You Can Turn a Corner With a Sinking Cargo Ship

Sea trade, Today it has reached incredible proportions. per year from approximately 226 million cargo ships we are talking about. They travel between countries or continents, cross large oceans, struggle with storms and giant waves, and reach their destinations.

Sometimes they cannot reach them. Dozens of ships may encounter difficult conditions and be unable to complete this journey. It hits the shore and sinks or with waves from route It drifts completely astray.

With the technology we have today, how could a ship go missing?

Maritime is one of the oldest industries in the world. Date before Christ It goes up. Today, ships are of course designed to cross continents and with high technologies and precautions They are equipped.

However, there are also extra precautions taken. container ships which is moored and used to ensure that the ship is on the correct course. tugboats like. However, sometimes even all these measures can fall victim to difficult sea conditions.

A container ship means a shipment of millions of dollars. A ship that cannot reach the port is a big loss for the company.

What we often see in the Bosphorus, with tons of shipments loaded ships carry hundreds of cars, tons of goods, electronic devices, etc. they carry. such a ship and of the crew It is a great misfortune that he is left alone and helpless at sea.

A big crisis for some always means an opportunity for others.

Some interesting things that go back a long, long way. Marine laws They exist and are still valid. According to one of them, the person who manages to pull a tossed ship to the shore or save as much property as possible from a ship that is about to sink; legally, financial compensation equal to the value of the goods saved can request.

Doesn’t that sound too far removed from modern law? Because it is. The rule dates back to very, very primitive times.

The purpose of this law is to pirate plunder It was to prevent. So unless someone saves the ship, it will be left in the hands of pirates. It takes motivation to save.

This rule was first used between 1000 and 800 BC, probably Phoenicians and Dorians During the period of disagreements between on the island of Rhodes We see in the Maritime Laws written, The Byzantine Empire We come across the same law in the period.

So officially, legally, there is an international law that says whatever you save from ships is profitable. “Law of Salvage”, that is, the Law of Salvage.

Actually this The logic behind it is much more complex. But let’s try to summarize it as simply as possible:

If you see a ship in distress at sea and have the means to save it completely or partially, and you undertake the task of delivering this ship to the port or saving some of the goods, even though no one asks you, this is called Maritime Lawsin “pure salvage”.

In this case, when you go to court equivalent to the amount of goods on board You are eligible to receive it.

If a coast guard ship rescues a container, can it also gain this right?

No. One of the important conditions of this law is Under difficult conditions and even though you don’t have to, you do a job where you don’t know the outcome. You entered voluntarily. Here “volunteering” keyword.

So, if saving this container ship is already a necessity for you, that is, if it is your duty, you cannot benefit from this situation. Coast guard vessels, tugboats or ship crews cannot benefit from this situation.

Can you pay millions of dollars just because you are the first to find a ship that is easily salvageable or likely to be salvaged? No to that either.

How much share you will get from here depends on the ship’s how much danger he is in is determined in connection with. You can’t lay claim to a ship when you see a big wave approaching. Now in the pirate age Of course, we do not (except for some exceptional regions such as the Somali coast).

There is another group where this rule does not apply: If this If saving the ship also means saving your own life Then you have no right to demand any money.

If you think you have the equipment and means to salvage the ship, you can make an agreement with the company before salvaging it.

This law is sometimes contracts It works via . The company that owns the ship negotiates it with a company that has the capacity to salvage it. “Contract Rescue” An agreement is made and signatures are signed. If the ship is partially or completely salvaged, the amount the company will receive in return is determined by mutual agreement.

Because you agreed to salvage this ship in return for a contract. “volunteering” condition is disabled. Therefore, you cannot expect a very large amount of compensation in accordance with this old Maritime Law. Of course, sometimes these contracts can be made for very large amounts of money.

Saving not only the ship but also the seas from possible damage that the ship may cause can be evaluated under this law.

of this law in its modern adaptation There is another exception. Even if you are not in a position to save the ship and its goods, it may sink or cause serious damage to the seas. oil waste a leaky ship will give environmental damage If you can stop it, you can also get a partial payment for it.

Million dollar containers in question and maybe A major environmental disaster that will harm thousands of living things When it happens, this is not a small payment at all.

No matter how hard you try, if you’re not successful, you still won’t get anything.

The last condition is “success”. The Recovery Act is completely “No success, no reward” evaluated on the basis of So, if you cannot successfully save any property, you will not receive any reward, no matter how much effort you have put in, how much risk you have put yourself in, and how much money you have spent.

For all these reasons this ship rescue situation, This is a very rare situation nowadays. For such a situation, which may occur very rarely and has little chance of success, we make large investments and rescue company Not many people think about setting it up.

But there are rare examples where we see him going to sea for his own pleasure and somehow being able to save a ship. This is a one in a million challenge good luck If it happens to you one day, you now know what you can do.

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