3RD ISSUE - DECEMBER 2008

MARLOW NEWSLETTER

Dec 2008 3rd Issue

Contents

Pages

Letter from the Chairman

2-3

Message from the Editorial Team

The Winners of the Photo Contest

Introduction to Recruitment Offices

6-19

Social Events in Cyprus & Elsewhere

20-23

Developments in Ukraine

24-27

Training

28-30

Marine Stories

31-33

Colleagues Working on board

34-35

Ship at Work

36-37

Watch Giving - 10 Years

38

Long Serving Seamen

39-43

Features

44-48

Dear friends and colleagues,

3rd Issue Dec 2008

Describing the past year as eventful could be considered as the understatement of the
year! Rather 2008 can be compared to a rollercoaster ride on a personal, company and
finally on a global level.

The first months of the year saw shipping recovering

from a small dip in trade and scaling new, previously

unprecedented heights. The economic boom situ-

ation continued as it had in years before and with

it came increased costs of living leading us to re-

consider our wage scales earlier than previously

planned.

The continued weakness of the US Dollar was an-

other reason why we had to move quickly to ensure

the satisfaction of our Ukrainian and Russian crews

and in early summer the decision to convert all wages

for these seamen into Euro was taken. Shortly after having

convinced all our clients, that this change was a necessary financial

burden, the unexpected strengthening of the US Dollar meant that all plans to convert
the wages had to be given up. In order to ensure that the increase of salaries would indeed lead to enhanced benefits and standards of living, it was decided to maintain the US
Dollar currency and increase the salaries.

If the new found strength of the US Dollar can be said to have caught us off guard, then

the following worldwide economical crisis pretty much knocked us off our feet! To see
the global economy imploding in such a short period of time has been a truly shocking
experience and has affected each and every one of us.

Already many ships are without employment and increasing numbers of crew are being
laid off while vessels are being laid up. In the past we have always stressed Marlows size
and the job security gained herewith as a major benefit to the seafarers employed with us.

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It therefore comes as no surprise that alternative employment was found for all crews affected by such lay ups without any delay. In fact, Marlow expects also the year 2009 to be

a year of further growth. Over the past 27 years all of you have helped build a strong and

stable company. A company which now, in times of difficulty, is well prepared to weather
the coming ups and downs and provide adequate employment conditions, job security and
prosperity to you and your families!

However, with all due optimism, we cannot ignore the fact that we all would not be in such

a comfortable situation were it not for the continued trust and support of our clients, the

ship owners. It can also not be ignored that the financial turmoil, the slowdown in trade

and the drastically reduced charter hires affect many of them in a much more direct manner. In such times they rely on their crew to ensure that the vessels continue to give ex-

cellent service to the charterers and the ships are maintained and operated in the most
prudent and economical way possible. There can be no doubt that their success, or lack
thereof, in the coming years will directly affect our own situation and it is therefore without question that we will all have to work even harder and live up to our responsibilities
and contribute in the difficult times lying ahead of us.

Finally it gives me great pleasure to be able to tell you that although Marlow was involved

in two piracy and ransom cases off the coast of Somalia this year, the assistance of our

clients had meant that these cases could be solved without injury and all crews are at
home with their families for the festive season.

It is in this spirit that I would like to thank all of you for the cooperation and efforts
shown during the past 12 months and wish you a merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year.

Hermann Eden

Chairman

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M e s s a g e F r o m T h e E d i t o r i a l Te a m

e would like to just take a mo-

as probably most of you left your cameras

foremost reason of this publication. It

ipate, we would like to clarify that the

ment to mention once again the

was to communicate with you, the seafarers,

and to keep you informed and a little bit

amused about what has been going on in

the previous six months in our company

and our industry as a whole. We believe
that in some small measure we are on the

right track, but, we also need to have your

participation. So, while you are reading

at home! As an added incentive to partic-

price for the four placed winners will be

digital cameras in the value of 250.00

each. Please send to email address:

newsletter@marlow.com.cy or by post
to our full style address (see back cover

page), with a short description and your

details.

this issue, if you have something to sug-

The editorial team would also like to take

let us know.

you.

gest or contribute, please dont hesitate to

this opportunity to introduce ourselves to

In this issue we will continue to introduce

the structure of our associated offices in
Germany, Russia and Poland.

We will also introduce the Crew Accounts

and the Travel Departments of our

Cyprus operations.

In the last issue we announced that we

were implementing a photo competition.

From left to right: Nesta Nicola, Andreas Neophytou &

Alexandra Zodo

We have had a moderate response, and we

suspect that we caught you all off guard

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The Winners of the Photo Contest

e would like to congratulate the four winners of the photo contest. To collect
your prize get in touch with your manning agency. So come on, keep those
photos coming in!
Joint effort
1st Winner: Capt. Peter Beke

Even at sea you can create a work

of art
2nd Winner: Cook Jovilito N. Candia

A hard days work of lashing

3rd Winner: 2/Off Raymundo G. Elizario
Win or loose is not a matter of their
game on board. Its the friendship,
no matter what nationality they are,
the best thing is they earned more
happiness onboard
4th Winner: 3/off Rollen Camayudo

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Introduction to Recruitment Offices

Marlow Navigation Cyprus

Crew Operations Department

n the previous issue we began to introduce the Crew Operations Section

of the Crew Department. In this issue we

will continue by introducing further sec-

ances are paid to the seafarers bank accounts. They keep control and inform all

relevant parties of any balances in the accounts (i.e : crew member, manning

agents and crew superintendent as

applicable).

tions of the department in the Cyprus of-

Allotments

and the Travel section.

For the seafarers who are at sea, one of

Crew Accounts Section

have the confidence that their wages are

fice, by mentioning the Crew Accounts

The crew accounts section is an integral

part of the crew department and operates
in close cooperation with the crew operations.

The crew accounts section is divided into

three functions:

Crew Wage Accounts

Crew Allotments
Cash to Master

Crew Wage Accounts

The function of this section is to check

wage accounts and control the balances

that are sent to the seafarers on board the
vessels in good time, and that final bal-

the most important matters for them is to

paid well in time and that allotment instructions regarding their salaries are carried out without any delays. It is of

utmost importance for them to know that

their families are receiving the money and

therefore not experiencing any financial

problems. These are the important tasks

of this section.

Cash to Master
Crew accounts section is also responsible

for checking and controlling cash to

Master requests. They also handle vari-

ous payments to port agents or clients

concerning expenses incurred by the ship

which are paid by the Master, as well as

follow-up procedures for the payment

instructions through banks.

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Herein below you will find the organogram of the section together with the
photos of the key persons with a short introduction.
Crew Accounts
Manager

Crew Wages
Accounts

Crew Allotments

Cash to Master

Crew Wage
Accounts

Crew Allotment

Supervisor

Supervisor

Crew Accounts

Crew Accounts

Crew Accounts

Operator

Operator

Operator

Crew Accounts

Crew Accounts

Crew Accounts

Crew Accounts

Assistant

Assistant

Assistant

Secretary

Andreas Nicolaou
Crew Accounts Manager

George Charalambous
Crew Accounts Manager

Andreas Nicolaou joined Marlow in 1989,

already having a shipping background of
many years and holds the position of
Head of Crew Accounts section. He is a
Cypriot national and is married with four
children and one grandson.

George Charalambous, is a relatively

new member of staff in the Company
and joined us in 2007 as a Crew Acounts
Manager. We are fortunate that he also
has many years of experience in the
shipping industry. He is a Cypriot national and is married.

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Travel Department

Christos Attipas

Crew Accounts Supervisor

Christos Attipas has been with the Com-

pany since 1993. He started his career

with Marlow within the Crew Accounts

section and is presently Crew Accounts

Supervisor. He is a Cypriot national and
is married with two children.

Costas Poullis

Crew Allotments Supervisor

Costas Poullis has been working for Mar-

low since 1994 and is presently a Crew

Allotment Supervisor. He is a Cypriot national and is single.

The Travel Department consists of the

manager of the department and 10 travel
assistants who are responsible for booking flights for seafarers, both on-signers
and off-signers. The crew operations
section works very closely with them,
requesting flight options, according to the
crew changes that they are working on.
Although a substantial amount of the department resources are devoted to crew
operations, they are also responsible for
dealing and booking all other necessary
flight arrangements for the management
and any other member of staff that need
to travel on business for the
Company.

Despo Alexandrou
Travel Manager

Despo Alexandrou is one of many long

serving

employees

and

has

been

employed by Marlow since 1992 in the

Travel Department.

She is Cypriot

national and is married with two grown

up children, a daughter and son.

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Marlow Navigation - Gdynia

e would first like to take the time

and give a short history of how

Marlow Navigation Gdynia Ltd, was established.

1989 - Marlow first made contact with

Polish seafarers through C&T, who provided agency services not only for Marlow

but

also

for

several

shipmanagement companies.

other

2002 - Marlow realized early on that in

order to establish a pool of seamen to

meet the needs of their clients it was necessary to open an office that would

Wlodzimierz Kisiel

CT

Serve

/Marlow

Navigation

Gdynia Ltd is headed by Mr. Michal Wis-

niewski as Managing Director & Crew Superintendent who sailed with Marlow
Navigation as Nautical officer and was
two years as crew superintendent assigned
to Marlow Navigation Limassol.

devote all their efforts to their companys

needs, and in that respect CT Serve Ltd,
was established.

2005 CT Serve Ltd was renamed

Marlow Navigation Gdynia Ltd and from
the beginning both companies were run
by ex Marlow personel as follows:

C&T / CT Serve by Mr. Wlodzimierz

Kisiel who sailed with Marlow Navigation

as chief engineer between 1989/1990 and

is presently Deputy Manager & Crew Superintendent.

Michael Wisniewski

While we are looking for Marlow Navigation first seafarers, - Poland is the place
where they can be easily found. Polish

Officers and Ratings have been employed

since 1980 by Marlow Navigation. It is for

this reason that the majority of Polish seafarers are Officers at Management level.

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We do believe that we offer excellent

we are confident that the actions taken

source of highly qualified professionals.

that the figures will soon increase.

training possibilities and will remain a

In 2004, Poland entered the European

Community. The country as a whole experienced the accepted upheavals and

changes, and the shipping industry as a

whole was no exception. Although we can

now see that this has had a positive effect

on the seafarers profession, we experienced the benefits as well as the disad-

vantages and have had to adapt

accordingly.

The number of Polish seamen employed

by Marlow Navigation dropped slightly

lately will attract seafarers again, hoping

Seafarers who are looking for a position

can access us on the internet; we established our web site in 2005, where applications for employment can be made on

line, making it easy for seamen wherever

they may be in Poland or elsewhere to
apply for positions or simply to make enquiries. Even though we use other meth-

ods to communicate with our seamen,

personal contact has always been the
approach by all Marlow agencies.

during the first years of EU accession, but

Marlow Navigation Gdynia team . From left to right M.Wisniewski , M.Luba , A.Grabowska , K.Wisniewska , E.Wojczakowska ,
W.Kisiel

Article Provided by -

Michael Wisniewski MN POLAND

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Marcrew Schiffahrts GmbH

he first Company established in

Germany as a representative office

of Marlow Navigation Co. Ltd was

Marserve Schiffahrts GmbH in 1991. In

January 1996 Capt. Michael Spiewok became Managing Director and the company moved to its new premises at the
Khlbrandtreppe, right at the river Elbe,

where it remained for more than 10 years.

In 1999 the German tonnage tax system
was implemented. To take advantage of

the benefits of this fiscal incentive certain

activities, including crew and technical

management, have to be performed from

Germany. For this reason and to be closer

to our client base 1999 saw the establishment of Marcrew Schiffahrts GmbH. In
2004 the scope of services was further ex-

panded to include full and technical man-

agement, which is taken care of by the

company Marlow Ship Management
Deutschland GmbH & Co.KG.

Frank Homann took over the management of Marcrew Schiffahrts GmbH in

January of 2006, when Capt. Michael

Spiewok retired. In 2007 the services pre-

viously offered by Marserve were taken

over by Marcrew in the newly established
Marcrew Agency Department.

January 2006 also saw the number of office employees increasing to 22 persons,
including two trainees.

The Khlbrandtreppe premises became

too small for the fast growing activities of
Marcrew.

The management therefore decided to

find a new office with more room to expand and in October 2006 new combined
offices for Marcrew and Marlow Ship
Management Deutschland GmbH & Co.

KG were found located only a few hundred meters away only from its original
location.

Services
Marcrew Schiffahrt offers a variety of
services related to crew management.

Our agency department offers a 24hrs

service to all vessels managed by the Mar-

low Group of Companies. This service

includes all activities to make sure a sea-

man employed by Marlow Navigation

worldwide will safely embark or disembark his designated vessel in Germany.
Frank Homann - Managing Director

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Starting with the application of the visa

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MarCrew Schiffahrts GmbH

Managing Director

Registered
Manager Agency

Superintendent

Registered
Manager Financial

Crew Personnel
Manager

Teamassistant
Operation

Agent

Agent

Crew Operator

Personnel
Administration

Crew Secretary

Personnel
Administration

Accounts-Manager
Controlling

Bank Dpt/
Debtor / Creditor

Salary
Accounts

P&I / Manning

Crew Secretary

Agency Department

Crew Operations

Financial / Accounting

for his embarkation, the agency depart-

Our German personnel administration

change. This includes that somebody will

the accounting of seafarers under Ger-

ment guarantees for a smooth crew

meet the crew at the airport, that German
documents and licenses are arranged

and finishes with the safe transport to the

vessel. Furthermore the Agency department arranges cash to master, medical

treatment in case necessary here in Ger-

many and the delivery of working clothes

for all German ports. The agency depart-

ment shall as well offer a direct link for

the seafarer for any questions they might

have to their employment. We see the sea-

farers of Marlow Navigation as our colleagues. Feel free to contact our staff
whenever they board your vessel.

department offers all services related to

man flag. The German flag has always

played a special role in international ship-

ping. The German registry is renowned

for being home to mostly modern ton-

nage however it also has the reputation

of being a difficult flag. Seamen employed on board these vessels need to be

administrated very carefully in order to

comply with the high demands of this

flag. Our personnel administration de-

partment is offering their services to our

clients in order to make the administra-

tion easier for them and to give support

with their profound knowledge for the

German taxation and social system.

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Crewing has always been the core activity

offices allowing us to have the latest in-

fers all crewing services as per the re-

for a career with us and vacancies avail-

of Marcrew. Our crewing department ofquirements of the German tonnage tax

regulations, and is the link between the

client and the officers onboard.

Our aim is to find the right seaman for the

right vessel. With our worldwide data-

formation available on seamen looking

able on our fleet. In case you are not yet
sailing with us, contact our local manning

agent or us here in Hamburg directly

wherever you are and let us have your
application.

base we are connected to all Marlow

Today Marcrew and Marlow Ship Management have in total 43 employees

including 4 Trainees.

Article Provided by -

Frank Homann - MARCREW

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Marlow Ship Management

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Deutschland GmbH & Co.KG - MSD

n January of 2004, Marlow Ship
Management Deutschland GmbH &

Co. KG or MSD as it is more frequently

referred to, was incorporated.

It is actually fair to say that, except for

crew management, which for all vessels

is of course with Marlow / Marcrew,

and chartering activities, MSD takes care

of nearly all matters which the ships in
our management may encounter.

The first step is usually sending out the

responsible superintendent to the yard a

few weeks prior to the scheduled take

over of the new buildings. It is his

responsibility that all the owners interests

are taken up and that both the vessel and
her crew are ready for the challenges to

come. Simultaneously the office is workMarlow Ship Management Deutschland - Interior Office

It is easiest to compare MSD to a German

technical management department of a

shipowning company. On a day to day
basis MSD is bestowed by it clients with

the management of currently 17 con-

tainer vessels ranging in size from 500

TEU to 1200 TEU nominal capacity. Our
clients are various German Ship owners
who for different reasons do not want to

be involved in the operational manage-

ment of some or all of their vessels.

Even though often referred to as techni-

cal management the scope of service offered is much broader than only the
supervision of the vessels technical dealings.

ing on the registration of the vessel in the

German register and designated bareboat
register accordingly.

After the vessel has been delivered and

fixed into the charter, our day to day job

of effectively running the vessel in close

cooperation with the owners begins. Ad-

ditionally to monitoring the vessels tech-

nically, assisting should there be any

problems and arranging for the necessary

supplies and spares to be ordered and de-

livered, we also insure the vessels, liaise

with charterers, prepare quarterly man-

agement reports for our clients and support both the vessel and the owners in
case of insurance claims.

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Michael Eden

Jens Maddey

Michael Eden joined MSD in July of 2006

Jens Maddey joined MSD in January of

tion Co. Ltd. in Limassol between 2003

Navigation Co. Ltd. in Limassol between

Managing Director

after already working for Marlow Navigaand 2006. He started his career in 1996
with a Chartering Service Company

where he trained to be a certified shipping

merchant. After this, his studies led him

to the Southampton Institute from where

he graduated with a BSc in Shipping Operations in 2001. Later that year he took

up his employment as Assistant Fleet

Manager with a reputable shipping com-

pany in Hamburg. In 2003 his career path

led back to Cyprus where he grew up and

now worked in various departments of

Marlow, Cyprus preparing him for taking

over MSD in 2006.

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Fleet Manager

2007 after already working for Marlow

2001 and 2006. He started his seagoing
career in 1986. He graduated with a MSc.

Eng in 1997. In 2001 his career path directed him to Cyprus where he worked as
technical superintendent of the technical

department of Marlow. Since 2007 he is

working as fleet manager for MSD in
Hamburg.

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Pawel Zawadski joined MSD in Septem-

ber 2007 after working for Marlow Navi-

gation Co. Ltd. as seagoing staff since

2002. He started his seagoing career in
1993 and graduated with a MSc.Eng in
1993.
Johann Bohlen

Technical Superintendent
Johann Bohlen joined MSD in April of

2007 after working with other reputable

Cyprus based ship management company
from 1995 to 2006 as technical superin-

tendent and fleet manager. He started his

seagoing career in 1981 and graduated

with a MSc. Eng in 1990.

Heiko Ha

Technical Superintendent
Heiko Ha joined MSD in September
2007 after working from 1999 for the
German Government Department of

Defence. He started his seagoing career in

1988 and graduated with a MSc. Eng in
1997.

Pawel Zawadski

Technical Superintendent

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Matthias Kreutzfeldt, DPA / CSO /

Nautical Superintendent

Niels Pedersen
Purchasing Manager

Matthias Kreutzfeldt started with Marlow

Navigation Co. Ltd. in Limassol in 2005
and later took up his position as the Head
of the Agency department of Marcrew
Schiffahrts GmbH in Hamburg. Since
August 2008 he is Marine Superintendent
and Quality Coordinator at MSD. He
started his seagoing career in 1988 graduating in 1993 with a Master of Education
(M.Ed) and sailed as master until 1996.

Niels Pedersen joined MSD in June 2007

after working with a German based shipping company. He started his career as a
ship chandler in Hamburg in 1993.

Below is the organogram of MSD

Managing Director

DPA
CSO
Quality
Coordinator
Environmental
Management
Representative
Fleet Manager
Accountant

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Purchasing
Manager

Superintendent

Purchaser

Assistant

Article Provide by -

Michael Eden - MSD

Marlow Navigation Russia

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lanet Crewing Agency was first established in Rostov-on-Don in 2001.

The companys principle aim was to create

a network of offices in the largest Russian

seaports to provide qualified seafarers to

shipping companies. From the very beginning Marlow Navigation Cyprus was
Planet Crewing Agencys sole client. As a
result of such a close cooperation the of-

fice in St. Petersburg was opened to serve

St. Petersburg and Kaliningrad with

branches in Nizhniy Novgorod, Petrozavodsk and Arkhangelsk.

Our activities in this area are duly certi-

fied by the Ministry of Transport of the

Russian Federation. Our ISO Policy sat-

isfies the requirements of international

conventions relating to recruitment and
placement of seafarers onboard and re-

flects the needs of our customers for

transparent recruitment processes.

additional manning requirements.

Accurate system of Pre-departure Ori-

igation Russia to better reflect the busi-

running for our seafarers ensuring up to

In 2006 Planet was renamed Marlow Navness corporate identity.

entation Seminars are established and are

date knowledge in regards to the latest industry requirements.

Our services cover the full range of manning / recruitment including:

Screening/interviewing and proposing

marine candidates to our principals

Marlow Navigation Russia Office

Marlow Russia continues to provide qual-

ified Russian seafarers to the industry and

its collective expertise ensures proper selection and recruitment. Marlow Russia

currently has offices in Rostov-on-Don,

Training In-house Training of sea-

farers training needs (identified either dur-

ing pre-selection or during employment)

Visa application, courier service,

delivery

Flag State Documents application

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Traveling (domestic) with utilization of

third party companies

Supply of working gear

Our pre-selection procedures are clear

and transparent for seafarers and consist

of initial assessment of verbal English
language ability; computer based English
tests which are followed by structured
interviews.

We provide training and upgrading should

any deficiencies be identified during onboard evaluation and pre-departure train-

ing in accordance and in line with the

corporate policy of Marlow Navigation.

All seafarers handled through our offices

will receive individual and group briefings
and training covering all aspects of sea-

manship to maintain the highest standard

of qualifications and thus continue to

provide appropriate tailor-made solutions.

Ideally our successful applicants are offered proposals for employment directly
on completion of

the recruitment

process. Our Staff within the Crew Department consists mainly of experienced
ex seafarers.

Oleg Shabotin - Managing Director

We constantly aim to promote our Company and our Customers by advertising in

all local media as well as using PR materi-

als to attract potential new seafarers. We

are in the process of expanding our net-

work in Russia in Samara and other key

areas.

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Dmitry Ablogin - Corporate Development Officer

Article Provided by -

Oleg Shabotin - MN RUSSIA

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Social Events in Cyprus & Elsewhere

Below are several photos of social outings and gatherings of Marlow Cyprus and other
Marlow offices which took place within the last six months.
Marlow Navigation Cyprus

Marlow Cyprus participating in the Day of the Sea organized by the Cyprus
Shipping Chambers (CSC) for charity.

A summer excursion - Hiking Event arranged by Marlow colleagues.

Beach Volley Tournament 2008.

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In July, Marlow Cyprus had a family day out at the Water Park and as you can see from
the photos young and old had a wonderful day.

Photos of the Beach Party Chocolate Cake eating competition and an evening out
for the winners.

An evening out with Marlow employees for the Wine Festival.

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Marlow Navigation Philippines

Every year Marlow Navigation Phils. Inc. participates in an Annual Teambuilding activity divided into four groups, where all the Managers and Team members compete
between themselves.

Green team received their cash prize for 400-meter Baton relay & Volleyball.

Badminton
competition
between
Blue team and
Yellow team.

Opening ceremony in which team

members take the oath of
sportsmanship.

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Marlow Ship Management Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG - MSD

&
Marcrew Schiffahrt GmbH

Both Marlow Ship Management Deutschland and Marcrew Schiffahrts participated in

the HSH Nordbank Run 2008. All proceeds went to charity. Below is a photo of the Marlow Germany Team.

A night out for bowling organized by

MSD & Marcrew.

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Developments in Ukraine

he past months have seen a variety

of activities in the Ukraine, Mar-

lows 2nd largest recruitment and training

area.

Odessa
The office space in Odessa has been en-

1st senior officer seminar in Odessa

larged to give space to more operational

New office in Kiev

conference hall adjacent to the old con-

Due to the increased volume of recruited

ference halls were used to hold the 1st

to new enlarged premises within the next

staff and to accommodate another large

ference hall. Upon completion both consenior officer seminar in Odessa on the

same platform as seminars previously

seafarers the office in Kiev will also move

few weeks.

held in Manila. The seminar was well at-

English upgrading training pilot project

sions. All participants considered it a great

Since we face increased customer com-

peat the seminars in Odessa as well as in

rope are not speaking sufficient English,

tended and triggered very lively discussuccess and it is therefore planned to re-

Manila in regular intervals of 2 to 3

months. The next seminar for Odessa is
planned for the 2nd of December.

plaints that seafarers from Eastern Euthe main offices in Russia and Ukraine in
cooperation with their branch offices will

select suitable English training facilities lo-

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cally where the seafarers will be given the

Dniepr river. Our Joint Managing direc-

ing their holidays free of charge. Should

dress the crowd of more than 10.000

opportunity to upgrade their English dur-

this pilot project be successful, it will be

implemented in other locations as well.

tor Andreas Neophytou was invited to adguests of the ceremony.

Activities in Kherson
In Kherson, 250 km east of Odessa
where Marlow has a special cooperation
agreement with the Kherson state mar-

itime institute the last months have seen a

major enlargement of activities. The

agreement with KSMI was renewed in

August for the academic year 2009, the

company has committed to increase its intake of cadets from 90 to 120 per year

and has increased its support for the institute considerably. In an action week beginning October the students of the

nautical, engineering and electrical engi-

Capt. Wekenborg addressing cadets at KSMI

In order to support the increased activi-

ties in Kherson the local Marlow office

across from the Institute is being enlarged
and renovated. A specially appointed liai-

son officer will take care of cadet affairs

supported by training superintendents

and administrative staff. A computer lab
has been installed for 14 work stations.

neering faculty were gathered in several

meetings to receive information and clar-

ification about the company and its training concepts. Furthermore the teachers
were addressed and the parents of the

first year students prior to the annual stu-

dent inauguration ceremony along the

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New computer lab in the Kherson office

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Annual Student Inauguration Ceremony

Andreas Neophytou addressing the college faculty, guests, cadets and their families

Cadets Inauguration

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Marching

Presenting the wreath representing the lives of sailors lost at sea

Marching proudly through the streets of Kherson

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Article Provided by Capt. Walter Wekenborg MN CYPRUS

3rd Issue Dec 2008

Tr a i n i n g
Competence Management and Self
Sufficiency

n times of dwindling resources for

crew managers, companies have to
map out clearly their strategies on how
they want to make sure they can man the
vessels under their management in the future. Companies have to address in their
strategy very clearly quantity and quality.
To find new sources of seafarers seems to
be almost impossible; companies have
turned every stone in search for undiscovered riches. The once praised Chinese
card has been tried and found by many
not as rewarding as it promised to be.
When even Chinese shipping companies
start recruiting in the Philippines, the last
one who believed in Chinese seafarers as
the solution out of the manning crisis,
must get his doubts.
Short Term Solutions
As a short term solution, there is always
the possibility to poach officers from others and lure them with higher pay, thus
contributing to the never ending monetary upward spiral of remuneration.
Lately fringe benefits to the salary package seem to make the rounds in terms of
continuous pay, pension funds, housing
funds, family funds, seniority awards etc,
indicating very clearly that it has become

a buyers market. The seafarer has the ultimate choice. Companies present themselves in the best of lights to attract
seafarers. Marketing activities in the past
mainly directed towards the ship owner/
manager now discover the seafarer as the
target audience. Qualified seafarers have
become the critical factor that determines
the growth or decline of a shipping company.
What attracts and retains seafarers?
It is not surprising that in times like these,
shipping companies rediscover the value
of breeding their own officers, mapping
out career plans for prospective officers,
from the cadet stage to master and chief
engineer. And in times of attractive
freight rates money is available to finance
such plans. But there are obstacles on the
way and the sins of the past come back to
haunt us, schools and academies do not
produce enough qualified cadet material
to satisfy demand, vessels are lacking
berths to accommodate additional crew.
Senior officers lack competence or inclination to support cadets and assess their
competencies, administrative duties have
burdened the officers to such an extend
that they hardly find the time to address
training on board.
For a prudent company it appears that
there are no quick fixes in human resource management. When analyzing

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what attracts and retains seafarers with a

company it appears that basic values like
trust, consistency, job security are still
ranking rather high. As a ship owner will
only entrust his vessel to a master that
also inspires trust, most seafarers look for
a reliable partner whom they can trust.
Once the basic benefit package is on a
competitive level, we at Marlow believe
that once the demand for trust, consistency and job security are satisfied the seafarer looks for career advancement, a
dynamically growing company, attractive
living and working conditions on board
and company people that care for him,
that support his career advancement with
training, that understand him and communicate with him, that listen to him and
give him valuable advice be it in professional matters or private / family matters.

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At Marlow Navigation we are blessed

with a team of people that realize the
needs of the seafarer and our seafarers
notice and honor this commitment.
Consistency and perseverance are the keys
In order to keep it that way, we carefully
look and listen for signs of disagreement
or discontent and watch complaint levels
as well as retention rates. The striving to
improve our service is felt on board and
ashore. We do not expect any sudden upwards shifts in retention rate, every percentage point has to be earned by hard
work from the entire team. Consistency
and perseverance are the keys.

3rd Issue Dec 2008

In order to secure quality and competence

of crew, the Management team supports
the consistency with vision and a careful
growth strategy facilitating the necessary
investments into training infrastructure,
seafarers training activities and career development both by the company itself as
well as its clients. The company started a
training fund to finance the training activities. This training fund, filled by voluntary contributions of the companys
clients has grown from a thin trickle of
dollars to substantial amounts over the
last 10 years. Again consistency and perseverance are the keys, delivering added
training value to the seafarers working on
our clients vessels.
Provides for training in own facilities
Training activities are clearly designed to
accelerate career advancement and a competence management system provides
guidance, and checks at critical points that
the required competence is achieved. The
required competencies include statutory
requirements as well as specific customer
requirements and company specific requirements. For competencies that are not
part of the national curricula, the company provides training in its own training
facilities and recruitment agencies.
A high level of self sufficiency indicates a
healthy crew manager
Once the quality requirements have been
satisfied the strategy how to man the vessels under management in the future has

to address self sufficiency - breeding as

many qualified officers out of companys
rank and file as possibly needed. As a positive side effect we have seen that a higher
self sufficiency ratio gives you higher retention rates. Cadets or ex-cadets and extrainees simply have the tendency to stay
with the company. They have seen that
the company invests in them and they pay
it back in loyalty.
We believe that the self sufficiency ratio given a steady environment is a performance indicator with more scope that
requires more vision than the retention
rate alone. The focus on self sufficiency
includes careful planning of future demands, selection, retention, support and
training, competence management and
career counseling. A high level of self sufficiency could be considered as an indicator how healthy a crew manager is and
how far the company is prepared to manage the human resource challenges of the
future. Being to a large extend independent of available qualified officers in the recruitment market will benefit quality and
competence levels, and is a concept that
all stakeholders in the industry should appreciate, ship owners and seafarers, not to
mention insurance companies.

Article Provided by Capt. Walter Wekenborg MN CYPRUS

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Dec 2008 3rd Issue

Marine Stories

MARINE STORIES

The Stranded Seaman

ne would think that the heading

alone would lead to an adventurous
story of a great happening. However, this
is a simple encounter in a normal day onboard a VLCC sailing from the Persian
Gulf to Europe.
Usually during such long voyages, when
the vessel is fully loaded and no other
technical maintenance can be done on
deck, good weather and time are used to
maintain the decks and accommodation
areas in perfect condition and apply fresh
paint where necessary. This particular
voyage, it was decided to paint all the
main decks of the tanker. The piping, fittings and angled structures were first to
be painted using spray guns and the
straight decks were left to be well cleaned,
washed down with fresh water and
painted with paint rollers.
The day was beautiful; sunny, dry air, temperatures at mid twenties, in other words
an ideal day for painting. The Chief Offi-

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cer decided to have as much of the

14,000 m2 covered as possible, so he
offered a job and finish to the deck
hands. All deck hands were out on the job
and rolling the paint away at their
allocated portions of decks.
The captain was on his daily noon bridge
visit, enjoying the fresh air at the wing and
at the same time absorbing with satisfaction the clean looks of the decks ahead of
him. He then spotted one of the deck
hands at the far forward deck standing,
looking around helpless and raising his
hands in despair. To appraise the situation
better, the Captain went inside the bridge
and picked up a pair of binoculars. When
he focused on the seaman, he could not
believe what he was seeing. The seaman
was standing in a spot holding the paint
roller with the long helper. A pot of paint
was in front of him and as it appeared, he
was trying to find a way out of a trap he
has created.
The seaman has painted a vast piece of
deck in concentric circles, eventually
stranding himself in a small circle. Now
he could not leave the spot by just walking on wet paint. Alas! The bosun would
strangle him if he dared leave his footprints on the fresh paint.
Did our clever seaman wait until the paint
was dry or did he simply walk out on the
wet paint? Or did someone come to his
rescue? Anything is possible.

Semaphore Signals

3rd Issue Dec 2008

During the early sixties a young gentleman, just after graduating from his High
School, joined a general cargo ship at
Marseille in the capacity of Deck Cadet.
The youngster had no seafaring or nautical school background and actually knew
nothing about a ship. Consequently for
him this was the first time he ever traveled abroad.
He presented his papers and letters of introduction to the Chief Officer, who welcomed him onboard, briefed him on his
future duties, highlighted to him the DOs
and the DONTs and directed him to his
accommodation. He was instructed to
take a rest for the remaining day, settle
down and get acquainted with his surroundings, the safeties, meal hours, etc
and report for work at 8:00 am sharp the
next morning at the Deck Office.
So, the youngster reported at the Deck
Office five minutes to eight and to his
amazement the Chief Officer turned up
at 8:30 am. Shortly afterwards the Bosun
appeared and the cadet was instructed to
go along with him and work under him
till further notice.

Two weeks passed since he has joined and

finally the vessel completed her cargo operations and set sail for her remaining itinerary to ports like Livorno, Barcelona,
Valencia, New York, Veracruz, Houston,
New Orleans, Miami, and back to Europe. The Bosun did not lose much time
in giving tasks to the youngster, amongst
other, the cleaning of crew toilets, clean-

ing of paint brushes, arrangement of

ropes and wires at the forecastle store, etc.

There was, however, the privileged task as

well. The cadet was designated the task of
learning the Semaphore code in order to
be ready to send a semaphore message to
the Gibraltar Signaling Station when they
cross westbound in a few days and was
asked to report to the 3rd Officer to get
the Code and the semaphore flags. The
practice, of course, would have to be after
working hours.
The young cadet felt excited to be entrusted to such an important task and engaged himself in serious learning of the
semaphore signaling.

The big day came when the cadet was

called upon to carry out his important
task. Around midnight the Third Officer
rushed into the cadets cabin and noisily
awakened him shouting: Cmon boy, you
must hurry to the bridge. The ship is passing Gibraltar Strait in 30 minutes.
The lad hurried in his clothes and set off
to the bridge, holding the Semaphore
pendants. On entering the darkened
wheelhouse, the Second Officer received
him and immediately started giving him
instructions. He showed him the distance
flashing of Europa Point lighthouse and
explained to him that he has to position
himself at the anchor mast platform on
the forecastle and as soon as the vessel is
abreast of Europa Point lighthouse he
should start signaling the practiced text
(name of vessel, call sign, port of departure, destination and ETA).
The cadet rushed off to his task but not

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without his doubts about the whole scenario. He might have been ignorant of
maritime affairs but certainly not short of
intelligence since he has graduated from
a first class high school with honours. He
quickly then appreciated the situation and
decided that the whole affair smelt a rat.
He therefore exited the bridge from the
wing, climbed down the outside staircases
to the main deck and into a pitch dark
night, re-entered the accommodation and
hastily went up the inside staircase to his
deck and eventually to his cabin. He set
aside the semaphore flags, stripped again
and went to bed.

The cadet was awakened by the ships typhoon accompanied by loud voices
around the bridge area (which was on the
same deck as his cabin). Glancing at his
watch he registered that it was 4:00 am.
Since he was instructed by the Bosun not
to get involved in anything onboard unless he is expressly asked by his superiors
or summoned by an Emergency signal, he
curled his young body in his warm blankets and fell back to a deep sleep.
At around 4:45 am his door was opened
widely and the cadet jumped up to face a
frightened stare of the 2nd Officer.

It goes without saying what happened

after the cadet decided to use his better
intelligence and abandon the signaling
task. The 2nd Officer, being positive that
the cadet was at the forecastle, after some
time, sent the seaman on watch to call him
back. The seaman rushed back in panic
reporting that the cadet was nowhere to
be found at the forecastle. The 2nd Offi-

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cer in panic summoned the 3rd Officer

back on the bridge and after they have together assessed the situation, they have
concluded that the cadet must have possibly fallen overboard. They then decided
to call the Chief Officer for advice, who
decided to call the Master on the bridge
(who was not aware of the set up
arranged for the cadet).
The Master of course did what he had to
do after being convinced that he had a
man overboard two hours behind. He
went on the VHF calling Gibraltar signaling station and turned back the ship at opposite course with all search lights on and
the crew summoned for a search and rescue operation. It was at this point when
the 2nd Officer decided to sneak out of
the bridge and look into the cadets cabin,
hoping that no miracle will happen. But
as it was, the miracle happened and the
cadet was there staring at him in astonishment.
The results were not pleasant for the
learned deck officers and the bosun.
The Master took the cadets training
under his personal supervision from that
point onwards, in order to protect him
from the angry conspirators. As a matter of fact, he was secretly proud of the
young lad and he saw a great potential in
him in having a bright seafaring career. He
was right.
Lesson to be learned: Never underestimate other peoples intelligence.

Article Provided by Capt. Joseph Josephides MN CYPRUS

3rd Issue Dec 2008

Collea gues Wor king on board
Onboard Training Program for Crew

Operator Assistants

e have mentioned many times the

importance of training and surely
this does not only apply to seamen but
also to employees based ashore and more
specifically in this instance crew operations. In June this year a program was put
into motion that is directed at Crew Operator Assistants and more specifically to
all those assistants who do not have any
seagoing experience.
The program is entirely voluntary, but we
must say, that we were pleased to see how
many volunteers we had. The duration of
the stay is one week on board ships trading in our area. So far 19 persons from
our Limassol headquarters have been on
board and another 16 are waiting to go.
The program has been suspended for a
short period over the festive season and
also to wait for calmer seas.
Before signing on a briefing is given by
the In-House Training co-ordinator/Senior Operator and supplied them with an
Induction Check List & Program. The
purpose of this book is to help ensure
that they follow a structured program,
and further to make the best use of their
time on board, in order to gain
the desired knowledge.

Their experience while on their one week

voyage gives them a taste of what truly a
seamans life is all about. They observe at

first hand deck and engine operations, and

even take part in some of the daily work

on deck, in the engine room and to generally observe operations at port during

unloading and loading. Time was also

spent on the bridge with the master and

deck officers sometimes giving them

companionship during their bridge watch

duties. Sharing meals with all the crew

gave both sides the opportunity to discuss

the day to day issues that concern all seamen whatever their rank while on board.

All of this could not be done while in the

office and behind the computer.

Here are a few quotes that we have taken

from some of their reports, and also included some snap shots of the times they
had on board. We think it says it all

The main advantage was to see a wonderful seamanship and to act as a seaman
It was very helpful to see how the
bunkering procedure and even the ballast
taking procedure is carried out
I really admire seamen now because I
could not understand it being separated

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from the family several months especially

if you have a wife and children

One day we spent with the ratings on

deck, chipping the old rust from the deck
and painting it with new paint, this was a
hell of work and Im really happy to have
an office job

This experience has definitely been an

eye opener for me and it will surely help
me perform my work now even better as
I have a far greater understanding of the
shipping industry than I did before

In future if Ill receive any requests

from the ship for any reason, Ill immediately know what it means and how to
react
I want to thank Marlow for realizing
this unforgettable experience

Stefan Bajorat (right)

My embarkation gave me the opportunity to see the other side of the coin;

I think now I have a sphere picture of

shipping since we are just one part of this,
sitting behind a screen and keyboard

On board training & experience enriches our knowledge to shipboard environment and is to be considered a great
advantage to our work output and contribution

Juliana Eleftheriou (left) Constantinos Nestorides (center)

From my experience, I realized that it

takes a lot of patience, focus and dedication to be able to live the life of a seaman
Watching the seamen working as a
team, and observing how the chain of
command is strictly followed helped me
understand what it takes to be a seaman

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Evroulla Theodosiou (left) and Martha Kyriakou (right)

Article Provided by -

Maria Achillea - MN CYPRUS

3rd Issue Dec 2008

Ship at Wor k

ll Marlow seamen, are familiar with

ships visits that take place from

time to time by the superintendents. But,

it is unusual for a superintendent to stay

on board for ten days, as did Kuido

Naaber on the anchor handling tugboat

AHT Magnus (it is worth mentioning

that Kuido is an ex seafarer with the rank
of 2nd Officer).

The purpose of such a visit was for him

to familiarize himself with the general day
to day operations and to observe at close

quarters anchor handling and towing operations.

of the jack up platform Britannia. The

vessel sailed later on the same evening and

arrived at the location around midnight.

During the night, anchors and buoys were

discharged and stood by until next

evening when the bridle towing line to the
rig was connected and got underway to
the new location which was 100nm away.
When the tug arrived at the new location

the platform was fixed to prepositioning

and the vessel made ready for anchor

handling, a total of 3 anchors were deployed two Bruce type anchors from one

side of the vessel and 1 anchor from the

other side.

He joined the vessel in Den Helder on the

evening of the 19th of September, in

good time to participate in the rig move

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Operations were suspended for most

erations and feedback.

conditions and the vessels left for standby

hiy Ponomarenko and to all the crew for

of the next day due to worsening weather

outside the 500m zone.

During the

standby time the vessel operated in

Many thanks to the owners, to Capt. Serthe experience on AHT Magnus.

Dynamic Positioning (DP) mode for

greasing the towing wire.

Operations were resumed and the bridle

was connected, allowing the drilling rig to
heave itself to its final position by using

anchor lines (final distance from fixed

production rig installation approx 2 metres). All 3 anchors were recovered and
collected full equipment on deck for delivery back to Den Helder.

Kuido says that the trip was very benefi-

cial in getting a better understanding in regards to towing and anchor handling

operations, and a better understanding of

the equipment setup and the way of op-

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Article provided by -

Kuido Naaber - MN CYPRUS

3rd Issue Dec 2008

Wa t c h G i v i n g - 1 0 Ye a r s
10 year watch giving ceremonies continue
to take place whenever possible.
Here below you will find several photos
of seafarers receiving their watch which
we would like to share with you. You
may be familiar with some of them.

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Dec 2008 3rd Issue

Long Serving Seamen

ere below is the list of the Long

Serving Seamen who have completed between 13 - 17 years, calculating
minimum 2600 actual sea service days and
more.
NO. SURNAME

NAME

RANK

SAMSON

EDWIN

CAPT

ESER

NICANOR

COFF

2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25

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PHILIPPINES
CANEZAL
PEDREGOSA
VALENCIA
AGUILA

MOLANIDA
SUBITO

GUERNALDO
CABRERA

SEALONGO

DELOS SANTOS
CANALES JR.
MENDOZA
QUIJANO
SANTOS
TAYCO

BARTOLOME
CAUMBAN
ALFONSO

ZALDIVAR

MONASTERIO

GUINMAPANG
GABRIEL

DE GUZMAN

JOB

LEO

JOHN

DOMINGO
HENRY N.
MICHAEL

MONCHITO
PEDRO

LEONARDO
EDWIN

FELICITO
ALLEN

ROMMEL

ARMANDO
JAMES

JONATHAN
MODESTO
DANTE

ROLANDO
BOBBY

NELSON
JUAN

NELSON

CAPT

26

GARDOSE

ROY

2ENG

28

PILANTE

JONEL

2ENG

EDGAR

3ENG

27

29
30
31
32
33
34

COFF

35

COFF

37

COFF

39

COFF

36

COFF

38

2OFF
2OFF
2OFF
2OFF
2OFF
2OFF
2OFF
2OFF
2OFF
2OFF
2OFF
2OFF
2OFF

40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51

2ENG

52

2ENG

54

2ENG

53

2ENG

55

MARTIN

NOGRALES

BELANDRES
CARALDE
URFILLA

DELA ROSA
AMBUT

BARCENAS
ABELLO
RAFOLS

MILLARES
LOZADA

GONZAGA
LOCADO

TENORIO

ALMANON

CABARABAN
ESPOS

GASTADOR
MARAON

GILBUENA
WANILLO

SALCEDO
OROPEL

SERASPE
NILLES
AVILA

MONTILLA

ERNELITO DELA CRUZ 2ENG

CRISPIN.JR

ROBERTO

HERNANIE
LUISITO

EVENARD

SALVADOR
ROBERT

EPIFANIO
APOLLO

ROLANDO
ISAGANI
RENE

DANILO

ESMAEL B
MARVIN
JAIME

EDITO P

DENNIS ANTONIO
REYNALDO
ALREX
JIMMY
JOEL

GEORGE

RENANTE
ANGEL
GIL

2ENG

3ENG
3ENG
3ENG
3ENG
3ENG
3ENG
3ENG
ELEC
BSN
BSN
BSN
BSN
BSN
BSN
BSN
BSN
BSN
BSN
BSN
BSN
BSN
BSN
BSN
BSN
BSN

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SEVA

NICK

BSN

86

OPENIANO

JAY R

A/B

57

CARNABLE

NARCISO

BSN

87

PONTOY

ULYSSES

A/B

58

ARIESGADO

REYNALDO

BSN

88

BELINARIO

ARNEL

A/B

59

LOPEZ

VICTOR

BSN

89

ANCHETA

RUSTICO AGLIAM

A/B

60

BALORIO

NERIO

BSN

90

DE PABLO

HILARIO

A/B

61

SERVANDO

MEDEL

BSN

91

LORIA

EDWIN

A/B

62

PENARUBIA

EDGAR

BSN

92

EVASCO

HENRY

A/B

63

QUINTELA

ANTHONY

BSN

93

PERNALA

SESINANDO

A/B

64

PERDEGUERO

LEMUEL

BSN

94

SOTITO

LAURENCE K X

A/B

65

MANANSALA

ROEL

BSN

95

CRISOSTOMO

NILO

A/B

66

GAITAN

CESAR

BSN

96

MANZANO

LUIS

A/B

67

MONTINOLA

NOLI

BSN

97

TREYES

FRANCISCO

A/B

68

MACUROL

CARLITO JR.

BSN

98

ORTIZ JR.

APOLONIO

A/B

69

OSORIO

JERSON

BSN

99

BABIA

RENANTE

A/B

70

ELBANBUENA

MANUEL

KA/B

100 ZARASPE

FRANCISCO

A/B

71

DE PEDRO

GALILEO

KA/B

101 CORONA

CERNAN

A/B

72

SALDO

EMMANUEL

KA/B

102 MONTANO

JOSE BIMBO

A/B

73

CALUBIRAN

NOLI

KA/B

103 PACLAUNA

ROBERTSON

A/B

74

BUENAVENTURA SIMEON

KA/B

104 DAYAG

RONALDO

A/B

75

INCOGNITO

JOEBERT

KA/B

105 BALUYOT

GERONIMO

A/B

76

REYES

GAVINO P

A/B

106 FORTES

EDWIN

A/B

77

GUBAT

ADONIS

A/B

107 CADUNGOG

NICOLAS

A/B

78

AGUIRRE

AMADEO

A/B

108 NALUPA

RAMEL

A/B

79

LOPEZ

ARNOLD

A/B

109 GAMBOA

DANILO

A/B

80

BELIR

EDGARDO

A/B

110 CEA

FELOMINO

A/B

81

BEREBER

JOEY

A/B

111 GAMBOA

DIEGO

A/B

82

TANIONGON

DANILO

A/B

112 MORIENTE

SOCRATES

O/S

83

SALAVEREZ

ARTEMIO

A/B

113 APELANIO

DELECIO

O/S

84

REYES

JOHNNY Q

A/B

114 GARCIA

SALVADOR

O/S

85

BEDURIA

JOHN

A/B

115 AQUINO

ALVIN

O/S

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116 MARTIN

ANASTACIO

O/S

145 BERNAL

ZANDRO

OSCK

117 ALIPAT

ALEX

O/S

146 PATAPAT

RIZALINO

OSCK

118 CARINO

JOEGIE

O/S

147 MORILLO

RONALD

WIPR

119 ANDAYA

CLEMENTE

FITT

148 BALLENAS

MIGUEL

WIPR

120 DIZON

JOEY

FITT

149 VELASQUEZ

ERNESTO

CHCK

121 SANTOS

WILFREDO

FITT

150 CALMA

EMMANUEL

CHCK

122 GOMEZ R.

FERNANDO

OIL

151 PINEDA

RUEL

COOK

123 VEDAD

TONY

OIL

152 SANTOS

DANILO

COOK

124 VALLO

EDUARDO

OIL

153 TUASON

EMMANUEL

COOK

125 LITRERO

EDUARDO

OIL

154 DELFINO

SAL JR

COOK

126 MAGPUSAO

RENATO

OIL

155 IBO

OBET

COOK

127 RETITA

RICO

OIL

156 COLENDRA

ROLANDO

COOK

128 GARZON

JIMMY

OIL

157 ADVINCULA

ROGELIO M

COOK

129 SANCIO

RENATO

OIL

158 SEVILLE

FERNANDO III

COOK

130 NATOLLA

TEOFOLO

OIL

159 ALVAREZ

ARNOLD

COOK

131 NOBLEZA

CECILIO

OIL

160 CENIDOZA

SERGIO S

STWD

132 GAMIAO

MICHAEL

OIL

161 YUSON

GENARO

STWD

133 MENDOZA

JOFESON

OIL

162 PARMAN

RONNIE

2STW

134 SOURIBIO

ROLANDO

OIL

135 CABARLES

ROY

OIL

136 BANDIOLA

VENSIE

OIL

163 SZYMANSKI

JERZY

CAPT

137 DE LINO

JOVENAL JR

OIL

164 NOSEK

JAN

CAPT

138 GUILAB

BERNARD

OIL

165 WOJTKOW

JERZY

CAPT

139 TONO

GILBERT

OIL

166 NOWAK

JAN

CAPT

167 GARBACIAK

MIROSLAW

CAPT

140 GARDOSE

RIC

OIL

168 OLEKSY

JAROSLAW

CAPT

141 BRIONES

WESTPHAL

OIL

169 FRANKOWSKI

MAREK

CAPT

142 DAYON

JOSELITO

OIL

170 KAROLEWSKI

TOMASZ

CAPT

143 RAZ

DIEGO

OIL

171 SEROKA

ANDRZEJ

CAPT

144 ARDANA

EDWIN

OIL

172 POWCHOWICZ

KRZYSZTOF

CAPT

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TARASIUK

JAN

CAPT

200

JABKIEWICZ

MIROSLAW

A/B

174

GORGON

RYSZARD

CAPT

201

BOJANOWSKI

LESZEK

A/B

175

WINKOWSKI

MAREK

CAPT

202

POZDAL

KRZYSZTOF

A/B

176

NOWICKI

WOJCIECH

CAPT

203

LABUDA

KAZIMIERZ

ABCK

177

PELC

ZDZISLAW

COFF

204

WROBLEWSKI

RYSZARD

ABCK

178

LEWICKI

WOJCIECH

COFF

205

JAKS

WLADYSLAW

FITT

179

PRZYBYCINSKI

ANDRZEJ

1OFF

206

SZELAGIEWICZ

BOGUSLAW

FITT

180

KOWALSKI

MIECZYSLAW

CENG

207

TROJNAR

ANDRZEJ

OIL

181

WISNIEWSKI

KAROL

CENG

208

PASIERBSKI

ZBIGNIEW

OIL

182

PALOC

JOACHIM

CENG

209

MARCZUK

IGOR

OIL

183

DUCH

EDWARD

CENG

210

HEIMRATH

IRENEUSZ

OIL

184

WOJCIK

WALDEMAR

CENG

211

KOMOSINSKI

TOMASZ

OSCK

185

PLODZIEN

DAWID

CENG

212

ZAWADZKI

PIOTR

OSCK

186

WISNIEWSKI

JACEK EDMUND

CENG

213

PURZYCKI

MIECZYSLAW

OSCK

187

BIEGAJLO

JAN

CENG

214

KASZOREK

MIROSLAW

OSCK

188

CHMARO

PIOTR

CENG

215

JAZDOWSKI

RADOMYSL

OSCK

189

SZYCHOT

ANDRZEJ

CENG

216

MENDELSKI

HENRYK

OSCK

190

SADOWSKI

ROMUALD

CENG

217

PROSCINSKI

GRZEGORZ

OSCK

191

RAK

MIROSLAW

CENG

218

HOF

GRZEGORZ

CHCK

192

KUPCZAK

JOZEF

SENG

219

NOWAK

PIOTR

CHCK

193

KOTWAS

LESZEK

1ENG

220

BORSOW

ANDRZEJ

COOK

194

MORDACZ

KRZYSZTOF

2ENG

195

KAMINSKI

ZBIGNIEW

ELEC

196

TARNOWSKI

DARIUSZ

BSN

197

KORDALSKI

JOZEF

A/B

198

JAKSIM

TADEUSZ

199

KROL

ANDRZEJ

GERMANY
221

HELDT

LUTZ

CAPT

222

SCHOENING

PETER

CAPT

223

WILK

PETER

CAPT

224

MOKDAD

KAMAL

CAPT

A/B

225

SAEHLOFF

ALFRED

CAPT

A/B

226

HOPF

UWE

CAPT

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REMMERS

HANS-GERD

CAPT

228

STELLING

HANS

CAPT

229

GRAEBER

JUERGEN

CAPT

230

LOECK

HORST

CENG

231

BANDASCH

SIEGFRIED, RUDOLF

CENG

232

BUERKLE

JOHANN HEINRICH

CENG

233

TIETJEN

WERNER

CENG

234

WEISS

BRUNO CHRISTIAN

CENG

252

KORYATOV

YURIY

CAPT

235

SENGE

NORBERT

CENG

253

SHULEPA

OLEKSANDR

ELEC

236

SCHUETT

DIETER

CENG

254

FILIMONOV

SERHIY

BSN

FRANZ

CENG

TAHSINE AHMAD

CAPT

MICHAEL

CAPT

RUSSIA
248

PARINOV

GENNADY

CAPT

249

BORTNIKOV

YURIY

CAPT

250

KULYGIN

VADIM

CAPT

251

KHASCHENKO SERGEY

UKRAINE

AUSTRIA

CABOVERDE
237

ALMEIDA
MONTEIRO

EMANUEL

A/B

238

RODRIGUES

PEDRO FRANCISCO

A/B

239

OLIVEIRA

LINO JOSE

O/S

240

LOPES

AUGUSTO JACINTO

O/S

241

DOS SANTOS

MANUEL PAULINO

OIL

242

DUARTE

JOSE BRITO

OSCK

HUNGARY
243

KOVACS

CSABA

CAPT

244

KOVACS

KORNEL VAZUL

CAPT

245

GUBO

JOZSEF

SENG

246

KOVACS

LASZLO

1ENG

247

GELLAI

IMRE

A/B

43

CENG

255

HARTMANN
FINLAND

256

EL NEMR
BELGIUM

257

PIEPRZYK
ESTONIA

258

GORITSEV

VALERI

COFF

EDMOND

O/S

RUDOLF ARIE DIRK

1ENG

GHANA
259

SALAMBERE
NETHERLANDS

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Did You Know ?

Features

There are more than 2,700 different languages spoken in the world, with more
than 7 000 dialects.
In Indonesia alone, there are 365 different languages.

More than 1,000 different languages are spoken in Africa

Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world,

followed by English.

700 different languages are spoken in London. In some

suburbs of London.
English is now a second language.

The smallest country in the world is the Vatican. It is also the only country where
Latin is the official language.

Wise Cracks

1. Seen it all, done it all. Cant remember most of it.

2. I dont know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.
3. It aint the age. Its the mileage.

4. It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser.

5. Funny, I dont remember being absent-minded.

6. If I want your opinion, Ill ask you to fill out the necessary forms.
7. I dont need your attitude. I have one of my own.
8. Work fascinates me I can look at it for hours.

9. God made relatives but thank god we can choose our friends.

10. The more you learn, the more you know, the more you know the more you forget
the more you forget the less you know So why learn?

11. A little boy went up to his father and asked, Dad where did all of my intelligence
come from? His father replied, Well, son, you must have gotten it from your
mother, because I still have mine.
12. You dont stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you
stop laughing.

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SUDOKU 2

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SUDOKU 3

NOTE PAD 3

SUDOKU 4

NOTE PAD 4

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