Originally Posted by
Broken Biscuits
Note from St Helena Government (via facebook) saying that the RMS St Helena voyages have been extended until July 2017.
However, it says "the airport is open" as evidenced by a medevac flight arriving/departing today and a "charter flight" arriving tomorrow (13th July). I am assuming another business jet or similar.
Hope the date doesn't signify anything!
The date of July 2017 probably reflects a 12 month extension to the time charter for the RMS St. Helena. According to "Equasis", the website of the Paris Memorandum on Port State Control, the last Special Survey was in October 2010; this must be wrong and the date must be 2015, as the Special Survey cycle is five years. That would suggest that the ship should be able to operate, without too much drama, until October 2020.
I wonder if, perhaps, the thinking is that the airport will have a year to get sorted out and if it is not sorted out by July 2017 then there will be three years to have a new ship built?