IVORY COAST: GROUND LIBERIAN FREIGHT -- ITALIAN CAPTAIN NOW SENTENCED TO ON YEAR IN PRISON. (REISSUE FROM VISNEWS LIBRARY)

Record ID: 183228

  • Title: IVORY COAST: GROUND LIBERIAN FREIGHT -- ITALIAN CAPTAIN NOW SENTENCED TO ON YEAR IN PRISON. (REISSUE FROM VISNEWS LIBRARY)
  • Date: 3rd February 1971
  • Summary: 1. GV Shoreline at mouth of estuary, PAN ALONG banks 0.06 2. MLS Oil discharge point on bank leading into river 0.11 3. GV Oil tanker anchored at quayside PAN ALONG quayside. 0.18 4. MS Terminal sign PAN TO oil storage tanks. 0.24 5. LV Damaged ship "Dora" lying in river estuary 0.29 6. MS Same ship (2 shots) 0.42 7. SCU Minister of Public Works and Aides on launch going out to inspect "Dora" PAN TO "Dora" 0.51 8. MV Minister and aides disembark after inspection trip. 0.54 Initials BB/0215 SG/GS/BB/1245 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th February 1971 13:00
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  • Location: Abidjan, Ivory Coast
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Reuters ID: LVA6DKN4FRGYVZA2EB36ZH2OPX6X
  • Story Text: The Italian Captain of the Liberian freighter "Dora" -- which ran a ground off the Ivory Coast last August and has remained a navigation hazard and a potential pollution problem ever since -- has been sentenced in default by an Abidjan court to one year's imprisonment. The Captain, who lives in Genoa, Italy, was found guilty of causing the grounding by a breach of navigational rules.

    This film, reissued from the Visnews film library, shows the tanker and the Ivorian Minister of Public Works after inspecting it last September.

    SYNOPSIS: Authorities in the Ivory Coast port city of Abidjan are concerned with the problem created by the presence of a damaged Liberian freighter. Experts fear that the beaches of Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Dahomey and Nigeria will be polluted by the ship's fuel if measures to salvage the cargo ship are not successful.

    The damaged ship "Dora" ran aground near the port last August in a thick fog. Already holed below the water line, the "Dora", which carries a cargo of raw timber, is in danger of breaking up.

    Ivory Coast Minister of Public Works, Mr. Grah Kadji, arrived at the port on Saturday in order to make recommendations as to what could be done in an effort to prevent the pollution problem.
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