Probo Baoning

History
September 1989. Delivered as "Probo Baoning" to a Norwegian consortium - Bulkhandling, a chartering group led by Torvald Klaveness. CNCo. purchased a 50% share in the vessel, along with a 50% share in the "Probo Baro". However by 1990 CNCo. sold its share in the joint venture, due to being exposed to the level of exposure in the trade over which they had no control.

1999. Sold to Prime Ship Management S.A. and renamed "Probo Koala".

2006. Renamed "Gulf Jash"

For more about this ship, see Probo Baro

Service
Bulkhandling Pool.

Events / Stories
Long after CNCo sold their interest in her, this ship, as the "PROBO KOALA" owned and managed by Prime Ship Management, SA, covered herself in shame in the Trafigura toxic waste dumping scandal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probo_Koala

Interestingly, because the Probos were designed to carry, inter alia, caustic soda in bulk, they were amongst the rather few ships that could carry out the "caustic washing" operation on the coker naptha supplied to Trafigura by Pemex. As Minton Treharne and Davies observed, this was really an attempt to replicate a refinery procedure, at sea.