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Workers claim port safety rules 'not followed'
Workers claim port safety rules 'not followed'
Workers at the Freeport Container Port claim the company's own documented safety procedures were not followed prior to last week's deadly tornado strike.
In the wake of the dramatic weather event and its tragic consequences at the Port, questions have been asked about to what extent the deaths of three workers and the injury of four others could have been avoided.
Dr Myles Munroe, His Wife And Daughter Dead In Plane Crash
The crash took place yesterday and killed all nine people on board the private jet. The plane reportedly struck a crane at the Grand Bahama Ship Yard, exploding on impact and crashing into the ground near a junkyard area.
A police on source on the island previously said two were feared dead. However, police sources later confirmed that all those on board had been killed.
It has been reported...
Job cuts loom at Container Port
Job cuts loom at Container Port
Three weeks after a deadly tornado devastated the Freeport Container Port, the facility is preparing to offer redundancy packages to dozens of employees, The Nassau Guardian learned yesterday.
The Guardian understands that the voluntary redundancy packages will be offered to 40 employees in the operations department that runs the cranes at the site.
Report says port procedures were sufficient but started too late
A "preliminary" incident report into the events surrounding the deadly tornado that killed three workers at the Freeport Container Port said the transshipment facility had sufficient extreme weather procedures in place to mitigate damage, but could not implement them all in time because they had no severe weather reports.
Work in bad weather 'may have affected time to assess tornado threat'
The Freeport Container Port's habit of allowing work to continue in relatively bad weather and fluctuating wind may have affected the time taken to assess the seriousness of the tornado that killed three of its workers on March 29, said an independent report into the incident.
"The fact that terminal work during relatively bad weather and fluctuating winds is a common occurrence may have affect...
AG agrees to release of McKinsey Report on HCA consultation
The Office of the Attorney General has agreed to release the McKinsey Report - the highly sought report on the Freeport economy by international consultancy McKinsey & Co. - in a move that has a prominent Queen's Counsel (Q.C.) "elated."
New state-of-the-art simulator at Freeport Container Port
Freeport Container Port, a world-class container transshipment hub between the Eastern Gulf Coast of the United States, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean, has upgraded its Crane Operator Training Program through the use a new Ship-to-Shore (STS) and Mobile Harbour Crane (MHK) Simulator from GlobalSim, a Kongsberg Maritime Company.
Dr. Myles Munroe among 9 dead in Gand Bahama plane crash
Shortly after 5pm on Sunday, November 9th a Lear jet crashed at the Grand Bahama Shipyard. It was en route from Nassau. Reports said that the plane clipped the side of a crane at the Shipyard and "exploded on impact".