Breaking: New Manly ferry suffers another steering failure near Sydney Heads | Mattonews
A new Manly ferry has suffered another steering failure near the entrance to Sydney Harbour less than two months after a similar incident forced the operator to urgently pull the catamaran and two sister vessels from service.
The Fairlight ferry is tied up at the Balmain shipyards on Sunday after suffering another steering failure.The second-generation Emerald-class ferry had only just been cleared to resume passenger services early last week after almost two months out of operation.in late September, a day after a sister vessel – the Clontarf – suffered the same problems, forcing French company Transdev, which operates the government-owned ferry fleet, to pull all three new Manly ferries from service.
Labor transport spokeswoman Jo Haylen said the government and safety authorities needed to determine the cause of the steering failures before a serious safety incident occurred.“This is now beyond a joke. The government told the public they had found and fixed the cause of the periodic steering failures that have plagued these overseas-built ferries after they’d been grounded for weeks,” she said.
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