This is despite the owner’s pledge to make the vessel compliant with the International Safety Management (ISM) Code.
The latest episode involving the 5,060-dwt Transatlantic (built 1997) is said to illustrate how ships may use “class jumping” in the hope of more lenient treatment in a move from one classification society to another.
Last May, the Military Sealift Command ended a five-year contract of affreightment worth $35.5m
