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The property left at death one of portacontainer the Rena has broken in two
150 lost others container
January 9, 2012
Portacontainer the Rena, stranded 5th October on the reef of Astrolabe in presses of the New Zealand port of Tauranga, it has broken in two in the night between saturday and yesterday while a sea storm was on. The New Zealand governmental agency Maritime New Zealand has announced that the two parts of the ship now find to 20-30 meters of distance one from the other and that such fracture has caused the fall of a meaningful number of container and scrap irons.
Until past friday the Svitzer, the which charged salvage company to remove the property left at death one of the portacontainer, had recovered 389 container boarded on the ship, on which of it 881 remained others when the spezzamento has happened. On the portacontainer, in fact, 1,368 were boarded altogether container and in the October incident they had gone some dispersed 98. According to the first assessments, the division in two of the ship has determined loss of others 150 container.
The incagliamento of the Rena has caused the sversamento of beyond 350 of the 1,712 tons of fuel on board of the ship to the moment of the incident, while beyond 1.300 tons of fuel successively they are recovered.
The Rena, ship of property of the Greek Costamare Inc. and operated by the Helvetian Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), it is constructed in 1990, it has a gross capacity of 47.230 tons and is long 236 meters and wide 32 meters.
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Portacontainer the Rena, stranded 5th October on the reef of Astrolabe in presses of the New Zealand port of Tauranga, it has broken in two in the night between saturday and yesterday while a sea storm was on. The New Zealand governmental agency Maritime New Zealand has announced that the two parts of the ship now find to 20-30 meters of distance one from the other and that such fracture has caused the fall of a meaningful number of container and scrap irons.
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