The ship was built in 2003 at the Dalian shipyard in Dalian on behalf of the Virtue Maritime shipping company in Hong Kong. The ship, which was launched under the Hong Kong flag, was transferred to the Hong Kong company Maisie Navigation in the year of delivery. The management was initially with IMC Shipping Company, from 2005 with V.Ships Asia and since 2007 with MSI Ship Management from Singapore. The ship is used by the shipping company Aurora Tankers, which is part of IMC and which received the Quality Shipping for the 21st Century safety award from the US Department of Homeland Security in 2008 for operating its tankers .
Collision and fire in front of Busan
In December 2013, the Maritime Maisie was on a journey with about 30,000 tons of acrylonitrile and para-xylene from Ningbo to Busan. At 02:15 a.m. on December 29, the tanker collided about 9.2 nautical miles from the port of destination Busan with the Gravity Highway car transporter , which was newly built at Hyundai Mipo Dockyard and was carrying out a shipyard test drive. The Maritime Maisie was hit about amidships on her port side, whereby tanks 4 and 5 broke open as a result of the collision and the ship caught fire. The car transporter was brought back to Busan after the crew and the shipyard personnel on board had been removed. The fire on the tanker, whose crew was also recovered, could only be extinguished after 19 days, with around 4,000 tons of the cargo being burned. The salvage company Nippon Salvage, with whom the ship owners concluded a salvage contract according to Lloyd's Open Form , was able to establish a towing connection with the tanker after the fire was extinguished. Although the weakened structure of the heavily damaged ship poses a great risk of breaking apart in the event of a deterioration in the weather or a longer towing voyage, and the 26,000 tonnes of chemicals and 640 tonnes of fuel remaining on board represent a major environmental hazard in the event of a sinking, both South Korea and Korea refuse to do so Japan called for an emergency port on their territory.
At the end of April 2014, South Korean authorities allowed the ship to call at Ulsan port . Once there, it will be examined how the remaining cargo can be cleared and whether the ship can be repaired.
technology
The tanker's superstructures and machinery are arranged aft. The propulsion of the ship consisted of a two-stroke diesel engine .
