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Yang Ming Containership Loses 83 Containers in Heavy Seas Off Australia – gCaptain
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Watch out, sailors! A Yang Ming containership has lost more than 80 containers overboard while battling heavy swells off the east coast of Australia.

The Liberian-flagged ship YM Efficiency was sailing from Taiwan to Port Botany near Sydney when the stack of containers collapsed at as the ship was underway off New South Wales’ central coast at around 4 a.m. Friday morning.

Officials say 83 containers tumbled overboard approximately 30 kilometers off the coast in Commonwealth waters. Another 30 containers were reportedly damaged but remained on board the vessel.

Bulk Carrier Banned from Australia After Caught Underpaying Crew – gCaptain
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The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has banned the Panama-flagged bulk carrier DL Carnation from entering Australian ports for one year after the vessel was caught underpaying crew wages.

The AMSA was first alerted to the offense on September 8 when it received a complaint via the International Transport Workers’ Federation alleging discrepancies in the payment of wages for the crew of the bulk carrier.

An AMSA surveyor boarded the vessel in Gladstone and found that the ship was operating with two sets of wage accounts on board; one that showed the amount of pay the crew should have been receiving in line with their Seafarer Employment Agreements, and the other showing what the crew were actually receiving.

A comparison of the accounts showed the crew were being underpaid in excess of $17,000 USD per month with records found reflecting this back to at least April of this year.

The vessel was immediately detained for breaching the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006, which provides international standards for seafarers rights such as minimum age, working hours, seafarer employment agreements, and payment of wages, among other things. MLC 2006 is commonly referred to as the “Seafarer Bill of Rights” for its basic-yet-necessary protections for seafarers.

Latest Australian refugee disaster worsened by slow response

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By Mark Church
31 August 2012

Another boat carrying refugees to Australia has sunk after sailing from Indonesia. Reports indicate that only 54 people have survived, after being stranded in the water for almost 24 hours before help arrived. The boat was reported to have had 150 passengers from Afghanistan.

An unidentified passenger twice contacted the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) Rescue Coordination Centre early Wednesday morning, at 4.20 a.m. and 5.05 a.m. AEST, reporting the vessel was in distress. AMSA said the boat was eight nautical miles south-west of Java. Later, it amended that report to correctly estimate that the vessel would have drifted to a location about 50 nautical miles west of Java.

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