Spinnaker SW with freight of logs (Photo: Maritime NZ)
The captain of a Panama flagged, Taiwanese regulated bulker has actually been fined NZ$ 6,000 (regarding US$ 4,000) after New Zealand port state control authorities discovered staff operating at elevation to pack a freight of logs without security lines or harnesses
Maritime New Zealand brought fees March 29 versus Jianxi Chen, captain of the 31,657 dwt Panama- flagged mass service provider Spinnaker SW, which is run by Taiwan’s Shih Wei Navigation Co.
Chen was billed with allowing harmful task entailing ships or maritime items under area 65( 2) of New Zealand’s Maritime Transport Act 1994.
Chen begged guilty to the infraction as well as obtained a penalty of NZ$ 6,000.
Maritime NZ Acting Regional Compliance Manager (Southern) Domonic Venz stated, “We are pleased with today’s outcome in court, our role is to ensure that all maritime activities are carried out safely.”
The recap of truths mentioned that Maritime NZ restrained the Panama- flagged mass service provider Spinnaker SW on March 25, 2019, atBluff The staff were operating at elevation with no autumn security in position.
A Maritime Officer familiarized prospective security problems onboard the ship while it was filling logs. The Maritime Officer evaluated the vessel’s Safety Management System (SMS) as well as individual safety devices (PPE). The SMS called for staff operating at elevation to use PPE. The PPE itself remained in bad problem. As an outcome, the Maritime Officer enforced problems on the vessel calling for procedures to be carried out according to the text.
This instructions was breached by the captain, as well as staff aboard the vessel remained to operate at elevation without PPE.
Maritime NZ Acting Regional Compliance Manager (Southern) Domonic Venz stated, “It was disappointing to find that on March 26, 2019 the crew on the vessel were still working at height without safety lines or harnesses. The Maritime Officer then took immediate action escalating previous compliance actions and detained the vessel to further investigate the issues.”
On March 27, 2019 a Port State Control Officer evaluated the vessel as well as discovered shortages in itspractices. The ship was additional restrained under the Maritime Transport Act area 55. The ship captain as well as various other witnesses were talked to by a Maritime Officer as component of the examination right into claimed on-going security violations.
Maritime NZ embarked on a complete Port State Control assessment of the Spinnaker SW as an outcome of preliminary examinations.
On Saturday, March 30, 2019, the ship passed the independent International Safety Management (ISM) audit as well as the port State Control policeman launched the vessel. Now that the litigation has actually completed the vessel can leave port.
Information regarding the apprehension has actually been shown to various other Asia-Pacific nations’ maritime authorities as component of the local as well as worldwide Port State Control (PSC) system.
