Port chiefs tight-lipped over R18m damage to ship in dry-dock drama
Malaysian-owned Go Regulus suffered damage to her bow and stern in December after the vessel’s hull was damaged in the same dry dock two weeks earlier
A 2‚400-ton ship is at the centre of a row over the R18m damage it sustained in an embarrassing dry dock blunder at Cape Town harbour. The Malaysian-owned Go Regulus suffered damage to her bow and stern in December when a caisson gate in the Sturrock dry dock prematurely opened while part of the dock was filling up. Water flooding into the dock resulted in a knock-on effect as the Go Regulus collided with the ships docked behind and in front of her. Ironically‚ just two weeks earlier the vessel’s hull was damaged in the same dry dock after staff mixed up the docking blocks‚ causing a series of hull indentations. Following the December incident the vessel was marooned in the nearby Robinson dry dock for several weeks while Transnet National Port Authority (TNPA) and ship repairers tussled over the repair bill. She has since been moved‚ but TNPA has refused to accept liability for the incident. Tolane Kotsi‚ TNPA Cape Town port manager of continuous improvement‚ would not be drawn on ...
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