More on Sri Lanka fiber outage....

Mon Aug 23 23:01:06 UTC 2004

Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
> 
> Built in 1978 and has seen real hard use every day it's been in service 
> as far as I can see from googling out the marine registry
> 
> I'm sure its owners (the Shipping Corporation of India) would be happy 
> to give them the ship for free.

As I figured...

> Valuable?  The consignment belongs to whoever consigned it, and I guess 
> all the shipper has to do is to remove it from the impounded ship and 
> book space on some other rust bucket.  Should be fairly easy - those are 
> fairly crowded waters.

This I'm not sure about. The GTS Katie debacle involved holding
the cargo hostage; in at least that one case such was a nono.
Otherwise...?

[ObNANOG: Scyld, of Baewolf cluster fame, sublet office space
from the owners of the Katie. The sheriff showed up one day with
eviction notices for all.]

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