Fairmount tows rig for 8,600km

Fairmount Marine’s tug ‘Fairmount Alpine’ has delivered the semi submergible drilling rig ‘Ocean Yorktown’ safely in Brownsville, US, after an 8,600-kilometre tow from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Maritime New Zealand director Catherine Taylor yesterday declared that ‘Rena’, the containership grounded off Tauranga, was “hazardous” and issued the owner Costamare with notices under section 248 of the Maritime Transport Act 1994.

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