Live export vessel, the Pearl of Para, with 5240 cattle on board has been stranded in Cockburn Sound (off the WA coast), for the past two nights after abandoning a voyage to Israel because of propeller shaft coupling trouble. Mechanical failure on this ship last year led to the death of 400 pregnant cattle on a voyage from US to Russia: the animals reportedly suffocated on ammonia fumes after the ventilation system failed.

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