https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/09/02/hopes-to-refloat-grounded-manahau-barge-this-week/
I’m not familiar with the class requirements for motorised barges but the vessel looks like it belongs on the Rhine rather than an open coast in the Roaring Forties.
Hogsnort,
Interesting move to operate that vessel on the west coast. Is she loaded?
Another big frontal system heading your way and tides are approaching neap. Not good.
No. I understand she was waiting to load at Westport on the Buller River. The river is quite narrow and in flood can flow at over12,000 Cubic metres per sec. There is a formidable bar at the river entrance.
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Not classed as a barge but as an Oil Products Tanker, built at Batam in 2007 as Kimtrans 3213:
Presently sailing under the flag of Niue and owned by West Coast Bulk Logistics:
Both drives are shoal draft. As she worked in swell, in ballast trim, across the bar there is every likelihood that these drives would become ineffective. Definitely the incorrect application and there is the dopey Minister calling it the “Siren of Success”.
Something doesn’t seem right here. She was going to load a bulk cargo and there is no mention of propulsion machinery. I have my suspicions that when they start the accident investigation they will find all of the documentation and recordings expected of a dumb barge.
I think it was too early in the morning and I missed the detail drawing from the managers. Operating such a vessel on the West Coast of NZ would suit overweight Chiefs and assistants. It could be days before they could get forward for a meal. Someone in the wheelhouse could be in for a very long watch as well.
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Says it all doesn’t it.
Indeed.
Cool, concise video. Says it (all), w/o saying it (all)…
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After the last government halted development of the offshore oil industry we have only one AHTS in the country of 105 tonne bollard pull and she was used to pull the barge of the beach. All our ports have gone to tractor tugs that do the job very well in port but are limited in their ability to cope with anything more than a two metre swell.