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#PortofCork - Italian shipping giant d'Amico Società di Navigazione SpA, manages one of the largest bulk, container and product tankers fleets that includes Cielo di New York that is docked at the Whitegate Oil Refinery, Cork Harbour, writes Jehan Ashmore.

As part of d'Amico International Shipping (DIS) the group structure includes the Dublin based d'Amico Tankers Ireland. They manage the Maltese flagged Cielo di New York, a 39,990dwt 'Handysize' product tanker had docked yesterday after a period of anchorage offshore and prior to that a sailing from Mongstad, Norway.

Cielo di New York was built by Hyundai Mipo yard in South Korea in 2014. It is also in this Asian country is where Arklow Spray was constructed. The 33,905dwt Irish flagged bulk carrier had recently called to New York while sister, Arklow Spray sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Brazil to Cork to discharge a part cargo of animal feed in Ringaskiddy.  Following this maiden call to Cork, the bulker also made an inaugural call to Dublin Port to unload the balance of cargo. 

A sister of the Italian shipping group, Cielo di Ulsan is also 100% owned by d'Amico International Shipping (DIS) and that had called to the same facility in Cork Harbour last month. The pair are classified with IMO II and IMO III certifications.

The Handysize sisters belong to a fleet ranging in capacity of between 36,000 and 40,000 dwt. With their slightly smaller size compared to Medium Range (MR) vessels, they are suitable for trade on brief routes with numerous port moorings, as they allow rationalization of usage and economic savings as regards port costs.

Generally, Handysize tankers operate in the Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and are also suitable for commercial trade in the Caribbean Sea.

Published in Port of Cork

The Irish Cruiser Racing Association (ICRA) Information

The creation of the Irish Cruiser Racing Association (ICRA) began in a very low key way in the autumn of 2002 with an exploratory meeting between Denis Kiely, Jim Donegan and Fintan Cairns in the Granville Hotel in Waterford, and the first conference was held in February 2003 in Kilkenny.

While numbers of cruiser-racers were large, their specific locations were widespread, but there was simply no denying the numerical strength and majority power of the Cork-Dublin axis. To get what was then a very novel concept up and running, this strength of numbers had to be acknowledged, and the first National Championship in 2003 reflected this, as it was staged in Howth.

ICRA was run by a dedicated group of volunteers each of whom brought their special talents to the organisation. Jim Donegan, the elder statesman, was so much more interested in the wellbeing of the new organisation than in personal advancement that he insisted on Fintan Cairns being the first Commodore, while the distinguished Cork sailor was more than content to be Vice Commodore.

ICRA National Championships

Initially, the highlight of the ICRA season was the National Championship, which is essentially self-limiting, as it is restricted to boats which have or would be eligible for an IRC Rating. Boats not actually rated but eligible were catered for by ICRA’s ace number-cruncher Denis Kiely, who took Ireland’s long-established native rating system ECHO to new heights, thereby providing for extra entries which brought fleet numbers at most annual national championships to comfortably above the hundred mark, particularly at the height of the boom years. 

ICRA Boat of the Year (Winners 2004-2019)