Ship-breaking.com - Robin des Bois
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Information and analysis bulletin January 18th 20110<br />
on ship demolition<br />
# 22<br />
from October 16th to December 31st 2010<br />
The agony of the Azzurra<br />
<strong>Ship</strong>-<strong>breaking</strong>.<strong>com</strong><br />
Ravenna (Italy), on July 13th 2006 © Jacques Pirson<br />
Callao (Peru), on December 6th 2009 © Captain Ted<br />
Callao, on November 2nd 2010 © Andreas Schlatterer<br />
In 2006, the Italian Liquid Petroleum Gas carrier Azzurra Prima was sailing in the Mediterranean Sea for<br />
Finaval SpA, an Italian <strong>com</strong>pany specialised in the transport of oil products and vegetable oil. In 2007,<br />
she became Azzurra, owned by Società Cooperativa Di Navigazione G.Giulietta based in Genoa. In<br />
2008 she was docked in Callao, Peru’s main fishing and <strong>com</strong>mercial port, where, after inspection, on<br />
October 7 th 2008 the classification society RINA issued reservations and suspended the certificate of the<br />
unseaworthy vessel. On August 1 st 2009, “the causes for the suspension are not removed” and RINA<br />
withdrew its classification. The vessel is laid up and progressively plundered at anchorage without any<br />
safety and environmental precautions taken to protect the marine environment or the workers. One has<br />
<strong>Ship</strong>-<strong>breaking</strong>.<strong>com</strong> # 22 - <strong>Robin</strong> <strong>des</strong> <strong>Bois</strong> / January 2011 - 1/39
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