Zim Asia's captain sentenced to a year of community service

The ship's second officer, Pilastro Zdravko, was sentenced to six months in prison on a charge of causing death by negligence
 
An Israeli TV station, Channel 2 TV, reported last week that the captain of "Zim Asia", a 3,429-TEUcontainer ship that rammed a Japanese fishing boat"Shinsei Maru", killing seven people, was sentenced to a year of community service in a plea bargain.
 
According to the report, the prosecution accepted the plea bargain because Japanese witnesses to the incident were either unable or unwilling to arrive to Israel to testify in a trial.

The ship's second officer, Pilastro Zdravko, a Croatian citizen who was in charge of the ship when it crashed into the Japanese fishing boat,off the coast of Hokkaidoon Sept. 28, 2005, was sentenced to six months in prison on a charge of causing death by negligence, and the prison term was converted to a year of public service at the port.