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Norddeutsche Vermögensanlage GmbH & Co. KG
Hamburg, Germany
http://www.norddeutsche.de/eng/indexsi.asp

Glossary of Shipping Terms

Bulk carrier:
Cargo vessel for bulk goods such as grain, ore, coal etc.

Bulker:
Cargo vessel for bulk loads, e.g. grain, ore, coal. Bulkers have large holds into which the bulk load is poured and unloaded at the destination using grabs

Charter:
Hiring of a ship

Charterer:
The charterer hires the ship and acquires and organizes the freight for transport

kn:
Abbr. of knot, the unit in which a ship’s speed is measured
1 kn = 1.852 km/h

Line shipping:
Regular operation of routes with a fairly stable freight volume over a certain period

Refrigerated vessel:
Special freight vessel with refrigeration facilities for the transport of perishable foods

Register of ships:
Public register in which sea-going vessels with a hold capacity of more than 50 cubic metres have to be listed and which, according to the provisions of the flag law, may or must fly the German flag.

Ro-ro vessel:
Roll-on-roll-off vessel; vessel with a ramp for vehicle-supported loading and unloading

Ship operation:
The ship owner is responsible for the vessel’s operation i.e. employs the crew and equips the vessel with fuel, stores and provisions etc. The ship owner also decides on the ship’s usage

Ship owner:
Under § 484 HGB (German Commercial Code) the ship owner is the owner of a vessel which serves the purpose of profit-making through seafaring. The forwarding agent, responsible for the transport of the load in his own name, does not necessarily have to be the ship owner

Shipbroker:
The shipbroker realizes transport by taking on the sale of the goods, load acquisition, transport handling, clearance

TEU:
Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit ; standard container with a standard length of 20 feet (c. 6.3m) – the unit for measuring the required floor space on a container vessel

Tonnage tax:
Under § 5a par. 1 EstG (German Income Tax Act) tonnage tax is a method of determining profits on a flat-rate basis, i.e. current annual profit is calculated on a flat-rate basis according to the size of the vessel and is then fixed for the whole period of tonnage taxation (at least ten years).The actual profits accrued during this period according to the tax balance-sheet are thus irrelevant. The difference between the value of the vessel as part of an enterprise and the book value at the time of exchange of tonnage tax, the so-called reserve, is subject to tax upon the sale of the vessel.

Tramp shipping:
Shipping routes resulting from market demand

Trustee:
Company that manages and exercises another’s rights in its own name but on behalf of a subscriber

twd:
tonnes dead weight; the unit for measuring the carrying capacity of a vessel in tonnes

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Westbound/Overland -- California to Paris: Summer 2007 Tentative Itinerary


Monday, July 23, 2007
A.M. Southwest Airlines Bur-Oak

Monday, July 23, 6 PM
Depart Hanjin Shipping Terminal, Oakland
on the M.S. Peking Senator, (Voyage 57) Call Sign: DQVJ –
for an 12 day crossing to Osaka, Japan (one day stop in Tokyo on August 3)

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http://www.laeisz.de/en/index.html (vessel operator)
Supt. Frank Ruppert
Rostock, Germany
Tel: 011 49 381-6660-265
ruppert@laeisz.de

Hanjin Shipping (vessel owner)
Booking Dept.
Pheonix AZ Service Center
http://www.hanjin.com/en/main.jsp
866 442 6546 option #1
(up to date arrival and departure info)

my agent
Joycene Deel, Owner
Freighter World Cruises
180 South Lake Avenue, #340
Pasadena, CA 91101-2655
1-800-531-7774
(general information)


http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/ Ship Tracking at Sea:
M.S. Peking Senator Call Sign DQVJ

“Urgent/Emergency” communication with ship:

On-board Tel: 011 870 764 685 280 (from USA)
On-board fax: 011 870 764 685 281 (from USA)

(cost for a satellite call, at least from Germany,
is approx. 2 Euros or 2.75 USD per minute)

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Friday, August 3
Arr. Osaka, Japan.
Transfer to Higashiyama Hostel, Kyoto
http://www.syukuhaku.jp
mailto:info@syukuhaku.jp
Tel: 011 81-75-761-8135
Fax: 011 81-75-761-8138


Friday, August 10
Dep. Kobe, Japan on China Express Line’s M.S. Yanjin for a two day crossing to
TianJin, China
Mr. Fan Xincheng, Passenger Dept.
http://www.celkobe.co.jp/
pax@celkobe.co.jp
011 78 321 5791

Sunday, August 12
Arr. TianJin, China
Transfer to: Far East International Hostel
Beijing, China
Phone: 011 86-10-51958811
Fax: 011 86-10-63018233
E-mail: courtyard@vip.sohu.com


From here on everything is up in the air. I’ll 11 days at sea to read and do some planning. I’ll be looking for guided tours along the way.

I plan to spend maybe ten days in China. My thought now is that I will investigate a rail tour from Beijing-Lhasa, Tibet. It is 4,064 km, of which 1,110 km are over the newly-built Qinghai-Tibet railway, the highest rail line in the world. Seat 61 is a great world rail travel site. http://www.seat61.com/

Wednesday, August 22: (approximately) leave Beijing on the Trans-Mongolian Railway.

Thursday, August 23: arrive in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Tour for maybe one week.

Thursday, August 30 leave Ulaanbaatar. I’ll be traveling for maybe three weeks on the Tran-Siberian Railway visiting some of the cities and sites along the way to Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Popular stopping places seem to be the cities of Ulan-Ude (“where Russian and the Buryat ethnic minority cultures mingle”, and Irkutsk (an important rail junction) near Lake Baikal, the “Pearl of Siberia”.

Then it will be on to Tomsk; “Siberia’s likable city” (Lonely Planet) and home to Siberia’s “wooden lace” architecture; Novosibirsk, and Omsk then over the Ural Mountains heading toward Yekaterinburg (the cultural and economic capital of the Urals).

Thursday, September 20 (just a guess at this point): arrive Helsinki, Finland on a seven hour train trip from St. Petersburg, Russia.

I am thinking that I will travel from Finland to Rostock, Germany and then on the Paris (maybe via Berlin or Hamburg) for which I may allow a week.

Thursday, September 27: arrive Paris! Stay in Paris maybe ten days? Greg?

Sunday, October, 7 arrive LAX a complete guess at this time but which would be about two months from the time I land in Osaka.

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Westbound -- Calif. to Paris: Summer 2007 http://stewartspivak.blogspot.com/

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