The direction also orders the owner to recover containers as agreed with AMSA.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The ship is owned by APL Singapore, insured by Steamship Mutual, and operated by ANL. <\/p>\n AMSA has identified a priority search area of about 1000km2 stretching\u00a0between the Illawarra and Sydney\u2019s southern suburbs. <\/p>\n “Drift modelling and analysis of\u00a0container sightings following the incident indicates that missing containers could be in this\u00a0area at water depth of up to 200m. Containers within the search area pose the most\u00a0immediate environmental threat and may present a safety hazard for commercial fishers,” <\/em>AMSA said.<\/p>\n To remind, the Singapore-flagged boxship lost around 50 containers after experiencing temporary power loss in heavy seas about 73 kilometres south east of Sydney on May 24.<\/p>\n The 5,780 TEU ship headed afterwards to Brisbane in order to inspect and secure remaining containers. <\/p>\n AMSA General Manager Response Mark Morrow<\/strong> said 15 containers had been recovered\u00a0from the shoreline or towed in after being spotted floating off the coast, but 35 containers\u00a0were still missing.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe owner\u2019s and operator\u2019s responsibility to clean-up the mess left behind by their ship\u00a0does not end at the water\u2019s edge,\u201d <\/em>Morrow said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe have only just finished cleaning-up more than 60 containers and their contents from the\u00a0seafloor off Newcastle after Yang Ming\u2019s ship YM Efficiency lost containers back in June\u00a02018.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThat is not a pollution legacy that any respectable ship owner or operator would want to\u00a0leave behind in their wake.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Morrow said AMSA expected the owner and operator to respond to the direction with a\u00a0detailed search plan in the coming days.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cFailure to comply with this direction constitutes an offence under Australian law,<\/em>\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Australia has laid down charges against the ship’s master over pollution and damage of the Australian marine environment as a result of poor cargo loading. <\/p>\n The master was released on bail and has since returned to Malaysia, however, he was ordered to return for next hearing before the Brisbane Magistrates Court scheduled for July 27.<\/p>\n The ship remains under detention in the Port of Brisbane and would not be released until its serious deficiencies have been rectified, AMSA said.<\/p>\n The post AMSA orders APL England’s owner to locate and recover lost containers<\/a> appeared first on Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has issued a direction ordering the owner\u00a0of\u00a0APL England\u00a0to search for missing containers that were lost from the vessel off New\u00a0South Wales last month.\u00a0 The direction also orders the owner to recover containers as agreed with AMSA.\u00a0 The ship is owned by APL Singapore, insured by Steamship Mutual, and operated …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[571,123,3465,7788,6119,1327,1501,2474,5003],"class_list":["post-11846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-amsa","tag-apl","tag-containers","tag-englands","tag-locate","tag-lost","tag-orders","tag-owner","tag-recover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/11847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"APL](\"https:\/\/cdn.offshorewind.biz\/file\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/17105112\/AMSA.png\")
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