One of last year’s most high-profile tanker casualties has been towed to Indonesia where it will be scrapped.
The Pablo aframax exploded on May 1 in Malaysian waters, killing three crewmembers.
aframax exploded on May 1 in Malaysian waters, killing three crewmembers. The charred remains of the 1997-built ship was one of the shipping images of 2023, a stark reminder of the risks associated with the dark tanker fleet. Since 2018, TankerTrackers.com evidenced this vintage ship transfer 16m barrels of Iranian oil on 29 occasions.
Without any confirmed insurance, and with owners impossible to contact, the Malaysian authorities were left in a quandary regarding what to do with the wreck. Multiple shipping databases list the ship’s insurance status as ‘Withdrawn’.
After seven months, Malaysian authorities finally decided to remove the wreck with analysts at TankerTrackers.com charting the vessel’s final voyage last month. The ship is now berthed at a ship scrapping facility to the west of Jakarta, with Planet Labs sending Splash a satellite image of the wrecked ship yesterday.
The latest data from brokers BRS suggests there are a total of 675 tankers in what it terms as the grey fleet, representing 7.4% of the total global tanker fleet.
Another ship about to pollute the sea and endanger life’s with the hazardous materials on the vessel
Not good at all