General information

IMO:
121832
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MMSI:
Callsign:
121832
Width:
22.0 m
Length:
146.0 m
Deadweight:
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TEU:
Liquid Capacity:
Year of build:
Class:
AIS type:
Passenger ship
Ship type:
Flag:
South Korea
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Course/Position

Position:
Navigational status:
Sailing
Course:
19.9° / -128.0
Heading:
511.0° / -128.0
Speed:
Max speed:
Status:
moored
Location:
Busan (Yongdo)
Area:
S. Korea
Last seen:
2018-05-04
2156 days ago
Source:
T-AIS
From:
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Summer draft:
Current draft:
Last update:
3635 days ago
Source:
T-AIS
Calculated ETA:

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Latest ports

Port
Arrival
Departure
Duration
2018-05-04
2018-05-04
13h 33m
2014-10-08
2014-10-08
12h 7m
2014-04-12
2014-04-15
3d 12h 7m
2014-04-10
2014-04-10
9h 21m
2014-04-05
2014-04-08
3d 9h 52m
2014-04-03
2014-04-03
9h 53m
2014-03-29
2014-04-01
3d 10h 2m
2014-03-27
2014-03-27
8h 42m
2014-03-23
2014-03-25
2d 8h 23m
2014-03-20
2014-03-21
1d 10h 2m
Note: All times are in UTC

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Latest news

Supreme court cleared nine members of Coast Guard of negligence

Thu Nov 02 11:29:27 CET 2023 Timsen

The Supreme Court on Nov 2, 2023, cleared nine members of the South Korean Coast Guard leadership of negligence in the rescue of the people aboard the 'Sewol'. The officials, including Kim Suk-kyoon, the former head of the organization, were sent to court in 2020 for failing to take appropriate action at the start of the accident. During the trial, the prosecution claimed that they should have encouraged the passengers to get out of the ship, but they failed in their duty. As for the accused, they offered their apologies and regrets, but declared that their behaviour did not constitute a crime. The country's highest court confirmed that the first judgments did not contain any errors in the interpretation of the laws. The court of first instance pronounced an acquittal. According to it, the Coastguard could not have prevented the tragedy and were not informed that the captain and crew members had left the ferry first. In February 2022, in the second instance, they were again found not guilty, for lack of proof of their professional misconduct. Kim Mun-hong, former leader of the Mokpo Coastguard, charged with instigating the creation of false official documents concerning an evacuation order, was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Last fugitive linked to Sewol disaster extradited to South Korea

Fri Aug 04 12:35:22 CEST 2023 Timsen

Yoo Hyuk-kee, 50, a South Korean businessman wanted for nine years by authorities was extradited from the United States on Aug 4, 2023, to face charges linked to the sinking of the 'Sewol'. He was taken into custody on arrival from New York, where he had been fighting extradition to South Korea, where he faces embezzlement charges related to the company that operated the doomed vessel. Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his bid to block the extradition. Yoo Hyuk-kee, also known as Keith Yoo, has denied the charges. The ferry was found by government investigators to be structurally unsound and overloaded when it capsized in April 2014, killing 304 people including 250 children who were on a school trip. The ship was owned and operated by Chonghaejin Marine, which was one of the companies held by I-One-I, an investment vehicle controlled by Yoo Byung-un, Keith Yoo's father, who was found dead two months after the ferry accident after eluding authorities. South Korean prosecutors have alleged Keith Yoo had defrauded various companies controlled by I-One-I. The prosecutors have said the family's diversion of money contributed to the Sewol operator's financial deterioration, which led to the neglect of ship management and staff safety training and eventually the accident. The businessman was led away by authorities from the Incheon International Airport. Yoo's lawyer, Shawn Naunton, said in November after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his bid to block extradition that the charges against him by South Korean authorities were "motivated by animus toward Keith and his family." South Korea's Justice Ministry said in a statement Yoo's return marked the end of the efforts to bring those who were fugitives overseas related to the disaster back to the country. Yoo's sister was extradited from France in 2017 and served out a jail sentence. Two other people who had fled abroad and were brought back were executives at companies held by the family. Another son of Yoo Byung-un has also served time in prison over the accident.

Bid to block extradition of Yook Hyuk-Kee to South Korea rejected

Tue Nov 08 11:59:18 CET 2022 Timsen

The U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Nov 3, 2022, rejected a bid by the businessman Yoo Hyuk-Kee to block his extradition to South Korea to face embezzlement charges that stemmed from the sinking of the 'Sewol'. that killed 304 people. Sotomayor rejected Yoo Hyuk-Kee’s request to prevent his extradition from going forward while he appeals lower-court rulings rejecting his effort to avoid being sent to South Korea to face trial on the seven embezzlement charges against him. Sotomayor is the justice assigned to review emergency appeals from a group of states that include New York, where Yoo’s extradition case had been pending. Yoo, who is also known as Keith Yoo, had been a fugitive for six years before his July 2020 arrest at his home in Pound Ridge, New York, a New York City suburb, where the U.S. permanent resident lived with his wife and children. Yoo is a son of Yoo Byung-un, a businessman who founded the Evangelical Baptist Church in South Korea and whose family controlled I-One-I, an investment vehicle owned by his two sons that ran the shipping company, Chonghaejin Marine. Chonghaejin owned the 'Sewol'. Investigators said the ferry was overloaded, structurally unsound and traveling too quickly. The father, Yoo Byung-un, was found dead of unknown causes in an orchard two months following the accident after eluding authorities who were searching for him. South Korean prosecutors have alleged that Yoo Hyuk-Kee had from 2008 to 2014 leveraged his family’s power as business and religious leaders to defraud various companies controlled by I-One-I out of 29 billion Korean won, or $23 million at the time of his arrest. The prosecutors said the family’s diversion of money contributed to Cheonghaejin Marine’s financial deterioration, which led to the neglect of ship management and staff safety training. Yoo’s lawyers had argued that the U.S. State Department – not judges – should decide whether South Korea waited too long to seek Yoo’s extradition under its 1998 treaty with the United States. The New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in August rejected that reading of the treaty. After the 2nd Circuit last month declined to reconsider, Yoo’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to block his extradition from taking place while he mounted a further appeal. “This harm would be irreversible and catastrophic; i.e., any relief granted to Mr. Yoo by the Supreme Court would be moot,” they wrote in a filing on Nov 2.

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