Indian Custom seizes scrap ship at Alang for undervaluation:

Bhavnagar, Sep 16 (PTI) Customs sleuths today seized a Greece flagged ship coming from Singapore to the shipbreaking yard at Alang here for dismantling, allegedly for misdeclaration of value. "A made in China ship -- Syros -- bearing the flag of Greece, which had come from Singapore to Alang has been seized under the Customs Act for misdeclaration of value.

The vessel was purchased by Bansal International Ltd here," a customs official told PTI. "The price of the vessel has been undervalued in the bill of entry to evade customs duty," he said. The vessel of around 12,232 DWT was docked recently on plot number one of the Alang shipbreaking yard, the largest shipbreaking yard in Asia. "Customs sleuths have contended that declaration of over USD 500 per DWT as price of the vessel by the buyer was undervalued," official sources said.

Source: IBN Live. 16 September 2011

http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/custom-seizes-greece-flagged-ship-at-alang-for-undervaluation/825801.html

Greek-flagged ship Syros & the Maltese-flagged Sea Bird crashed some 20 kilometres off the coast before Uruguayan capital Montevideo. Notwithstanding this, disastrously, Syros’ fuel tank was cut open, dumping a huge 14,000 cubic meters of oil into the sea. May 2008

SYROS: [Ship info added by Tridib Ghose]

IMO No: 7917953

Year of Build: 1981

Ship Builder: China Shipbuilding Co. Keelung

Ship Builder Country: Taiwan

Yard No: 180

Current Flag: Greece

Classification Society: LR

GT: 35038

NT: 20808

DWT: 63325

Length Overall: 222.99

Breadth (M): 32.21

Draught: 12.942

Depth: 17.81

ENGINE: 1 x Sulzer 6RND76 built by Ishikawajima Harima H.I. Aioi - 1 x 10592 Kw

1 x FP propeller

Ex Clymene 1998 - Ex Queen Nora 1986 - Ex Eternity Venture 1986

Syros Ship

Source: Shipspotting.com. 

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