Oostzee
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The Oostzee was a Dutch coaster on which a serious poison accident occurred on the Lower Elbe in July 1989.
history
1980 to 1989
The ship was built in 1980 at the Martin-Jansen shipyard in Leer / Ostfriesland , with hull number 163 as Oostzee for the Rotterdam shipping company Noordlijn, a subsidiary of the Haren-Emser shipping company Intersee Schiffahrtsgesellschaft . From 1981 to 1983 the ship was operated as Savonia under the management of Intersee and then sold by Noordlijn to the "Noordzee" company in Delfzijl, which used it again under the name of Oostzee in the following years under the management of Scheepvaartbedrijf Noordlijn, Emmen .
1989 poison accident
In July 1989 the Oostzee was on a journey from Rotterdam through the Kiel Canal to Leningrad . The cargo in the hold of the ship consisted of barbed wire, quartz sand, zinc bars and 3913 barrels with around 850 tons of epichlorohydrin . On the voyage from Rotterdam to the Elbe , the freighter got into bad weather, in which some of the dangerous goods drums slipped. About 40 barrels leaked. The fault was the improper storage of the poison barrels, said Günter Hollmann, member of the "Oostzee" crisis team. Contrary to the regulations, they were placed directly on the ship's bottom, and they were also not properly stacked.
On July 18, 1989, the ship arrived at the Kiel Canal, where the onward journey was stopped due to the cargo damage, which had already led to a chloroform-like odor on board. First the ship was referred to the Neuwerk roadstead and the crew was removed.
It was considered whether to tow the ship to the manufacturer Dow Chemical in Bützfleth , Hamburg or Cuxhaven, which was discarded due to the proximity to residential areas. Ultimately they brought the Oostzee the same port in Brunsbüttel to delete the damaged cargo. The corresponding work lasted over three weeks and led to a series of accidents due to insufficient protection against the extremely harmful epichlorohydrin and its compounds.
1989 to 2009
After the accident, the ship was initially continued to be operated by Noordlijn and sold to the Nedlloyd subsidiary KNSM-Kroonburgh in Rotterdam in 1994 , where it was used as Louise Green by the shipping company General Shipping & Chartering Services (GenChart) until 1996 . From January 1996 the ship belonged as Trinity Square to the Gulfranger Shipping Company in Limassol and was operated by the Vertom Scheepvaart- und Handelsmaatschappij in Rotterdam. Further positions were from October / November 1998 as Sandy Cay for C. Rehder Schiffsmakler und Reederei in Limassol, from July 1999 as Nordica for Unisand Shipping Company in Limassol under the management of the NC shipping office in Bremerhaven and freighting by Wilhelm Tietjen Befrachtungsgesellschaft in Hamburg October 2004 Lady Rea for the Rea Maritime Corporation in Panama and most recently from August 2006 as Evgeniy Vasilyev for Dream Hills Trading in Panama in the management of DSL Shipping in Limassol. At the end of 2009 the freighter was finally taken out of service and sold for demolition. In December 2009, the freighter arrived at the last port to be scrapped in China.
meaning
The poison accident in the Oostzee is still one of the better-known shipping accidents on the Elbe and aroused great media interest at the time due to the numerous breakdowns during processing. At the time, the accident was the reason for the Federal Ministry of Transport to build and convert existing units into so-called gas protection ships, which can be used in chemical accidents at sea. The accident continues to be a case study on the subject of the risks involved in the transport of dangerous goods.
technology
Superstructures and machinery were arranged aft. The ship's drive consisted of a six-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine from the manufacturer MWM , which delivered its output of up to 3000 hp to the fixed propeller via a gearbox. There were two electro-hydraulic cranes on the port side.
Web links
- Entry at Cedre (English)
- German Bundestag - Small Inquiry More security when transporting dangerous goods by ship
- Björn Looström: "The OOSTZEE Case July / August 1989" (English)
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c d e ship data at 7seasvessels (English)
- ↑ a b c d e f g Lloyd's Register 1982/83, p. 654
- ↑ "Oostzee"; Stricter regulations after an accident? , In: Die Welt August 9, 1989
- ↑ Aus allen Ritzen , In: Der Spiegel 31/1989, July 31, 1989, pp. 27/28.
- ^ Fritz Vorholz: The floating residual risk , In: Die Zeit No. 32, August 4, 1989.
- ↑ Töne from the Typhon , In: Der Spiegel 33/1989, August 14, 1989, p. 71/72.
- ↑ Michael Legband: Poison freighter "Oostzee" - A scandal reaches Hamburg , In: Die Welt , July 5, 1999, p. 44.
- ↑ Mervin F. Fingas: Handbook of Hazardous Materials Spills Technology , McGraw Hill Professional, 2001, ISBN 9780071395380
- ↑ Susanne Kopte: Corrosive! Toxic! Explosive! , In: Mare , June 2003, No. 38.
- ↑ Eigel Wiese: Misfortune on the "Oostzee" - First the poison, then the chaos , In: Hamburger Abendblatt , July 26, 2014.