Shipping industry conspicuously silent about Vinalines Queen death toll
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There is a lot of luck involved in salvage. Those involved in the salvage of the containershp
Rena which went aground on the Astrolabe Reef off Tauranga three months ago might have comforted themselves with the prospect of better weather as the southern spring gave way to summer. Alas, as the tourists have complained, it has been a lousy summer in New Zealand, and the broken halves of the containership with wreckage and cargo swirling up the tide bear witness to this salvage rapidly giving way to a “wreck removal” contract.
But as containerships go, this is a tiddler compared to the giants now entering service on the main line routes. How do salvors, and everyone else from the emergency…
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On Christmas day, the bulk carrier Vinalines Queen, carrying a cargo of nickel ore from Morowali, Indonesia, to China, went missing. The ship and its crew of 22 must now be considered lost.
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Now here’s a good idea, possibly overdue in its conception, that might make the carriage of containers aboard ship rather safer.
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