{"id":2830,"date":"2014-02-26T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T23:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2025-06-10T12:27:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:27:27","slug":"sos-cosette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/sos-cosette\/","title":{"rendered":"SOS <em>Cosette<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 9<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px;\">th<\/span>\u00a0commitment of the &#8220;Grenelle de la Mer&#8221; (Seas Summit, environmental roundtables about the sea and the coastline in France in 2009) regarding the development of a local end-of-life ship scrapping and recycling process struggles to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Yet it was specified that this commitment, which is supported by the current Ministry of Transport, covered overseas territories. According to converging information that is still confidential, the prefect of Martinique is about to order the immersion of <em>Cosette<\/em> IMO 6617025, a 99-meter long roll-on roll-off cargo ship abandoned 4 years ago at Fort-de-France. The same drastic operation, which is illegal with regard to the international commitments of France, could also happen to <em>Lady Grace II, <\/em>which is a 48-meter long coaster, unclaimed, that has also remained in Fort-de-France since October 2008, whereas her location favors, or rather requires, her destruction in situ.<\/p>\n<p>These immersions would take place outside of territorial waters in an area designated by authorities for dumping. This would be at the same location that the <em>Master Endeavour<\/em>, a \u201cdrug cargo ship\u201d, was sunk in July 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Cosette-Robin-des-Bois-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4160 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Cosette-Robin-des-Bois-2014.jpg\" alt=\"Cosette-Robin-des-Bois-2014\" width=\"273\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Cosette-Robin-des-Bois-2014.jpg 273w, https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Cosette-Robin-des-Bois-2014-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><em>Cosette<\/em> \u2013 DR<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014_Lady-Grace-II_robin-des-bois.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6899\" src=\"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014_Lady-Grace-II_robin-des-bois.jpg\" alt=\"2014_Lady Grace II_robin-des-bois\" width=\"372\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014_Lady-Grace-II_robin-des-bois.jpg 640w, https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014_Lady-Grace-II_robin-des-bois-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014_Lady-Grace-II_robin-des-bois-140x94.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Lady Grace II <\/em>&#8211; DR<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Martinique and Guadeloupe need, economically and technologically speaking, a proper dismantling industry for trade ships, fishing boats, pleasure boats, and National Marine fleet based in Caribbean waters. This industry is fully in line with the autonomous management plan for island waste, especially as some particularly violent hurricanes damage many pleasure boats beyond repair.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 9th\u00a0commitment of the &#8220;Grenelle de la Mer&#8221; (Seas Summit, environmental roundtables about the sea and the coastline in France in 2009) regarding the development of a local end-of-life ship scrapping and recycling process struggles to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Yet it was specified that this commitment, which is supported by the current Ministry of Transport, covered overseas territories. According to converging information that is still confidential, the prefect of Martinique is about to order the immersion of Cosette IMO 6617025, a 99-meter long roll-on roll-off cargo ship abandoned 4 years ago at Fort-de-France. The same drastic operation, which is illegal with regard to the international commitments of France, could also happen to Lady Grace II, which is a 48-meter long coaster, unclaimed, that has also remained in Fort-de-France since October 2008, whereas her location favors, or rather requires, her destruction in situ. These immersions would take place outside of territorial waters in an area designated by authorities for dumping. This would be at the same location that the Master Endeavour, a \u201cdrug cargo ship\u201d, was sunk in July 2008. &nbsp; Cosette \u2013 DR Lady Grace II &#8211; DR Martinique and Guadeloupe need, economically and technologically speaking, a proper dismantling industry for trade ships, fishing boats, pleasure boats, and National Marine fleet based in Caribbean waters. This industry is fully in line with the autonomous management plan for island waste, especially as some particularly violent hurricanes damage many pleasure boats beyond repair. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1221,1219,528,788,1218,497,1220,1217,1531],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-demolition-des-navires","tag-cargo-de-la-drogue","tag-cosette","tag-demantelement","tag-demolition","tag-fort-de-france","tag-immersion","tag-lady-grace-ii","tag-martinique","tag-navire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111678,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/111678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robindesbois.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}