This year is the Happy Work Anniversary Year with Hubel Marine . Earlier this year, during March, we celebrated the milstone that our Seafarer specialist Petra Luijpen celebrated her 20th anniversary for working with Hubel Marine.
Today our Head of the Accounting department, Aubrey Broekhuizen celebrated the happy event of her 12-1/2 year Anniversary.
Thank you all for the outstanding performance and dedication to the company. Keep up the good work !
The Panama Maritime Authority, in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Panama, have renewed the Agreement on Maritime Transport between the Government of the Republic of Panama and the Government of the People’s Republic of China.
This agreement came into force Juy 20, 2021, at the end of the renewal process between the Panamanian and Chinese authorities. However, in order to avoid interrupting its implementation it was considered that from May 17, 2021 until its entry into force, both parties would continue to benefit from its provisions.
The agreement renewal will be extended to five years, and will strengthen trade relations between the two nations, and Panama Ship Registry‘s commitment to its users entering ports located in the People’s Republic of China. The renewal of this Agreement represents a series of unique advantages for shipowners who have registered their vessels under the Panamanian flag, such as:
·Appropriate measures to facilitate and expedite maritime transport to avoid unnecessary delays; granting favourable treatment in the collection of tonnage fees based on preferential rates.
·Promote maritime and port development; full and efficient use of the maritime fleet to meet foreign trade demand.
·Ensure the safety of navigation and protection of the environment (including the safety of vessels, crews, passengers and cargo).
·Improve the business relationship and exchange of scientific and technological experiences; and exchange information on international maritime organizations and conventions.
·Include the protection of the maritime environment, the development of marine resources, the observation of the sea, forecasting and warning of natural disasters and research, development and training on marine maritime issues.
·Promote the supply of services to Panama-flagged vessels.
·Increase the demand for maritime transport services for export and industrial production.
·Maintain close relations that allow free and unimpeded access of Panama-flagged vessels for cargo traffic to and from China.
The Panama merchant fleet’s vessels will maintain the same uninterrupted port tariffs benefits and preferential treatment in the ports of the People’s Republic of China, reaffirming the status of “Most Favoured Nation”.
This Agreement on Maritime Transport is based on equality, mutual benefit, freedom of navigation and the principle of non-discrimination for Panama-flagged vessels operating in Chinese ports.
Would you like to benefit with your fleet that is calling the Chinese ports ?
Contact Erik A.de Koning or Wouter Sluis of Hubel Marine B.V. in order to discuss the opportunities.
Annually the Paris MOU Committee release a Performance list for flags and Recognized Organisations (ROs).
The ‘White, Grey and Black (WGB) List’presents the full spectrum, from quality flags to flags with a poor performance that are concidered as very high risk. This list is based on the total number of inspections and detentions over a 3-year rolling period for flags with at least 30 inspections in that period.
The Panama Flag with 6,200 inspections is for the 10th Consecutive Year selected as a White listed Flag.
Contact me in order to discuss the advantages of the largest ship registry of the world. Your company will benefit from my experience with over 25 years of registering ships in Panama.
Panama’s new President Laurentino Cortizo has appointed a new team of experts for the Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) that operate’s the Ship Registry.
Noriel Arauz, a naval architect, will be the new AMP Administrator and Minister of maritime affairs. He will be accompanied by nautical engineer Samuel Ferreira as deputy administrator; and at the direction of merchant marine and head of the Ship Registry by nautical engineer Rafael Cigarruista. The Secretary general is lawyer Elvia Bustavino.
Hubel Marine’s managing director Erik A. de Koning had a first meeting with the newly appointed Minister, Sub-Administrator , director general and General secretary.
Many topics were discussed like market conditions, objectives for improvement etc.
The new administrator and his team are realizing the need to transform the Ship Registry and will do their outmost in order to maintain a competitive and number 1 Ship Registry.
Erik A. de Koning next to Noriel Arauz , Samuel Ferreira and Elvia Bustavino.
The Social democrat Laurentino Cortizo, who won last May the presidential election in a close race, was last July 1st duly inaugurated for a single five-year term as head of state of a nation famed for its canal but also for its largest Ship Registry.
He announced that one of the next months priorities would be the constitutional reforms proposals and the project of a new law to ensure clear rules and transparency around public contracts.
Cortizo has promised to improve the education system, reform the state to make institutions more transparent, develop the economy and fight poverty and inequality.
The inauguration was being attended by the managing director, Erik A. de Koning of Hubel Marine B.V.
On the 1st of January as most of us were sleeping off New Year’s Eve, Storm Zeetje was battering the Dutch and German North Sea causing the MSC Zoe to lose over 300 containers overside. Ardent were very quick to react by chartering in several vessels including the by Hubel Marine in Panama flagged Atlantic Tonjer to assist with the salvage of the floating and sunken containers.
The Atlantic Tonjer was ready to set sail within 24 hours of receiving the contract, including mobilising a Multi-Beam Echosounder Survey spread provided by Ultrabeam. Once in IJmuiden, Ardent attached their large salvage grab to the 50t AHC crane on the Atlantic Tonjer, loaded on the tracked excavator along with some complete open topped containers.
Due to the height the containers fell from before hitting the water and the rough waters caused by the storm, none of the containers were found intact. Once they had sunk to the bottom they were tossed around on the seabed by the rough weather, spilling their contents far and wide.
Due to the complicated nature of the salvage operations the ROVOP owned Triton XLS WROV (now permanently installed on the Atlantic Tonjer) was quickly brought into action to assist with finding and identifying the containers and cargo, then assisting with the grab operations for the recovery. After 118 days on charter the salvage operation was complete for the Atlantic Tonjer as the focus moved to the shallow water targets requiring shallower drafted vessels.
During the project the Atlantic Tonjer and the Geosund recovered over 2,200 tonnes of cargo between them and over 4,000 sq km of seabed was surveyed.
See enclosed an interesting video released by the managers Atlantic Marine & Aviation LLP.
Hubel Marine is a long-established Netherlands based firm. Its focus lies on three departments, which contain the full range of advise: Registration of Vessels, Flag State Crew Endorsements and Flag related Classification Surveys.
The Netherlands based Heerema Marine Contractors is currently finalizing the new generation self-propelled, semi-submersible crane vessel, named Sleipnir. The Sleipnir is being built by SembCorp Marine in Singapore. When commissioned in May 2019, Sleipnir will be the world’s largest crane vessel. The Sleipnir will be equipped with two cranes of 10,000 metric tonnes lifting capacity each.
The vessel is designed to perform installations and removals of subsea equipment, decommissioning services and heavy lifting operations in world-wide offshore oil and gas facilities.
The first contract awarded for Sleipnir starts in September 2019 and is from Noble Energy Mediterranean, Ltd. for transportation and installation services associated with the Leviathan production platform in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Vessel is Classed by Lloyds Register of Shipping, registered in the Panama Registry by Netherlands based Consultants Hubel Marine B.V. operated by Erik A.de Koning.
Erik de Koning visited the vessel in Singapore last week and was impressed with the size of the ship and with its special design features based on Heerema’s many years of experience with installations at sea for the oil and gas industry. Inspired by Erik’s enthusiasm his hosts invited him to enjoy the impressive view from the Crane at 125 meter height.
This spectacular view made him even more proud of Hubel Marines contribution to the registration of this largest vessel in the largest registry.
The Sleipnir is self-propelled with a minimum service speed of 10 knots, generated by 12 Dual Fuel engines LNG & MGO of 8 MW each, divided over four engine rooms. It is 220m-long and 102m-wide and will have a depth of 49.5 m. The vessel can accommodate 400 people in single and double cabins, equipped with air-conditioning and heating systems. A 4×3 point mooring system will be used to provide station-keeping for the vessel at sea. Furthermore it is equipped with onboard dynamic positioning system, built in accordance with Lloyd’s Register’s IMO Class 3 DP (AAA) notation.
The Panama Maritime XIV World Conference & Exhibition will be held from 17 to 20 March 2019 in Panama City, Panama.
The Conference has been held as a visionary project of the Maritime Law Association of Panama and the Maritime Chamber of Panama. Hubel Marine is one of the loyal sponsors of this unique event, and we like to meet all our business friends in Panama.
On October 25th, 2018 the re-tired senior surveyor, Jacques de Koning passed away due to heart failure.
Mr. de Koning senior started his career with James & Co, followed by Spedico in order to work for 17 years with Dammers van der Heide as Head of the Captains Room. Thereafter he started his successful carrier as an independent ship crewing and agency company. During 1984 he was requested to participate with the inspection program for Panama flagged vessels in the Netherlands and was praised by the Panama Government for his loyal continuation of the inspections during the Panama invasion late 1989. ‘The shipping companies shouldn’t become the victim of a political conflict’, he said.
Since then he became well connected with one of the principal architects of Panama’s modern maritime industry, Hugo Torrijos who oversaw the Panamanian Registry transforming the obscure register into one of the world’s largest open registries at the time.
Mr Jacob de Koning was respected in the maritime community for his way of surveying as he was always motivating the crew to continue their nautical study and to improve the standards on board. He was always full of ideas and enjoyed to brainstorm about various maritime topics.
The Netherlands based Heerema Marine Contractors is currently finalizing the new generation self-propelled, semi-submersible crane vessel, named Sleipnir. The Sleipnir is being built by SembCorp Marine in Singapore. When commissioned in May 2019, Sleipnir will be the world’s largest crane vessel. The Sleipnir will be equipped with two cranes of 10,000 metric tonnes lifting capacity each.
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