The company Mitsui OSK Lines, operator of the bulk carrier MV Wakashio which ran aground on the island of Mauritius, has already been involved in accidents, including an oil spill in 2006.
This is an environmental disaster without precedent for the island of Mauritius since the bulk carrier MV Wakashio struck a reef at Pointe d’esny on the 25th of July. 3800 tonnes of fuel oil and 200 tonnes of diesel fuel it was carrying began to spill into the blue waters of the supernatural that make the reputation of the island in the Indian ocean.
And this is not the first accident in which the japanese company of the vessel, Mitsui OSK Lines, is involved. In 2006, the oil tanker Bright Artemis, which she was operating was damaged while attempting to rescue the crew of another vessel, causing the leakage in the indian Ocean of a quantity of crude oil estimated at 4500 tonnes.
The leak having taken place offshore, the party had been taken to let the water melt and evaporate, the company believed that it was unlikely that the oil would reach the coast. The Mitsui OSK Lines has also been involved in other accidents, including the sinking of one of its container ships in 2013 in the indian Ocean.
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A company old of 142 years
The history of the shipping company established at Tokyo dates back to 1878, when the trading company Mitsui & Co has begun to tap a link by steam-boat between Nagasaki and Shanghai. Within the large conglomerates (“zaibatsu”) Mitsui, maritime activity has been extended in the 1930s to the transportation of passengers between Japan and the american continent. Renamed Mitsui Steamship in 1942, it has been used, as well as many other private companies japanese, for the military transport before and during the Second world war.
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Surviving the chaos of the post-war period, the company has participated in the “japanese miracle” by taking part in the exports of cars, japanese and import of natural gas in the Archipelago, poor in natural resources. Renamed Mitsui OSK Lines in 1999, it now operates some 740 ships in the world and employs more than 1000 people. The bulk carrier MV Wakashio, launched in 2007, is the property of the japanese company Nagashiki, established in Wakayama (west). It had passed without issue its annual inspection in march, according to the NGO, ClassNK.
