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Lockdowns, stranded containers, ships waiting several weeks for a slot outside the world’s biggest terminals—that’s been the reality of global trade since early 2020.

The pandemic triggered record consumer demand, overwhelming supply chain capacity, creating port congestion and causing a lack of truck drivers and warehouse workers. Supply chain congestion issues and international sanctions have pushed the already disjointed supply chain beyond its limits. As a result, companies across the globe have dealt with delayed goods and empty shelves.

The pandemic created a massive increase in consumer demand for electronics, furniture and building materials, which accelerated our customers’ online presence and need for omnichannel solutions. As a result, more than $38B USD worth of bookings are now placed through the Maersk.com platform, which makes it one of the world’s largest B2B websites. This monumental shift made it apparent that the global supply chain needed to be restructured to streamline the flow of goods to consumers.

That’s why we’ve taken a huge leap in our digital transformation over the last 12 months, putting us well ahead of our planned progress.

Our digital transformation enables us to better serve customers by optimising and integrating their supply chains. It also releases resources in our customers’ supply chain, so they can focus on their business and create greater value for their commercial pipeline and shareholders—instead of spending time on supply chain management.

Today, customers can book a container with a few taps on their smartphone or tablet. This was unheard of a couple of years ago—when confirming an order took several touchpoints via email and phone.

A breakthrough

Covid-19 has also changed the priority of logistics in the business community. Before the pandemic, supply chain management was a question of “just in time,” while stock management evolved around having just enough supplies to match demand. The trend was a cost-cutting manoeuvre, but ultimately made companies vulnerable to the slightest disruptions in their porous supply chains like bad weather, accidents and the pandemic.

Supply chain management has historically been a task shared between procurement, logistics and even finance. Besides an extensive amount of time and lengthy decision-making processes, this also led to a lack of flexibility, agility and manoeuvrability in the supply chain.

The consequences of Covid-19 and other unforeseen events over the past two years have turned the supply chain upside down. Today, security of supply and stock management are amongst the main priorities in executive management and are part of quarterly reporting in most companies. Supply chain strength and confidence shapes earning potential and the response of financial markets.

Even though the business community has embraced supply chain digitisation to a large extent, there’s still a lack of artificial intelligence and data utilisation.

There’s a good reason for that. Operating a manual compounded supply chain makes it almost impossible to collect relevant data, since it’s spread across up to 30 different parties. On top of that, collecting data is an immense task when the ability to make fast decisions is crucial to secure the flow of goods.

At A.P. Moller – Maersk, we collect and receive feedback from more than 100,000 customers which gives us unique insights into their needs and movements of global markets.

We’re investing massively in the development of new digital tools and products that better integrate logistic solutions and makes it easier for our customers to reroute or find alternative means of cargo transportation when supply chain disruptions occur.

The current widespread congestion and lack of capacity has underpinned the need for rethinking and optimising global supply chains. The rise of e-commerce and online shopping, where consumers expect day-to-day delivery, has increased the need for a broader and longer-term relationship between logistic companies and their customers. Consumers have a choice, which means they will shop elsewhere if they don’t have visibility or an ETA when they shop online.

That is why we’re in the middle of a historic breakthrough. One as big as the containerisation of the shipping industry in the 1960s.

Cultural transition

The new reality demands a lot from stakeholders across the industry. It’s no secret that shipping and transportation has long been branded as conservative and analogue. Shipping a container can involve 100 different documents!

Six years ago, A.P. Moller – Maersk embarked on a new journey where we divested our energy companies to focus on becoming the integrator of logistics. The process included rethinking our culture and starting new ways of doing business.

Since 2016, we’ve more than tripled our number of tech employees. Many of them have backgrounds in the start-up community or in some of the world’s largest, most successful tech companies. Back in the day, tech was a support function in Maersk, but today it’s an integrated part of daily business.

The pace of technology is reshaping the world. Every company needs to keep up. Just like our customers, we need to embrace change and digitisation to avoid falling behind. We’re well on our way, but we’ve only just begun the journey. As the world’s leading container and logistics company, we’re creating a global supply chain that operates efficiently at scale and can handle inherent disruptions that will always surface in unexpected ways.

Source: https://www.maersk.com/news/articles/2022/08/22/manual-control-halts-global-supply-chains

 

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Maersk’s rainbow 40-foot container – one of 19 containers (and growing) that are deployed in the company’s global operations participated in the Charlotte Pride Parade on August 21.

Maersk maintains a fleet of specially-painted rainbow containers which participate in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) events around the world. The rainbow containers have appeared in Pride events and parades this summer in Copenhagen, Denmark; Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Vienna, Austria; Warsaw, Poland; Genoa, Italy; Zurich, Switzerland; Chennai, India; Santiago, Chile; Guayaquil, Ecuador and Lima, Peru amongst others.

On August 19, the rainbow container was at the Maersk Charlotte office on 9300 Arrowpoint Boulevard as part of an employee event featuring local North Carolina barbeque food, a taco truck and music for employees – who were able to go inside the container to sign their names in support of the initiative.

For both this event and the parade, the Maersk rainbow container was mounted to a Pride-decorated 40-foot chassis provided by DCLI, the largest supplier of chassis equipment to the U.S. intermodal industry.

Derrick Shirley, Maersk North America’s Regional Head of HR Business Partners, based in Charlotte, said: “Maersk is proud to demonstrate our commitment to DEI which are core principles of our company working environment. Maersk’s rainbow containers have served as a symbol of inclusion and diversity, boldly sharing with the world the company’s stand on creating a culture where all employees, partners, and customers feel welcomed and can be themselves without judgment.”

Shirley accompanied the container in the Charlotte Pride Parade as executive sponsor.

Back in July 2020, two Maersk containers were skillfully painted in the United States with a rainbow to join Maersk’s fleet and embarked on their first World Tour. The first part of the journey was aboard the Maersk Edmonton from APM Terminals Pier 400 Los Angeles to Yokohama, Japan. The containers stopped at several locations across Asia and Europe, before finally ending their tour in Denmark for the Copenhagen Pride parade in 2021.

During their World Tour, the containers have been made available to A.P. Moller-Maersk employees during strategic points in the journey for them to sign – and around the world, many have taken the chance to share their hopes for a future of improved diversity and inclusion.

The rainbow fleet of containers are part of Maersk’s working global container fleet and deployments have included humanitarian aid to hurricane survivors in Louisiana on September 6, 2020.

APM Terminals Mobile, Alabama, the Alabama State Port Authority, Maersk Special Projects & Team Rubicon worked together collect over 36,000 lbs. of water, non-perishable food and other emergency supplies for distribution to victims of Hurricane Laura in communities surrounding Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Maersk’s clients have also showed interest in the use of these rainbow containers to move their goods around the world, and during the tour they have visited numerous customer sites for employee events.

Rob Townley, Global Head of Special Project Logistics Growth Enablement in Washington D.C., and one of the initiators of the World Tour, said: “The response from our customers has been overwhelming, with many wanting to be part of the tour and others asking for more rainbow containers.”

In Charlotte, Maersk employs 1000+ people (and growing) along with APM Terminals North America, representing the company’s largest office in Maersk North America’s network of 50 offices and 10,000 colleagues.

Source: https://maritimefairtrade.org/maersk-rainbow-container-participates-in-charlotte-pride-festival-and-parade/

 

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The Poseidon Principles enable financial institutions to align their ship finance portfolios with responsible environmental behavior and incentivize international shipping decarbonization. As the latest Signatory, CaixaBank commits to collecting emissions data related to its ship finance portfolio, and to publicly reveal how its ship finance activities align with global climate goals.

Roger Torrella, Executive Director of Asset Finance, CaixaBank, said: “As a leading player in the shipping industry, CaixaBank is extremely proud to be the first Spanish financial institution to adhere to Poseidon Principles.

“This initiative represents a major milestone in our sustainability strategy and provides testimony to our commitment to support shipping clients in their pursuit of climate neutrality. We will work tirelessly together with the organization and our co-members to position the shipping industry at the forefront of environmental sustainability.”

Poseidon Principles Signatories benchmark the climate intensity of their ship finance portfolios against the IMO’s ambition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping by at least 50% by 2050. The scores are made public on an annual basis.

“I am pleased to welcome CaixaBank to the Poseidon Principles and am encouraged by the increasing diversity of banks among our ranks. The maritime sector’s success in tackling shipping decarbonization will in large part depend on collaboration. We invite other responsible financial institutions to join the Poseidon Principles and take up their role in promoting responsible environmental stewardship,” added Michael Parker, Chairman of Global Shipping Logistics & Offshore at Citi and Chair of the Poseidon Principles Association.

CaixaBank joins 28 existing Signatories, jointly representing over 50% of the global ship finance portfolio: ABN Amro, BNP Paribas, Bpifrance Assurance Export, Citi, Credit Agricole CIB, Crédit Industriel et Commercial, Credit Suisse, Danish Ship Finance, Danske Bank, DekaBank, Development Bank of Japan, DNB, Export Finance Norway, Finnvera, ING, MUFG Bank, Nordea Bank, OCBC Bank, SACE, SEB, Shinsei Bank, Société Générale, SpareBank 1 SR-Bank, Sparebanken Vest, Standard Chartered Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Sumitomo Mitsui Finance & Leasing, and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank.

 

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With the latest news that a ship containing high amounts of toxic substances will be dismantled in Union Bay, Stand.earth, Georgia Strait Alliance, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform and the Basel Action Network (BAN) once again call upon B.C. federal, provincial and local competent bodies to halt the shipbreaking activities conducted by Deep Water Recovery LTD (DWR) at Union Bay, traditional unceded territory of several First Nations within Baynes Sound.

Nearby residents and K’ómoks First Nation (KFN) have raised serious concerns regarding the conditions at the yard for the past two years.

In February 2022, following local and international pressure, the Comox Valley Regional District Board determined that the scrapping of vessels is not a permitted activity in the Industrial Marine (IM) zone according to the Zoning Bylaw, and sought an injunction against DWR in an attempt to shut it down.

In April 2022, MP Gord Johns raised in the House of Commons the issue of shipbreaking at Union Bay and the lack of national regulation. Yet, despite these developments, local residents inform that operations at DWR have never ceased, with the former US government-owned vessel NOAAS Miller Freeman (R 223) ready to be scrapped.

Given its age and type, the NOAAS Miller Freeman ship is likely to contain high amounts of hazardous substances in its structures, such as toxic paints and asbestos, which are a threat to humans and local wildlife, including shellfish.

The ship was sold at auction in 2013. The Government Services Agency cautioned bidders about the presence of asbestos in pipe insulations, floor tiles, and wallboards. Without mentioning the exact amounts of hazardous materials, the bidding documents specifically recommended the buyer(s) to not release asbestos fibers by “cutting, crushing, sanding, disassembling”, operations that will take place at DWR once the vessel is completely pulled out of the water.

In addition to stopping the work in Union Bay, a federally designated zone of water that is biologically significant, the groups call on the Federal Government and the Province to regulate shipbreaking in Canada and mandate that vessels be recycled in a safe and environmentally sound manner at proper industrial sites that ensure a contained environment.

Source: https://maritimefairtrade.org/ngos-local-residents-worry-about-breaking-of-asbestos-laden-vessel-at-union-bay-british-columbia/

 

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Cargo throughput rose by 16% in July at Saudi ports, racking up 28 million tonnes compared to 24 million tonnes in July 2021, largely due to optimised organisational performance and world-class levels of efficiency.

Statistics by the Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani) further reveal a 45.4% growth in general cargo at 718,082 tonnes, a 30.3% increase in dry bulk cargo at 4.2 million tonnes, and a 19.1% surge in liquid bulk cargo at 16.3 million tonnes, a Saudi Press Agency (SPA) report said.

Similarly, container throughput jumped 6.4% to 641,862 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent unit ) compared to 602,181 TEUs during the same period last year. Transshipments, too, spiked 9.5% year-on-year to hit 268,000 TEUs versus previous year’s volumes of 245,000 TEUs.

1,140 vessels drop anchor
Moreover, 1,140 vessels dropped anchor across the kingdom’s trade hubs at a 12% yearly growth rate. Automobile imports also soared to 78,438 units at 31% compared to 60,052 vehicles in 2021, whereas foodstuff volumes recorded a 40% uptick last month at 2 million tonnes.

Passenger traffic stood at 95,000 pax, a staggering leap of 70.3% from last year’s tally of 56,000. On the other hand, 615,000 cattle heads were unloaded last month under the highest standards of efficiency and effectiveness.

Mawani aims to boost the competitive edge and infrastructure of Saudi ports to transform it into a global logistics hub that connects three continents by expanding shipping routes and aligning its future roadmap with the National Transport and Logistics Strategy (NTLS)

Source:
http://www.tradearabia.com

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Ardmore Shipping announced it is expanding its presence in Singapore this year as the company formulates a more geographically balanced senior management team.

In Q4 2022, Ardmore’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), Mark Cameron, will relocate from Ireland to Singapore where, in addition to his ongoing responsibilities as COO he will also assume the role of Managing Director of Ardmore Shipping Asia. One of his key areas of focus will be further business development opportunities in Singapore and the Far East. He will also be working closely with Gerald Tan, General Manager of Ardmore’s Singapore office.

Anthony Gurnee, Ardmore Shipping CEO, said, “This is an important step for Ardmore to strengthen our senior management presence in Singapore and the Far East and we are all very pleased that Mark will be leading this development given his extensive expertise and commitment to Ardmore Shipping. This is an exciting new era for Ardmore Shipping, and we look forward to demonstrating what this change can offer our international customers and colleagues.”

Cameron said, “Moving out to Singapore is an exciting prospect for myself and for Ardmore Shipping. Singapore is a global center of innovation for sustainable shipping and decarbonization and reflects the values of our business to the core. This will support our efforts to engage with stakeholders in the region regarding our Energy Transition Plan and grow our presence in a location which inspires innovation, development and sustainable progress. Personally, this is a fantastic opportunity and I look forward to really accelerating our growth in the east.”

Source:
https://www.maritimeprofessional.com

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What could a sophisticated data- and analytics-driven supply chain in the container segment look like? Jan-Olaf Probst, Business Director – Containerships at DNV, shares a possible future of a fully digitalized and decarbonized market and what it will take to get there.

 

Let’s imagine that one afternoon in 2050, a young woman opens her front door. A couple of minutes earlier, she received an alert that her recent order was about to arrive. She steps out and watches an autonomous electric delivery vehicle pull up. She uses the fingerprint reader to confirm receipt of her parcel and heads back inside.

Digitalization changes the future supply infrastructure
Looking in detail, it’s the steps before the parcel arrives that really show how the industry has changed from today. The parcel was unloaded from a container at the local port that morning. The ship it came on sailed 100 nautical miles from a coastal town where the woman’s online purchase triggered a production order at the local fabrication plant. There the product was created, boxed and loaded into a container at a nearby harbour. The product’s journey from fabrication through to delivery at her home is recorded in a digital log, in addition to the materials that went into its construction.

By 2050, the outbound and inbound ports have become more like airports in the sophistication and speed with which they anticipate, prepare for, handle and dispatch containers. The key is how container boxes, largely ‘stupid’ in 2022, become ‘intelligent’ through the addition of microchips, sensors and transmitters.

How containers turn into an intelligent part of the logistics chain
Even after many decades of progress in standards development, expertise and digital technologies for containers, they are still regarded today simply as cargo. But we are also starting to see how digital technologies will enable a philosophical switch.

In 2050, the box is now a customer, an intelligent and interconnected part of an integrated logistics system, with containers, ships, trucks and trains all communicating with each other through enabling technologies like digital sensors, data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

In this vision of 2050, the box tells stakeholders along the logistics chain what it contains, whether the cargo is hazardous, where it is coming from and going to, and if it will need repacking at the arrival port because there are multiple customers for its contents. Computer modelling will use location information from the vessel to precisely schedule port operations. The ship arrives precisely on time, unloading and loading begins ten minutes later, and the vessel leaves within a tightly scheduled window.

Reducing waiting times in ports must become a reality
Reducing waiting times in ports will be an important part of decarbonizing containership operations, boosting the availability of vessels, further enabling energy-efficiency measures such as slow steaming, and optimizing port throughput. We must make this vision a reality. Containerized transport is forecast to grow 80% by 2050, which means transport efficiency must improve significantly in terms of both decarbonization and business economics.

It is entirely possible that when the young woman receives her parcel in 2050, the packaging will link back to a digital log to confirm that the product is zero-carbon across its value chain – from raw material to doorstep. The transportation elements are emissions-free because, this being mid-century, shipping has already decarbonized in line with progressively tighter emissions reduction targets agreed at the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

Alternative fuel options that facilitate zero-carbon deliveries
DNV’s classification and advisory work and tracking of market trends shows that containership lines are already ordering vessels whose low operating emissions will already put them ahead of the initial IMO greenhouse gas reduction ambitions today.

For deep-sea shipping, where combustion engines are the most suitable type, our research such as the Maritime Forecast to 2050 indicates synthetic methanol and ammonia as feasible options for large containerships. Synthetic LNG will be an important transition fuel over the coming decades, but its phase-out may have already begun by 2050. Smaller vessels have trended more towards fuel cells or battery-electric where possible.

There will still be big containerships – 24,000 TEU, 15,000 TEU and some at 10,000 TEU – on the long-distance Asia-Pacific, India, Europe, US, Africa and South American trade routes. The age of the Small Feeder, Feeder, Feedermax, Panamax, Post Panamax, New Panamax and Ultra Large Container Vessel categories will not be over anytime soon.

The market for small container vessels will grow
However, we expect to see an increase in smaller 1,000 TEU to 4,000 TEU vessels. Drawing on the lessons from the pilot projects of today, like DNV’s ReVolt concept, these fully automated and zero-emission vessels enable ‘door-to-door’ distribution of locally produced and feeder cargo from longer-distance routes.

Making more use of smaller vessels will remove cargo from roads, a goal of many urban areas seeking to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution, but will also require more ports along coastlines. Cities located on waterfronts will have strategic advantages as container traffic shifts more to the sea.

Improved data quality and sophisticated analytics facilitate increasing efficiency
In summary, more and better-quality data, and increasingly sophisticated analytics, will give containership owners and operators richer, more accurate and timelier insights. This will enable them to maximize operational efficiency and profitability, schedule inspection, repair and maintenance, reduce emissions, plan vessel replacement or refits, and optimize their choice of vessel size, fuels, fuel systems, converters and layout.

The events of the last several years have added impetus to policymakers’ interest in localization of production and supply chains. While 2050 seems a distant horizon, the implications of the intelligent container box challenges both the maritime industry and beyond to adopt long-term thinking on infrastructure, incentives and collaboration to enable and maximize the potential economic, environmental and social benefits of a future vision where the box is the customer.
Source: DNV, https://www.dnv.com/expert-story/maritime-impact/Containership_2050_When_the_box_becomes_the_customer.html?utm_campaign=Con_422_Container_2050&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua

 

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European supply chains are set for further disruption as transport unions step up industrial action in response to soaring inflation.

 

“Even minor interruptions to port operations can have a major impact on container line network efficiency and cause a domino effect up and down supply chains,” said Christian Roeloffs, CEO & Co-founder of Container xChange.

“Strikes at European ports this year have already been highly damaging to logistics operations, manufacturers, and industry at large. We expect further industrial action to be just as harmful.”

An eight-day strike over pay by over 1,900 workers commenced on 21 August at the port of Felixstowe, the UK’s largest container gateway which handles over four million TEUs (Twenty-foot Equivalent Units) each year.

Felixstowe supply chain ramifications

In response, container lines have omitted scheduled vessel calls at the port and re-routed containers via alternative ports in northern Europe and the UK.

The strike action is set to add to the logistics challenges both the port of Felixstowe and the UK economy already face.

Felixstowe has suffered from congestion and an excess of containers for the last two years. According to Container xChange’s Container Availability Index (CAx), Felixstowe’s average CAx reading for much of 2022 has hovered around 0.9, one of the highest readings in Europe. A CAx reading above 0.5 indicates a surplus of containers while below 0.5 indicates a shortage.

“Felixstowe’s Container Availability Index reading suggests that terminal operators and carriers will likely have had difficulties to clear storage areas of boxes, especially empties, even before the commencement of strike action,” said Roeloffs.

“This interruption of operations will add to operational inefficiencies at the terminal and in the hinterland. It will also have ramifications for carrier networks on intra-Europe and Asia-Europe services.”

Strike action threats loom over northern Europe

Dockworkers at the port of Liverpool have also voted to strike for better pay. Union representatives have not yet confirmed when the strikes will take place.

Europe’s logistics network could see added disorder if more industrial action follows in Germany. Earlier this summer German ports including Hamburg, Bremerhaven, and Wilhelmshaven were rocked by strikes by thousands of dockworkers seeking higher pay.
Collective labor agreement negotiations between trade union ver.di and the Central Association of Germany Seaport Companies (ZDS) are ongoing. A court-imposed moratorium on industrial action expires on 26 August.
“Ports in northern Germany suffered strikes earlier this year as workers there sought higher wages as inflation causes difficulties across Europe,” added Roeloffs. “Our proprietary data shows this resulted in build-ups of containers at terminals and in storage yards. This added to the logistics problems we have seen across Europe this summer where lower water on the Rhine has forced many containers onto rail networks and trucks as barge shipping has become increasingly difficult.”

The port of Bremerhaven saw its CAx jump from below 0.6 in June to over 0.8 in the aftermath of strikes. It has remained above 0.7 since mid-July. The only time the port’s CAx had previously breached 0.7 since 2019 was briefly in early 2021.

The port of Hamburg has also seen consistent CAx readings of more than 0.8 since the summer strike action.

“Container lines have reported that in Germany, while the moratorium has been in place, stevedores have been less willing to perform extra shifts or work at weekends. This has made it difficult to clear backlogs after the earlier strikes,” said Dr. Johannes Schlingmeier, CEO & co-founder of Container xChange.

Levels of disruption vary by port

He added: “How a strike impacts port operations obviously depend on the nature of the port, what level of service is able to continue while the strike is ongoing, and how well-prepared operators and terminals were for disrupted operations.

“What we’ve seen since the start of the pandemic in ports across Europe including Liverpool, Felixstowe, and the major German hubs, is terminals struggling to cope with demand and the multiple disruptive events container shipping has faced. Shortages of trucking capacity and drivers have been added to logjams.

“I think it’s safe to say that strikes will make it more difficult to untangle these pre-existing strains on ocean container logistics and the hinterland barge, rail, and trucking networks on which they rely.”
Source: xChange Solutions GmbH

 

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General average has been declared for the ZIM Charleston after stacks of containers caught fire on board the vessel earlier this month.

The fire broke out in a cargo hold while the Seaspan-owned containership was navigating off Colombo, Sri Lanka on August 8. It has been reported that approximately 300 containers may have been affected by fire, heat and smoke, as well as water damage from firefighting operations.

Investigators are working to determine the cause of the fire and gauge full extent of the damage.

Meanwhile, the ship’s charterer ZIM has declared general average, according to a Monday update from claims consultancy WK Webster.

General average is principle of maritime law requiring cargo owners to share with the shipowner or charterer the costs associated with rescuing a vessel in a casualty event.

WK Webster said it is in contact with average adjusters to ascertain the terms of the GA security required from cargo interests prior delivery.

The Hong Kong-flagged vessel is reported to have berthed at a container terminal in Colombo, where affected containers were discharged on August 12, WK Webster said.

Source:https://www.marinelink.com/news/general-average-declared-firestricken-zim-498951

 

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Barge TBS 3301 loaded with 9722 tons of coal, was caught in bad weather off Kangean island, Java sea, Indonesia, in mid-July, and developed portside list. Barge was under tow by tug RIMAU 33 from East Kalimantan to Power Station PLTU Celukan Bawang, northern Bali. Tug managed to complete towage, arriving at Celukan Bawang on Jul 29, but wasn’t docked because terminal has been occupied by other ships or ship. Barge has been brought to anchor, list increased, so finally, she rested on bottom by bow part, or probably, was intentionally grounded to avoid capsizing. Not clear yet how to salvage barge and coal, and avoid massive coal loss, fraught with threat of water and beach pollution.

Source: https://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2022/39285/9700-tons-coal-threaten-bali-island-waters-and-bea/

 

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