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Therese Straub - ENI 4017960

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Photographer:
Michel FLOCH [ View profile ]
Captured:
Oct 16, 2019
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Brest, France
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Oct 19, 2019
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The inland tanker Therese Straub arrives in Brest towed by the salvage tug Abeille Bourbon.
Originally towed from the Netherlands to Ivory Coast by the Moldavian flagged tug Arion, it broke in two parts in the Northwest of Ushant island.
Having not seen anything, the tug went on.
It was the container ship Saphir that reported the half-ship drifting at the French MRCC Corsen, thus making it possible to stop a danger to navigation.
The tug Arion continued South.

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person
Meanwhile, the front section of Therese Straub is still in the port of Brest awaiting demolition ...

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Update on Therese Straub's forward section:

Apparently the tug "Arion" which was supposed to tow Therese Straub to Dakar was on her last voyage herself.

"Arion" left Dakar with Therese Straub's forward section and headed for Aliaga, Turkey, where both were scrapped by Bereket Gemi Sökum shipbreaking yard, beached on January 3rd, 2020...

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They didn't mind, David.

I erroneously assumed the forward part had sunk, but it did not. It arrived at Dakar on October 29th.

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I suppose that the Ivorians won't mind getting only half a storage barge instead of a useful tanker.

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And meanwhile, the Arion continues its route to the south, right now off Morocco, doc complice of this trafficking...

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Yes, I agree with you.
And considering the year of construction of this houseboat (1970), it seems consistent.

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Sorry, my post was a bit misleading. I did not mean to say they were send to Africa for scrap.

But selling them to Nigeria and other West African countries is an easy way for European owners to dispose of these monohull vessels. And as rd77 pointed out quite a number of them doesn't survive the towing.

These vessels should be scrapped in Europe and not pollute the sea!

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Yes these boats are sold to Nigeria for further use (and there are also quite a few that survive the voyage to Nigeria), however a lot of these tankers seem to break apart at sea enroute Nigeria unfortunately.

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I do not think that this is a ship that was sent to Africa to be demolished, since there is no demolition industry in West Africa.
I think rather that this inland tanker was sent there to be used again, otherwise why protect the windows with wooden panels.

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So this hazardous disposal of end-of-life inland tankers still keeps going on. This practice should long have been forbidden under severe penalties!

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