The Indonesian-flagged Territory Trader has been banned from calling all Australian ports for three months having been detained by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) three times since July 2013. The vessel had a history of machinery and equipment malfunctions and breakdowns.
“This vessel has a poor history of complying with international safety conventions in Australia and is known to transit the environmentally sensitive and highly protected Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait area,” said Mick Kinley ceo of AMSA.
“For these reasons the vessel was considered high risk and a non-scheduled port state control inspection was undertaken.”
The vessel calls at the port of Cairns 12 times a year and will have to rectify the deficiencies found in the inspection before it can leave the Australian port.
In August this year AMSA banned the Liberian-falgged containership Vega Auriga for three months for seafarer welfare violations.
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