Mozambique Award13-043B
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IFB# 13-043B Mozambique Award Notice
November 18, 2015
AWARD NOTICE FREIGHT IFB 13-043B TECHNOSERVE FFP Mozambique
November 18, 2015
ON BEHALF OF TECHNOSERVE, INC., CHARTERER, BKA LOGISTICS IS PLEASED TO CONFIRM THE FOLLOWING FREIGHT AWARD UNDER IFB13-043B:
CHARTER PARTY DATE NOVEMBER 18 2015
OWNERS: MTM TRADING LLC
VESSEL: MT MTM LONDON IMO 9296872
VESSEL FLAG: SINGAPORE BUILT 2003. CLASS: HIGHEST Lloyds.
DWT 20,599 MT DWT ON 10.033 M Draft; LOA; 141 M / BEAM 24.2 M
NO. OF TANKS – 22 ; SPEED ABT 14.0 K.
CARGO: AS PART CARGO OF : 4,610 MT MIN/MAX OF CDSBO OIL IN BULK.
INTENDED STOWAGE OF THE TNS CARGO IS IN TANKS: 1P, 1S, 2P, 2S, 5P, 5S, 7P, 7S, 9S.
ADDITIONAL COMPLETION CARGOES:
VESSEL WILL LOAD VARIOUS OTHER PART CARGO PARCELS, UNDER SEPARATE BOOKINGS/ CHARTER PARTIES, CONSISTING OF EDIBLE OILS / AND PETROLEUM PRODUCTS. THESE CARGOES WILL BE DULY SEGREGATED BY TANK , WILL BE COMPATABLE AND NON-INJURIOUS TO THE TNS CARGO. ALL CARGO TANKS ON THIS VESSEL ARE INDEPENDENT, EACH WITH INDIVIDUAL PUMPING SYSTEMS AND CARGO LINES.
FURTHER THE ADDITIONAL COMPLETION CARGO(ES) MUST BE DULY SEGREGATED BY TANK, MUST BE COMPATIBLE AND NON-INJURIOUS TO TECHNOSERVE CARGO(ES), AND MUST BE DETAILED IN OFFER OR APPROVED BY CHARTERERS/USDA IF CONTRACTED AFTER FIXTURE OF TECHNOISERVE CARGO(ES). VESSEL'S ITINERARY AND GEOGRAPHIC PROXIMITY OF COMPLETION CARGO(ES) WILL BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION BY CHARTERER/USDA IN APPROVAL OF SUCH PART CARGO(ES) IN ORDER NOT TO UNDULY IMPEDE DELIVERY OF TECHNOSERVE CARGO(ES) TO DISCHARGE PORT.
OWNER CERTIFY THAT VESSEL’S LAST THREE CARGOES IN THE VESSEL TANK(S), TANK LINES, HOSES AND PUMPING SYSTEMS PRIOR TO ANY CONTRACT MADE UNDER THIS FIXTURE WERE UNLEADED AND NON TOXIC AND DO NOT APPEAR ON THE FEDERATION OF OILS, SEEDS AND FATS ASSOCIATION LTD. (FOSFA) LIST OF BANNED IMMEDIATE PREVIOUS CARGOES AND THAT THE MOST RECENT PREVIOUS CARGO DOES APPEAR ON THE FOSFA LIST OF ACCEPTABLE PRIOR CARGOES.
LAYCAN: DECEMBER 14-23, 2015.
LOAD PORT: 1 SAFE BERTH, 1 SAFE PORT USGULF – INTEND G-NO-IMTSR.
LOADING TERMS: FREE IN / NO DEMURRAGE/NO DESPATCH/ NO DETENTION
THE RECIPIENT COUNTRY REQUIRES A PRESHIPMENT INSPECTION OF THE COMMODITY WHICH WILL BE AT CHARTERER’S TIME / EXPENSE. CARRIER TO PROVIDE PRESHIPMENT INSPECTOR(S) ACCESS TO THE VESSEL TANKS DURING LOADING, IF NEEDED. INTERTEK PSI REF NO. MOZ-772100
DISCHARGE PORT(S): 1 TO 2 SAFE BERTH(S) (INTENDED MATOLA BERTH) MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE. VESSEL WITH TNS CARGO NOT TO ARRIVE AT DISCHARGE PORT BEFORE JANUARY 10, 2016. CURRENT ETA JANUARY 15, 2016.
DISCHARGING TERMS: FULL BERTH TERMS DISCHARGE – NO DEMURRAGE/NO DESPATCH/ NO DETENTION.
FREIGHT RATE AND PAYMENT TERMS:
OCEAN FREIGHT RATE, US$262.87 PMT
OCEAN TRANSPORTATION RATES ARE BASIS ONE LOAD PORT /ONE LOAD BERTH TO ONE DISCHARGE BERTH..
ADDITIONAL PREMIUMS:
FOR EACH ADDITIONAL LOAD BERTH IF USED ADD LUMPSUM US$45,000.00.
THERE IS NO ADDITIONAL LOAD PORT SO NO PREMIUM APPLY.
FOR SECOND DISCHARGE BERTH IF USED ADD LUMPSUM US$40,000.00
OTHERWISE AS PER TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF FREIGHT TENDER IFB 13-043B AND TECHNOSERVE VEGOIL CHARTER PARTY PROFORMA.
END OF FIXTURE RECAP
IFB# 13-043B Mozambique Tender
November 9, 2015
Freight Tender IFB No.13-043B.
Technoserve Inc., Bulk CDSBO, FFP, MOZ.
Date: November 9, 2015
BKA Logistics LLC, as agents for and on behalf of Technoserve, Inc. (TNS) charterer, requests firm offers of U.S. and non-U.S. flag tankers for the carriage of bulk Crude Degummed Soybean Oil under the Food For Progress program on the following basis:
IFB No. 13-043B
BKA Ref No: F15-0034
WBSCM Commodity Invitation 2000003722
WBSCM Freight Invitation 2000003723
Freight offers to be submitted electronically to WBSCM no later than 1000 hours Central Standard Time USA (1100 hours Eastern Standard Time) on November 16, 2015
Freight offers to be valid until 1700 hours Eastern Standard Time November 17, 2015
Only firm offers will be considered.
In addition to determine lowest landed cost, all carriers are required to submit offers electronically, by the due date and time, for the cargoes advertised by this IFB via the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Web Based Supply Chain Management (WBSCM) system for the Invitation number(s) referenced above. All offers are subject to all requirements of WBSCM and of the afore-mentioned Invitation(s), including the deadline(s) for submission of bids therein.
The Web Based Supply Chain Management system can be accessed through the following website:
http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=wbscm
Carriers must be assigned a USDA E authentication Logon ID and password to access the WBSCM system. Contact the WBSCM help desk for information regarding Logon IDs, passwords, and WBSCM system questions or concerns:
Telephone: (877) 927-2648 ; e-mail: wbscmhelp@ams.usda.gov
Freight payment: Freight payment shall be processed through the WBSCM system and paid by USDA. Instructions for the freight payment procedures through WBSCM are available from:
BKA Logistics LLC
Email: mark.millard@bkalogistics.net or rsingh@bkalogistics.net
1. Cargo(es):
4,610 MT min/max Crude Degummed Soybean Oil in bulk
Sales order no. 5000296141
For information purposes only: The recipient country requires a Preshipment Inspection of the commodity which will be at charterer’s time/expense. Carrier to provide Preshipment Inspector(s) access to the vessel tanks during loading, if needed.
Intertek PSI Ref no. MOZ-772100.
Any additional completion cargo(es) must be duly segregated by tank, must be compatible and non-injurious to Technoserve (TNS) cargo(es), and must be detailed in offer or approved by charterers/USDA if contracted after fixture of TNS cargo(es). Vessel's itinerary and geographic proximity of completion cargo(es) will be taken into consideration by charterer/USDA in approval of such part cargo(es) in order not to unduly impede delivery of TNS cargo(es) to discharge port.
2. Laydays: December 14-23, 2015
Fourteen (14) days preadvice required. Daily vessel position / status reports required. See Proforma Charter Party clause 11 for full details of these two requirements.
3. Loading port/range: One to three safe berths each one or two safe U.S. ports. See Proforma Charter Party clause 43 for load ranges considered as one port.
4. Discharge port: 1 or 2 safe berth(s) (intended Matola berth) , Maputo, Mozambique.
Vessel with TNS cargo not to arrive at discharge port before January 10, 2016.
5. Terms:
a) Loading terms: Free In with no demurrage / no despatch / no detention.
Load rate (without guarantee): 150 MT per hour.
b) Discharging terms: Berth terms with no demurrage / no despatch / no detention.
c) Owners are required to provide an additional NCB certification that any openings leading to cargo compartments have been properly sealed to prevent any outside water from entering the cargo spaces. Cost of sealing and special survey are for account of owner and in no way diminishes owners' liability and responsibilities toward the cargo.
d) Prior to tendering the Notice of Readiness (NOR) at first load port, owner to provide vessel tank inspection certificate evidencing cleanliness of all tanks to be loaded for this fixture. Inspection to be performed and certificate to be issued by an independent surveyor at owner's expense in accordance with NIOP/FOSFA inspection requirements.
e) Vessel to provide all necessary equipment (including pumps, hoses, and reducers in good working order) to effect discharge of the cargo into shore tanks, tank rail cars and/or tank trucks. Pumps must have minimum pressure of 50 pounds p.s.i. with pumping capacity of at least 100 MT per hour and be able to pump water with adequate pressure to clean hoses and pipes at the discharge terminal.
f) Vessel to furnish steam at its expense for the operation of receiver’s pumps at port of discharge. Squeeging to be paid by the vessel and time used is not to count.
g) The performing vessel and any lighterage vessels utilized must comply with the Federation of Oils, Seeds and Fats Association Ltd. (FOSFA) "operational procedures for all ships engaged in the ocean and short sea carriage and transhipment of oils and fats for edible and oleo-chemical use", hereinafter "FOSFA OPS" except as modified elsewhere herein and in the Proforma Charter Party.
h) Owners are to list the last three cargoes carried (for both vessel and lighterage vessel, if applicable) in cargo tanks and the last three cargoes pumped through the cargo pumps and lines (if different) and certify in their offer that the last three cargoes were clean, unleaded and non-toxic. Further, owners are to certify that the immediate previous
cargo for tanks, lines and pump systems (for both ocean vessel and lighterage vessels, if applicable) designated to load the oils must be in compliance with the NIOP/FOSFA list of Acceptable Previous Cargoes. Owners must stipulate exactly the last three cargoes carried, without statements Of "and or" or "will be". Further, cargo names must be spelled out without abbreviations. For ship's tanks that have been newly coated or fully re-coated and have not carried at least three cargoes subsequent to the new/re-coating,
Owners are to list any cargoes that have been carried in those tanks, pumps and lines after the new/re-coating, otherwise subject to the above. In addition, owners must furnish with their offer a copy of a survey certificate from a FOSFA-approved surveyor, dated not more than six months prior to the offer date, attesting that the vessel (all tanks, whether or not new/re-coated) is in compliance with FOSFA requirements for the carriage of Edible Oils. For lighterage vessels only: if owners cannot provide information on immediate prior cargoes at the time of offer, offeror shall acknowledge that they will not be permitted to utilize any lighterage vessel that has not been inspected and approved prior to loading by a FOSFA-approved surveyor at the load and/or discharge port. Any time lost at load and/or disports for inspection or other delays in providing suitable lighterage
vessel to be at owner's expense.
i) In the event that any of the last three cargoes were not food grade cargoes and if vessel fails to pass initial inspection by the surveyor, additional test for trace cargoes to be evidenced by means of a wall wash test at owner's expense.
j) ISM and ISPS Code Compliance required as per Proforma Charter Party clause 41.
k) As the cargo advertised in this tender is a government impelled (preference) cargo, offerors of non-U.S. flag vessels must warrant that vessel(s) and owner / operator are not disqualified to carry such government impelled (preference) cargo(es) as oulined in Section 408 of the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1998, Public Law 105-383 (46 U.S.C., paragraph 2302(e). See Proforma Charter Party clause 42 for full details.
l) Owners are responsible for assuring that performing vessel is fully compliant (at time of fixing and during time of performance) with all International regulations and protocols regarding the carriage of cargo(es), including Marpol 73/78 Annex ii revisions, as well as all regulations of the countries of loading and discharge. Owners to certify in offer that vessel (performing and/or substitute) meets or exceeds the Ship Type 2 tank configuration requirements of the IBC code or, alternatively, that the vessel meets all requirements for Ship Type 3 Chemical Tankers and related exemption requirements as outlined in Marpol annex ii regulation 4.1.3; that the Certificate of Fitness for vessel indicates that vessel is entitled to operate under the provisions of this reg; that all flag state and port state authorizations have been received or confirmed, as necessary; and, that the owners can confirm that vessel will be permitted to berth and load or discharge at all ports named or contemplated in this tender. Owners should be prepared to submit copies of documentation evidencing compliance with Marpol regulations upon request at the time offers are submitted.
m) Owners are responsible for vessel arriving at discharge port meeting any vessel restrictions for the discharge port. Any lightening required as a result of vessel's failure to arrive at discharge port in accordance with the vessel restrictions for the discharge port is for owner's risk and expense. Lightening, if required, to be accomplished in the territorial waters of Mozambique.
n) Any dues and/or taxes on cargo and/or freight to be for charterers' account, and any dues and/or taxes on vessel (including normal port dues, dockage, and services and facilities charges) to be for owners' account.
o) Non-vessel operating common carriers (NVOCC) may not be employed to carry U.S. flag or foreign flag shipments. Towed tank barges are excluded. ITB tank barges will be considered provided warranted speed and itinerary of proposed ITB would allow ITB unit to arrive at discharge port within forty days from sailing load port.
p) U.S. flag vessel(s) must be registered highest in ABS or equivalent. Non-U.S. flag vessels should not exceed 20 years of age and must be registered highest in Lloyd's or equivalent classification society. Extra insurance owing to vessel's age, flag, type, configuration (including ITB), class or ownership to be for owners' account, but not exceeding New York market rates for U.S. flag vessels and not exceeding London market rates for non-U.S. flag vessels.
q) Bills of lading to be issued in accordance with shore figures. If any discrepancies between shore figures and ship's tank ullages, then shore figures shall prevail.
6. Freight rates to be quoted per Metric Ton on Free In with no demurrage / no dispatch / no detention and Berth Terms discharge with no demurrage / no dispatch / no detention. Basis one load berth ; one load port to one discharge berth ; one discharge port. Plus additional freight for each additional load berth; load port, if used and for second discharge berth if used.
Offers submitted under this invitation are required to have a canceling date no later than the last contract layday as above, and the vessels which are offered with a canceling date beyond the laydays specified above will not be considered.
Offers of named vessel's only. No vessel substitution is permitted without charterer’s /USDA approval.
Offers should also include the following information: vessel type, number of cargo systems, number of tanks, discharge equipment including hoses, current employment and position of the vessel, and proposed itinerary of the vessel with eta at load and discharge ports.
U.S. flag non-liner vessels which exceed 15 years of age from date of original construction must offer an alternate freight rate (one way rate) to be applicable in the event the vessel is either scrapped or vessel ownership is transferred to another owner after discharge at destination, but prior to its return to the United States.
If owners intend to lighten, the offer is to specify the cost of lightening. If lightening is not performed at the discharge port and vessel directly discharges at berth, the lightening cost will be deducted from ocean freight.
7. U.S. flag vessels which require prior approval from the maritime administration (MARAD) to participate in preference cargoes because of Operating Differential Subsidy (ODS) contractual constraints, or because of reflagging/foreign construction eligibility issues, must obtain such MARAD approval prior to submission of bids.
8. Further details and additional terms are subject to the terms and conditions of the Technoserve, Inc. Proforma Charter Party (VegOilVoy 1/27/50 as adapted by TNS for FFP December 2013) which is available upon request from BKA Logistics LLC, Washington, DC.
9. Technoserve Inc. reserves the right to accept or reject offers.
10. Only offers which are responsive to this IFB will be considered and no negotiation is permitted. Only firm offers will be considered.
11. Commission: 2.5 pct on freight / deadfreight to Charterer's agent BKA Logistics LLC if offered direct; if broker involved, 2/3 of 2.5 pct to Charterer's agent BKA Logistics LLC., and 1/3 of 2.5 pct to broker.
12. All fixtures resulting from this tender are subject to approval by USDA and Technoserve, Inc.
For further information, contact:
BKA Logistics LLC, Washington, DC
Telephone: 202-331-7395, Fax: 202-331-7735;
Email: mark.millard@bkalogistics.net or rsingh@bkalogistics.net .
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