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She would have been on anyone’s ship of shame: Safety alarms that did not work, fire-fighting equip­ment that did not oper­ate, lifeboat engines that could not start, sea­far­ers not trained to use equip­ment that would keep them alive and a lead­er­ship that lost the plot in an emer­gency. Her name was An Tai Jiang and, in rel­a­tively force­ful lan­guage Hong Kong’s Marine Depart­ment, in its report on a Jan­u­ary 2009 engine room fire, says that she was a sub­stan­dard ship that should not have been entered in its registry.

An Tai Jiang, an ash­phalt car­rier, was flagged in Hong Kong.

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