Corporate Responsibility - San Fran oil spill Example

Responsibilty of corporations towards costly damages due to their actions is again side-stepped.. The San Fransisco oil spill last week will be another in a long list of examples of how disasters caused by a companies are ignored and shrugged off, mainly because of cost, also because of the can of worms it would open up for people to see the mechanism with any amount of transparency.

"Time Passes for Effective Cleanup in Oil Spill"
by Amy Standen
Audio for this story will be available at approx. 12:00 p.m. ET
Weekend Edition Saturday, November 17, 2007 · Ten days after a container ship spilled 58,000 gallons of heavy tanker fuel into the San Francisco Bay, crews have recovered less than one-third of the oil. That may be all they get.

Here's another article in a popular magazine about the dodging of clean up responsibility:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/69952

If you read the newsweek article, you'll notice a phrase slipped in about "errors in ommision". That's the Orwellian Lie. Which happens to be considered the greatest of lies.

The ship that hit the Bridge is named the Cosco Busan. Key questions that are ommitted from all the articles I'm finding:
-Who owns that ship?
-Who owns the oil in the ship?
-Where was it headed?

Notice how hard it will be for you to find that information.
Cosco Americas Inc. has plastered a statement on their webpage saying "COSCO Group confirms that M.V. "COSCO Busan" is not owned, managed, operated, or chartered by COSCO Group or any of its companies." - but they also omit the truth. They will not say who does.

Here is an excerpt from the Friday, November 9, 2007 of the San Fransico Chronicle:
"An experienced San Francisco admiralty lawyer, who did not want to be named because he has many clients in the shipping world, said ships and their owners and operators sometimes cloak themselves with dizzying layers of paperwork "to avoid liability. If you can't find who owns it," it is more difficult to file a lawsuit."

I'm still searching... seems like Darrell Wilson, a representative for Regal Stone, the Hong Kong-based company that owns the Cosco Busan, is the name being tossed around without any answers. His big quote was "declines to comment".

The Cosco was chartered by Hanjin Shipping, here's what they have to say:
"As Synergy Marine “fully operates the ship as well as manages the entire crew including the captain, Hanjin Shipping has no legal responsibility in this accident," the Seoul-based firm said the statement. The 68,000-deadweight-ton COSCO Busan is deployed on the weekly CAX service and was headed from Oakland to the port of Busan in Korea. COSCO Container Lines and Yang Ming, two of Hanjin's partners in the CKYH Alliance, also take slots on the service. Hanjin said in its statement that the firm is making every effort to assure that cargo aboard the Busan is delivered to customers. "

So they plan to get as much of the product to it's destination do they? I'm calling bullshit here.

I'll keep searching for my answers.