Accident investigators have urged Marshall Islands authorities to call on the IMO to close a critical loophole in the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (Solas) following an investigation into the loss of the Stellar Daisy.
The call is made in the accident report of the ship’s flag state, published this week, on the catastrophic structural failure of the converted VLOC that claimed 22 lives in the Atlantic off Uruguay on 31 March 2017, as it sailed from Brazil to China.
