Egypt demands over $1B in damages after Suez Canal blockage

Re:Egypt demands over $1B in damages after Suez Canal blockage by avereveard on Sunday April 04, 2021 @07:18AM (#26688526)

> I disagree. The captain of the ship relinquishes control to the pilots from the port authority because of their knowledge of the port at hand.

I thought these where on board in advisory, hands-off-controls roles only.

So the real fight will happen around the cabin logs and recordings, to whether the ship pilot followed all the advisor pilots demands or not, and even then it is going a long, complicate mess to pin down responsabilities.

But the log will eventually surface and these will be super interesting.

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Re:Egypt demands over $1B in damages after Suez Canal blockage by manquer on Sunday April 04, 2021 @06:45PM (#26693484)

Ships afaik do not have as evolved FDR type systems to record interactions between people they way planes do.

Besides such interactions do not need to be conducted on the bridge at all.

Lot more likely the insurance company will negotiate for actual salvage plus some compensation to the government, plus few palms will be greased.

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