Businessmen demanded compensation for rice drowned in a dry cargo ship "New Star".

Rice Importer Company Prodprogramma-Impulse "demanded that the owners of the ship" New Star, sank in the flight from the Russian border guards, compensation for the delivery of Nakhodka on board dry cargo ship rice. His damage businessmen praised for 12.3 million rubles, Interfax reports.
The company importing specified that more than 400 of the 5000 tons of rice delivered to the board of the New Star in Nakhodka were podmocheny seawater. Representatives of "Prodprogrammy-momentum" impose liability on the vessel, and believe that the cause of damage to 400 tons of rice was "the poor state of the vessel, or the careless attitude of the team to the transported cargo. Businesspeople trying to settle the conflict out of court, but the owner flatly refused to make reparation. As a result, representatives of the "Prodprogrammy-pulse" applied to the Arbitration Court of Primorye Territory demanding seize the vessel.
Bulk carrier New Star Nahodka left without the approval of the Russian border guards on Feb. 12, 2009. In earlier reports received alleging that the captain decided to leave the Russian port on the orders of the owner is due to the fact that some carried the New Old "rice was spoiled.
Without the sanction of the border guards "New Star" in fact, illegally crossed the border of Russia, after which it went to the Russian border pursuit ships. The crew of a dry cargo ship ignored demands to stop and not sbavil course after warning shots. As a result, the border guards decided to open a dry-cargo ship fire in defeat. "New Star" sank on 15 February. Eight seamen were saved, the remaining eight members of the crew of a dry cargo ship washed away into the sea.
The composition of the ship's crew was composed of 10 Chinese and Indonesians 6 (including skipper). It was at last puts the responsibility for what happened the Russian side. In China, by contrast, believe that all the fault of the use of weapons by Russian border guards and delayed assistance to mariners in the New Star.