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but, as you say, very expected indeed.
By the way, is her lay-up "neighbour" THE EMERALD coming back into service this year?
I believe THE EMERALD has at least one season left but this can always change with Louis.
Peter
Best,
Raoul
The Digital Seas website shows her information as I have posted !
Brian
[ 01-29-2010: Message edited by: Brian_O ]
So IVORY cannot be registered there. Digital Seas was showing it several days ago, but appears someone has input the info incorrectly. Perhaps St Helena & St Kitts are next to each other on a 'drop down list' so would be easy to get the wrong one.
------------------Digital Seas has an awful lot of ships showing as registered in St Helena, of which there are many I can see just with a quick glance that are not; the Zhen Hua vessels, Dalmacija, Apollon .... something is very wrong with their listings.
Pam
[ 01-29-2010: Message edited by: PamM ]
She has to receive first an inspection and a clearance to be beached. Beginning of march or after the 13Th.
Winner 5 is arrived at Alang yesterday (officialy):
2/3 Winner 5 Shreeji Pass 9664 103
She is scheduled to be dismantled at Plot #103
Honey Ship Breaking Co. previously occupied by NENA M.V.
She is not reported as beached, but the end is near.
It is very interesting how you get such up to date information about ships being beached when you say you are in Paris.
You even know what ship was on the plot before the arrival of Winner 5 !
On the ss Maritime website it is thought that you are based in India, not Paris, which would account for all this indirect support for the classifications held by the breakers at Alang and also knowing so much information about the breakers plots at Alang !
quote:Originally posted by Neil - Ex P. & O. S. N. Company.:LenkinapIt is very interesting how you get such up to date information about ships being beached when you say you are in Paris.You even know what ship was on the plot before the arrival of Winner 5 !On the ss Maritime website it is thought that you are based in India, not Paris, which would account for all this indirect support for the classifications held by the breakers at Alang and also knowing so much information about the breakers plots at Alang !
Even if he is who cares? I don't see the harm in increased amounts of information. It appears SS Maritime requires some sort of conspiracy involved in any ship it tracks
With these posts there does seem to be a lot of info being published on an increase in the safety aspects of the ship breaking work at Alang, and all from one source !
Seems funny it has not happened before !
Maybe he is one of the owners of a breakers yard !
Either way it is good that someone is taking the time to update us all on what is going on at the breakers yards !
Is Mr Goossens going to try to broker a deal to save the ship ? !
As usual you are off thread.
You should stick to flying !
The poster has already said what he does and who he works for, if it was correct
http://www.exim-india.com/newsletter/vesselmove/charts/alang-arrived.htm
http://www.exim-india.com/newsletter/vesselmove/charts/alang-shortly.htm
And you see that winner 5 has been beached during the night (for me) at plot 103.
Your friend Goossens has only not the right sources.Who owns the plot 103:
http://www.ashitshipping.com/alang3.htm
This guy see conspiracy everywhere. He is definitively out of the maritime history, he is only doing a self promoting campaign.
quote:Originally posted by Neil - Ex P. & O. S. N. Company.:Jetwet 1As usual you are off thread.You should stick to flying !The poster has already said what he does and who he works for, if it was correct
It was correct. I have describe in my previous post how I collect informations, but I have also contact - as Peter Knego - from Alang. Without doing business with Alang in any case.
The strategic one step-back from R. Goossens is not the first one. He went to far, writes inaccurate and crude posting (remember the "doctored photographs" of Blue Lady bow cutting) and then he find a trick to justify what it is not able to be justified. No he states he is not an expert in ISO standards; well I have seen it!
But when you are working, writing so direct sentences about Alang ship-breaking industry, you have just to know a little what ISO standards means. When a certification group gives an ISO 30 000, you can trust me that the receiver was and is compliant at the time of the certification and that he will be periodically controlled. It's the same for ISO9001/14001. Even in India !!!! In ISO you have "I" for international...
Or this man has no news at all and pick information from the web (where a lot a voluntary inaccurate or outdated writing, photographs are published) or his only source is BAN. And BAN India is a good idea, but an idealist idea. I respect Gopal Krishna work, but he is not objective, realistic and he is doing a melting pot between the worst plots and plots that are compliant with international standards (ISO).
If you know something about shipping industry, you have to know that the removal of all asbestos could compromise the safety of the vessel. Where India is responsible, it was to sign the Basel act. Because they need metal and they have cheap workers. Now they will have problem with every ship with asbestos, PCB even if some (not all) plot have solution to handle these toxics. And the worst ship will finish in countries that are not Basel signatory ...
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