[73457] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Mon Aug 23 23:44:31 2004
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:14:38 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200408232212.SAA03110@sigma.nrk.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
David Lesher wrote:
>
> They better hope the cargo is valuable; otherwise they will
> own one rusting hulk and have to deal with it.
>
It's a break bulk ship - a large container vessel for shipping extra
large or awkwardly sized cargo like coal / fertilizer / oil pipes etc
Built in 1978 and has seen real hard use every day it's been in service
as far as I can see from googling out the marine registry
I'm sure its owners (the Shipping Corporation of India) would be happy
to give them the ship for free.
Valuable? The consignment belongs to whoever consigned it, and I guess
all the shipper has to do is to remove it from the impounded ship and
book space on some other rust bucket. Should be fairly easy - those are
fairly crowded waters.
srs
