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Home›Green Marine›Stranded ship to be relieved of containers
Green Marine

July 3, 2006 · about 20 years ago

Stranded ship to be relieved of containers

A salvage team will on Monday attempt to remove containers from a ship which ran aground on a sandbank near the East London harbour last week, the National Ports Authority (NPA) said. “We are going to discharge containers from the vessel on to shore,” said spokesperson Terry Tailor. A 400-ton crane

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A salvage team will on Monday attempt to remove containers from a ship which ran aground on a sandbank near the East London harbour last week, the National Ports Authority (NPA) said.

“We are going to discharge containers from the vessel on to shore,” said spokesperson Terry Tailor.

A 400-ton crane arrived in East London on Sunday to help with the exercise, Taylor said, adding that the rescuers had made “fair progress” to refloat the ship since Friday’s attempt.

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