The Irish government is coming under pressure to rein in livestock exports, while in Cape Town one livestock carrier has kicked up a huge stink. Ethical Farming Ireland has written to the Irish agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue demanding changes to the way animals are exported by sea...
https://splash247.com/irish-government-comes-under-pressure-over-livestock-shipments/
A callous, selfish, greedy and unconvincing application to re-export nearly 17,000 animals to the Middle East, without so much as a day’s rest away from the vessel after the first aborted voyage, has been rejected by the Australian government on February 5 – not a minute too soon. These animals...
https://splash247.com/live-animal-export-the-animals-who-returned-home-to-have-their-stories-told/
The plight of more than 16,000 animals stuck on a boiling-hot livestock carrier for the past month has made headlines around the world. Dr Lynn Simpson, a well-known former live export veterinarian, writes for Splash on the tragic, aborted voyage of the Bahijah, pictured today off Fremantle. With...
A 21-year-old livestock carrier is returning to port in Australia with its cargo of 3,600 cattle after a fire broke out in the engine room yesterday. Vroon’s ran into difficulties shortly after leaving the port of Darwin yesterday bound for Indonesia. The fire was extinguished promptly and the ship...
https://splash247.com/fire-breaks-out-on-livestock-carrier-carrying-3600-cattle/
Around 1,800 cattle were unloaded from a 17-year-old livestock carrier over the weekend at the Australian port of Darwin. The animals had spent six nights onboard the docked vessel following a major engine failure. The cattle, who were bound for Indonesia, are now at a quarantine yard south of...
https://splash247.com/cattle-offloaded-from-broken-down-livestock-carrier/
The saga of the abandoned , a 2005-built livestock carrier, has come to a close with the ship auctioned, and the last 16 crew repatriated. More than 30 Filipino seafarers onboard the Liberian flagged converted boxship, owned by a Chinese company based in Dalian, were owed many months in back wages...
https://splash247.com/yangtze-fortune-abandonment-saga-comes-to-an-end/
Upon the application of unsecured creditor KPI OceanConnect, the Singapore High Court has appointed Deloitte as liquidator of Cattle Line Two, the company which owns two long idle livestock carriers, the Barkly Pearl and Diamantina. The ships will now be put up for auction. Talks are ongoing with...
https://splash247.com/livestock-carriers-to-be-auctioned-in-singapore/
The , a 2005-built livestock carrier, will be auctioned in Australia four months after the ship was arrested over unpaid bills. More than 30 Filipino seafarers onboard the Liberian flagged ship, owned by a Chinese company based in Dalian, are owed many months in back wages with Australian...
https://splash247.com/abandoned-livestock-carrier-to-be-auctioned-in-australia/
Shipping has suffered its share of reputational problems through the years, from pollution to allegations of price gouging. But of all the world’s ocean trades, livestock shipping is in a reputational class all its own. Decade after decade, vessel casualties and reports of animal cruelty keep piling up.
Yet another major accident occurred this month: On June 11, the livestock carrier Al Badri 1 sank after leaving its berth in Suakin, Sudan, on the Red Sea, with 15,800 sheep onboard. All crew...
A livestock carrier carrying nearly twice its permissible maximum load capsized at Sudan’s Suakin Port over the weekend. Only around 700 of the 15,800 sheep onboard were rescued when the 49-year-old sank along the pier as it readied to leave port and cross the Red Sea bound for Saudi Arabia. None...
https://splash247.com/15000-sheep-perish-as-overloaded-sudanese-livestock-carrier-capsizes/