Industry associations and insurers are keeping a close eye on the decision to lift a ban on nickel ore exports from Indonesia, pointing to the high number of losses linked to cargoes loaded there.
A series of bulker losses between 2010 and 2013 involving Indonesian nickel ore to China cost 66 seafarers’ lives.
Among the casualties were the 56,900-dwt Nasco Diamond (built 2009), 50,000-dwt Hong Wei (built 2001), 45,000-dwt Jian Fu Star (built 1982), 56,000-dwt Vinalines Queen (built 2005), 50,000-dwt Harita Bauxite (built 1983) and 56,800-dwt Trans Summer (built 2012).
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