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In this HOT PORT NEWS, read about:
* United States, all ports – USCG accepts ballast water treatment systems
as Alternate Management Systems
* Singapore, Singapore – Pipeline repairs
* Singapore, Singapore – Construction of Changi East finger extension
* Australia, Cairns – Changes to towage charges
* Bunker Update – MARKET PRICE UPDATE 17/04/13
DATE: April 17, 2013
COUNTRY: United States
PORT: all ports
USCG accepts ballast water treatment systems as Alternate Management Systems
The U.S. Coast Guard announced the acceptance of nine ballast water treatment systems as Alternate Management Systems (AMS) in compliance with the service’s March 2012 final rule for Standards for Living Organisms in Ships’ Ballast Water Discharged in U.S. waters.
AMS acceptance by the Coast Guard is a temporary designation given to a ballast water treatment system approved by a foreign administration. Vessel operators may use an AMS to manage their ballast water discharges in lieu of ballast water exchange, while the treatment system undergoes approval testing to Coast Guard standards.
An AMS may be used to meet the Coast Guard ballast water treatment requirements for up to five years after the ship’s ballast water discharge
standard compliance date specified in the final rule. This five-year timeframe allows for the completion of required land based and shipboard
testing….
….The Coast Guard continues to review applications for AMS acceptance and will announce further determinations. For information on how to obtain an AMS acceptance from the Coast Guard and for a complete list of ballast water management systems that have been accepted for use as an AMS, please visit the Coast Guard’s Environmental Standards Division’s website at http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/
(For information about operations in the USA contact GAC USA at usa@gac.com)
Source: U.S. Coast Guard news release dated 16 April 2013
DATE: April 17, 2013
COUNTRY: Singapore
PORT: Singapore
Pipeline repairs
From 17 April until 30 May 2013, pipeline repair works are being carried out at Pesek Basin.
According to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore Port Marine Notice No.50 of 2013, the work is being conducted 24 hours daily –
including Sundays & Public Holidays – within the area bounded by the following co-ordinates (WGS 84 Datum):
1) 01° 16.899’N / 103° 41.385’E
2) 01° 16.862’N / 103° 41.395’E
3) 01° 16.781’N / 103° 41.315’E
4) 01° 16.828’N / 103° 41.303’E
The pipeline repair works will entail the removal of seabed sand to expose the pipeline and install a repair clamp. The work will be carried out using
a work barge and divers.
A safety boat will be in attendance throughout the duration of the repair works to warn other craft of the works in the vicinity.
Craft involved in the work will exhibit the appropriate local and international day and night signals.
When in the vicinity of the working area, ariners are reminded to:
(a) keep well clear and not to enter the working area;
(b) maintain a proper lookout;
(c) proceed at a safe speed & navigate with caution;
(d) maintain a listening watch on VHF Channel 2 (Jurong Control); and
(e) communicate with Jurong Control on Channel 22 for assistance, if
required.
For information about operations in Singapore contact GAC Singapore at singapore@gac.com
DATE: April 17, 2013
COUNTRY: Singapore
PORT: Singapore
Construction of Changi East finger extension
The working period for the construction of Changi East finger extension has been extended. The work will now be carried out from 25 April to 24
October.
According to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore’s Port Marine Notice No.48 of 2013, the works will be conducted 24 hours daily –
including Sundays & Public Holidays – within the area bounded by the following co-ordinates (WGS 84 Datum):
A) 01 deg. 21.464’N / 104 deg. 02.520’E
B) 01 deg. 21.226’N / 104 deg. 02.827’E
C) 01 deg. 20.843’N / 104 deg. 02.821’E
(Marker/Buoy Light Characteristics: CEF-03/Yellow Pillar/Fl.Y.4S)
D) 01 deg. 20.707’N / 104 deg. 02.626’E
(Marker/Buoy Light Characteristics: CEF-02/Yellow Pillar/Fl.Y.4S)
E) 01 deg. 20.707’N / 104 deg. 02.358’E
(Marker/Buoy Light Characteristics: CEF-01/Yellow Pillar/Fl.Y.4S)
F) 01 deg. 21.156’N / 104 deg. 02.261’E
G) 01 deg. 21.318’N / 104 deg. 02.397’E
Q) 01 deg. 21.340’N / 104 deg. 02.416’E
The work will entail sand filling, installation of prefabricated vertical drain, vibro-flotation, stone revetment, scouring protection, construction
and removal of instrumentation clusters. Installation and removal of silt barricades will be carried out by the work barges.
Soil investigation works will be carried out by the jack-up barge within the working area.
Craft involved in the works will exhibit the appropriate local and international day and night signals.
When in the vicinity of the working area, mariners are reminded to:
(a) keep well clear and not to enter the working area;
(b) maintain a proper lookout;
(c) proceed at a safe speed & navigate with caution;
(d) maintain a listening watch on VHF Channel 21 (Sembawang Control);
and
(e) communicate with Sembawang Control on VHF Channel 21 for assistance, if required.
For information about operations in Singapore contact GAC Singapore at singapore@gac.com
DATE: April 17, 2013
COUNTRY: Australia
PORT: Cairns
Changes to towage charges
Svitzer, the provider of towage services at the ports of Cairns, Mourilyan and Lucinda, have advised the following changes to towage charges:
CAIRNS – from 28 April 2013, towage charges will increase by an average of 4.9%.
MOURILYAN – from 28 April 2013, towage charges will decrease by an average of 5%.
LUCINDA – from 28 April 2013, towage charges will increase by an average of 47.50%.
For information about operations in Australia contact GAC Australia at shipping.australia@gac.com
DATE: April 17, 2013
Bunker Update:
MARKET PRICE UPDATE 17/04/13
GAC Bunker Fuels Ltd Pricing Alert
MARKET PRICE UPDATE 17/04/13
180 CST 380 CST MGO MDO
Aberdeen 0 0 888.00 0
Aden 740.00 0 1, 095.00 0
Alexandria 725.00 700.00 1, 200.00 0
Amsterdam 591.00 567.00 811.00 0
Antwerp 598.00 573.00 819.00 0
Aqaba 0 0 1, 035.00 0
Bahrain 0 0 1, 019.00 0
Bergen 656.00 634.00 874.00 0
Busan 670.00 640.00 890.00 880.00
Cape Town 689.00 0 971.00 0
Colombo 710.00 695.00 1, 095.00 0
Dubai 635.00 625.00 850.00 0
Durban 642.00 0 1, 102.00 0
Falmouth 0 620.00 935.00 0
Fujairah 620.50 610.50 991.00 0
Gibraltar 645.50 614.50 882.50 0
Hong Kong 618.00 608.00 872.50 0
Houston 657.00 567.00 934.00 0
Istanbul 630.50 602.50 912.50 0
Jeddah 695.00 670.00 1, 075.00 0
Kaohsiung 658.00 656.00 939.00 924.00
Kuwait 620.00 610.00 990.50 0
Leith 0 0 917.00 0
Lerwick 0 0 888.00 0
Malta 654.50 632.50 860.50 0
Mumbai 634.50 624.50 996.50 0
New York & New Jersey 612.00 580.00 945.00 0
Panama 663.00 591.00 979.00 0
Piraeus 650.50 627.50 868.50 0
Port Louis 734.00 0 1, 043.00 0
Port Said 725.00 710.00 1, 175.00 0
Qatar 0 0 895.00 0
Richards Bay 656.00 0 1, 112.00 0
Rio de Janeiro 605.50 582.00 990.00 0
Rotterdam 599.00 575.00 819.00 0
Salalah 700.00 655.00 1, 100.00 0
Shanghai 645.50 623.50 1, 042.00 0
Sharjah 635.00 625.00 850.00 0
Singapore 632.00 625.00 888.00 0
St Petersburg 569.50 550.50 0 0
Stavanger 0 0 868.00 0
Suez 720.00 692.00 1, 080.00 0
Walvis Bay 740.00 0 1, 054.00 0
West Africa OFFSHORE – FROM ABIDJAN TO LUANDA 0 748.00 1, 095.00 0
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