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Our accident investigation report on the grounding of Islay Trader off Margate while on passage from Murphy’s Wharf, Greenwich to Antwerp, Belgium on 8 October 2017, is now published.
The vessel sustained plate indentation and frame distortion but there were no injuries and no pollution.
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