{"id":8347,"date":"2004-03-09T09:04:07","date_gmt":"2004-03-09T09:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.14\/index.php\/2004\/03\/09\/ivorycoast-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T01:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T17:22:12","slug":"ivorycoast-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/ivorycoast-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u8c61\u7259\u6d77\u5cb8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8190\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/01\/ivorycoast_b.jpg\" alt=\"ivorycoast_b\" width=\"100\" height=\"66\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Extortions<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are several reports of this instances.<\/p>\n<p>In a case reported by BIMCO, the customs at Abidjan found irregularities as the quantity of lube oil declared exceeded the actual quantity on board. A fine of US$5,260 was requested which could be reduced to US$2,260 if cash was paid. The master refused to accept the breach and requested the attendance of the P&amp;I Club to verify the quantity of lube oil on board. The customs refused to accept this arrangement and arrested the vessel and demanded a fine of US$180,000. Eventually the P&amp;I Club negotiated with the customs to revert to their original fine of US$5,260 subject to a cash payment. The vessel lost half a day due to this incident.<\/p>\n<p>In another incident at Nigeria, the port informed the master the crew&#8217;s seaman books were invalid as they should be issued by the ship&#8217;s flag state and not of another state even though this meets all international standards. Such false allegations of breaches could be resolved with cash payments.<\/p>\n<p>We suggest owners include into their charterparties a clause which transfers onto the charterers the additional expenditure to resolve \/ conclude such alleged breaches which are not defined by the local legislature, and further all delays arising from such situations to be for charterers&#8217; account.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">09 Mar 2004<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"javascript:history.go(-1)\">back<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extortions There are several reports of this instances. In a case reported by BIMCO, the customs at Abidjan found irregularities as the quantity of lube oil declared exceeded the actual quantity on board. A fine of US$5,260 was requested which could be reduced to US$2,260 if cash was paid. The master refused to accept the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-8347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-information","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21447,"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347\/revisions\/21447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewliu.com.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}