Combined Parts 1-3 of the Freighter Voyage Onboard ABB

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Dear Readers,

It is a pleasure for me to offer you this very special travel edition (part 1 of 3) today, the 9th of May, 2024.

Before I begin with my editorial, let me first give you a bit of a background to this special edition. I am in many ways an incarnated shipping man. I love the business, the people, and what it has given me by way of a career that started originally in 1980 in Aarhus, Denmark. For holidays, I even started traveling by container ship as a passenger in 2005. Since then I have (with the allowance of a variety of ex-wives ☺) been able to travel more or less every 2nd year. I also have been able to bring 3 of my 6 children along with me — 2 of them from Hamburg to Hong Kong and 1 of them from Southampton to Malta and Singapore to Melbourne (to name a few).

The main questions people always ask are: “Are you not bored onboard? Is there a shopping mall? Do you have internet? How about the food and Are you in a container or in a cabin? (well almost).

In short, this way of traveling gives me the following, (in random order):

–a valuable perspective on life –learning to appreciate life and the value of missing people, things, etc. –appreciating the time to really read books –valuing not being interrupted neither by room service nor "kids"... so to speak –incredible views of nature as the sky and the ocean change almost daily if not hourly –some of the most spectacular sunsets and sunrises –an incredible light, pollution-free sky, enabling you on a clear day to see the stars –internet only available intermittently such as WhatsApp, etc. and otherwise good old-fashioned email but real surfing is difficult, and that is exactly what I wish to escape!

In other words you are FORCED TO RELAX, giving you a digital and mental detox. All you need to be alert of - that is if you like - is to get up for the breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, consisting of not a menu to choose from but generally hearty, solid food made for seafarers who do a day’s job onboard.

I have finished 9 books of various sizes, shapes, and content during this trip. As a result, I have gotten wiser. For me, it surely beats googling and getting the instant gratification that we as parents are fighting our kids about (am I right?) as they hardly know how to read or how to stay focused anymore You learn to focus onboard a cargo ship!

Seafarers are the true life blood of global commerce, and we ALL need to appreciate them not only in talking but also in doing.

So much for the background in doing this wonderful trip; one that goes into my memory as the longest unbroken voyage without going ashore that I have taken since 2005, i.e., 49 days from Sines, Portugal to Soma, Japan.

The availability of the supercargo cabin onboard mv ABB Vanessa, voyage 049, was made possible by the owner and founder of COLI Shipping Hamburg Mr. Herbert Loesing. We got to talking about this possibility because COLI Shipping has been active in project cargo shipbroking, chartering and logistics for decades.

They also charter vessels on a long term basis for more than 9 years with mv ABB Vanessa and others COLI Shipping have been immersed in project cargo Intra-Asia and Europe/Asia v.v, in particular completing several voyages per year. In my past as a project freight forwarder and today running a network of them, I have often dealt with COLI Shipping and their branches.

Mv ABB Vanessa, voy 049 departed the port of Emden, Germany (see here) and proceeded via Sines, Portugal to Soma Port, Japan via a short bunkering stop in Singapore. I boarded the vessel on the 14th of March in Sines, and my travel report thus starts on this day. Without a lot of writing, I simply decided to choose the best pictures and videos from each day of the voyage for you to enjoy.

Before boarding in Sines, I had the pleasure of meeting with the local agent of COLI Shipping and mv ABB Vanessa, Messrs Burmester & Stuve. With a proud history dating back many many decades, they are indeed as reliable as they come, and prove that people and relationships in shipping are paramount… also when it comes to local handling in port. (see here).

Shipping consists of PEOPLE. People network, and if you have a proper network, you almost don't need a bank. Networking and keeping contacts alive on a constant basis is the foundation for long term profitable business. Herbert knows this, and it has impressed me during his many decades in shipping just how many contacts he does have. This is one big reason for his being able to deal long term with business to/from Japan which certainly is a country where long term means just that... long term

This Freighter Voyage Edition of Project Cargo Weekly could just as well be titled SHIPPING IS PEOPLE & RELATIONSHIPS

My respects go out to local shipping agents, freight forwarders, surveyors, captains and crew, ship management companies, owners, cargo owners, trucking companies, travel agents handling seafarers to & from the vessel… and the list goes on.

Shipping and logistics, as mentioned before, IS the lifeblood of global trade, and it is a lifeline that hopefully cannot be severed. Just think back to the crisis in the Panama Canal, Red Sea and the Ever Given grounded in the Suez. Worldwide panic sets in immediately, and costs rise due to shipping being impaired.

I hope you will enjoy this travel edition( which is part 1 of 3).

The remaining 2 parts will be published as follows:

●May 16th, part 2 of 3

●May 23rd, part 3 of 3

We start the regular issue of PCW with in depth interviews again on May 30th.

Yours sincerely,

Bo H. Drewsen bo.drewsen@projectcargo-weekly.com

Editor in Chief of Project Cargo Weekly

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COLI LOGISTICS

EDITORIAL

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CPC ISTANBUL

VIDEO POSITION REPORT #1

PHOTOS/VIDEOS

CARSTEN REHDER

PHOTOS/VIDEOS

VICTORIA MARINE

PHOTOS/VIDEOS

ABB SINGAPORE

PHOTOS/VIDEOS

CPC JAPAN

PHOTOS/VIDEOS

PROJECT CARGO WEEKLY

COLI

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Interview with:

COLI SHIPPING – HAMBURG, GERMANY

March 5, 2024

Mr. Felix Peinemann Managing Director

For starters Felix, I always allow my interviewees to explain a bit about their background. What is your background and why did you get into shipping and logistics in the first place?

Well, I started my career with Panalpina where I did my apprenticeship and worked for the Panprojects Division for approximately 10 years holding various positions and my last one was at the Chartering Desk in charge for all chartering activities of the group. After 10 years I decided to expand my portfolio and joined Coli Shipping in Bremen where I was in charge for renewables for a major US client, I also became MD of Coli in Bremen.

Read the full interview on the Project Cargo Weekly website

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Supporting you with cost-e ective and reliable logistics by managing the entire supply chain so you can focus on your core business

Dear Readers,

Today it is Thursday the 16th of May. We are back again with our Special Travel Edition (part 2 out of 3) depicting my voyage onboard mv ABB Vanessa Voyage 049. As we did with travel edition part 1, it mainly consists of pictures and video, this time in the sector between the Western Cape, South Africa, and Singapore where we had a 10-hour bunker stop.

There is something special about arriving at the Western Cape (Cape of Good Hope) as you are then "turning" towards the east, the sun then suddenly rises in front of the vessel–as opposed to when leaving from Portugal to South Africa, the sun was rising on the port side of the vessel (left). Sunsets are now in the west. As my cabin is located aft (towards the back or rear) of the vessel with a clear view to the ocean on C-deck, this made way for some really wonderful sunsets, and it is nice to see the progress (so to speak) of the sunset from the comfort of your cabin.

Originally, the trip was planned from Sines, Portugal where I boarded to be routed via the Suez Canal. However the situation in the Red Sea and Yemen meant that insurance companies would not cover that voyage. Thus, naturally, shipowners with an eye to 100% safety decided to re-route the trip of the vessel around the cape of Africa. It does, however, mean that the trip is some 14-16 days longer. This added travel time is certainly not environmentally-friendly.

This 2nd part of the travel edition is particularly special when approaching Sumatra, Indonesia and the entrance to the Malacca Strait. These videos will give you a great idea of what I mean: I do need to highlight here a couple of videos which clearly show a fantastic "welcome" to Asia so to speak.

aa/ Dolphins welcoming you at the bow of the vessel, truly incredible and just at the very moment that I was standing there..

bb/ The very first sight of Sumatra Island, Indonesia. A most impressive sight..

Later on, we arrived in the very busy transhipment hub of Singapore, anchoring for about 10 hours only for bunkering and resupply of stores, etc. Singapore has an incredible location in South East Asia and is a major transhipment hub for world trade.

We anchored basically 1-200 m from the shore. I could also have exercised my swimming skills, but likely I would have gotten into trouble with immigration .

Anchored at Singapore

I wish to highlight some pictures for you.

Here are a couple of videos showing you the arrival of the stores and also the launch used for the embarking and disembarking of crew and visitors to and from the vessel at anchor.

I hope you enjoy this travel edition which is relaxed, has much less text, but is filled to the brim with pictures, videos, etc. If you have time, I encourage you to see some of the videos. You will be rewarded with a great overall feeling of this epic voyage… the next best thing to actually being there yourself.

Shipping is about People, period. For me, as an editor, there is no business I would rather be involved with.

Until the next travel edition (the final part 3 of 3) on May 23rd, I remain

Yours sincerely,

Bo H. Drewsen bo.drewsen@projectcargo-weekly.com

Editor in Chief of Project Cargo Weekly

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Supporting you with cost-e ective and reliable logistics by managing the entire supply chain so you can focus on your core business

Dear Readers,

It is Thursday the 23rd of May and I am very proud to present to you the third and final edition of the Freighter Voyage book as passenger and editor. The final stretch of the epic trip onboard mv ABB Vanessa was from Singapore to Soma, Japan. As with the previous two sectors it was a fantastic trip.

For a sailor I believe seeing islands or getting closer to shore (and perhaps mobile signal ) is always a welcome feeling. For me what was particularly fantastic was passing some of the islands North of the Philippine island of Luzon. While the Batanes Islands strait was deep it was also quite narrow and for me standing on "Monkey Island" enjoying the sunrise was nothing short of a golden feather in my memory bank cap. See the following video:

Now coming to the end of the voyage onboard I also did send my warmest thoughtsto ABB Singapore and "ABB VANESSA"'s managers Carsten Rehder and Victoria Marine Ship Management, whose arrangement made it possible to take the trip all the way from Portugal. Coli Shipping (www.coli-shipping.com) has a long history doing shipping business with Japan - our final destination for this voyage. I spoke to Mr.Herbert Loesing of Coli Shipping who organized this voyage about theirlinkstoJapan.

READ MR. HERBERT LOESING'S RESPONSE ON THE HISTORY OF COLI SHIPPING IN JAPAN

I arrived Soma, Japan on the 3rd of May after 49 days. Due to arriving in the Golden Week I could only disembark a few days after arriving to the land of the rising sun. While waiting to disembark I took one of the most wonderful pictures of my "career" in photography. You can judge for yourself here, totally unedited or faking it with all the modern tools of a mobile phone,hopefullythisphotocapturestherawnatureIwitnessedrisingbeforemyeyes

I disembarked the vessel saying goodbye to the crew and captain, all of whom were kind to me during the voyage and whilst being professional and handling their work efficiently they always had time to guide me or give answers to the questions I raised. My respect goes out to the seafarers, many of whom are away from their families for 9 months at a time. Hardship is being away from the ones you love, still it is also a strength in life where you learn to live without the constant rewards that our new IT and internet generation now craves. I believe we will have massive social problems on our hands with a generation not even able to focus on reading a book... But that is for another issue of PCW, speaking of which we are back to normal on the 30th of May and then with 2 more issues in June, July is summer holiday for yours truly

Enjoy this short version of part 3 of my travelogue which is the final one.

Wishing you well and we are baaaaack again in a week.

Yours sincerely,

Bo H. Drewsen bo.drewsen@projectcargo-weekly.com Editor in Chief of Project Cargo Weekly

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3 Phillip St #12 - 02

Singapore 048693, Singapore

Phone +65 689 626 14

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Asia Break Bulk (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Großer Grasbrook 10

20457 Hamburg, Germany

Phone + 49 40 320 25 791

E-Mail chartering@asiabreakbulk.com

www.asiabreakbulk.com

FOOD ONBOARD

PEOPLE ONBOARD

CABIN & MESS ROOM ONBOARD

HEAVY WEATHER

GOODBYE JAPAN FROM TOKYO, NARITA BACK TO “REAL LIFE”

“ABB VANESSA” V. 049 Took you to Soma, Pacific side of Honshu. The fact that this voyage had to go via Cape of Good Hope was of course responsible that it took a bit longer. Usually we are in about 32/34 days in Japan from the last European port.

We came to Tokyo more than 40 years ago and developed a very successful relation with my good friend and partner Katsumi Tanaka. Already in the 1980s he became our agent, at that time based on smaller tonnage about 6 – 8.000 tons with cranes up to 2 x 80 and then later 2 x 120 tons capacity.

In the early 1990s we started to work with SAL and became their agent in Japan, which did last for about 20 years, actually a bit less, but we continued to work with them even when the agency in Japan was taken over by them-selves, resp. “K” Line, who bought SAL in steps 2007 and 2012.

Already from the early 2000s we operated CPC with about 6 charter vessels from Europe to Japan/Korea and vice versa. In 2007 that was the year when “K” Line bought SAL, we established ABB Asia Breakbulk (Singapore) Pte Ltd., in cooperation with Normed Antwerp/Istanbul.

Before that we had established Consolidated Pool Carriers (Asia) Co. Ltd.,Tokyo, in partnership with Katsumi anaka. That company is existing now in its 27th year, while the cooperation with Tanaka San has already been going on since 4 decades.

The early days in Tokyo with young Kai in the team

In the meantime Kai Friedrich is now already for more than 20 years in Singapore.

In Tokyo we have a team of 6 people. Last year Takeshi Shiragami came back from Hamburg, where he had been working with us for more than 5 years and became a Director to CPC Tokyo.

Recently we have also started our activities in the dry bulk sector, since we have done already with COLI Bulk Carriers GmbH in Hamburg a number of very interesting voyages out of Japan and Far East into the Arab Gulf / Middle East, but mainly to Europe.

Our activities in Japan and Asia are a very important part of the COLI Group, now with offices in Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai and Singapore, where we started to work from our own office in 1990. The offices in Europe were established as follows:

● 1974 Hamburg and Bremen

● 1977 Antwerp

● 1980 Rotterdam

In the meantime we are also in Hellerup/Copenhagen, Istanbul and with 3 offices in Brazil – Sao Paulo, Itajai and Rio de Janeiro in partnership with Gustavo Murari, whom you have met this week at Breakbulk Europe in Rotterdam.

As from July Alain Akavi and Felix Peinemann will take over, and I am going to semiretire. Alain and Felix have already for some time been part of the Board of Directors and are the right people to continue COLI’s development.

Best regards.

Herbert Loesing