Whilst Filipino crew members are being evacuated out of New Zealand for their own safety, the Maritime Union has again asked for Maritime New Zealand to release its inspection reports for the MV Rena, saying that it should reveal whether the ship received a full inspection after being found with defects in China and Australia,…
“The Maritime Union says that the responsibility for the Rena disaster lies with Government and authorities as much as with individual crew members. Maritime Union of New Zealand General Secretary Joe Fleetwood says the arrest today of the master of the Rena on serious charges should not deflect attention away from the greater responsibility for…
From YouTube. The “Predicted trajectory of oil spill from container ship Rena near Tauranga in Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. The simulation uses HYCOM global current model and Global Forecasting System Wind data from October 5th to October 13th” for more about the merchant vessel Rena read yesterday’s blog MV Rena oil spill lack of…
Days after the grounding of the Liberian flagged MV Rena in the early hours of 5 October, Prime Minister Key has finally found time in his busy World Cup schedule to visit Tauranga and see the extent of the damage caused by the oil leaking from the vessel. Already 100 tonnes of oil from the…
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