During the first half of 2006, some 4.2 million TEU (43.6 million tonnes) were handled by the container terminals in Hamburg. Also in this issue: Reederei Stefan Patjens, Hyundai Heavy Industries, E.R. Schiffahrt, Planned inspections and Effective market solutions.
All text and photograps: Magne A. Røe, except where otherwise stated.Date: 2008-02-07
Serena, Herma, Käthe, Allise – all with a P for Patjens behind their names. These are all the names of female members of the Patjens family and of 5,000 TEU container vessels.
The committee met at the Hafen-Klub in the afternoon of Monday, 3 July. The meeting was chaired by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Krüger and attended by a number of senior technical people from the German shipping community and senior management people from our head office.
DNV is grabbing an increasing share of the container ship market.
“When we build 5,000 TEU ships for the first time, we have to put a lot of confidence in the yard as well as the classification society. HHI is a very well experienced yard with a huge list of deliveries of 5,000 TEU container vessels,” says Heino Eckerich, the executive manager of Reederei Stefan Patjens just outside Hamburg.
“DNV District Ulsan is very big in DNV terms, with 65 employees to cover all the main maritime activities, such as NB, CMC and SiO. Twenty-one container ships will be delivered from the Ulsan district out of the 36 from all the yards in Korea – this is the order book for deliveries up to 2009,” says Young Ho Kim, DNV’s district manager for the Ulsan District .
“Class is a part of the shipyard and the shipyard is a part of class. Class is responsible for a certain part of ship construction and the relationship must be solid,” says D. S. Cho, executive vice president at Huyndai Heavy Industries (HHI) Basic Design Office, Shipbuilding Division.
“What is PIMS?” you may ask, and we pass the question on to Håkon Skaret, our principal surveyor in charge of this programme.
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“At the beginning of 2004 it was only 155 000 TEU; by the middle of 2007, E.R. Schiffahrt’s operational fleet will have a capacity of over 340 000 TEU. In other words, the company’s cargo capacity will have more than doubled in just three and a half years,” boasts the E.R. Schiffahrt corporate brochure.
Waldermar Soltysiak, site-office manager for E.R. Schiffahrt at the Hyundai MIPO Dockyard not very far from Ulsan, is going to supervise the construction of a new series of container vessels.
As energy represents up to 70% of their operational costs, effective energy management is a well known issue for container shipowners. DNV has now introduced a structured approach to this topic in which change management is the key. “There’s big money to be saved, with an environmental gain on top of this,” say DNV’s Gunnar Westgaard and Hans Olstad.
Two more newbuilding container vessels from Yang Ming Line are to be classed with DNV.
As 2006 turns out to be once more a year with above long-term average growth rates in the container shipping market, at least when looking at overall box handling in the ports during the first half of the year, the past few months have shown on the one hand an upward correction in charter rates for container vessels and on the other hand an unexpectedly high level of order activity, making the second quarter of 2006 the third strongest in history. The yards’ worldwide order books as at the beginning of July comprised more than 1,200 fully cellular vessels with more than 4.4 million TEU, of which more than a million were ordered during 2006. Although, many analysts warn of a shortage of feeder tonnage, more and more container giants are being ordered.
