$4.2m to move Pasha Bulker 5m

Author: CLEMENTIA CUNEO Source: THE DAILY TELEGRAPHTHREE weeks after it beached in savage storms, and having already cost $4.2 million, the stricken carrier Pasha Bulker is just five metres closer to returning to sea.

Industry sources estimate it is costing more than $200,000 for each day it stays stranded, which means those five metres have cost the Pasha Bulker’s Japanese owners Fukujin Kisen, or at least its insurance company, $4.2m - or $840,000 a metre.

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Posted by Admin on June 30th, 2007
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Weather ‘promising’ for second Pasha Bulker refloat attempt

Source: 1233 ABC

The Newcastle Port Corporation says forecast weather conditions will help another attempt to refloat the stranded Pasha Bulker freighter tonight.

After being stranded on Newcastle’s Nobbys Beach for more than three weeks, salvage attempts for the bulk carrier were called off yesterday when three cables linking tugboats to the ship came free.

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Posted by Admin on June 30th, 2007
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Saving the Pasha Bulker

Author: JORDAN BAKER Source: SMH.COM.AU

VALIANT salvage attempts managed to move but failed to free the stranded bulk carrier Pasha Bulker off Nobbys Beach in Newcastle last night.

Efforts were going well until a steel tow cable snapped shortly before high tide about 7pm, dashing hopes that the city could wave goodbye to the vessel by this morning.

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Posted by Admin on June 29th, 2007
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Salvage crew ready for carrier rescue window

Source: THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

SALVAGE crews will tonight make their first attempt at refloating the stricken bulk carrier Pasha Bulker, almost three weeks since it became stranded on a New South Wales beach.

Equipment was put in place yesterday, and last-minute preparations made before the critical window of opportunity arrives around 7pm, on a much anticipated high tide at Newcastle.

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Posted by Admin on June 28th, 2007
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