MOL Car Carrier Rescues Castaway
By Aiswarya Lakshmi
Friday, January 29, 2016
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. has announced that on January 20, 2016, the MOL-operated car carrier TRIUMPH ACE safely rescued a survivor about 80km offshore of Mexico.
Details of the rescue follow: At 08:50 (all times in local time) on January 20, 2016, the TRIUMPH ACE, sailing from the Port of Mazatlán, Mexico to Port of Balboa, Panama found a drifting person and immediately changed course to approach the castaway, and started rescue operations.
At 10:48 of the same day, the survivor was safely rescued. At 13:45 of the same day, the survivor was turned over to a ship of the Mexican Navy.