SSG No 20 - Shipgaz
SSG No 20 - Shipgaz
SSG No 20 - Shipgaz
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lars christensen which will change name to servus 2 and become a Danish pilot cutter.<br />
the first private pilot service<br />
now established in denmark<br />
<strong>SSG</strong>-rinGkøbinG. The first private Danish<br />
pilot service has been established in<br />
Fredericia. Eight former pilots from the<br />
Fjord & Bælt pilotage district have formed<br />
their own company Danish Pilot Service<br />
A/S and are now offering pilot services to<br />
and from several Danish ports.<br />
The private initiative is, however, not<br />
allowed to offer transit pilotage through<br />
Danish waters. The company has an office<br />
in Fredericia and purchased boats. At the<br />
moment, Danish Pilot Service has three<br />
boats and a charter arrangement with the<br />
new supply boat Beltservice in Kalundborg.<br />
Business has so far been very good,<br />
according to the company, which has taken<br />
over most of the customers in the port of<br />
Fredericia from the state-owned pilot service.<br />
Danish Pilot Service A/S will soon also<br />
be working out of Skagen. The company<br />
has purchased a former <strong>No</strong>rwegian SAR<br />
vessel from <strong>No</strong>rsk selskab for skipbrudnes<br />
redning, the <strong>No</strong>rwegian Society for Sea<br />
Rescue.<br />
After minor upgrading and re-flagging<br />
to the Danish flag, the former Lars Christensen,<br />
built in 1972, will be re-named<br />
Servus 2 and stationed in Skagen both as<br />
a pilot boat and as the Skagen office for<br />
Danish Pilot Service. The Lars Christensen<br />
has arrived in Fredericia after having been<br />
laid up for in Vardø.<br />
Chief Engineer faces up to 15 years in prison<br />
<strong>SSG</strong>-GöTeborG. The former chief engineer<br />
of the roro-vessel Tanabata faces up<br />
to 15 years in prison and USD 750,000 in<br />
fines after being convicted on three counts.<br />
One count was conspiracy and two counts<br />
of making false statements.<br />
The chief had installed a, so called, magic<br />
pipe through which oily-water could be<br />
discharged over board without treatment<br />
in the oily-water separator. Sentencing has<br />
scAnDinAViAn sHiPPinG GAZette • october 26, <strong>20</strong>07<br />
been set on 10 January <strong>20</strong>08.<br />
The Tanabata was at the time operated<br />
by Pacific Gulf Marine (PGM). The company,<br />
which has previously pleaded guilty<br />
to discharges of oily-water from four of its<br />
vessels, was sentenced to pay USD 1 million<br />
in criminal fine and USD 500,000 in<br />
community service payments and to serve<br />
three years probation under the terms of<br />
an Environmental Compliance Program.<br />
neWs reVieW<br />
aker YardS wOrkS witH SrC Aker<br />
Yards Lifecycle Services and the Estonian<br />
SRC Group OÜ will start offering<br />
voyage repair services to shipping<br />
companies operating traffic to and<br />
from Finland. The services also include<br />
cruise vessels visiting the Baltic Sea<br />
during the summer season. The voyage<br />
repair service will be offered and managed<br />
by Aker Yards Lifecycle Services<br />
with managers and workers from SRC<br />
Group OÜ.<br />
tranSfenniCa inCreaSeS CallS<br />
At the end of October, Transfennica<br />
will add a third call per week at<br />
St. Petersburg. So far, the ro-ro vessel<br />
Pauline Russ has maintained the<br />
Lübeck–St. Petersburg service twice a<br />
week. The additional calls will be with<br />
Godby Shipping’s ro-ro vessel Midas,<br />
which has been chartered from UPM<br />
on a re-let until the end of the year.<br />
“The reason why we are expanding<br />
this service with another sailing is the<br />
increased market demand and we are<br />
very pleased with developments,” says<br />
Transfennica’s managing director, Dirk<br />
P. Witteveen, to <strong>SSG</strong>.<br />
According to Mr. Witteveen, the<br />
emphasis is still on northbound cargo,<br />
even if the southbound cargo volumes<br />
are also increasing.<br />
“There is still an imbalance in the<br />
service to St. Petersburg,” he informs.<br />
GOOd fiGureS in SwediSH pOrtS<br />
The ports in Sweden handled 93.2 million<br />
tons of cargo during the first six<br />
months this year, up 4.9 million tons<br />
compared to the corresponding period<br />
last year, according to offical statistics<br />
from SIKA/SCB. 13 million passengers<br />
travelled to or from Sweden by ferry,<br />
about the same number as during the<br />
first six months of <strong>20</strong>06.<br />
larGe Order bOOk at berGS Berg<br />
Propulsion will deliver 180 CP-propellers<br />
this year. The total value of the<br />
company’s order book is SEK 2.3 billion.<br />
Berg Propulsion has scheduled<br />
deliveries until <strong>20</strong>10. The favourable<br />
market has prompted the company to<br />
invest SEK 110 million in their Swedish<br />
activities, and about the same amount<br />
will be invested in Berg Propulsion’s<br />
production plant in Singapore, which<br />
is under construction.
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