijgen van de luchtverkeersleiding de instructie hun koers iets te wijzigen in verband met de veiligheid. Production of world's largest transport plane resumes RUSSIA and the Ukraine have agreed to resume production of the AN-124-100 aircraft which is the largest transport plane ever built. The decision followed a meeting between Russian and Ukrainian officials at the Russian Federal Agency of Industry where an accord was reached on steps towards resuming production of the aircraft and the stageby-stage modernisation of the freighter in Russia and Ukraine. The business-plan for the project will be PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 14 9/16/2004

produced by the end of November for consideration at the next interstate meeting between authorities from the two countries in December. Experts have said that world demand for the AN-124-100 has increased by between 15 and 20 per cent for the past several years. The project to resume the production and modernisation of the AN-124 was launched at the Moscow Aerospace Show in 2003. Volga-Dnepr Group, the world's largest operator of the AN-124-100, together with ANTK Antonov and other interested parties in Russia and Ukraine plan to relaunch production of the plane at Aviastar-SP, the Ulyanovsk-based aviation plant. The AN-124-100 Ruslan was designed in the late 1970s and performed its first flight in 1982. Meanwhile, Volga- Dnepr has completed the testing of new loading and unloading equipment for single, heavy pieces of cargo up to 50 tonnes in weight onto IL-76 freighters. Operational tests took place on two flights, the company said. RIJNMOND WEATHER Vooruitzichten Vooruitzichten van vrijdag t/m maandag: LICHT WISSELVALLIG! Geregeld zon en tussen zaterdagavond en zondagochtend wat regen of een bui. Middagtemperatuur eerst 21 graden, daarna enkele graden lager. Ed Aldus 2004 VR-17 ZA-18 ZO-19 MA-20 Maximumtemperatuur: 20 21 18 18 Minimumtemperatuur: 9 13 14 11 Zonnekans in %: 50 40 40 40 Neerslagkans in %: 20 30 30 20 Neerslag in mm: 0 1 1 0 Windrichting kracht: ZZW-3-5 ZZW-4-6 WZW-3-5 WZW-3-5. PHOTO OF THE DAY.. PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 15 9/16/2004

The VAN BRIENENOORD bridge in Rotterdam is opening to allow the tug PIETER L with the sheerlegs MATADOR to pass the bridge. Photo : Henk Doornhein SMITWIJS TOWAGE B.V. Westplein 5b 3016 BM Rotterdam The Netherlands Telephone: +31 10 412 6969 Telefax:+31 10 436 9587 E-mail: SmitWijs@SmitWijs.com SCHEEPVAARTBERICHTEN AALSMEERGRACHT 15 te Huangpu, ADMIRALENGRACHT 16 8 o Smoky Cape nr Townsville, ALDEBARAN 16 30 zo Oland nr Oxelosund, ALERT 16 50 nnw Brest nr Marin, ALLIANCE 16 te Kemi, ALSERBACH 15 vn Tilbury, APOLLOGRACHT 15 315 z Sydney nr Napier, PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 16 9/16/2004

AQUATIQUE 15 pas Spartivento nr Salerno, ARKLOW SEA 16 te Antwerpen, ARROW 16 te Rotterdam, ATLASGRACHT 16 vn Papua Nw Guinea nr Kaohsiung, BANJAARD 16 70 z Athene, BASTIAAN BROERE 16 te Saltend, CITO 16 5 z Trelleborg nr Karmoy, CLAUDIA 16 te Tornio, CLIFFWATER 16 40 w Guernsey nr Immingham, DEO VOLENTE 16 thv Barcelona nr Marina di Carrara, DEPENDENT 16 te Carrucha, DIEZELBORG 16 t a rede Algeciras, DOCK EXPRESS-12 16 560 z Flores nr P Everglades, DUTCH AQUAMARINE 16 30 zo Karlskrona nr Rotterdam, DUTCH EMERALD 16 30 zo Mallorca nr Pto Torres, DUTCH MARINER 16 20 zw Trelleborg nr Stade, DUTCH MATE 15 25 w Lissabon nr Hamburg, DUTCH NAVIGATOR 16 vn La Coruna nr Rotterdam, DUTCH PILOT 16 t a Grangemouth, DUTCH PROGRESS 16 te Antwerpen, DUTCH SPIRIT 16 te Antwerpen, EDISONGRACHT 15 700 zzo Hawaii nr Hobart, EEMSDIEP 16 45 zw Viano do Castelo nr Kotka, EEMSGRACHT 15 50 o Sicilie nr Nemrut Bay, EGBERT WAGENBORG 16 pas Gibraltar nr Aviles, ELANDSGRACHT 16 te Melbourne, ELSEBETH 16 125 zo Azores nr Setubal, EMERALD 15 600 n Paaseiland nr Balboa, EMMAGRACHT 16 vn Kwinana nr Bunbury, ENERGIZER 16 pas Canakkele Bogazi nr Odessa, FAIRLANE 15 te Esbjerg, FAIRLIFT 16 95 z Accra nr Venetie, FAIRLOAD 16 30 w Nantucket Eil nr Cadiz, FLINTERBOTHNIA 16 75 w Uusikaupunki nr Sundsvall, FLINTERDIJK 16 pas Marketskallen nr St Petersburg, FLINTERSKY 16 430 n Azoren nr Muskegon, FLINTERSPIRIT 16 te Dakar, FLINTERZEE 16 120 nno Stockholm nr Lappojha, GLOBE 16 85 o Malta nr Ashdod, GOOTEBORG 16 50 w Rotterdam nr Kotka, GRACHTBORG 15 pas Kieler Kan nr Ventspills, HANSEATIC SCOUT 15 vn Sevilla, HAPPY ROVER 16 te Lagos, HEEMSKERCK 15 94 n Kp Finisterre nr Tenerife, ICE STAR 16 te Belfast, IJSSELBORG 15 thv Algiers nr Tripoli, IKIENA 16 te Duinkerken, ILSE K 18 verw te Rotterdam, IRINA 16 pas Dover nr Aveiro, ISABEL 15 pas Tromsoe nr Archangelsk, IVER EXAMPLE 15 113 zo Cabo de Antonio nr Houston, IVER EXCEL 16 100 nw Oranjestad nr Willemstad, IVER EXPERIENCE 15 150 w Aruba nr Cristobal, PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 17 9/16/2004

IVER EXPERT 15 70 w Puerto Bolivar nr Amuay Bay, JACOBUS BROERE 16 te Humber, JAN VAN GENT 15 vn Teesport nr Erith, JO CALLUNA 15 110 nw Maracaibo nr Pto Cabello, JO CEDAR 16 te Jeddah, JO EIK 16 20 n Algiers nr Augusta, JO LONN 16 7200 zo Hayo Hommes, JO SELJE 29 verw in Panamakanaal, JOHN PAUL K 20 verw te Sagunto, JUMBO SPIRIT 15 te Kalundborg, KEIZERSBORG 16 te Police, KINNE 16 vn Vyborg, KONINGIN JULIANA 16 t a 3 zo Vlieland, KONINGSBORG 1550 w Key West nr Darrow, KWINTEBANK 16 vn Monfalcone nr Windsor, LELYSTAD 16 200 zw Bombay, LIJNBAANSGRACHT 15 200 zw Rarotonga nr Callao, LOMBOK STRAIT 15 te Maputo, LURO 15 vn Villanova, MAGIC 16 500 zo Halifax nr Kaliningrad, MAGNIFIC 16 te Douala, MAINEBORG 16 100 n Stockholm nr Ronnskar, MAKIRI GREEN 16 90 zo Santa Maria nr Gibraltar, MARIANNE K 20 verw te Motril, MARJOLEIN 16 te Montoir, MARLENE GREEN 16 300 no Cabo Verde nr Sao Francisco do Sul, MATHILDE 16 te Kaskinen, MICHIGANBORG 15 500 nw Azoren nr Toledo, MIGHTY SERVANT-1 16 300 zw Madagascar nr Adelaide, MOEZELBORG 16 400 o Azoren nr Izmir, MORRABORG 16 1075 w Bishop Rock nr Kokkola, MOSCOW 16 onderweg nr Pusan, MUNTEBORG 16 83 nnw Algiers nr Alicante, NEDLL ASIA 15 280 zzo Jeddah nr Jeddah, NEDLL CLARENCE 15 40 no Cape Hatteras nr Charleston, NES. 16 85 zzw Sardinie nr Vlissingen, NORA 16 te Parnu, NORMED IZMIR 16 pas Gibraltar nr Antwerpen, NORTHERN EXPLORER 16 400 no Manila nr Davao, OLGA 15 te Rochefort, ORANJEBORG 16 315 n Flores nr Philadelphia, P&O NEDLL BUENOS AIRES 15 2 w Pt of Spain nr Santos, P&O NEDLL COLOMBO 16 340 w Pulau We, P&O NEDLL JAKARTA 15 te Norfolk, P&O NEDLL ROTTERDAM 15 430 wzw Cochin nr Singapore, P&O NEDLL STUYVESANT 16 60 nw Sumatra nr Suez, PAUWGRACHT 16 te Kaohsiung, PELAGIA 16 18 nw Sao Vicente nr Cadiz, PITZTAL 16 vn Vlissingen, POLAND 15 20 zw Larvik nr Le Havre, PRINSENBORG 16 pas Bosporus nr Livorno, RADESINGEL 16 160 w Pto Rico nr Barranquilla, RHONEBORG 16 360 no Singapore, PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 18 9/16/2004

RIFGAT 16 pas Kieler Kan nr Ventspills, ROELOF 16 te Kalundborg, RUFINIA 21 verw te Kasko, SABINIA 16 vn Kaskinen, SAGA 16 3100 zo Coolhaven nr Pt Klang, SAGITTA 15 pas Finisterre nr Aviles, SANDETTE 16 te Chatham, SCHELDE TRADER 16 te Nagoya, SCHELDEGRACHT 15 te Baltimore, SCHIPPERSGRACHT 16 720 w Kp Verd Eil nr Kotka, SINGELGRACHT 15 525 wnw Cork nrn Baltimore, SLOTERGRACHT 15 te Baltimore, SMARAGD 16 te Wilhelmshaven, SNOEKGRACHT 16 80 nnw Esbjerg nr Rauma, SNOW STAR 16 te St Petersburg, SOMERS ISLES 15 600 o Amelia Isl nr Fernandina, SPAARNEGRACHT 15 370 n Vila do Conde nr Vila do Conde, STELLA LYRA 16 te Rodsand, STELLANOVA 16 280 wzw Cadiz nr Leixoes, STELLAPRIMA 16 235 nw Subic Bay nr Masan, SWING 16 vn Biscaye nr el Ferrol, SYLVIA 16 110 n La Coruna, THEODORA 15 40 zw Esbjerg nr Brunsbuttel, THOMAS DE GAUWDIEF 16 25 n Algiers nr Delfzijl, TRACER 15 80 w Freetown, TRAMPER 16 te Jebel Ali, TRINITAS 16 60 w Brest nr Rotterdam, UAL TEXAS 16 250 no Cayenne nr Lobito, VARNEBANK 16 vn Kotka nr Menominee, VELOX 16 onderweg nr Belfast, VIRGINIABORG 16 50 n Algiers nr Molfetta, VLIEBORG 16 48 o Gavle nr Bollsta, VLISTBORG 16 te Antwerpen, VOORNEBORG 16 te Antwerpen, WALSERTAL 17 verw te Antwerpen, WESTERBORG 15 te Oxelosund, ZEUS 16 te Matane, ZILLERTAL 17 verw vn Taranto. PSi-Daily Shipping News Page 19 9/16/2004