Unmanned wooden boat to be destroyed in Quang Tri
VOV.VN - An unmanned wooden boat that had been left stranded onto Gio Hai beach of Gio Linh district in the central province of Quang Tri will be destroyed, announced Le Duc Tien, vice chairman of the Quang Tri Provincial People’s Committee, on June 27.
According to the official, in March local residents detected an empty wooden boat that had drifted onto the beach.
The boat is made of wood, with a length of 11 metres, a width of three metres, and a height of three metres. There were neither any people nor machinery aboard, as well as information about the vessel’s origin and owner.
Following inspection work, local authorities decided to destroy it on request of Quang Tri Maritime Port Authority.
Earlier, an 18-metre-long boat was seen on a beach of Trieu Van commune in Quang Tri’s Trieu Phong district in 2021 without anyone on board. Some of the boat’s equipment was in a foreign language.
Local authorities had decided to auction off the abandoned boat after failing to identify the ship owner.
The starting price was set at VND20 million, but there were no bidders.
