In action to the grounding of Crimson Polaris that took place off the shore of Hachinohe on August 11, NYK will certainly make an overall of 11 dispatches of 10 staff members each (amounting to 110 staff members) by September 11 to aid with the location clean-up.

As the charterer of the vessel, NYK has actually sent out business workers to the website to aid with the clean-up of the freight as well as various other particles that has actually cleaned onto land. Under the support of the Maritime Disaster Prevention Center, we have actually been tidying up the shore of Rokkasho town in Aomori prefecture.

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By August 23, we had actually finished 3 dispatches of 10 staff members each for 2 days as well as one evening, as well as we will certainly carry out 8 even more dispatches of the very same variety of staff members for the very same period. To protect against the spread of the COVID-19, NYK employees will certainly be taking ideal infection-control actions as well as job under the support of the cleansing professional.

NYK has actually arranged a situation administration facility led by NYK head of state Hitoshi Nagasawa to swiftly attend to the scenario. Company workers have actually been sent out to the website, as well as essential assistance will certainly be supplied to the shipowner as well as ship-management business. We wish the scenario will certainly be offered a risk-free as well as prompt verdict.

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