A ship operated by Triton Schiffahrts, a subsidiary of Seatrade Groningen has been detained by UK port state control inspectors for having a “dangerously unsafe” engine room.

Inspectors found a dozen deficiencies on the 550,000-cbf reefer Elsebeth (built 1998) with four of them sufficiently serious to warrant detention.

The Elsebeth was not so pristine when boarded at Portsmouth.
The engine room bilge wells were full of thick black oil and other areas were oil covered.

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