OWNER of the Rena
containership which grounded off the coast of Tauranga, New Zealand last
October is to pay US$32 million towards an eight-month clean-up costs of fuel
spillage and containers adrift.
The Greek-based Costamare's
subsidiary Daina Shipping is to pay NZ$38 million (US$31.5 million) of which
NZ$27.6 million will compensate for clean-up and NZ$10.4 million for salvage
should the remaining wreck stay in place.
The disaster occurred when
the vessel stranded on Astrolabe reef following the captain's change of course
en route to the port of Tauranga.
The vessel's ship captain
Mauro Balomaga, 44, and its navigation officer Leonil Relon, 37 admitted to
charges of releasing toxic waste and perverting the course of justice and were
sentenced to seven months in jail.
Bad weather has slowed up
final salvage of the wreck but it should be completed by year-end through the
use of a crane barge which can operate in deeper water and can raise steel
pieces up to 40 tonnes by helicopter, according to Maritime NZ.
The deal is "a vital
step forward in our progressive resolution of all the issues," said Daina
Shipping spokesman Konstantinos Zacharatos of a disaster which cost New Zealand
NZ$47 million.
Source : HKSG.
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