"Overlooking Runway 25 - Right, at Los Angeles International Airport"
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2003 2nd Half
The Individual Moments of Transport Crisis
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"Singles Only" 2003 2nd Half - Our Feature Page - Page #5 Our "Singles" Photo Features By Date
"Encounter With Physics" M/V Stellamare - Dec. 2003"DHL Airlines - On Time - On Target" - Nov. 2003
"M/V Purr Seaverance - Rock Chaser?" - Oct. 2003
"Hurricane Isabel -The Looming Storm" - Sept. 2003
"Typhoon Maemi-Busan Cranes" - Sept 2003
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Max. lifting cap.: 2 x 180 tons with deck crane Max. lifting cap.: With 2 deck cranes in tandem 360 tons |
Largest hatch: 47.36 x 11.55 m Length overall: 88.20 meters Width overall: 15.50 meters |
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From The Cargo Letter >> 289ft. Dutch heavy lift M/V Stellamare<<webfeature, at Port Albany, NY, dock on Hudson River with 661 tons of General Electric turbines &18 crew bound for Italy & Romania -- suffered cargo shift -- causing vessel to capsize -- 8 crew thrown into partly frozen water -- 7 rescued from ship, some by helicopter -- 15 safe -- 3 missing believed trapped inside hull where temperatures dipped to about 20 degrees. Rescue operations continue. (Tues Dec. 9 2003)Heavy cargo a delicate balance -- at 500 tons, Loading a million pounds of General Electric Co. generators into a cargo ship's hold is a delicate & dangerous task involving the inexorable laws of physics. M/V Stellamare has 2 large shipboard cranes & each crane, or "stick," can hoist a maximum of 180 tons -- or when operated in tandem, 360 tons. Generators such as the 2 lifted in the Dec. 9 accident typically weigh in the 175-300 ton range each. Contributions By Our Readers To This Feature >> R.Bause A. Hamilton Dan Massoni Bob Mitchell Bob Lokib Jeffrey P. Scott Troxell Related Site: Heavy Metal |
NOTE:
Those
are FLAMES on the
port wing of the Airbus-300
freighter in picture
#4. CHEERS FOR TWO VERY LUCKY CARGO
PILOTS! The missile
launcher is an SA-14
Gremlin<<webfeature,
not an SA-7
Grail<<webfeature,
as initially reported by the U.S. military.
Both made by Russian firm Strela
<<webfeature,
(Arrow)
but the Gremlin is heavier, weighing in at 16 km.
(35 pounds), compared with the 9.15 km. (20 pounds)
of the Grail. The SA-14 has a range of 2,000 meters
when used against an approaching jet, although this
is extended to 4,500 meters when used against a
helicopter or propellor-driven aircraft. The
shoulder-launched missile is seen (above) shooting
up into the sky after being fired by one of the
cell & then homing in on the
DHL
freighter.
The vapor trail makes a sharp U-turn as the missile
homes in on the infrared signature of the scheduled
"Baghdad to Dubai courier flight". Terrorists are
then seen making their getaway in a car. The 11th
terrorist who presumably shot the footage films his
own lap in his haste to get into the
vehicle. No injuries in the
Nov. 22 missile strike after a miraculous
emergency landing at Baghdad airport but the
hit prompted suspension by the U.S. military of all
commercial civilian flights into the Iraqi
capital. "Angel
Fire" -- by
coincidence -- the same day as this near
DHL
disaster -- we published the "Angel
Fire"
feature which reported new measures to be taken for
the protection of civilian airliners with the
ALQ-156
Defensive System --
Read
More.
From
The
Cargo Letter >>
ALERT>>
Civilian DHL
freighter landed at Baghdad Int'l Airport Nov. 24 with
wing
on fire -- trailing thick smoke & part of wingtip
missing
as it overflew Baghdad's Mahmoudiya district prior to
touch down -- pilot declared in-flight emergency --
not known whether flames caused by technical
malfunction, or ground fire.
All
DHL
crew safe. (Fri. 23 Nov. 2003 PM)
ABOVE:
Still photos from a terrorist video showing
masked men firing the missile that hit a
DHL
civilian Airbus-300
freighter<<webfeature,
over Baghdad on Nov. 22 (LT), setting its engine
ablaze in the first successful hit on a plane of
Operation
Iraqi Freedom<<webfeature.
Video
was delivered to a
French journalist & shown to AFP
newservice<<webfeature.
We All Know That Some Dogs Just Love
To Chase Cars -- And Evidently Some Vessels Just Love
To Chase ....... Well ..... ..... This Was The "Second Time
Aground" For M/V
PurrSeaverance. Still Not Yet On
Her Maiden Voyage - 29 Oct. 2003 ! Fortunately, it is straight line
between Miami & Key West -- so, if they tie off the helm
-- there may yet be hope. From the bridge of an
unidentified tanker -- the leading edge of Hurricane Isabel.
At sea,
Hurricane
Isabel originally
was a "Category 5 Hurricane" -- with winds of
160mph All other considerations
aside -- on this vessel Bridge -- emotions run quite
high. Hurricane
Isabel hits
Virginia Beach, VA as a Category 1 Hurricane on Sept.
19 There is
much damge from this storm, inland in the
U.S.-- Few will
ever appreciate the experience of the mariners at sea who
faced the full force of
Hurricane Isabel! Over the bow -- nature
begins to form a water
spout --
This water
spout is the
most feared natural element at sea - Sept. 19
2003 Photos Contributed By
Our Readers>> Mr. Al
Raithel Other
readers. Photos
Debunked? Thurs. Sept. 25
2003>> Dear
The
Cargo Letter
Sept. 25 2003: DearThe
Cargo Letter
Sept. 26 2003: I
hope this is corrected on your web site" Postscript
-- We
know the proven integrity of Associated
Global Systems
in our industry. Truly a first class organization. Now the
contribution from Mr. Peter Weis brings depth to the
debate with his explanation of being present for the second
picture whe it was taken in Western Australia. OK, these
pictures are not what they are represented to be.
McD The
Cargo Letter
-- We receive many photos each day at
The
Cargo Letter
which are either not worthy of your viewing, or pure fakes.
From time to time, even the best expert can be
fooled. A disaster at Busan --
8 of 19
container cranes totally demolished with others
sustaining damages.
Geeeez! Typhoon
Maemi --
Sept. 15 --
Westwood Shipping Lines -- "PS:
Above is a photo, taken the day after, & sent to
us by the master of M/V
Westwood Rainier.It
shows some of the damages to the cranes only recently
erected on a new container terminal in Busan."
(Mon. Sept. 15 2003) In
Yet Another Departure From Our
"Singles
Only"
doctrine -- we have received another photo of this
disaster. Your cargo is somewhere in this
mess. These cranes (used
to) cost over US$1.4M each. This
Contribution From Our Anonymous
Corespondent SPECIAL
NOTE:
This
feature takes nothing from Westwood
Shipping Lines,
a company which took all possible means to protect it's
vessels & crew from the effects of
Typhoon
Maemi.
This feature is intended to demonstrate the inability of man
to conquer to sea -- and the need for all shippers to buy
high quality marine cargo insurance for their valued goods.
IT'S DANGEROUS OUT THERE! McD
From
The
Cargo Letter
>> U.S. 243gt high-speed Fast
Cats Ferry
Service<<webfeature,
Miami-to-Key West in 3 hours, 149-passenger, US$7.5M
ferry M/V
PurrSeaverance<<webfeature,
(built 2001), shooting a promotional video
before maiden voyage with 11 aboard, suffered steerig
failure & ran aground (for 2nd time) -- hit rocks
on S. side of MacArthur Causeway halfway between Miami
& South Beach - US$40,000 damage. Last week,
M/V
PurrSeaverance
failed U.S. Coast Guard certification because of a
change to fan system that lifts vessel so it can plane
on top of the water at 50 knots. Ths was promotion?
Perhaps "PurTitanic?" Bad luck guys, but wishing you
well. (Wed. Oct. 29 2003)
Robert
L. Reeb, Esq. of the
Marwedel,
Minichello &
Reeb
firm
at Chicago -- a firm which knows it's maritime
business.
What
we do not know is the vessel identification &
position -- Can
You Help?
Wed. Sept. 24 2003
Perhaps
there was a reason why we could not confirm vessel
identification & postion for this feature. Here is
the possible reason.
"Someone
is pulling a fast one on you. Those 2 pictures you
have posted on your website showing the coming
Hurricane
Isabel,
were taken long before the storm was ever formed in
the Atlantic. A fellow employee sent me those exact
pictures back in July 2003. I enjoy your website and
the pictures."
Mark
Klayum --
Associated
Global Systems
"I
wish to doubt the authenticity of the pictures in the
above mentioned article. Not only was this picture on
the net over 6 months ago but I doubt that the leading
edge of a hurricane would look like this (and I doubt
that a bulk carrier would be heading in its
direction). The second picture in the article was
taken almost 10 years ago at the site at which I work
- BHP Billiton Iron Ore, Nelson Point, Port Hedland,
Western Australia. This was explained by
the Bureau of Meteorology to be the cloud
formation that precedes a tornado although a tornado
did noteventuate. Strong gusty winds and some rain was
experienced."
Peter
J. Weis
This
time, it appears that we maritime lawyers may have been
fooled also. Still, whenever & wherever the photos
were shot -- they are still a qute true & chilling
reminder of transport dangers -- well beyond our control
-- which compel all shippers to secure high quality
marine cargo insurance to cover those risks of nature for
which our transport industry cannot be responsible.
Yeh, pretty cool pictures.
McD
There is a normal
inclination to use humor on our "Singles Only"
feature -- but the object of this exercise is to remind
of the dangers which confront our industry and the
shipping public. There are a number of quite fun
"Singles Only" features below, but here we see the
extent to which the marine infrastructure is just made of
glass when compared to the power of the sea.
Official
Westwood
Company
Report (edited for
language)>>
"As
you may know, the South part of Korea was hit hard
over the weekend by a record-setting typhoon with
winds reaching 135 miles per hour. Several
terminals in the Port
of Busan sustained serious damage with container
cranes toppled.
Our Seoul office reports that the most ravaged areas
within the port are the Jaseongdae & Singamman
container terminals where
8
of 19 container cranes were totally demolished with
others sustaining
damages. Surprisingly,
no damages were reported to Westwood carg &
equipments. Our Seoul office estimates that Westwood's
operations will not be affected while some other
carriers will face difficult times. Our
M/V
Westwood Rainier,
which should have been in Busan over the weekend,
sought shelter in the Hakata area of Japan &
arrived in Busan after the typhoon. She sailed from
Busan on Sept. 14, one day behind schedule. We will
advise as more information becomes
available."
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