Re:Jumbo Stay
by nonrandomstring on Saturday May 28, 2022 @04:22PM
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> Could you elaborate a bit on this part? Intentional sinking for
insurance purposes, or to avoid having to pay for it to be scrapped?
Sorry for late reply. Yeah, I was thinking of the latter, though both might be possible. Contriving a marine accident, collision, fire. loss in a storm etc would be physically dangerous and legally very risky. A less serious but still illegal caper would be dodging the scrapage costs by holing it. But when a registered vessel "disappears" that can trigger serious investigations for all sorts of reasons I am sure you can imagine.
Re:Jumbo Stay
by fabioborellini on Saturday May 28, 2022 @02:59PM
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It's illegal in most of Europe, at least, to transport hazardous waste for disposal to places where it would get done inappropriately.
Usually this is dealt with through finding a company that can claim to use the ship for something but actually scraps it.
One now defunct company almost failed this kind of dance by admitting it sold a ship for scrapping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Fennia
Could you elaborate a bit on this part? Intentional sinking for insurance purposes, or to avoid having to pay for it to be scrapped?
I recall there’s some ship graveyards on the Turkish coast where they intentionally ram large cruise-liners into shore so they can scrap em. But I guess that’s more relevant for bigger ships with more steel etc?