The Achilles Heel of Global Commerce
Mol Comfort disaster
A 316 meter long container ship broke in two after some hours of undulation in the Arabian Sea. The MOL Comfort was transporting the equivalent of 7,040 standard sized containers. The fate of the front and rear sections, and the number of containers that fell into the ocean, are uncertain. The Arabian Sea is one of the world’s busiest shipping routes; it connects the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea by the Suez Canal.
The MOL Comfort in the process of snapping in two on June 17, 2013
Photo IANS – Indo-Asian News Service
“Shipbreaking” # 31
Bulletin of information and analysis on ship demolition
Europe is sending illegally more and more vessels to be broken up in Asia. She is not the only one doing this way.
In this edition :
– Overview January 1 to April 30, 2013
– MSC Flaminia
– Baco-Liner
– Marseille, the waiting room for scrapping in Asia
– The scandalous export of the Lyubov Orlova
– Welcome to Chennai Port, the Nightmare before Scrapping
– Letters to the Editor
– France Telecom cable layer Chamarel
