Ministry report blames Zim for last year's Japanese boating accident

[Scurrilous]

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"The Transport Ministry has found the Zim Israel Navigation company and officers on board Zim Asia responsible for an accident in which a ship struck a Japanese fishing boat, killing seven fishermen last September.

The ministry's report on the accident castigates Zim and its management, and finds the ship's captain and first officer indirectly responsible for the accident. So far only the second officer has been indicted in the affair.

The report also finds problems on the Zim Asia's bridge and failures in the company's command chain.

Following the accident Captain Moshe Ben David was suspended. However, Haaretz found that he and First Officer Eyal Sasson are still working on Zim ships and, so far, none of the faults have been corrected.

On September 28, 2005, Zim Asia collided with a Japanese fishing boat off the Japan's Hokkaido shore, causing the death of seven fishermen. One fisherman was saved thanks to an air pocket that formed in the capsized boat."

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[Poll_Blind]

1. And Zim was attesting to the UAE ports safety issue? HA! n/t

PB

[High Plains]

2. This port issue stuff is getting ridiculous.

Now we have a LBN posting apparently designed to trash Zim. Why? Could it be because Zim execs said they didn't have any problems with Dubai Port World?

Are there two people on this board who even knew Zim existed two weeks ago?

Next I suppose I'll be hearing about Zim's terrorist connections: They sent a container that held a box that had once been touched by a guy who was a cousin to Osama's bodyguard's wife's former boyfriend.

It's been really depressing to watch the efforts to demonize the UAE over this--not that I'm a big fan of the emirates--like watching a lynch mob in action. My God, they made kids ride camels!

[Kagemusha]

3. I'd heard of them and long forgotten...

...because they popped up in the news because of this deplorable collision incident with the Japanese fishing boat.

It's too bad but, whatever the intent to trash them, it's trashing them with the truth, in this case. Perhaps next time it will not be. This time, it's about a genuinely lousy act and then firmly believing (with justification) that the captain and first officer can totally skate.

[Scurrilous]

4. Link (Oct-02-05):

Israeli vessel tied to collision that killed 7

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY2005100301...

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"The Japan Coast Guard says it suspects an Israeli containership was involved in a collision last week that caused a Japanese fishing boat to capsize, killing seven crew members.

The accident occurred Wednesday off Hokkaido.

The Israeli-registered vessel made a brief port call in Pusan, South Korea, and departed Saturday.

The skipper told an official at the South Korean maritime police station in Pusan that he had no knowledge of a collision, sources said.

Officials of the Pusan police station said the 41,507-ton Israeli vessel had clearly scraped another ship, judging by marks on the hull. White paint scrapings were collected along with a record of the vessel's route and given to the Japan Coast Guard, the sources said. The hull of the capsized 19-ton Shinsei Maru No. 3 is also white."


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1822440

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

5. That naughty, naughty Zim!