Video: VLOC Stellar Banner Scuttled Off Brazil

Image from video clip taken of the scuttling.

Salvors functioning the Stellar Banner ravage off the shore of the Brazil have actually scuttled the vessel greater than 3 months after she ran stranded packed with iron ore.

The 300,000 DWT Very Large Ore Carrier was purposefully sunk Friday about 150km from Maranh ão.

A video clip of the scuttling is listed below:

The Marshall Islands- signed up MV Stellar Banner ran stranded about 100km from shore of São Lu ís on February 24, 2020, as it left Vale’s Ponta da Madeira Maritime Terminal with greater than 270,000 tonnes of iron ore bound forChina All 20 staff participants were consequently left in great problem.

The vessel was refloated previously this month adhering to the elimination of about 145,000 statistics lots of iron ore from the vessel’s holds. Due to the problem of the ship, the choice was made to sink the vessel in much deeper waters with any type of staying iron ore aboard. Authorities stated they do not think the staying iron ore postures a risk to the aquatic setting.

Very Large Ore Carrier is the biggest category of completely dry mass ships on the planet with capability to lug as much as 400,000 tonnes of freight.

Stellar Banner is possessed and also run by South Korea’s Polaris delivery and also is hired to Brazilian mining titan Vale to deliver iron ore from Brazil to China.

Soon after the grounding, Vale reported that, based upon records from Polaris Shipping, the vessel had actually experienced damages to its bow in the delivery network as it left the port and also based to stop it from sinking. Experts later on identified from initial records that the influenced part of the Stellar Banner was of 25 meters in size near the starboard bow.

The salvage procedure was led by the Dutch salvage SMIT Salvage with assistance from the Brazilian Navy.

Another video clip of the scuttling is listed below: