Myanmar Marine Engineers

Loss Prevention Circular No. 12-11 by GARD

2011-11-14T11:30:00.002+08:00

Review and new approval of lifeboat hooks

http://www.gard.no/ikbViewer/Content/20650366/12-11%20Review%20and%20new%20approval%20of%20life%20boat%20hooks_finalREV2.pdf

၎ႏွင့္ ဆက္စပ္ ပတ္သက္သတင္း

Schat-Harding Develops IMO-Compliant Safety System

http://www.marinelink.com/news/schatharding-imocompliant341351.aspx

Survey and Examination of Ships’ Lifting Appliances

2011-11-14T10:41:00.003+08:00

The UK Club, together with Lloyd's Register, has published a new pocket guide on the importance of professional maintenance and survey preparation for marine lifting appliances. The consequences of failure include death or serious injury as well as costly disruption of operations.

The Checklist has been circulated within the Club and any member wishing to receive additional copies is encouraged to contact the Loss Revention Dept. at the following address:

lossprevention.ukclub@thomasmiller.com

UK P&I Club ႏွင္႔ Lloyd's Register တို႔မွ ထုတ္ေဝထားေသာ Pocket Guide မ်ားကို Down Load လုပ္ရန္ Link မ်ား

Revised Guidance for the Recording of Operations in the Oil Record Book

2011-11-14T00:38:00.000+08:00

IMO MEPC. 1/Circ. 736/Rev. 1 ကို ျပင္ဆင္ထားေသာ MEPC. 1/Circ. 736/Rev. 2 ကို ေအာက္ပါ Link တြင္ Down Load ရယူႏူိင္ပါၿပီ။

http://www.vr.org.vn/VRE/images/documents/Taubien/041TI.E_11TB.pdf

GUIDANCE FOR THE RECORDING OF OPERATIONS IN THE OIL RECORD BOOK PART I – MACHINERY SPACE OPERATIONS (ALL SHIPS)

2011-11-13T15:02:00.002+08:00

Oil Record Book Part I တြင္ ေရးသားျဖည့္စြက္ရမည့္ပုံစံကို IMO မွ MEPC. 1/Circ. 736/Rev.1 ျဖင့္ ထုတ္ျပန္ထားပါသည္။ ေအာက္ပါ Link တြင္ၾကည့္႐ႈ Download လုပ္ႏိုင္ပါသည္။

http://www.scribd.com/doc/59372294/MEPC-1-Circ-7361

Download မရပါက mmengineer2009@gmail.com သို႔ mail ပို႔၍ ေတာင္းယူႏိုင္ပါသည္။

MARITIME REPORTER နဲ႔ MARITIME NEWS MAGAZINE မ်ား ဖတ္႐ႈ/Download လုပ္ႏုိင္သည့္ေနရာ

2011-11-12T23:28:00.003+08:00

Latest Issue မ်ားကို ေအာက္ပါ Link တြင္၎

http://www.marinelink.com/magazines/default.aspx

Old Issue မ်ားကို ေအာက္ပါ Link မ်ားတြင္၎
http://www.marinelink.com/magazines/archive.aspx?MID=3
http://www.marinelink.com/magazines/archive.aspx?MID=1

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MAN & Maersk: Innovative Diesel Engine Partnership

2011-11-11T04:13:00.003+08:00

(Maritime Reporter & Engineering News)

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Graphic of the second-generation EGR system (orange) integrated with its host engine
အင္ဂ်င္မွာတပ္ဆင္ထားတဲ့ ဒုတိယမ်ိဳးဆက္ Exhaust Gas Recirculation System ကို လိေမၼာ္ေရာင္နဲ႔ ျပထားပါတယ္။

MAN Diesel & Turbo announced the first order for its second generation EGR system, to be applied aboard a Maersk Line container vessel – the 4,500-teu new building #2358. The system will be fully integrated with the vessel’s main engine, a two-stroke MAN B&W 6S80ME-C9 type to be built by Hyundai Heavy Industries’ engine & machinery division. The EGR system enables the meeting of the imminent IMO NOx Tier-III emission levels due to come into force by 1 January 2016. Søren H. Jensen, Vice President and Head of Research & Development at MAN Diesel & Turbo said: “We have taken an important step forward in the development of exhaust gas recirculation with the release of this second-generation system. This configuration will mirror the final design for our Tier-III NOx EGR engine programme. The main focus has been on integration of the entire EGR system into one unit which is a part of the engine as a charge-air cooler. The EGR unit comprises a cooler, a scrubber, a water mist catcher and a blower unit, and is designed to be fitted on the engine in the same way as a charge-air cooler. Since the first-generation EGR was tested in service, we have achieved significant technical advances as well as improvement in performance. We have optimised the performance of the EGR so that the system recirculates 40% of the exhaust gas so as to meet the Tier-III reduction criterion.”

The new EGR generation comprises a compact design that entails only minor changes to the engine outline, to the extent that the new engine type does not require any major design changes by shipyards. The new building #2358 from Hyundai’s shipbuilding division is in the C-class series of 22 container vessels ordered by the Maersk Line and will be delivered in early 2013. Upon delivery, the vessel will serve the trade route between East Africa and the Far East. For a test period of three years, the engine will be operated partly with IMO Tier III NOx emission levels.
Exhaust gas reduction Shipping is the most effective transport means of moving goods and accounts for over 70% of global tonnage. Generally, ships use HFO as fuel, which contains sulphur and which during combustion, forms NOx and SOx. However, the environmental effects of ship emissions are under increased focus and the UN is currently introducing regulation aiming at drastically reducing NOx and SOx emission levels over the next decade.
MAN Diesel & Turbo’s EGR system ensures full fuel flexibility, ranging from HFO to distillates and natural gas, and reduces NOx by directing part of the exhaust gas back into the engine’s scavenge air. This reduces the oxygen content of the air in the combustion chamber, thereby reducing the combustion temperature and, as a result, reduces the NOx formation. Tests at MAN Diesel & Turbo’s Diesel Research Centre, Copenhagen have shown that reaching the IMO’s forthcoming Tier III NOx emission requirements is possible with EGR in its own right.
The target group for MAN Diesel & Turbo’s EGR system is owners of ships of over 2,000 dwt, a segment that today comprises some 18,000-20,000 vessels operating globally. The EGR system offers great value and has a number of unique selling points, including its environmental performance, global seafaring flexibility, added resale value of ships, and its disposal with the requirement for daily maintenance.

Library picture taken during the construction of a sister ship identical to the new building #2358

Link:

http://www.marinelink.com/news/partnership-innovative341292.aspx

Bulletin 793 - 11/11 - Defective Reefers Update - Worldwide

2011-11-10T21:00:00.002+08:00

Explosive Reefers သတင္း နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး UK P&I Club က ထုတ္ထားတဲ့ Bulletin ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

http://www.ukpandi.com/fileadmin/uploads/uk-pi/LP%20Documents/793.pdf

http://www.ukpandi.com/fileadmin/uploads/uk-pi/LP%20Documents/LP_Bulletins/Bulletin%20792.pdf

Oil Record Book ျဖည့္နည္းနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး IMO format အတိုင္း ေရးထားတဲ့ နမူနာပုံစံ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ Latest format ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

http://www.ukpandi.com/fileadmin/uploads/uk-pi/LP%20Documents/Tech_Bulletins/Tch%20Bulletin.35%28amd%29.pdf

Urgent warning on explosive containers

2011-11-10T20:41:00.005+08:00

Three deaths globally and numerous injuries and burns

2011.11.9- As thousands of potentially explosive shipping containers circulate the globe, Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) executives are rejecting the International Longshore and Warehouse Union's (ILWU) calls for safety procedures designed to protect workers on the docks and keep at-risk containers out of U.S. communities.

The PMA wants to limit the isolation of refrigerated containers (also known as "reefers") to those imports only that have transited Kat Lai, Vietnam, in the past year. The ILWU wants to isolate all reefers that have transited any part of Vietnam in 2011.

Despite the fact that PMA has known for over nine months that thousands of contaminated reefers are circulating among its member companies' reefer fleets, the danger to health and safety did not become public until October 2011 after three workers were killed by explosions while servicing contaminated reefers.

Following the three fatalities, Maersk Inc., a PMA member company, informed the World Shipping Council's Safe Transport of Containers Working Group that reefers coming from Southeast Asia had exploded for no apparent reason.

Experts in the shipping industry have known since spring that counterfeit or imitation refrigerant is being used by vendors in Vietnam to service reefers. This fake refrigerant reacts with the aluminum in a reefer's compressor, forming an explosive mix that burns in contact with air.

Union officials at the ILWU in San Francisco, and local officers at West Coast container terminals, have advocated in arbitration hearings and at numerous meetings with PMA for effective safety protocols since learning of the potential for fatal explosions in October 2011.

"The union has been working seven days a week for almost a month now to reach an agreement that allows workers to maintain a productive pace on the docks while ensuring that only safe containers enter the community," said Robert McEllrath, ILWU International President. "Unfortunately, the PMA looks past these ticking time bombs and sees only dollars and cents."

In the Puget Sound Ports of Seattle and Tacoma, the local arbitrator has established protocols that provide complete transparency for the workers, a safe handling procedure, capture and isolation of all 2011 Vietnam transited containers on the terminals.

In Oakland, the PMA member terminal operators have refused to provide complete transit transparency on all reefers, have refused to isolate Vietnam transited reefer containers, and have insisted that longshoremen be forced to deliver suspect reefer containers to the unsuspecting public.

Under the PMA's flawed response to the exploding container crisis, longshoremen who stand up for their own safety and the public are summarily fired. Dozens of ships have been delayed and hundreds of longshoremen have been fired.

"Given what I know, I wouldn't pull my personal vehicle next to any reefer on a public highway," said Leal Sundet, representative of the ILWU Longshore Division. "It is all about deceit and money now."

On Tuesday, the PMA will try to get the coast arbitrator to eliminate the Puget Sound arrangement and allow suspect containers to enter the community.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union represents 50,000 men and women on the docks and in warehouses and other industries in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii.

Source: ITF

http://www.safety4sea.com/page/7565/1/urgent-warning-on-explosive-containers

Explosive reefer containers ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ေသာ ဆက္စပ္ သတင္းမ်ား

http://www.safety4sea.com/print.php?type=article&id=7558

http://www.safety4sea.com/print.php?type=article&id=7533

Convention မ်ားအေၾကာင္း

2009-05-05T12:37:00.004+08:00

မၾကာေသးမီ ၂၀၀၈ နွစ္ကုန္ပိုင္းမွာ entry into force ျဖစ္လာတ့ဲ Convention နွစ္ခုကေတာ့ Bunker Convention 2001 နဲ႔ Anti-fouling System Convention 2001 တို႔ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ၄င္းတို႔ရဲ႕ အက်ဥ္းခ်ဳပ္အေၾကာင္းအရာကေတာ့ ေအာက္ပါအတိုင္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage, 2001

Adoption: 23 March 2001.

Entry into force: 21 November 2008

The Convention was adopted to ensure that adequate, prompt, and effective compensation is available to persons who suffer damage caused by spills of oil, when carried as fuel in ships' bunkers.

The Convention applies to damage caused on the territory, including the territorial sea, and in exclusive economic zones of States Parties.

The bunkers convention provides a free-standing instrument covering pollution damage only.

"Pollution damage" means:

(a) loss or damage caused outside the ship by contamination resulting from the escape or discharge of bunker oil from the ship, wherever such escape or discharge may occur, provided that compensation for impairment of the environment other than loss of profit from such impairment shall be limited to costs of reasonable measures of reinstatement actually undertaken or to be undertaken; and

(b) the costs of preventive measures and further loss or damage caused by preventive measures.

The convention is modeled on the International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1969. As with that convention, a key requirement in the bunkers convention is the need for the registered owner of a vessel to maintain compulsory insurance cover.

Another key provision is the requirement for direct action - this would allow a claim for compensation for pollution damage to be brought directly against an insurer. The Convention requires ships over 1,000 gross tonnage to maintain insurance or other financial security, such as the guarantee of a bank or similar financial institution, to cover the liability of the registered owner for pollution damage in an amount equal to the limits of liability under the applicable national or international limitation regime, but in all cases, not exceeding an amount calculated in accordance with the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, 1976, as amended.

International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems on Ships

Adoption: 5 October 2001

Entry into force: 17 September 2008

The International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems on Ships will prohibit the use of harmful organotins in anti-fouling paints used on ships and will establish a mechanism to prevent the potential future use of other harmful substances in anti-fouling systems.

Under the terms of the new Convention, Parties to the Convention are required to prohibit and/or restrict the use of harmful anti-fouling systems on ships flying their flag, as well as ships not entitled to fly their flag but which operate under their authority and all ships that enter a port, shipyard or offshore terminal of a Party.

Ships of above 400 gross tonnage and above engaged in international voyages (excluding fixed or floating platforms, FSUs and FPSOs) will be required to undergo an initial survey before the ship is put into service or before the International Anti-fouling System Certificate is issued for the first time; and a survey when the anti-fouling systems are changed or replaced.

Ships of 24 metres or more in length but less than 400 gross tonnage engaged in international voyages (excluding fixed or floating platforms, FSUs and FPSOs) will have to carry a Declaration on Anti-fouling Systems signed by the owner or authorized agent. The Declaration will have to be accompanied by appropriate documentation such as a paint receipt or contractor invoice.

Anti-fouling systems to be prohibited or controlled will be listed in an annex (Annex 1) to the Convention, which will be updated as and when necessary.

BWM Convention 2004

Ballast Water Management Convention ရဲ႕ Entry into Force ကေတာ့ ေအာက္ပါအတိုင္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ World Merchant Shipping ရဲ႕ အနည္းဆုံး 35% Tonnage ကို ကိုယ္စားျပဳတဲ့ 30 States က ratify လုပ္ျပီး ၁၂လ အၾကာမွာ Entry into Force ျဖစ္မယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။ အခုေလာေလာဆယ္ 16 States / 14.24% of World Merchant Shipping Tonnage က ratify လုပ္ထားျပီးျပီလို႔ 6~10/Oct/2008 မွာျပဳလုပ္တဲ႔ MEPC 58^th Session ကဆိုပါတယ္။

International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments

Adoption: 13 February 2004

Entry into force
The Convention will enter into force 12 months after ratification by 30 States, representing 35 per cent of world merchant shipping tonnage.

Complete list of Conventions (from IMO Web Site)

2009-05-03T19:29:00.001+08:00

Maritime Safety

01. International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974

02. International Convention on Load Lines (LL), 1966

03. Special Trade Passenger Ships Agreement (STP), 1971

04. Protocol on Space Requirements for Special Trade Passenger Ships, 1973

05. Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREG), 1972

06. International Convention for Safe Containers (CSC), 1972

07. Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organization (INMARSAT), 1976

08. The Torremolinos International Convention for the Safety of Fishing Vessels (SFV), 1977

09. International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW), 1978

10. International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Fishing Vessel Personnel (STCW-F), 1995

11. International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue (SAR), 1979

Marine Pollution

01. International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto (MARPOL 73/78)

02. International Convention Relating to Intervention on the High Seas in Cases of Oil Pollution Casualties (INTERVENTION), 1969

03. Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (LDC), 1972

04. International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response and Co-operation (OPRC), 1990

05. Protocol on Preparedness, Response and Co-operation to pollution Incidents by Hazardous and Noxious Substances, 2000 (HNS Protocol)

06. International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems on Ships (AFS), 2001

07. International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004

Liability and Compensation

01. International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage (CLC), 1969

02. International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage (FUND), 1971

03. Convention relating to Civil Liability in the Field of Maritime Carriage of Nuclear Material (NUCLEAR), 1971

04. Athens Convention relating to the Carriage of Passengers and their Luggage by Sea (PAL), 1974

05. Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims (LLMC), 1976

06. International Convention on Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection with the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances by Sea (HNS), 1996

07. International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage, 2001

Other Subjects

01. Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic (FAL), 1965

02. International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships (TONNAGE), 1969

03. Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (SUA), 1988

04. International Convention on Salvage (SALVAGE), 1989

Job in Sarawak Maritime Academy

2009-05-01T20:28:00.004+08:00

Jobstreet.com Singapore မွာ ၾကည္႔႐ႉႏူိင္သည္။

MARS Reports

2009-04-28T23:09:00.008+08:00

စိတ္၀င္စားစရာ MARS Report မ်ားအား ေအာက္ေဖာ္ျပပါ Link ကို Click လုပ္၍ ၄င္း Page သို႔ သြားကာ International Maritime Accident Reporting Scheme (MARS) မွ Number ကို Click လုပ္ျခင္းျဖင္႔ ဖတ္႐ႈႏူိင္ပါသည္။

http://www.ukpandi.com/ukpandi/Infopool.nsf/HTML/Lp_Init_Reports

Right column မွ LP initiatives တစ္ခုစီကို Click လုပ္ျပီး စိတ္၀င္စားစရာ အေၾကာင္းအရာမ်ားကို ဖတ္႐ႈႏူိင္ပါ သည္။

ထို႔ျပင္ MAIB (Marine Accident Investigation Branch) Web Site သို႔ သြားကာ Investigation Report မ်ားကို ဖတ္႐ႈႏူိင္ပါသည္။

http://www.maib.gov.uk/publications/safety_digests.cfm

Myanmar Seafarers Helpdesk

2009-04-28T14:33:00.007+08:00

ျမန္မာသေဘာၤသားမ်ားအတြက္ WEB SITE ေလး တစ္ခုပါ။

http://www.myanmarnavy.com

သတင္း ေလးေတြ နဲ႔ download files ေလးေတြရွိတယ္။

Singapore မွာ အခန္းရွာေနသူေတြအတြက္ အဲဒီမွာ ေဖာ္ျပထားတဲ႔ link ကုိ ကူးျပီးေဖာ္ျပလိုက္ ပါတယ္။ အဆင္ေျပ ပါေစ။

http://www.shwerooms.com

http://www.myanmarroom.com

http://shwehouse.blogspot.com

http://www.share-accommodation.sg

http://littlemyanmar.net

Lecturer at Singapore Maritime Academy

2009-04-28T14:12:00.002+08:00

LECTURER - Marine Engineering (SINGAPORE MARITIME ACADEMY)

careers.sp.edu.sg

Company Information

Company Name Singapore Polytechnic

Industry Education / Training

Job Description

SINGAPORE MARITIME ACADEMY

LECTURER

Marine Engineering

Requirements:

A Class 1 Certificate of Competency in Marine Engineering or relevant degree with experience in shore-based maritime industry, preferably offshore. Preference will be given to those who have sailed as Chief Engineer and/or able to teach offshore operations and naval architecture.

A Class 1 Certificate in Competency Combined (Steam and Motor) Certificate. Preference will be given to those who have sailed as Chief Engineer on steamships. Applicants who have only Steam Certifications may also apply.

Applications Procedure

Interested candidates are invited to complete the eApplication form. Please access eApplication form via http://careers.sp.edu.sg

Salary & Fringe Benefits

The point of entry will depend on qualifications and experience. Fringe benefits include medical/dental benefits, leave entitlement, use of sports and recreational facilities and subsidised holidays.

(Only shortlisted candidates will be notified)

Closing date: 16 May 2009

စိတ္၀င္စားသူမ်ား ေလွ်ာက္ဖို႔ ...........

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2009-04-27T09:06:00.000+08:00

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