{"id":21468,"date":"2020-11-16T07:33:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T04:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/grounded-freighter-in-vizag-may-be-turned-into-a-restaurant\/21468\/"},"modified":"2020-11-16T07:33:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T04:33:32","slug":"grounded-freighter-in-vizag-may-be-turned-into-a-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/grounded-freighter-in-vizag-may-be-turned-into-a-restaurant\/21468\/","title":{"rendered":"Grounded Freighter in Vizag May be Turned Into a Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>A grounded freighter is set to become a restaurant and tourist attraction on a beach in Andhra Pradesh, according to local officials.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Bangladeshi coastal freighter <em>Maa <\/em>ran aground in Vsakhapatnam (Vizag) on India&#039;s Bay of Bengal coastline in mid-October. A commercial salvor&#039;s attempt to refloat the ship was scheduled for November 14-15, but it has been called off, and the shipowner has declared an intention to abandon the vessel in place.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In some localities, this would be considered a negative outcome, but local officials in Vizag are prepared to welcome the wreck as a permanent addition to their shoreline. An Indian contractor has removed about 25,000 gallons of fuel from the <em>Maa&#039;s <\/em>tanks, so the pollution risk is reduced, and her hulk has already become a popular tourist attraction. Andhra Pradesh&#039;s tourism minister, M Srinivasa Rao, told the Express that the state may take possession of the ship and turn it into a (formerly) floating restaurant.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It will be a good addition to the already existing aircraft and submarine museums in Vizag,&rdquo; Rao told the paper. &quot;Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy is optimistic that the proposal will materialize. We will proceed with a plan to get the project after holding talks with [Visakhapatnam Ports Authority].&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The new attraction could be bundled with a new tour seaplane project planned to connect Vizag with Vijayawada and Hyderabad, the inland capital of Andhra Pradesh, Rao said. The 12-seater flightseeing trips might bring more business to Vizag&#039;s waterfront.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Bangladeshi ship M V MAA ran aground in Visakhapatnam this morning. There was a bad thunderstorm raging since last night. It seems both anchors of the ship broke and it was pushed ashore by the wind. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P72fdui7mc\">pic.twitter.com\/P72fdui7mc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brig R S Pathania, Veteran. (@rspathania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rspathania\/status\/1315935410363662336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Merchant ship drifted onto the shore at Tennati park in Vizag due to the impact of heavy winds and toughness of the sea.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Visakhapatnam?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Visakhapatnam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UAeJDjwrgg\">pic.twitter.com\/UAeJDjwrgg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daniel Jones (@the_danny_jones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/the_danny_jones\/status\/1316115171790606337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 3,000 dwt freighter <em>Maa <\/em>dragged or lost her anchor and drifted ashore in a storm on October 13, coming to rest near Vizag&#039;s Tenneti Park. No injuries or pollution were reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 2009-built <em>Maa <\/em>is owned and flagged in Bangladesh. She has a past history of port state control inspection deficiencies, including a PSC inspection at Zhanjiang, China that documented 23 nonconformities in 2017.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grounded freighter is set to become a restaurant and tourist attraction on a beach in Andhra Pradesh, according to local officials.&nbsp; The Bangladeshi coastal freighter Maa ran aground in Vsakhapatnam (Vizag) on India&#039;s Bay of Bengal coastline in mid-October. A commercial salvor&#039;s attempt to refloat the ship was scheduled for November 14-15, but it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[736,1629,13394,13392,13395,2089,13393],"class_list":["post-21468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-freighter","tag-grounded","tag-jagan-mohan-reddy","tag-rao","tag-restaurant","tag-turned","tag-vizag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21468","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=21468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/21469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}