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Australia will send a support vessel to assist the Antarctic resupply vessel MPV Everest in the Southern Ocean with 109 people on board after the ship suffered a fire in one of its engine rooms, the Australian Antarctic Division has reported.
MPV Everest, which is chartered by the Division, experienced a fire in its port engine room on Tuesday while returning home after a two month resupply mission to the Davis and Mawson research stations in east Antarctica. The vessel was able to continue under its own power and was last reported located about 1200 nautical miles south of Fremantle, traveling at a speed of about 10 knots.
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Second Fire Gives Ammunition to Union Set Against Foreign Flagged Vessels
National Interest Project Should Employ Resident Citizens Says MUA
AUSTRALIA – ANTARCTICA – The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) has made no secret to its strong opposition to the chartering by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) of the supply ship
MPV Everest, which is owned by Luxembourg-based Maritime Construction Services (MCS) and registered in the Bahamas, placing the operation s management in foreign hands.
The crux of the union’s argument is two pronged, firstly that a national interest offering employment, such as the Antarctic work should essentially be held entirely within the country, and secondly that the standards aboard the incumbent vessel, employed when construction of the permanent replacement to the
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