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Port Botany tragedy leads to a call for change in Australia’s stevedoring industry

Nikolaos Fanos, 49, waterside worker, husband and father died tragically on the night shift at Patrick Port Botany on March 28, 2010. He was crushed between two containers while lashing onboard the Vega Gotland.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s (ATSB) report into the tragic Vega Gotland incident of 28 March 2010 – where a Sydney [...]

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