CMA Djakarta
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The CMA Djakarta was a Classica built full container ship that caught fire in the eastern Mediterranean in the summer of 1999 and then ran aground off the Egyptian coast.
General
The ship was built under construction number 8148/2 at the Danzig shipyard Stocznia Gdynia for the Hamburg shipping company Gebr. Winter as the second of two identical container ships ( sister ship was the Columba ). The keel was laid on December 15, 1997, the launch on May 10, 1998. The ship was put into service on May 20, 1998. The shipowner was the one-ship company MS "Classica" Gebr. Winter Schiffahrtsgesellschaft.
The ship was financed by a ship fund that was launched in 1998 by HCI Treuhand . The ship mortgage loan was repaid at the end of the first quarter of 2009. Since the fund was subject to tonnage tax , the ship was initially entered in the German shipping register and started sailing under the German flag .
Technical data and equipment
The ship was by a six-cylinder - two-stroke - diesel by Sulzer , which has been built by H. Cegielski-Poznań in license driven. The engine had 17,940 kW of power . It worked on a fixed pitch propeller . The ship thus reached a maximum speed of 20 knots . A total of four generators were available for the power supply , one of which acted as an emergency generator.
The superstructures were far aft. In front of the superstructures there were five holds with nine hatches. These could be closed with pontoon hatch covers. The ship had ten bays. In total, parking spaces for 2,102 TEU were available, 836 in the holds and 1,266 on deck. When loading 40-foot containers, there were spaces for 1,026 containers (plus 36 TEU), 400 in the holds and 626 on deck. With a homogeneous loading with 14 t heavy containers the capacity was 1640 TEU. The ship had connections for 300 refrigerated containers. Of these, 100 connections were below deck.
Three ship cranes with a capacity of 45 t each were available for cargo handling . The cranes were located amidships between Bays 2 and 3, 6 and 7 and 9 and 10. There was a breakwater in front of Bay 1.
The ship was marketed for freighter travel. Two double cabins were available for passengers, each about 20 m² in size.
Explosion and fire
On July 10, 1999, there was an explosion on board the ship with subsequent fire. The ship, which was chartered by the French company CMA CGM , was in the eastern Mediterranean with 21 people on board . Since the crew was unable to fight the fire that had broken out in the area between the two aft ship's cranes with on-board resources, they left the ship. The pilotless ship drifted towards the Egyptian coast and finally ran aground here. Fighting the fire turned out to be difficult because the fire kept breaking out.
After the fire on board was extinguished, the ship was rescued and initially towed to Malta , where the entire container load was extinguished. The ship was then towed to a shipyard in Rijeka , Croatia , for repair and then repaired.
The cause of the explosion and the subsequent fire were two containers loaded on deck that contained calcium hypochlorite . Calcium hypochlorite is classified as dangerous goods according to the IMDG code .
Legal implications
The shipowner demanded compensation from the charterer for the damage caused to the ship and its repair and compensation for claims from those involved in the cargo and his contribution to the general average . The charterer of the ship referred to the "Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, 1976", in which the word "charterer" is used in Article 1 to define the ship owner and according to which he has only limited liability.
The case was heard in an arbitration tribunal in London. In doing so, the shipowner was generally given the right and the charterer denied limited liability. In a later appeal procedure, the previous decision was changed to the effect that the charterer had only limited liability with regard to claims in connection with the cargo.
Whereabouts of the ship
The ship was in service for changing charterers under different charter names. It was flagged out to Antigua and Barbuda around 2010 (home port Saint John’s , callsign V2FU7). In 2016 the ship was sold to India for demolition.
literature
- CMA CGM SA v Classica Shipping Co Ltd. , The Nationwide Academy for Dispute Resolution (UK) Ltd. ( PDF file; 0.2 MB ).
- The "CMA Djakarta" In: Marine Matters , The Standard Steamship Owners' Protection & Indemnity Association, No. 19, June 2003, p. 20.
- CMA Djakarta - Offshore Implications and Limitation of Liability - CMA Djakarta In: Marine Matters , The Standard Steamship Owners' Protection & Indemnity Association, No. 22, June 2004, pp. 7-8 and pp. 22-23.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c M / V Classica , description of the ship, shipping company Gebr. Winter. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
- ^ M / V Columba , description of the ship, shipping company Gebr. Winter. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
- ^ History , shipping company Gebr. Winter. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
- ↑ a b MS "Classica" Gebr. Winter Schiffahrtsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG , HCI performance report 2009. Accessed on March 6, 2018.
- ^ CMA Djakarta , Cedre. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
- ↑ a b CMA Djakarta , Malta Ship & Action Photos. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
- ↑ James A. Darling: Calcium Hypochlorite: Fire in the Hold , Presentation, Cargo Loss Prevention Committee, September 15, 1999. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
- ↑ Dr. Solomon Chen, Capt. Jackie Hwu, Capt. Shiou Cheng: When container cargo causes serious danger at sea , Presentation, The NURI International Port & Logistics Symposium 2006. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
- ^ Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, 1976 , Admiralty and Maritime Law Guide. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
- ↑ CMA CGM v. Classica Shipping , DMC's Case Notes, English Commercial Court, March 27, 2003. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
- ↑ CMA CGM v. Classica Shipping , DMC's Case Notes, English Court of Appeal, February 12, 2004. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
- ↑ Shipbreaking # 44 - Bulletin of information and analysis on ship demolition , Robin des Bois, July 29, 2016 (PDF file, 8.6 MB). Retrieved March 6, 2018.