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BH Global employee confirmed dead in China tugboat accident

Originally published: 20 January 2015

Singapore: BH Global Corporation has announced that an employee of its subsidiary, Z-Power Automation, was among the deceased in the recent incident where a tug boat sank during a sea trial off Jingjiang, China.

The employee is Indian service engineer Harikrishnan Mani.

China Maritime Safety Authority reported that Shenzhou Heavy Machinery, the builder of the vessel commenced the trial without getting relevant approval and didn’t report the vessel status according to regulation.

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