Phoenix tour boat fails to sell as authorities run up huge storage costs

By Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

The Phoenix tour boat sank about 1.5 nautical miles off Koh Hei (Coral Island), south of Phuket on July 5, 2018. Photo: Supplied
 

PHUKET:-- The Phoenix tour boat, which sank off Phuket in July last year killing 47 Chinese tourists, remains unsold after an auction in May drew no bids as the Anti-Money Laundering Office spends more than B100,000 a month to store it.
 

Following the disaster on July 5, 2018, raids led to the discovery that the operators of the boat had laundered more than B1 billion. This, in turn, led to the seizure of assets which are being auctioned off by the Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo).

 

An official at the Amlo’s trade department said, “The Phoenix tour boat is still at the Rattanachai Shipyard. On May 22 it went up for auction with a starting price of B900,000 but failed to attract any interest.

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Sell it on the basis it must be cut up for scrap to the highest bidder.

100,000 per month ! 55555

Should have just scrapped it to start with !

Wonder who gets the storage costs?

Only in Thailand.

 

What sick mind looks at that and thinks "We can make money from that".

 

Did they advertise it in China?

Take it out to sea and wait, wont  take  long.

It's all according to plan, it will be given to someone for peanuts and then back to the sea she goes.

"As new. One careful lady owner"

Put it on a barge, take it out to sea and dump it as an artificial reef.

They could make fancy wrist watches of the hull, like Jerome's Titanic watches.

we have a restaurant that looks like a big boat here in Hua Hin.

 

maybe a new Chinese restaurant with a section for the ghosts to sit in?

11 hours ago, ParadiseLost said:

Only in Thailand.

 

What sick mind looks at that and thinks "We can make money from that".

 

Did they advertise it in China?

Nonsense, also Herald of Free Enterprise e.g. was sold.

11 hours ago, Samuel Smith said:

Wonder who gets the storage costs?

The shipyard where it is stored.

14 minutes ago, stevenl said:

Nonsense, also Herald of Free Enterprise e.g. was sold.

 

Indeed (in September 1987), but she was almost immediately scrapped (March 1988).

 

12 hours ago, johng said:

100,000 per month ! 55555

Wonder who owns the shipyard?

You could make a Seastead, heh heheh

It will never sell for anything other than scrap because of the ghosts of the dead. RIP

1 hour ago, stevenl said:

Nonsense, also Herald of Free Enterprise e.g. was sold.

That's because westerners in general don't believe in ghosts........

13 hours ago, ParadiseLost said:

Only in Thailand.

 

What sick mind looks at that and thinks "We can make money from that".

 

Did they advertise it in China?

Yea.. i mean its not like in the US where Boeing forgets warning lights out of greed hides it and countless lives are lost... I mean in other countries people are never greedy and companies never hide stuff. 

13 hours ago, johng said:

100,000 per month ! 55555

Cold have stored it at my house for 10,000!!!555

16 hours ago, johng said:

100,000 per month ! 55555

Probably on land owned by the mayor!

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Anti-Money Laundering Office spends more than B100,000 a month to store it.
 

Some official on a good earner there

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

On May 22 it went up for auction with a starting price of B900,000 but failed to attract any interest.

Looking at the photo I can offer an opinion why that happened.

16 hours ago, Matzzon said:

100 000 per month? Must be another chromosome problem. How can it cost 100K a month to store trash?

Nobody, wants to buy it. If they let it stand on the ground in open air, it will cost nothing. probably scared of somebody stealing the shit nobody want to buy.

They should be happy if somebody stole it. Problem solved.

And who actually gets the 100,000Baht monthly storage fee? 

 

Was there any tender process to provide a  storage site? 

 

 

21 hours ago, Chazar said:

Take it out to sea and wait, wont  take  long.

Good idea !

Create an artificial Reef from the hulk.

At least some good would come from this tragedy.

10 hours ago, robblok said:

Yea.. i mean its not like in the US where Boeing forgets warning lights out of greed hides it and countless lives are lost... I mean in other countries people are never greedy and companies never hide stuff. 

Can't really try to sell a crashed aircraft, can you?

6 hours ago, scorecard said:

And who actually gets the 100,000Baht monthly storage fee? 

 

Was there any tender process to provide a  storage site? 

 

 

There is only one shipyard big enough for a boat this size.

5 hours ago, Matzzon said:

You got it wrong there. In Thailand it´s not called tender process. They call it cousin ans siblings process.

Why do people sprout nonsense like this.

13 hours ago, stevenl said:

Nonsense, also Herald of Free Enterprise e.g. was sold.

Granted, but one was a huge 8,000 ton RORO ferry, while this was a small craft hardly worth the scrap value. Why did they even raise it?

 

I stand by my statement - only in Thailand would they consider making money from such a sensitive disaster.