Annual Report of the Dutch Maritime Disciplinary Court

by | Mar 8, 2016 | News

Maritime Disciplinary Court of the Netherlands

In 2015 the Maritime Disciplinary Court of the Netherlands pronounced six rulings.

These rulings concerned:

  • a captain being drunk and incapable during a voyage and when putting into the Port of Rotterdam (ruling 1),
  • a fatal accident on board a ship caused by carbon monoxide poisoning and the related activities (ruling 2 and 3),
  • a collision in the Bay of Biscay between a merchant ship and a fishing vessel (ruling 4),
  • the intentional beaching of a ship in India for scrapping (ruling five) and
  • the grounding and loss of a sailing ship off the Irish coast (ruling 6).

The key points of these rulings are given in the Court's annual report. Download the report here.