Shipowner accident Grave will mitigate damages

grave/rotterdam - The German shipping company Gefo wants to limit the maximum loss that can be claimed by the company after the collision of the weir in Grave. The company asks for it in March at the Maritime Chamber of the court in Rotterdam to be allowed to set up limited liability a so-called fund. That said, the Rotterdam court and the Ministry of Infrastructure on Wednesday.

An inland tanker loaded with benzene rammed on December 29, the weir in Grave. Therefore, the water level dropped in the Maas and the Maas-Waal canal immediately. Ships had to circumnavigate a month, while companies could not be supplied by the water.

The damage at least in the tens of millions of euros, but Minister Schultz van Haegen (Infrastructure) allows no emergency fund in, so she let the House know.