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Fairplay: Where’s the evidence?
Topic Maritime
| Sir, When I heard that Greek authorities had arrested the captain, chief officer and bosun of the Coral Sea in July last year, after finding drugs in the cargo hold, I was very worried. I was afraid that this would mark the beginning of difficult times for masters.
Then on 17 July this year a Greek court shocked the world by sentencing the Coral Sea’s captain Kristo Laptalo to 14 years in prison; he has to pay a fine of €200,000 because he is the captain (Fairplay, 18 July 2008).
In August 2007, Venezuelan authorities found drugs attached to the hull of the B Atlantic close to the rudder (Fairplay, 3 January 2008). The captain and second mate were held on board the ship, although the authorities had no evidence against them. The same happened in May 2008 in Panama when drugs were found 3m below the waterline attached to the bottom of the Therese.
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e-brod.com: 21 agreements signed to modernize county ports along Adriatic coast
Topic Maritime
| The Minister of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure, Božidar Kalmeta, signed 21 agreements with directors of county port authorities and municipal heads in Zadar on Tuesday for the modernization of county ports along the Croatian Adriatic coast.
Of the 21 agreements, worth HRK 82 million, 14 concern ferry ports, while the rest are ports of importance to the local economy.
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e-brod.com: Twinning project "Enhancement of administrative capacity in maritime safety" presented
Topic Maritime
| The PHARE 2005 twinning project "Enhancement of administrative capacity in maritime safety" was presented at the Croatian Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure in Zagreb on Tuesday.
The EUR 600,000 programme was launched in January and will take 16 months to complete. The twinning partners are the Finnish Maritime Administration and the Italian Coast Guard.
The aim of the project is to set up a maritime traffic monitoring and management service with a suitable information system in accordance with recommendations of the International Maritime Organisation and EU directives on implementation of the Vessel Traffic Management Information System (VTMIS).
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e-brod.com: Sounding the alarm over BNWAS
Topic Maritime
| As someone who spends many hours on the navigation bridge I read with great interest your article about bridge navigation watch alarm systems (BNWAS; Feb, p16).
In every navigational watch you hear a variety of audible alarms. It may start with the GMDSS alerting you to a storm, an iceberg or an accident, for example. To cancel the sound, you have to press two buttons every time, one on each terminal. That may be necessary up to 20 times per watch. Then there’s the MF DSC alarm, which may be telling you either that a ship needs help or that an officer on a ship pressed the wrong button. If you have a dewatering system installed in the cargo holds you may hear a very powerful alarm – hopefully, a false one.
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e-brod.com: No injuries in clash of Albanian ship and Croatian trawler off Sibenik
Topic Maritime
| The Albanian commercial ship called "Reenvi II" and the Croatian trawl boat "Morski Vuk" from Split clashed near the island of Blitvenica in the Sibenik archipelago, at about 03 pm Saturday, the Sibenik Police reported on Sunday.
Nobody was injured in the accident, and a police investigation is under way.
An inspector of the Sibenik Harbourmaster’s Office said that it was likely that negligence of the captains of both vessels was likely the cause of the accident in which only the Croatian trawler was damaged and had to be towed to Trogir.
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