After 10 months moored at Port Kembla, the Iron Chieftain is expected to leave on Wednesday afternoon.
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The ship was seriously damaged by fire while berthed alongside the BlueScope steelworks in June last year.
The damage was so extensive that owner CSL Shipping decided to retire it.
The plan was to send it to China to be recycled, but it will now be towed by an oceangoing tug to Turkey.
It is expected to leave at 3pm on Wednesday.
If there are any delays, the next available time the ship could leave the harbour would be 6pm on Wednesday.
Glen Humphries
I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.
I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.
