Milford Heaven es tristemente famoso por la catástrofe del Sea Empress, aunque a los ingleses les sirvió para aprender la lección y tras el informe de Lord Donaldson, para dar un salto adelante en la seguridad marítima.
Olvidada la nota negativa, en la actualidad es el puerto por el que entra el 25% del petroleo en UK y gran parte del gas natural. Lo que significa, que si no entran barcos, el país queda en una situación complicada. Los 18 prácticos tienen la sarten por el mango y si les tocan la cartera o las pensiones, mañana, pueden ir a la huelga.
LONDON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Talks between Britain's biggest union and Milford Haven Port Authority management broke up on Thursday evening with no progress in agreeing a deal to avert a strike planned next week at the key oil and gas port, a spokesman for the MHPA said.
La noticia nos la pasa Fernando pero ya tiene algunos días
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You might say that harbourmasters are already given wide powers to close their ports in conditions that they believe to be dangerous. But where in the case of aviation, the control tower makes the decision and brooks no interference, the harbourmaster is in not such a happy situation.
Perhaps it is the culture of the risk-taking shipping industry, but if a harbourmaster takes the decision to close a port, you can guarantee all sorts of people who know better than he will be demanding that a special case is made for their ship
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Interesante artículo publicado por el LLoyds List, tras entrevistar al Ministro de Transportes inglés, copio y pego que hay que salir a ver la caravana del 1 de agosto.
HARBOUR authorities have no legal requirement to provide pilotage services to the “highest possible standard” at all times, according to UK shipping minister Paul Clark, writes Sandra Speares....
Responding to concerns raised on the issue of safe pilotage by Barrie Youde of solicitors RA Wilkinson & Co, Mr Clark said the Department for Transport “does not accept that there is a legal requirement for all competent harbour authorities — a harbour authority that runs a pilotage services — to provide this service to the highest possible standard at all time, with no exemptions or scope for compromise”.
“While the master remains nominally in command, it has to be recognised that the pilot had the ‘con’ and a master can only intervene when a situation of danger has clearly arisen. The port authority imposes a charge for pilotage but in the same breath has the added advantage of the pilot being treated for the purposes of civil liability as an employee of the shipowner.
En fin, que la liaron parda, pero creo que se les va la pelota o la tienen llena de pájaros. Erika, Prestige, Coral Sea, Hebei Spirit, ..., el próximo igual acaban o acabamos pasándolo por la quilla, eso sí, en prime-time.
Prison Sentence for Cosco Busan pilot
Pilot Sentenced to Serve 10 Months in Federal Prison
WASHINGTON— John Joseph Cota, the pilot who caused the Cosco Busan, a 900-foot long container ship, to collide with the San Francisco Bay Bridge and discharge approximately 53,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay, was today sentenced to serve 10 months in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston for the Northern District of California, the Justice Department announced.
Cota, who was a licensed bar pilot at the time of the collision, gave commands that caused the 65,131-ton Hong Kong-registered ship to collide with the bridge on Nov. 7, 2007.
Cota was sentenced according to an agreement in which he pleaded guilty to negligently causing discharge of a harmful quantity of oil in violation of the Clean Water Act (CWA), as amended by the Oil Spill Act of 1990 – a law passed in the wake of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster – and to violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, by causing the death of protected species of migratory birds.
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El tribunal ha encontrado culpable al practico del Cosco Busan de matar 2000 pájaros y de infringir la OPA 90, la sentencia para el 19 junio, (menos mal que cierran guantanamo)
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No, no es en Europa, es en Buzzards Bay (Massachusetts) y solo para los petroleros, eso sí, el que no lo use y tenga un tropiezo, pagara tres veces la multa. Además por el mi.mo precio, remolcador de escolta gratis para los petroleros de doble casco,
The approximate cost of the state program will be $1.7 million per year, or about $6,000 per vessel.
El equipo de cinco prácticos del puerto pone cada día en movimiento centenares de miles de toneladas
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