Cosco Busan report slams officers and shipmanagers

THE PILOT, the master, the shipmanager and the port ship traffic service system all came in for wide-ranging criticism in the report into the 2007 Cosco Busan collision with the San Francisco Oakland Bay bridge The Cosco Busan, while navigating from berth to sea with a pilot on board during restricted visibility, collided with one of the base towers of the Bay bridge and breached its fuel oil tanks.

Some 202,000 litres of fuel oil contaminated around 26 miles of shoreline, with the total cost of the oil spill clean-up in excess of US$70m, the bridge repair US$1.5m and shiprepair at US$2.1m.
The Standard Club pointed out that...

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