Maritime New Zealand News
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On March 25, 2011, Yusril became a slave. That afternoon he went to the East Jakarta offices of Indah Megah Sari (IMS), an agency that hires crews to work on foreign fishing vessels. He was offered a job on the Melilla 203, a South Korea-flagged ship that trawls in the waters off New Zealand. “Hurry up,” said the agent, holding a pen over a thick stack of contracts in a windowless conference room with water-stained walls. Waving at a pile of green Indonesian passports of other prospective fishermen, he added: “You really can’t waste time reading this. There are a lot of others waiting, and the plane leaves tomorrow.”
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Half of the container ship Rena stranded on a New Zealand reef for more than three months is sinking after breaking up in rough seas and littering beaches with cargo and debris.
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Personnel abandoned a container ship that’s stranded and leaking oil off New Zealand’s northeastern coast in the nation’s worst such catastrophe as the vessel was rocked by waves as high as 4 meters (13 feet).
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Shipping cargo and debris are littering a beach on New Zealand’s North Island after Rena, the 236-meter (774 foot) container vessel stranded on a reef since October, yesterday split into two in rough seas.
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A container ship stranded off New Zealand’s northeast coast is safe for salvage inspectors and in no immediate danger of splitting, even as oil and cargo from the damaged vessel wash ashore, a maritime official said.
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Oil may have stopped seeping from a container ship stuck on a reef near the northerly New Zealand port of Tauranga as authorities prepare to remove fuel from the stricken vessel.
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New Zealand’s biggest maritime environmental disaster may worsen as the stranded container ship leaking oil off the nation’s northeast coast has cracks in its hull and is tilting in high seas, tipping cargo overboard.
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Salvage teams suspended the removal of oil from a stranded container ship off the northeastern coast of New Zealand because of rough seas and strong winds.
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New Zealand salvage teams are preparing to pump fuel from a container ship stranded off the nation’s northeast coast as leaked oil from the damaged vessel spreads to 60 kilometers (37 miles) of coastline.
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Rena, the 236-meter container ship stranded on a New Zealand reef since October, split into two after stormy weather, spilling cargo and debris into the water.
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