Hubel Marine B.V.

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.

Erik A. de Koning

Mobile +31-6-537244 57

July 5, 2019

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.

Panama July 1st, 2019

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.

Erik A. de Koning with Nito Cortizo

 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.

Hubel Marine B.V.

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.

Register yourself at the below link;

http://panamamaritimeworld.com/registration-form/

On October 25^th, 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 Vessel Registration experts of Hubel Marine registered for Middle East interest an other Bulk Carrier to the Belize Ship Registry.

The former 1996 built and 26400 GRT Paraskevi changed Ownership and name into        Le Ruby.

We wish the new owners and operators success with the performance of their new vessel.

Singapore 12 April 2018

Heerema’s new-generation self-propelled, semi-submersible crane vessel, named SLEIPNIR, is being built in Singapore and will be the world’s biggest crane vessel.        The by Hubel Marine registered Panama Flag vessel is intended to perform installation and removal of subsea equipment, decommissioning services and heavy lifting operations in offshore oil and gas facilities. The SLEIPNIR is 220m- long and 102m-wide, and is having a depth of 49.5m and an operating draught between 12m and 32m. The deck load capacity is 20,000 metric tonnes (mT), whereas the main deck has a working area of 12,000m² and offers a load capacity of 10mT/m². The SLEIPNIR received yesterday her crane boom and is equipped with two heavy-lifting tub-mounted cranes with a capacity to lift 10,000mT each at a working radius of 48m. The dual cranes will provide heavy lift capacity for the installation and removal of offshore structures, including floating platforms, foundations and mooring systems.

Text and photo by Piet Sinke (C)

January 22, 2018

Over the past decade, Panama’s strategic location and its integration into the world’s economy have converted the country into the fastest growing economy in Latin America and the Caribbean; transforming it into the ‘Hub of the Americas’. 

Therefore Panama took the leading role to organise a conference held in Amsterdam  featuring the following prominent Panamanian authorities: The President of the Republic of Panama, Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister for Canal Affairs-General Director and President of the Board of Directors of the Metro de Panamá, S.A., Minister of Agricultural Development, General Manager of the TOCUMEN International Airport.

Our Managing Director Erik A. de Koning discussed with the President of Panama, his excellency Juan Carlos Varela, the positive progress of the Panama Ship Registry and congratulated him with the 100th anniversary of the Registry.  Various topics were discussed and a comprehensive report with suggestions for the Registry was agreed to  be  submitted.