Legal issues delay salvage of sunken vessel


Water hazard: Fishing vessel Xin Yi Yi lying on its side off Permatang Damar Laut.

GEORGE TOWN: The Marine Department will conduct its own salvaging works on a sunken Hong Kong vessel in the shallows off Permatang Damar Laut, south of Penang island.

Its corporate unit assistant information officer Muhammad Zulhafeez Shaidin said works were expected to begin early next year to salvage Xin Yi Yi which has been lying on the seabed half-submerged for more than 16 months.

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