Engineers prosecuted for Cai Lan Port gantry collapse
Posted by Bao Viet Nam on August 15, 2008
QUANG NINH — Police in Northern Quang Ninh Province have prosecuted two engineers allegedly responsible for supervising the installation of a gantry crane in Cai Lan Port which collapsed and killed eight people in July.
The defendants are Pham Dinh Thi, 34, former head of the machinery assembly unit No.2 of Lilama 69-2 joint-stock company and Khong Manh Giang, 31, the head of the engineering workshop at Falcon STC Company.
Police said they would prosecute the engineers for violations of labour and safety regulations.
The collapsed gantry crane was produced in Germany and had been used in Shekou – a port in south China – from 1992 and had just been brought to Viet Nam. —
