Office Address
123/A, Miranda City Likaoli Prikano, Dope
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+0989 7876 9865 9
+(090) 8765 86543 85
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info@example.com
example.mail@hum.com
123/A, Miranda City Likaoli Prikano, Dope
+0989 7876 9865 9
+(090) 8765 86543 85
info@example.com
example.mail@hum.com
The company’s CEO was sentenced yesterday 7 Feb to a three-year jail
term for professional negligence in the sinking of the Stellar Daisy, a converted ore carrier that went down in the Atlantic off Uruguay in March 2017 with the loss of 22
lives.
The court ruled that the defendant failed to repair the
ship in a timely manner by prioritising profits over the safety of the ship,
citing structural defects resulting from neglect of hull maintenance and poor
repairs as the cause of the Stellar Daisy’s rapid sinking in just five minutes.
Two other senior Polaris executives received
two-year and one-year sentences at a court in Busan yesterday.
The giant 1993-built Stellar Daisy was
one of the most high-profile ship casualties this century with the families of
the bereaved fighting multiple legal battles to ascertain what happened that
caused it to capsize and sink so fast. Just two of the 24 crew onboard
survived.
A tribunal said last
month Polaris Shipping installed an unauthorised wastewater storage device on
the bottom of the ship and did not inspect or strengthen the ship’s hull.
The shipping company
was supposed to conduct repairs to safely load cargo on the Stellar Daisy but let the ship set sail without
reinforcement, the tribunal said. The Marshall Islands flag issued its report into the sinking in April
2019, citing a catastrophic structural failure of the ship’s hull for the
deadly disaster.
The ship – originally
a VLCC – took on water and split in two very fast. Days later another 1993-built converted ore
carrier belonging to Polaris had to reroute for Cape Town for
repairs after a hull
crack was discovered.
This then prompted the
Busan-based owner to launch an urgent fleet-wide series of inspections, which
in turn saw a 1992-built converted ore carrier also head off to Cape Town to be
fixed and in the years that followed all the company’s old converted ships were
sold off.
Splash understands that the ships are now sold with an unnamed Greek
owner tabling about $65m per ship.
