Shipping News
Open-deck ferry safety concerns
~ Roll-on ferries with open garage decks are potential death traps, according to leading maritime experts, yet they are one of the fastest growing ship types in the world with about 2000 in service. . Concern has reached the point where a committee of the InterGovernmental Maritime Consultative Organisation is studying the matter with a view towards setting up new regulations. The experts who have called attention to the matter claim that the huge, unobstructed garage decks, characteristic of such ships, render them dangerous. They claim that sea .water entering the deck through collision. or other causes, will rush about in a mass and make the vessel capsize-and nose-dive, possibly too quickly ’ for. 3 people aboard to escape to safety. $ ■ si* ' ■ From today the "expected arrivals” and “projected . departures” sections of this column will extend forward 10 days from the day of publication, with one e.xeption. On Tuesdays both lists will be expanded to cover expected mints over a - period of three weeks. ARRIVALS Saturday v--". V a 1 e t t a (15.37) 17.002, Nauru (British Phosphate Commission). , • Elona (15.21) 6359, Bukom (Dalgety), Sunday Forum Niuglni (12.58) 3894, Honiara (S.CJC.Z.). ■ DEPARTURES Saturday - Nil. Sunday , J Elona- . (12.45) 6359, Auckland (Dalgety). ‘ ' '
expected arrivals Coastal Trader. Auckland, todav (Gladstone Pier). star ' Emerald, Vancouver, today (No. 2 East). Dorit Skou. Newcastle, today (Cashin Quay No. 1). Messiniaki Anagennisis, Australia, today (Oil Wharf). Botany Bay, Genoa, today (Cashin Quay No. 3). Marama. Tauranga, tomorrow. Khalij Star. Bluff, tomorrow Coastal Trader, Dunedm, FebWild* (Jannet, Auckland, February 20. Marama, Wellington, February 21. Encounter Bay, Wellington, February 22. - . Austral Lightning,. Papeete, February 22. ■ Forum Samoa, Nukualofa, Feb- ■ ruary 22- ■ _ . Anco Energie,. Tauranga, February 23* Athlon, Auckland, February 23. Novolvovsk, Napier, February 23. Saleve, Noumea, February 24. Coastal Trader, Auckland, February 25. Smolny, Wellington, February 27. PROJECTED DEPARTURES Coastal Trader, Dunedin, today. , Messiniaki Anagennisis, Wellington, today. Marma; Wellington, tomorrow. Wild Gannet, Timaru, February 20. Coastal Trader, Auckland, February 20. Marama, Dunedin, February 21. Anco Energie, Wellington, February 23. Coastal Trader, Dunedin, February 25, VESSELS IN PORT Valetta; N 0.3 West.- ‘
Shipping News
Press, 18 February 1980, Page 13
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