Follow-up article regarding the sunken ship
I found this article on the web:
The Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) will sanction administratively with the maximum fine of US $10,000, those responsible for the recent sinking of the vessel Conradora Island.
It will also present a criminal accusation with the Attorney General’s Office for putting at risk the lives of the passengers and crew who were aboard this vessel.
The Second Vice-president of the Panama and administrator of the AMP, Rubén Arosemena Valdés, said that the concesión emitted to the ship in question to carry passengers will be revoked because the vessel set sail without the authorization of the AMP, and carried in excess of its passenger capacity, which is limited to 127 passengers and 3 crew members.
He declared that the vessel already had an arrest warrant against it that was issued by the Department of Merchant Marine of the AMP dated September 2, 2005, and the safety certificate of the vessel expired on July 29, 2005, the date on which it last set sail with authorization. This document is a requirement for all vessels that set sail.
Arosemena Valdés indicated that the AMP carries out constant inspections of vessels on the interior service of Panama to determine their conditions of navigability, that determined that the vessel in question did not have the necessary structural conditions for the safety of its passengers. For this reason, on September 2, 2005 a writen order was issued for the detention of the vessel, which implies the suspension of operations until the deficiencies are corrected. This arrest warrant was communicated to the merchant marine inspectors and to the port, captains and operators of the vessel.
However, on Sunday September 18, 2005, says the AMP press release, the operator appeared personally at the offices of the merchant marine at the Port of Balboa to request permission to set sail, and on being advised of the impediment, he withdrew and without explanation, the vessel set sail without authorization, bound for the Island of Taboga, carrying 160 passengers.
The Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) will sanction administratively with the maximum fine of US $10,000, those responsible for the recent sinking of the vessel Conradora Island.
It will also present a criminal accusation with the Attorney General’s Office for putting at risk the lives of the passengers and crew who were aboard this vessel.
The Second Vice-president of the Panama and administrator of the AMP, Rubén Arosemena Valdés, said that the concesión emitted to the ship in question to carry passengers will be revoked because the vessel set sail without the authorization of the AMP, and carried in excess of its passenger capacity, which is limited to 127 passengers and 3 crew members.
He declared that the vessel already had an arrest warrant against it that was issued by the Department of Merchant Marine of the AMP dated September 2, 2005, and the safety certificate of the vessel expired on July 29, 2005, the date on which it last set sail with authorization. This document is a requirement for all vessels that set sail.
Arosemena Valdés indicated that the AMP carries out constant inspections of vessels on the interior service of Panama to determine their conditions of navigability, that determined that the vessel in question did not have the necessary structural conditions for the safety of its passengers. For this reason, on September 2, 2005 a writen order was issued for the detention of the vessel, which implies the suspension of operations until the deficiencies are corrected. This arrest warrant was communicated to the merchant marine inspectors and to the port, captains and operators of the vessel.
However, on Sunday September 18, 2005, says the AMP press release, the operator appeared personally at the offices of the merchant marine at the Port of Balboa to request permission to set sail, and on being advised of the impediment, he withdrew and without explanation, the vessel set sail without authorization, bound for the Island of Taboga, carrying 160 passengers.
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