Filed under: Ships
Down on the Maine State Pier in Portland the Alida Gorthon is in port. It’s a “Side Loader Vessel” according to Transatlantic the Swedish company that owns the ship. They report that:
Delivered 1977 by Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corp, Pusan, Rep. of Korea. Rebuilt to Side Loader 1990 by Blohm & Voss AG, Hamburg, Germany
Phil reports that the Alida Gorthon, “transport[s] forest products” and, after being “converted in 1990″ it “now [has] a sideport pallet loading system rather than the lift on lift off gantry system.”
Today the Front Brabant is here. This tanker isn’t nearly as pretty as some of the ones that were here in the past week, but there is a veritable fount of information about the ship at this site. The Front Brabant is another Hyundai of Ulsan (which readers will remember from the 15th) but flies under the Norwegian flag as it’s port of registry is Oslo. Somewhat unbelievably, there is a link to the “vessel’s email address” (master.frbr@vsl.vships.no). Furthermore, we’ve got the name, address, phone number and email address of the Liberian company that owns the ship:
Front Brabant Inc.
80 Broad Street, Monrovia, Liberia
Tel: +47 23 11 40 00
Fax: +47 23 11 40 40
Email: technical@frontmgt.no
The nationality of the officers is listed as “Russian” while the nationality of the crew is listed as Russian, Filipino. Apparently they speak English on board – so call or write to them and tell them how much we just love their crude oil!
Filed under: Ships
16 January 2009: Right now the SPT Explorer is in port. DET NORSKE VERITAS reports that the Explorer flies under the flag of the Bahamas and is a recent ( 2008 ) build of the Tsuneishi Holdings Corp at its Tadostu (Japan) factory. The Aframax tanker has a deadweight of 105,804 tons is owned by the Teekay Corporation of Vancouver, BC, which, according to Forbes Online, is doing “okay” despite the slump in oil prices. It’s a pretty orange color…
15 January 2009: In port today is the SKS TAGUS, a tanker that flies under the Norwegian flag and is owned by a Bermuda-based subsidiary of Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Skipsrederi AS (KGJS) a company from Bergen, Norway. The Tagus was commented on, last April, by Jimmy Christie who reports,
SKS Tagus is one of that slightly unusual breed of ships known as ore-bulk-oil carriers or combination carriers… In size terms, as a bulker, she’s Capesize and as a tanker she would be classed as Suezmax. She’s 109,933 tons deadweight on a gross of 63,515 and she was built by Hyundai of Ulsan in South Korea in 1997…
13 January 2009: Yesterday, the Mattea arrived in South Portland. According to this press release the Mattea is a “127,000 dwt. offshore crude oil shuttle tanker” that is
owned by Penney Ugland Ltd. and managed by Canship Ugland Limited. The shuttle tanker is one of three that moves crude oil production to shore from the Hibernia and Terra Nova fields on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland…
Canship Ungland reports that, “SAMSUNG HEAVY INDUSTRIES CO., LTD” of Seoul, South Korea, built the ship in 1997. Apparently, that makes it pretty old, but people seem to think it is a reasonably “good-looking” ship. Hmm.
9 January 2009: Currently, the Mare Salernum is in port in South Portland. According to this report it’s deadweight is around 110,000 tons, putting it in the “Aframax” category and was built by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. of Tamano, Japan in 2003. The Mare Salernum flies under the Italian flag and is owned by Fratelli D’Amico Armatori S.p.A., Italy.
