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New Time Charter

delivery China-Japan-Korea range February 9 - 11, trip via Australia, redelivery North China, 13.500 $ daily, option redelivery South China, 12.500 $ daily, Oldendorff

New trip charter

170.000 t ore, Port Hedland - Qingdao, 5.60 $ fio, scale load, 30.000 t shinc discharge, August 6 - 10, SDTR

Salvaged boat in bad condition

The empty 10-m-long lifeboat from the "Anangel Happiness" has been retrieved off western Southland after it was spotted floating in Foveaux Strait, and could have posed a threat to other vessels in the notorious stretch of water. It was salvaged by the Riverton Volunteer Coastguard, who have seen nothing of its kind before. It was a hard job because there was probably about five to six tonnes of water inside it, so it was a very slow tow of about three or four knots most of the way. The salvage teams had to wait for high tide this morning to bring the floating hazard into Riverton. The lifeboat appears to have come off the "Anangel Happiness" which mainly works in southeast Asia and has never been this far south. The raft's covered in barnacles and seaweed, and may have been drifting in the ocean for months. Two windows were smashed and the rear hatch door was missing. Southland's Harbour Master was talking to the boat's Greek owners, but the voyage of the boat was probably its last. Report with video: http://www.3news.co.nz/Greek-lifeboat-reaches-Foveaux-Strait/tabid/423/articleID/280027/Default.aspx#ixzz2Ejewi05j