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| Athena em Leixões, Portugal. |
Nesta manhã, em um hospital em Lisboa, faleceu o grego George P. Potamianos, responsável por salvar vários navios da sucata, como o clássico português Funchal, com sua companhia, a Classic International Cruises (CIC) fundada em 1985. A companhia de Potamianos chegou a operar no Brasil em várias temporadas, com o Funchal, e posteriormente com o Princess Danae. Porém, com a concorrência de navios mais modernos e maiores, os navios da então Arcalia Shipping (que viria mais tarde a se chamar CIC), perderam mercado, e em 2002 a companhia abandonou definitivamente o país.
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| Funchal sendo adaptado ao SOLAS 2010. Sua volta aos mares pode estar ameaçada pelas mudanças na CIC? |
Hoje, a CIC opera cinco navios, o Funchal, o Princess Danae e seu gêmeo Princess Daphne, além do Arion, maior navio da frota, e do Athena, que foi o responsável por afundar o Andrea Doria, chocando se com o navio italiano numa noite de 1956. Todos os navios da companhia foram construídos entre 1948 e 1961, e não ultrapassam as 24 mil toneladas.
George Potamianos deixou a administração de sua armadora para seus filhos, Alexandros e Emilios Potamianos.
Agradeço a Deus por todas as oportunidades que tive de aprender e viver a bordo dos navios Classic Tnternational Cruises. Obrigado Sr. Potamiannos, descanse em paz.
Denize Colucci
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Wife waits in Lisbon for husband's body kept in Salalah morgue
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Madhuparna Bhattacharjee
22/05/2012 5:37 am
The body of a Portuguese national brought to Sultan Qaboos Hospital (SQH) in Salalah on May 4 after his death onboard a cruise liner, is yet to reach his family in Lisbon, his wife said.
Pedro Miguel Diaz de Azevedo, 39, died on April 30 onboard Princess Danae, after an unknown health condition and his wife Luisa Fernandes disembarked with his body at Port of Salalah, the ship's next port of call.
Speaking to Muscat Daily from Lisbon, Luisa said her family and two children – aged 14 and 11 – are in a bad state after hearing the news of Azevedo's death and that she is still trying to get the body repatriated to Lisbon.
“Both of us were crew members on the vessel, which is operated by Classic Cruise International,” she said, adding that they set sail from Colombo on April 29 and Azevedo died the next morning.
“He wasn't feeling well when he woke up that day. The doctor found his blood pressure to be very low. The doctor returned two hours later to check on him and declared him dead.”
Luisa alleged that she was not told where the body was being taken in Salalah. “I was only told that it would be sent to me after all formalities were completed.”
Luisa, who left for Lisbon the next day, told Muscat Daily that she had requested GAC Oman, the agents of the ship in Salalah, to repatriate the body
without an autopsy, after she was told by the agency that carrying a post mortem examination could delay things.
For this, she had to send a ‘No objection letter’ to the Portuguese Embassy in Saudi Arabia (since Oman does not have one) stating that the body be flown to Lisbon without an autopsy.
A senior official from GAC said that though the agency received a clearance letter from the embassy, it did not mention 'without post mortem'.
“We then requested the embassy to send a letter again with the above words to avoid delay,” he said.
The GAC official added, “We are still waiting for the letter from the Portuguese Embassy in Saudi Arabia. No letter has been received till Monday afternoon.”
The official confirmed that the body of Azevedo was transferred from the vessel to SQH on May 4.
Meanwhile Luisa has threatened to take the issue to the international media if there was any further delay in repatriating the body back to Portugal.
A senior executive from another shipping agency in Oman clarified that it is mandatory in such a case that the body is released only after an autopsy.
“The cause of the death must be ascertained and a complete examination of the body has to be done before repatriation so as to avoid any future controversies,” he told Muscat Daily.
According to him, all parties involved in sending the body back including the Portuguese Embassy could be accused of negligence by the family or local authorities if the body is sent without an autopsy and if they later suspect that the death was not due to any natural causes.
“It is also a must that the person’s passport is cancelled by the embassy. The body should be embalmed at the hospital and kept in a transportable condition. The agency can send the body only after getting all the necessary documents,” he added.
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