MSC has no special knowledge of this tragic accident. MSC was the bareboat charterer of the MSC Jessica until early June 2009 and until then stood in the shoes of the owner for the management of the vessel, but MSC was not the actual owner of the vessel. Therefore MSC is unable to comment on whether the actual owners of the MSC Jessica at the time she was beached for scrapping did or did not perform any decontamination that might be required of an owner after the vessel left MSC’s management and before a vessel is scrapped...We can only assume that some error or errors dealing with flammable liquids occurred during the demolition process leading to the awful tragedy in this case, about 2 months after the vessel left MSC’s service and management. We do not know and do not wish to speculate whether an error was made by the scrapping company or organisation, or by the workers themselves.