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Hebei Spirit Two released on bail News has been received from Korea early this morning that the Hebei Two, Captain Jasprit Chawla and Chief Officer Syam Chetan have been bailed from jail, pending a final decision of the Supreme Court expected later this month. Bail was set at $ 10,000 bail for each officer.
For the first time the treatment o V.Ships Senior Management and all Trade Associations are thankful to the Supreme Court in Seoul for this decision and the Korean Government, for the first positive steps in resolving this case. In view of this morning’s announcement from Korea , all the Trade Associations and Unions involved in the planned action, V. Ships, the ITF, INTERTANKO, InterManager, Intercargo and IMEC, have agreed to cancel the demonstration scheduled for January 23 in London . The participants believe that a postponement of the planned action will create a better environment for a successful resolution to this long running saga. |
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the Hebei Two has brought together seafarers unions ITF, ship
owners’ and managers associations Intertanko, Intercargo and
Intermanager, the International Maritime Employers’ Committee
(IMEC) along with
SOUTH Korea's Supreme Court today bailed the master and chief officer of the Hebei Spirit after an
unprecedented and concerted campaign on their behalf across the maritime industry.
Please go to following link of Lloyd's list for details: http://www.lloydslist.com/ll/news/viewArticle.htm?
Some Good news – hope it goes better now !!!
Hebei two walk
Chief officer
Syam Chetan (right) and Master Jasprit Chawla (left).
Two Indian officers controversially jailed for their role in the Hebei Spirit oil spill have been released on bail.
Master Jasprit Chawla and chief officer Syam Chetan were released by a Seoul court but are still not allowed to leave the country.
Sources at the Korean embassy in London tell TradeWinds the pair are required to stay in a hotel in Seoul.
A bail of KRW 10m ($7,500) has been paid for each of the men, who were jailed in December for their role in South Korea's worst ever oil spill last.
Maritime groups were outraged by the decision to sentence Captain Chawla for 18 months and Chetan for eight.
V.Ships, the manager of the 270,000–dwt single hull Hebei Spirit (built 1993), particularly vocal with chief executive Bob Bishop branding the verdict "utterly unreasonable".
The Hebei Spirit, owned by China's Hosco, was hit by a Samsung Heavy Industries crane barge while at anchor in the Yellow Sea in December 2007, spilling 10,500 tonnes of crude and causing at least $500m in damages to a wide stretch of coastline.
TradeWinds reported last week that South Korea maritime officials had defended a report into the Hebei Spirit accident that led to the imprisonment of the two officers.
The Korean Maritime Safety Tribunal (KMST) presentation was given in response to claims of bias and failure to follow international guidelines on accident investigation.
The KMST's interim report claims that the pair failed to keep and adequate anchor watch, the vessel's engine was not prepared and the men did not take the correct avoidance action.
The report says the substantive blame was with the crane barge fleet but marine Judge Jung Hyung Taek, who gave the presentation, said that just because the Hebei Spirit was at anchor did not absolve it from taking necessary steps to avoid collision.
By Andy Pierce in London
Heibi Spirit - case file - read all about the accident - report prepared by Capt. Joe Lobo
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