Friday, September 03, 2010
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Accidents Russian MRCC Moscow reported as follows:
At 2204 September 1 MRCC Vladivostok received distress message from Hong Kong flagged m/v Alameda, sailing in Red sea to Port Sudan. Chief engineer drank industrial spirit and got poisoned, soon he was in a critical condition. All possible measures taken, vessel consulted Center of Emergency Medicine, but at 2350 Port Sudan medicians boarded vessel and proclaimed him dead.
I presumed accident took place on board of bulk carrier Alameda IMO 8320195, dwt 43480, built 1986, flag Hong Kong, manager Sapid Shipping Co Iran (actually owner is IRISL). But AIS shows bulk carrier Alameda is in Taiwan, anchored at Kaoshiung road. There’s another vessel with “Alameda” word in her name, LPG tanker Norgas Alameda, IMO 9240158, dwt 9260, built 2003, flag Hong Kong, manager Norgas Carriers Oslo Norway. Vessel last seen 31.08.2010 06:45 in Red sea.
Russian MRCC officers more often than not, don’t bother themselves with exact name of the vessel and especially, pronunciation, transliterating english or chinese into russian cyrillic alphabet, and also, they aren’t curious enough to give IMO number. Russian MRCC service has it’s own web site gmrss.ru, but you won’t find there accidents news and updates, just news about Russian authorities saying that and visiting this. So, there are no official news on accidents, only news are - how well Russian authoroties perform their duty.
Mikhail Voytenko
