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Chandran Peechulli
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offenses, both domestic and international. Includes matters of marine commerce, navigation, shipping, crew, and transportation
We all agree of the ever-changing environment in ship management, the surge in scientific developments, increasing pressure owing to the squeezed manning of crew onboard, coming from different places, living away from their near and dear ones, put in fear of an uncertain terrorized state of mind owing to armed piracy, living and working with all the limitations and constraints on board etc. resulting into increased and complex issues in sea employment. However, the need and urge to keep abreast, while plunging into challenges, marching ahead with the best of solutions to ship management, for all the needed, increased performance efficiency.
Please view, deliberate polluting activities out at sea, clicking highlights in www.themarinewaves. com, which is not but a serious act of negligence, but violation of I.M.O. Conventions, applying short-cut methods and polluting the sea. An upright senior officer on board the said vessel had informed, Mr.Rajaish Bajpaee, COO, representing the Management of Bernhard Schulte (almost a year back), appraising the misdeeds happening onboard, protesting the same. With the result he was victimized, signed-off from the vessel with no further calls for joining. It is therefore apparent that such crimes of violations, were going on for long, to reduce downtime and quick turnaround of vessels at the cost of polluting the divine sea, e.g. pumping out ER bilges (leakages and drains), sludge’s turned out as waste from L.O., F.O. Purifiers, oily bilge water directly to sea, as short-cuts, including the tank-cleaning waste oil, as per master’s direction, for such activities to go on unnoticed.
Please note that the “Polluter Pays Principle” do not solve this type of crime at all, since only when they are caught and proved, they still afford to apply delay-tactics through legal assistance reducing thereby money value and loss minimized with increased profit, since penalty restricted to this incident alone and not that, what was going on for long, from which they have considerably gained and saved. Moreover, the magnitude of severance of penalty is minimal, from the undeveloped country like India. Such business tactics is like a gamble at the cost of polluting the divine sea. Flourishing by cheating has been ways of cheap businessmen,who live without principles to make fast money through wrong acts. Is this to be an encouraging act? One should consider that they have been ruthlessly destroying the futile clean sea-bed and waters of the sea, by waste oil pollution?
Though we all agree, It is for any businessman or Ship Manager to contain their costs and stay afloat doing productive job, aim at incident-free voyages with zero-operational losses, reduction in operational expenses, feasible reduction in crewing expenses of medical ashore, unwanted repatriation, maintaining the frequency of crew change with good relations and keeping the morale of the crew high, optimum utilization of man-power on board, spares and stores etc. while the shipping industry is cyclic and resilient by nature.
A responsible media publishes only when they are very well informed of the facts and figures, besides be well convinced with the proof of evidence, not be just carried-away for any thing, while “Marine Waves” international maritime newsletter www.themarinewaves.com is very well known in India and overseas for their upright depiction of facts, the editorial contents, archived in their website on-line, stands testimony for all the expositions so far made, for reforms of shipping administration and seafarers welfare measures etc. during the last six long years.
Posted: 11/1/2009 9:27:45 AM
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