Marine Log - May 2008 - (Page 2)

May 2008 Vol. 113 No. 5 John R. Snyder Editor ISSN 08970491 MARINELOG USPS 576-910 PRESIDENT Arthur J. McGinnis, Jr. amcginnis@sbpub.com jsnyder@sbpub.com editorial PUBLISHER & EDITOR John R. Snyder SENIOR EDITORIAL CONSULTANT Nicholas Blenkey nblenkey@sbpub.com ASSISTANT EDITOR Shirley Del Valle sdelvalle@sbpub.com nkitchen@msn.com psexton@sbpub-chicago.com wwilliams@sbpub.com pdesiere@sbpub.com Armed and dangerous CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Nigel Kitchen MARKETING DIRECTOR Peter Sexton CREATIVE DIRECTOR Wendy Williams ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR Phil Desiere N o matter how one feels about the candidates, this year’s presidential election in the U.S. will be an historic occasion. That’s because after all the votes are counted, Americans will either have picked a woman, an African-American man or the oldest man to run in his first term for President. No matter what the results, it will be a free and fair election. However, that’s not the case everywhere. In Zimbabwe, for example, Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party is using strong-arm tactics, including torture, arrests and beatings to repress the results of March 29 elections. At least the maritime industry can share in a small triumph of justice. The International Trade Federation (ITF) mobilized last month to thwart an 11,115 gt general cargo ship, the An Yue Jang, from discharging its cargo, which allegedly contained arms for the Mugabe government. ITF General Secretary David Cockroft said: “The ITF, our member trade unions and the ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) are doing everything we consider necessary to stop this dangerous and destabilizing shipment reaching Zimbabwe. We will continue to do so, we hope with the support of the regions’ governments, but without them if necessary. “This materiel must not reach Zimbabwe,” continued Cockroft, “a country whose people are crying out for food and freedom, not bullets.” The progress of the An Yue Jang was tracked by the Lloyd’s Maritime Intelli- gence unit (www.llloydsmiu.com) via satellites and agents covering ports. At press time, the An Yue Jang, owned by China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), was reportedly waiting off the Port of Luanda. It was unclear whether it was going to try and discharge its cargo or refuel and head back to China. And speaking of bad guys and justice, this month in his Second Thoughts column, Nick Blenkey examines the recent piracy incidents, including one involving NYK’s VLCC Takayama in the Gulf of Aden and another on the French cruise ship Le Ponant off of the coast of Somalia. France is now calling for a crackdown, with new, tougher antipiracy measures to protect shipping. Closer to home, the battleground was a court room in Alexandria, Va., where U.S. District Court Judge Leonie M. Brinkema ruled that the work on the inner hull of the tanker M/V Seabulk Trader at a Chinese shipyard breached the Second Proviso of the Jones Act. The Jones Act, the U.S. cabotage law, requires that vessels operating in the U.S. coastwise trade must be U.S. built, fly the U.S. flag and be manned by American mariners. As a result of the ruling, the U.S. Coast Guard is ordered by the court to revoke the coastwise endorsement of 1981-built, U.S.-flag tanker to operate in the Jones Act coastwise trade. ART PRODUCTION MANAGER Todd Blanchard tblanchard@sbpub.com PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Mary Conyers-Brown NATIONAL SALES DIRECTOR Roland Espinosa mbrown@sbpub.com respinosa@sbpub.com INTERNATIONAL SALES MANAGER Donna Edwards dedwards@sbpub.com SALES MANAGER, ASIA Susan Pulman SALES REPRESENTATIVE -KOREA Young-Seoh Chinn SALES MANAGER Jeff Sutley CLASSIFIED SALES Diane Okon CONFERENCE DIRECTOR Jane Poterala CONFERENCE COORDINATOR Michelle M. Zolkos CONFERENCE ASSISTANT Latima Meynard spulman@sbpub.com jesmedia@unitel.co.kr jsutley@sbpub.com dokon@sbpub-chicago.com jpoterala@sbpub.com mzolkos@sbpub.com lmeynard@sbpub.com A SIMMONS-BOARDMAN PUBLICATION EDITORIAL AND BUSINESS OFFICES 345 Hudson Street New York, N.Y. 10014 TEL: (212) 620-7200 FAX: (212) 633-1165 website: www.marinelog.com e-mail: marinelog@sbpub.com CIRCULATION & SUBSCRIPTIONS: Call toll free (800) 895-4389, Monday-Friday 9 am—5 pm EST. jsnyder@sbpub.com 2 MARINE LOG MAY 2008 www.marinelog.com http://www.llloydsmiu.com http://www.marinelog.com http://www.abb.com http://www.marinelog.com

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Marine Log - May 2008 Contents Editorial Second Thoughts Update Inside Washington Europe Plots Its Tech Strategy SDNV Container Ship Update Diesels Can Burn Anything: Even Clean Fuel Boost for Small Shipyards Gateway to the Caribbean Room to Grow Show Review Tech News Newsmakers Contracts Events Website Directory ML Buyer's Guide ML Marketplace Maritime Salvage Letters

Marine Log - May 2008

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