Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
Built in 1978 and has seen real hard use every day it's been in service as far as I can see from googling out the marine registry
I'm sure its owners (the Shipping Corporation of India) would be happy to give them the ship for free.
As I figured...
Valuable? The consignment belongs to whoever consigned it, and I guess all the shipper has to do is to remove it from the impounded ship and book space on some other rust bucket. Should be fairly easy - those are fairly crowded waters.
This I'm not sure about. The GTS Katie debacle involved holding the cargo hostage; in at least that one case such was a nono. Otherwise...? [ObNANOG: Scyld, of Baewolf cluster fame, sublet office space from the owners of the Katie. The sheriff showed up one day with eviction notices for all.] -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433