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Legal action against owner and seller of scrap ship

The Pakistan government was likely to take legal action against the owner of the FSO 'Jesslyn Natuna', breaking of which has been suspended at the Gadani Shipbreaking Yard for the last 2,5 months. The vessel allegedly carried toxic material, which was not permissible per international and local law. The investigation is being carried out by the Director-General, Ports and Shipping, Govt. of Pakistan. Legal action would also be initiated against the local buyer of the vessel. It was accused that the mercury level in the sludge is above dangerous levels, as evidenced by the local research department -PCSIR report. It was further added that Interpol's information about the sludge quantity found in the ship was incorrect, not 1,500 tonnes, but only about 50 tonnes of sludge. Investigators said they will contact Interpol to take action against the seller. The investigation report will be completed soon.

Dispute about mercury on scrap ship

The Balochistan government official Mohammad Khan inspected the 'Cherish' on May 29, 2021, which was allegedly carrying over 1,500 tonnes of toxic waste when being beached at Gadani for recycling. Khan is the head of the environment protection committee that has been investigating the case of the mercury-contaminated ship that reached Gadani despite the fact that a warning was issued to Islamabad from the Interpol almost a week before its arrival. The claim of hazardous waste was presumably untrue, and the team had obtained samples from the waste oil to ascertain the fact. There were around 100 drums on the yard in which the oil from the ship has been kept. They have taken them in our custody. The Balochistan government had launched an inquiry in the case on May 26. They were intimated by the federal agencies quite late, after the ship had already been cut. The inquiry report will be finalised in a few days. The Interpol’s environmental crime unit had communicated an alert to its network at the Federal Investigation Agency on April 22 that the floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel — ‘Radiant’, formerly known as ‘J.Nat’ — was possibly being towed to Gadani and planning to illegally dispose of 1,500 tonnes of mercury-contaminated oil sludge in contravention of the Basel and Marpol conventions. In May 2020 the ship was banned by the Bangladeshi authorities to dock at Chittagong. Since November 2020 it was anchored at Mumbai after the Indian authorities did not allow it to beach at Alang. The Indian and Bangladeshi governments took their caution from a report from the Shipbreaking Platform that the ship, having a substantial quantity of hazardous waste, had “illegally” departed from Indonesia in May 2020 in search of her final resting place in South Asia. The owner of the ship in Pakistan, Rizwan Dewan, denied acknowledging the toxic waste. He purchased the ship from a company in Singapore after seeing all its certificates that declared it fit for recycling. The ship reached Karachi from Mumbai on April 25 and went through scrutiny from all the federal agencies, including the Customs and the Maritime Security Agency, before berthing at his ship-breaking yard in Gadani. He also showed a permission letter from the Balochistan’s Environmental Protection Agency allowing the cutting of the ship. He claimed that the mercury level in the oil sludge was not toxic in the light of the parameters explained by the World Health Organisation. The lead investigator in the case, Khan, explained that the mercury would exhibit a toxic characteristic if its contamination is more than 200 micrograms per kilogram. The government will trust its own laboratory result, adding that a sample had already been dispatched to the Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (PCSIR) for examination. Full report: https://www.thenews.com.pk/amp/841964-where-did-1-500-tonnes-of-mercury-contaminated-sludge-go

Beached

Beached at Gadani 30/04/2021 Plot 60 as Cherish https://www.facebook.com/GaddanishipBk/photos/pb.1632191333709953.-2207520000../2876365379292536/?type=3&theater