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OAS platform Detail for SKOGAFOSS, meta_version: 2. Current meta_version is: 3
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platforms_id: 1
Title:
Name: SKOGAFOSS
ICES Code: AGSK
Callsign:
Countries: ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Comments: Updated information from ICES for the vessel SKOGAFOSS from ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA.

NOTE: Platform code AGSK for SKOGAFOSS has been deprecated because it represents multiple hulls. US NODC and ICES no longer attribute data to platform identifier AGSK.

Do not use AGSK to identify a platform for any data collection from any time.
Use AGSA for data collected before 1996 by Antigua and Barbuda platform SKOGAFOSS, call sign V2GR.
Use AGSB for data collected from 1988 until August 1998 by Antigua and Barbuda platform SKOGAFOSS, call sign V2QT.
Use AGSC for data collected from September 2000 until July 2007 by Antigua and Barbuda platform SKOGAFOSS, call sign V2XM.

Code : AGSK
Name : SKOGAFOSS
Flag : ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA - AG (ISO Country Code)
Notes : Multiple hulls

Additional Information Sources:

None found ..

Multiple Hull Info:
AGSA - Skogafoss
AGSB - Skogafoss
AGSC - Skogafoss

General Comments:
This is a multiple hull code and should not be used. See links for the correct vessel.

Skogafoss AGSK found on ship list from 1996 with call sign V2GR. Skogafoss AGSK found on ship list from 2001 with call sign V2QT.

Is AGSK the Skogafoss from 1979? ex- OSTEBAY 1984 purchased by Part. M.S. "Skógafoss" from Part. M.S. "Ostebay" Germany following charter to Hf. Eimskipafélag Íslands and renamed SKÓGAFOSS registered in Panama. 1988 registered in Antiqua. 1990 sold to Skoga Line Ltd., Antiqua (Hf. Eimskipafélag Íslands). 1998 renamed MAERSK GEORGETOWN following charter to A.P. Møller. 1999 renamed SKÓGAFOSS. 1999 sold to Chatlink S.A., Malaysia (Hubline Pte. Ltd., Singapore) and renamed BOUGAINVILLA. http://www.heimsnet.is/iceship/hsmyndir/Kaupskip/Eimskip/Skipin/Fleetlist.htm

So, renamed SKÓGAFOSS registered in Panama. 1988 registered in Antiqua until 1998. 1998 renamed MAERSK GEORGETOWN. 1999 renamed SKÓGAFOSS. 1999 sold to Malaysia renamed BOUGAINVILLA.

http://www.heimsnet.is/iceship/hsmyndir/Kaupskip/Eimskip/Skipin/Fleetlist.htm shows a number of vessels called Skogafoss.

Call sign V2XM http://cargo-vessels-international.at/SKOGAFOSS_IMO8203646.pdf.
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Metadata version: 2
Keydate: 2003-03-25 00:00:00+00
Editdate: 2014-09-25 19:59:26+00