THE exit of container salvors, Svitzer and Smit, from their eight-month mission salvaging containers and cleaning up oil from the stricken Rena stranded on the Astrolabe reef, New Zealand class action suits are targeting shipowner Costamare to recover losses resulting from the disaster.
Athens-based Costamare is facing a lawsuit from more than 30 claimants for the disaster of the vessel in the Bay of Plenty which caused the country's worst maritime spill in hundreds of tonnes of oil.
Ships captain, Mauro Balomaga, 44, and its navigation officer Leonil Relon, 37 admitted to charges of releasing toxic waste and perverting the course of justice and have been sentenced to seven months imprisonment.
Losses to the tourist industry are estimated at NZ$1.2 million (US$940,000) a day with a total clean-up for the government coming to NZ$40 million. Marine operators have suffered from the disaster forcing one marine operator to close and one to lose NZ$50,000. Tourist accommodation providers suffered too with one operator claiming a loss of NZ$148,000, a food outlet claims NZ$109,000 and a sport event organiser claims NZ$15,000.
The salvors have removed and processed 940 containers ashore with a tender for debris and containers from the seabed removal and the hull from the reef currently supported by recovery company Braemar Howells.
WORLD SHIPPING
20 June 2012 - 22:06
New Zealand businesses launch damage suits against Rena owner Costamare
THE exit of container salvors, Svitzer and Smit, from their eight-month mission salvaging containers and cleaning up oil from the stricken Rena stranded on the Astrolabe reef, New Zealand class action suits are targeting shipowner Costamare to recover losses resulting from the disaster.
WORLD SHIPPING
20 June 2012 - 22:06
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