By Catherine Ngai

VANCOUVER, Oct 27 (Reuters)– A container vessel that invested months resting off Canada’s west coastline because of the collapse of a significant South Korea delivering business is readied to dock in Vancouver on Thursday, port and also union authorities stated.

The Hanjin Scarlet, with almost 800 containers aboard, has actually been resting some 45 kilometres (28 miles) beyond Prince Rupert for a number of months, stated Peter Lahay, an assessor and also planner with the International Transport Workers Federation.

Emily Hamer, a spokesperson at the Port of Vancouver, validated that the vessel would certainly be coming to the port. She referred concerns regarding the ship’s freight to incurable driver DPWorld Officials there might not right away be grabbed remark.

South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd applied for court receivership at the end of August, which established the phase for its possessions to be iced up as ports from China to Spain refuted accessibility to its vessels.

Prince Rupert Port Authority spokesperson Michael Gurney stated that the Hanjin Scarlet got here right into the port onAug 30 and also released some containers at one of its terminals. It after that stayed under apprehension and also at support in the external harbor for almost 2 months.

The ship, which has 24 staff participants, will certainly discharge freight aboard, Lahay stated. He included that staff participants had much less than 10 days well worth of food and also stipulations left, and also had actually lacked fresh food. (Reporting by Catherine Ngai; Editing by Frances Kerry)

( c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2016.