Ship reaches site where debris was seen
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A NORWEGIAN ship has reached the area of the Indian Ocean where possible debris of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was said to have been spotted.
“The ship has arrived at the site to take part in the search,” said Cecilie Moe, a spokeswoman for Norwegian shipping company Hoegh Autoliners.
No object likely to have come from flight MH370 has been recovered at this stage, Christian Dahll, a company spokesman, said later.
“The ship will travel along a route provided by Australian authorities until nightfall,” he said.
“After that, we will assess the situation with the Australian authorities.”
Sturla Henriksen, director general of the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association, said the search area extended over a distance of around 100 kilometers.
The St Petersburg, a vehicles carrier, will travel “back and forth (along the route) in the hope of finding what has been identified as debris,” Henriksen told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, adding that the ship did not have the capacity to retrieve objects from the sea.
The vessel was on its way from Port Louis in Mauritius to the Australian city of Melbourne when it was requested by the Australian authorities to reroute in order to identify debris spotted by satellite in the southern Indian Ocean.
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