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Re: More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Mon Aug 23 23:57:03 2004
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 19:01:06 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <412AB9A6.4000006@outblaze.com> from "Suresh Ramasubramanian" at Aug 24, 2004 09:14:38 AM
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
>
> 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.
As I figured...
> 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.
This I'm not sure about. The GTS Katie debacle involved holding
the cargo hostage; in at least that one case such was a nono.
Otherwise...?
[ObNANOG: Scyld, of Baewolf cluster fame, sublet office space
from the owners of the Katie. The sheriff showed up one day with
eviction notices for all.]
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