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Tug boat piloting barge load of containers sinks at Tin-can port

… As rescue efforts on Thursday failed


A tug boat piloting a barge loaded with containers have sank at berth 10 of Tin-can Island port, with the pilot of the tug boat said to have escape death by the winkers.

The berth is operated by Five Star Logistics Nigeria Limited while the tug boat belongs to Medlog, said to be the logistics aim of one of the multinational shipping lines.

On the reason for the sinking of the tug boat over a week ago, Vanguard gathered that there are conflicting reasons. While a dockworker said the crane hook which was to discharge the containers had fallen on the tug boat causing rapture that result in it taking in water rapidly; a staff of the Five Star Logistics said that the tug boat in its effort to berth the barge had rammed into the quay apron causing a rapture that resulted in the barge in taking water.

The dockworker who said that the incident occurred on Thursday last week, further disclosed that the tug boat sank shortly after before efforts to rescue it could be done.

When Vanguard visited the site of the incident Thursday, efforts were on by the terminal operators to savage the vessel. Two heavy duty barge cranes were on down, with divers trying to connect both hooks of the cranes to the vessel under the water.

A such at the terminal told Vanguard that the rescue effort was unsuccessful as cable of the two cranes snapped just as the tug boat was being pulled out of the water.

Vanguard had earlier gone to the Apapa office of Comet Shipping Line, the parent company of Five Star Logistics where our correspondent met with Mr. Kingsley of the Shipping department who directed Vanguard to Five Star Logistics office at the port.

At the Tin-can island office of Five Star Logistics, Vanguard was informed that the General Manager was not around and that there was no one to speak on the issue. Similarly, efforts to speak with the Port Manager of Tin-can Island Port, Sylvester Egede, proved abortive as he neither picked his calls nor respond to a text message sent to him.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/06/tug-boat-piloting-barge-load-of-containers-sinks-at-tin-can-port/

Okay

Hopefully, a quick solution should save all the goods and workers onboard by God's Grace.

No tribalism pls cos any small thing now on nairaland, tribalist will turn it to something else.

Nigeria has turn hell on earth

If insured properly, just be smiling 😁

Chaii

Anything can happen to anyone in this APC ERA.... Jst be vigilant and be very careful... APC are blood suckers

God help us o

Wetin we go call this one naw?

Wahala

Choo, mi goods nu na highsea

Nigeria jagajaga everything scatter scatter

There was a country 😆

Too bad. Hope no one was injured

In life, we take risks immediately we walk out of the door in the morninq

Everything is falling and sinking under this godforsaken regime

Some goods on that boat the owner borrowed money from somewhere.

Oh No !

Who and who have connived to sink igbo peoples consignments and Containers . . . Thankfully its the tug boats that their bad belle affected

God! Bless the people at loss

Money sunk just like that... This kind business na 50/50.. No rest of mind until your container landed safely...

89green:
Hopefully, a quick solution should save all the goods and workers onboard by God's Grace.

No tribalism pls cos any small thing now on nairaland, tribalist will turn it to something else.

Tugboats don't carry goods.

holluwizzy:
If insured properly, just be smiling 😁

The insurance company will be.....

OP, you couldnt even find a befitting picture....haba mana

that picture is of migrants drowning for God sake how does it relate?

Five Star Logistics.....

E money comes to mind.

People have money in this country, God!

This maybe a case of a push and pull Nigerian local fabricated tug with incompetent crews manning the boat to tow a flat barge loaded with containers that’s above its towing capacity

While we await for a comprehensive report on the accident, alway carry out JSA and Towing checklist before carrying out towing operation.

Name of the tug boat also missing in the report…. Cos lot of tugs in our coastal water are not seaworthy talkess of carrying out towing operation

Another conflicting report from the dockworkers, While offloading the containers from the barge, the container fell on tug causing the tug to take in water?

This one na real bobo sha… Wetin carry tug under crane when it’s duty is to tow the barge safely to the Quayside and leave immediately before offloading operation.

Tug no Dey transport goods….. so why would a container fall on the tug?

From my experience as a seafarer

Simulated scenario: The tug might have been contracted to tow the barge to the quayside, the contractor didn’t inspect the boat to know if it’s seaworthy (I’ve seen a case of old tugs where the crew uses cement to seal leaking overboard valves and their rusted hull) and may have hit the quayside while trying to berth the barge and started taking in water (Even though, ships do have bilge pumps to pump water ingress onboard)

4 months ago we rescued a distress boat that carries Yokohama fender for tankers that brought a crude oil tanker for export operation, The boat was taking in water and we went to standby close to them in case they need evacuation (Thankfully they had cement onboard and they started doing their usual magic, this shows that it has been happening before) when you are trying to cut cost… lot of things happens which might cost you a fortune, most of those tugs are out of class hence not insured, that’s why they are dirt cheap to hire for job.


Make them commot $15,000 per day hire better tug boats for their safe operation them no go die

Tinubu why

"Death By A Whisker"

SmartyPants:


Tugboats don't carry goods.

Thank you my brother. It’s hard for these people to read and assimilate

This is bad,very bad. Imagine importing goods from far away China only for it to sink in your country's port.

Na E-money Get The Company

AmiableMosquito:
Five Star Logistics.....

E money comes to mind.

People have money in this country, God!

EXLOVER:
Some goods on that boat the owner borrowed money from somewhere.

na boat no be container boat, it help contain boat wen there about approaching port,na tug boat dem dey use draw such vessels to port

Na situation like this dey turn rich man to poor man in a second. Or infact destitute if he borrow the money.