A liquidator has been appointed to wind up LD Shipping Pty Ltd, one of the parties involved in the 2016 deaths of cattle while being transported across the Bass Strait.
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The Australian Tax Office applied on November 1 to wind the company up.
Earlier in 2018, LD Shipping, Les Dick, HW Greenham & Sons Pty Ltd, Graeme Pretty and John McGee were each charged with:
- two counts of aggravated cruelty
- two counts of cruelty to animals
- five counts of method of management of an animal or group of animals reasonably likely to result in unreasonable and unjustifiable pain and suffering to the animals or an animal in the group.
They pleaded not guilty to the charges, which relate to the deaths of 59 cattle in transit from Stanley to Port Welshpool in Victoria in 2016.
The hearing is due in mid-March in Burnie and may take up to two weeks, with 24 witnesses.
On January 30, 2016, North West producer HW Greenham & Sons transported about 200 head of cattle on the MV Statesman from Stanley to its Victorian processing facility.
Some of the cattle were dead on arrival while others had to be euthanised due to their injuries.
The incident sparked calls from animal rights activists to suspend all live animal shipments.
The deaths of the cattle were investigated by the RSPCA, the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment and the Victorian Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources Department.
For the same journey, LD Shipping was fined $12,960 for its master failing to hold the required certificate of competency for the area the ship was operating in.