Safety for Crews and Ships "Nigeria" Style

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Safety for Crews and Ships "Nigeria" Style

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Maritime Bulletin Daily
Feb 03 - 05


Accidents
Supertanker Kalamos attacked by pirates, 3 taken hostages, 1 crew killed, Nigeria
Supertanker Kalamos was attacked by Nigerian pirates in the evening Feb 3 on Bight of Bonny road, some 60 nm east of Bonny, Nigeria. Greece Coast Guard
reported, that armed pirates boarded the tanker and took three hostages, including two Greeks, and left the vessel. A Greek deputy captain or a Chief Mate was killed
during attack. The crew is 23, including 10 Greeks, vessel is in ballast awaiting loading on Qua Iboe oil terminal. Tanker arrived to Nigeria from China on Jan 31,
according to AIS.
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The question is, how the pirates managed to board supertanker in ballast, with a freeboard being 20 or 26 meters high. Did they climb using ropes with hooks or
something more sophisticated, or was the ladder lowered by negligence or mistake? Did they pretend to be authorities and duped the watch into lowering the ladder?
Did they rob the crew and took all valuables, crew’s and vessel’s? How long did it take? Did the watch manage to raise alarm by activating ISPS system or radioed
WHF message, maybe? How long did it take for authorities, police or Navy, to react and come on board? Those are very important questions for all other vessels in
the area, and vessels heading for Nigerian waters. The questions will stay unanswered, unless media find something out.
Voytenko Mikhail
Feb 5
Supertanker Kalamos, IMO 9197832, dwt 281037, built 2000, flag Malta, manager AEOLOS MANAGEMENT SA, Greece.


Product tanker MTM Rotterdam had to divert to Bermuda
Product tanker MTM Rotterdam suffered engine problems en route from New Orleans USA to Sfax Tunisia, loaded with corn oil. Vessel had to divert to nearest
refuge, Bermuda, arriving there on Feb 2. At 0430 UTC Feb 5 tanker was in the same position, docked at Ireland Island Dockyard.
Product tanker MTM Rotterdam, IMO 9477567, dwt 21144, built 2011, flag HK, manager MT MARITIME PRIVATE LTD, Singapore.

Container ship E R New York broke from her moorings, Timaru
Container ship E R New York broke from her moorings in a strong wind in the morning Feb 4 in Timaru port, New Zealand. Two tugs and a pilot quickly returned the
vessel back to berth, no damages reported, except snapped berth billard.
Container ship E R New York, IMO 9238789, dwt 50843, capacity 4453 TEU, built 2003, flag Liberia, manager ER SCHIFFAHRT GMBH & CIE KG, Germany.

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Voytenko Mikhail
Maritime Bulletin
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Message Received: Feb 05 2015, 06:23 AM
From: "odin"
To: ruslink@mail.ru
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Subject: MB Daily

Calm and peaceful news from The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency
Nigerian media published a very interesting, nice even, NIMASA statement, prior to the news on a gruesome attack on Greek supertanker Kalamos:

NIMASA (The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency) had detained three ships namely: MT LILAC VICTORIA, MT UACC EAGLE and MT
MORGANE over the illegal security arrangements, noting that all the three ships have on board British nationals linked to private security firms overseas,
specialised in giving training in the use of weapons, among others.
“They board the ships in Ghana, Ivory Coast via flights from Europe, claiming to be unarmed but coming to protect ships with their bare hands if attacked. NIMASA
has embarked on tackling this problem as it seem, to be gaining tacit support underground, as they even know local lawyers that will get them off the hook. There is
no doubt that they come with arms hidden within the ship or throw them overboard when threatened with a search. The weapons they come with may possibly have
been sold or handed over to others at night while in Nigerian waters. This could well threaten the peace and calm we enjoy in our waters with a possible spillover into
land, with a far more devastating effect.”
http://www.tribune.com.ng/transporta...british-guards

Now, with the news on Kalamos attack at hand, we can fully appreciate “the peace and calm enjoyed” in Nigerian waters.
The background of what’s taking place in Nigeria is very clear. There is a well-established business scheme in Nigerian waters, involving international shipping,
pirates and NIMASA+Nigerian Navy, and Nigerian authorities won’t tolerate anybody else encroaching into the lucrative business of making Nigerian waters calm
and peaceful. Pirates rob and kill and kidnap, NIMASA and Navy protect from pirates and control protection business by not allowing foreign guards, international
shipping pays by money and blood and even lives. It’s a shame and disgrace, not to Nigeria (there isn’t much left to be disgraced there, I’m afraid), but to international
bodies and interested States. They have to do something about it long ago, either by sending Navies to patrol Nigerian waters, irrespective to Nigeria’s protests, or by
enforcing an international convention, which will allow the use of private armed guards on board of the vessel trading piracy hotspots, first of all Gulf of Guinea.

Voytenko Mikhail
Feb 5

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Voytenko Mikhail
Maritime Bulletin
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