BARRIER REEF
August 1st, 2002
BY MARK ROWESHIPPING lines are resisting Australian government plans for greater use of pilots to guide them past the Great Barrier Reef. Shipping Australia Ltd argues that pilots are overworked and that pilots sleep an average of just five hours each day. Canberra wants to extend mandatory pilotage to difficult passages where ships now sail independently. Since the early 1990's ships have had to carry pilots in an inner passage between the reef and the northernmost 800km of the coast, north of Cairns.The row coincides with an operation to free a bulk carrier ...
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