The day started at 10am to
allow time for all the boxes of documents to be reinstated to their places in
the room.
There was then an administrative
interlude when the Reporters asked the Applicant about three documents they had
suggested they would have available for today. For various reasons, none of them
were available this morning.
The first witness of the day
was Captain Keenor for the Applicant. He gave his opinion about how shipping
could be managed on the Forth. (It emerged later that he and Jim Simpson had
sailed with the same shipping line in their seafaring days!)
After lunch, Gary Graves, the manager or commercial port operations took
the stand. The cross questioning was proceeding smoothly when the lawyer for SNH
asked a question about the control of oil pollution to which the lawyer of
Babcock objected. We then sat and listened for almost an hour while their differences
were thrashed out. The situation had still not been resolved by the end of the
day, so cross-examination of Gary Graves will continue tomorrow.
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