Thursday, February 26, 2009

Inbound AHTS Maersk Blazer 25/02/2009



AHTS Maersk Blazer, inbound to CPVV terminal, in Vila Velha.

Entrada do Manuzeio de ancoras Maersk Blazer, rumo ao Terminal do CPVV, em Vila Velha.


IMO: 9151589
Call sign: OZPB2
Flag: Denmark
Type/class: Anchor Handling tug Supply
Built by: SIMEK AS - Flekkefjord in 1998
DWT: 4.201 tons

Monday, February 23, 2009

Port of Praia Mole aerial view.


This is Port of Praia Mole Vitoria ES Brazil.
I'm made this photographs inside Chopper Sikorsky S76C+
Latitude: 20° 16' 21" S
Longitude: 40° 14' 27" W



See Ships berth in 21/02/2009
Berth first, NORD RIO Star Board side.
LOA. 175,53 Beam 29,40
From :LUANDA/ANGOLA
To: SANTOS / BRASIL

Second.

HAI AN CHENG Port Side
LOA 173,60 Beam: 25,60
From: DURBAN/ SOUTH AFRICA
To: ????

Last

DOXA D Star board side
LOA: 188,17 Beam: 23,17
From: DUALLY/CAMEROONS
To: BEIRUT/LEBANON
Praia Mole - Coal Terminal

Owned and operated by Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) and used for discharging coal/coke.

Maximum draft on access channel without using high tide: 16,00 meters

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Maximum draft on access channel using high tide: 16,00 meters + the tide up to 17,20

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Maximum draft on the evolution bay:
15,50 meters

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Length of the pier 730,00 meters

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Minimum draft along the pier:

Berth 1:
17,00 meters
Berth 2:18,00 meters

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Length of the berths:

Berth 1330,00 meters
Berth 2400,00 meters

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Maximum air draft allowed (fm water line to top of hatchcover): 20,00 meters

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Maximum boom reach from shore:

unloader 231,00 meters
unloader 331,00 meters
unloader 431,00 meters

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Maximum vessel´s LOA allowed:


berth 1270,00 meters
berth 2
300,00 meters

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Maximum vessel´s Beam allowed:

berth 150,00 meters
berth 250,00 meters

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Minimum distance between cranes: 15,00 meters

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Maximum arrival drafts:

Berth 1 (when berth 2 is vacant):15,50 meters plus the high tide, up to the limit of 17,20 meters
Berth 1 (when berth 2 is occupied):13,50 meters plus the high tide, up to the limit of 14,70 meters
Berth 2:16,00 meters plus the high tide, up to the limit of 17,20 meters


Steel Products Terminal – TPS
The port of Praia Mole is the main point of export for the products of CST
(Companhia Siderurgica de Tubarão), Açominas, Usiminas, and Belgo Mineira, and Arcelor Mittal, the largest steel producer around. Products loaded are slabs, blooms, ingots, HRC and Steel coils, billets, blank disks, circle blanks and WRC.
which is served by an export terminal for steel products with capacity for 5.8 million metric tons/year.

Berths.
There are 3 berths, with a total of 637 metres of usuable berth space.
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Maximum draft on access channel: 16,00 meters

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Maximum draft on the evolution bay: 15,50 meters

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Length of the pier: 637,95 meters

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Maximum draft along the pier: 14,50 meters

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Maximum air draft allowed: (fm water line to top of hatchcover) 12,70 meters

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Maximum vessel´s LOA allowed: 260,00 meters

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Maximum vessel´s Beam allowed: 40,00 meters

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Minimum free board after loading completion: 2,90 meters

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Maximum sailing draft: 13,50 meters


Delivery here is on bogie trailers (up to 100 mt per truck) depending on the product, delivery can direct from the mill or from the storage area.

Stevedores.
The stevdores are private, but use OGMO labour.
Equipment.
There are 6 gantry cranes 30 mt, used at stevedore/; shipper's discretion

Friday, February 6, 2009

Inbound Tug Bluster 02/06/2009

Ocean-going Tug Bluster, ex Maersk Launcher, arriving from south Espírito Santo Basin
Bluster's owned by ITC Management BV, Holland.
Have a 140 Tons Bollard Pull, is a ANCHOR HANDLING TUG SUPPLY VESSEL, total Horse Power Input: 12,000 HP !!
http://www.itctowage.com/frfleet.html

Entrada do Rebocador Oceanico Bluster nesta amanha, ele era o antigo Maersk Launcher, proveniente da bacia sul do ES, o Bluster pertence a famosa ITC da Holanda, empresa que opera rebocadores ocenicos, empregados com enfoque em salvamento de navios, e reboques por longas distancias.
O Bluster tem 140 toneladas de traçao estatica, por isso ele é um Reboque/manuzeio de ancoras e supridor.
Com um total de 12.000 cavalos de força seus motores o impusionam a velocidade maxima de 16 Nos.

Being ITC’s core activity, powerful ocean salvage tugs are performing long distance tows with large objects, like drilling rigs, storage tankers and other floating equipment on such a regular basis, that this track record seems endless. All tugs have a double drum with a third (spare) towing wire stored onboard together with a large stock of additional pennant wires, shackles and stretchers.

A ITC tem como atividade principal os serviços de Reboque oceânico e salvamento /resgate/socorro no mar, seus rebocadores sao habilitados a fazerem regulamente reboques por longas distancias, reboques de grandes objetos, como plataformas de perfuração, tanques de estocagem (FSO, FPSO), e outros tipos de equipamentos, seus rebocares possuem uma ficha de serviço ilimitada.
Todos os rebocadores possuem, Sarilhos/guinchos duplos com um terceiro cabo de reboque armazenado a bordo junto com um grande estoque de adicionais cabos de guia amarras, e manilhas, e esticadores, e um infinidade de equipamentos para manuseio de ancoras e reboque oceânico.



BLUSTER
Prefixo PBMJ Nº IMO 8516976
Bandeira Holanda
Arqueação Bruta (TAB) 2.311
Tipo TM TUG SUPPLY SHIP Porte Bruto (TPB) 2.499
Boca 15,91 Comprimento Total (LOA) 69,73
Pontal 8,01

Ex-MAERSK LAUNCHER




Typ: Tug

IMO Number: 8516976 Country: Netherlands
MMSI Number: 245414000 Length: 70.0m
Callsign: PBMJ Beam: 17.0m


BUILD

1988

BUILDER

PATTJE SCHEEPSWERF WATERHUIZEN - NETHERLANDS

MANAGER/OWNER

ITC MANAGEMENT HEEMSTEDE - NETHERLANDS



VESSEL DETAILS

CLASSIFICATION

1A1 ICE-C TUG SUPPLY VESSEL SF E0

GENERIC

SPEED

16

DIMENSIONS

BREADTH EXTREME

15,91 m


BREADTH MOULDED

15,90 m


DEPTH

8,00 m


DRAUGHT

6,89 m


FREEBOARD

1.110,0 mm


LENGTH OVERALL

69,70 m


LENGTH REGISTERED

69,70 m

TONNAGES

NET TONNAGE

693,00 tons

STRUCTURE

HULL MATERIAL

STEEL

COMMUNICATION

CALL SIGN

PBMJ

HISTORICAL INFO

YARD NUMBER

361

HISTORICAL INFO

FORMER NAMES

since 2008 Apr 17 MAERSK LAUNCHER

FORMER FLAGS

since 1988 Dec 31 DENMARK