Casualties

By Fred McCague

JANUARY 2010
1/2/10 - Off Ile Blanche, Quebec, on the St. Lawrence River, an electrician on board the Cypriot MV Hanjin Montreal fell from a container and injured his rib cage, shoulder and face. He was transported to a hospital in Quebec City.

1/12/10 – A dockworker at the Port of Morehead City reportedly punctured nine 110-lb drums of the chemical pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) with a forklift while unloading a container at the Port of Morehead City. Highly explosive, PETN is used in blasting caps and detonating cord. The port was closed and some surrounding areas were cordoned off. Firefighters and hazmat experts from Wilmington, Morehead City and military crews from Cherry Point aided the port and Coast Guard in the clean up. The cargo was reported to have been discharged from MV Lehmann Forester. The port reopened Jan 14. (USCG, WITN-TV and others)

1/17/10 – The tanker Kodiak lost power due to a generator problem in Prince William Sound after sailing Valdez for San Francisco. The ship was taken to a safe anchorage by her tug escorts.

1/18/10 - The 600-foot Liberian product tanker Tavrichesky Bridge, with 32,500 MT of naptha, broke a main engine camshaft 160 miles south of Nantucket Island. Donjon-Smit dispatched the tug Atlantic Salvor that arrived Jan 21 and towed the ship into New York, arriving Jan 23.

1/19/10 – While the Canadian tug Bering Straits was towing a loaded gravel barge near the mouth of the Fraser River, a crewmember was struck in the face by the tow bridal and injured. The crewmember was evacuated ashore with Canadian Coast Guard assistance.

1/25/10 – The tug RL Enterkin and a drifting barge collided off Delray Beach, Fla., while the tug attempted to take the barge in tow. The RL Enterkin sustained a 3-inch by 2-foot hole in the forward section of its hull, flooding the bow. The master intentionally beached the tug. No damage was sustained by the barge, which was towed away safely by another tug.

1/25/10 – The 730-foot container ship Horizon Hunter, en route from Los Angeles to Guam, arrived in Honolulu after losing six containers overboard and having about a dozen more toppled and damaged during a three-day gale.

1/25/10 – A Coast Guard Falcon jet from Cape Cod diverted from a Haiti relief mission, locating a life raft with four survivors from the U.S. tug Betty, which sank approximately 53 miles north of Jamaica. A MH-60 helicopter from Clearwater, Fla., picked the crewmembers up and took them to the U.S. Naval Hospital at Guantanamo Bay. A fifth crewmember is missing.

1/25/10 – The 544-foot Panamanian container ship Seaboard Intrepid lost about 30 containers, 30 miles south of Key West, Fla. The ship returned to Miami the next evening with at least three bays of 40-foot containers toppled like dominoes. Two containers were found adrift and towed into Miami by P&L Towing while Seaboard arranged for possible salvage of others.

1/26/10 - the 792-foot Liberian container ship Cap Gilbert, en route from Ningbo to Manzanillo, reported a Burmese crewman had fallen overboard approximately 450 miles south of Adak Island in the Aleutians. Two Coast Guard Hercules aircraft joined the ship in an unsuccessful search for the man.

1/30/10 – The 70-foot Gentry B, pushing three loaded grain barges, hit the U.S. 41 Day Park Highway Bridge at mile marker 786 on the Ohio River in Kentucky. One crewmember was reported injured and taken to the hospital.

1/31/10 – The 87-foot sternwheeler Willamette Queen, with 80 passengers and eight crewmembers, ran aground near Oregon City, Ore. The riverboat was later freed by a tug and taken to Portland for a full inspection.

In This Issue

Up Front

News, Trends & Analysis
News

Trade Tools: Missing money

Capitol Watch: Focus on job creation

Supply Chain
Chris Steele: Why you might be buying industrial real estate soon

Compliance Corner: Use the Web for denied party lists

Tech Trends: From open source to terminal visibility

Product Review: Trucking drayage and chassis management software

Commentary
David Bennett: Real signs of trouble

Gateway Glance
New England

Southern California

The Port Community
Bumpy Ride: Rebuilding PNW containerized exports

Southwest Intermodal: Can intermodal incentives show the way?

The Shipping Environment: Engaging in the community,
slow steaming, and new green products

Oceans are making waves

Casualties
The Big Texas spill leads off this month’s rundown

Final Say
Top 25 TIGER projects