Human error caused ferry to run aground

While the report into the incident involving the Chinese ferry MV Sabanto, which ran aground last month on Wakenaam is not yet complete, preliminary findings indicate that the incident was due to human error.

“So far as we can determine and pending the completion of the investigation it’s a case of human error or human delinquency,” Transport Minister Robeson Benn told Stabroek News, when asked for an update.

On November 17 the vessel, which was at the time heading from Parika to Supenaam, ploughed into bushes on the river bank at