Greenwich, Connecticut-based TransAtlantic Lines (TAL) says it is working to repair a US-flagged bulker that had been barred from government cargo business.
This week, TradeWinds reported that the US Coast Guard again cited TAL’s 5,060-dwt Transatlantic (built 1997) for numerous mechanical and safety management deficiencies during an inspection of the ship in South Korea.
The ship's owner pledged last year to fix the vessel after the Military Sealift Command barred the vessel from cargo service for “unspecified cause".
Back in 2012, ABS and DNV pulled their statutory documents from the vessel due to safety deficiencies, resulting in a loss of the TAL’s document of compliance.
In an email statement, TAL said repair work on the vessel has been completed, but it is still waiting on a part for the vessel. A final inspection will take place once the part arrives, it added.
The vessel is also undergoing a change of class, TAL said. ABS provided the ship’s safety management certificate (SMC), but that expired in December. Since then, ClassNK has provided the ship’s SMC. DNV also provided another statutory documents to the vessel
A representative of ClassNK said the SMC had been issued “fully in-line” with procedures from the International Association of Classification Societies regarding switching from one class society to another for statutory documents.
