Fesco Askold
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The container vessel, Fesco Askold, with three of its 17 crew members who tested positive for COVID-19, sailed out of the Pago Pago Harbor around 10:30a.m yesterday, enroute back to the US with cargo loaded from American Samoa.
The vessel, which arrived from Samoa on Nov...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The ship which brought cases of Covid-19 into American Samoa's port, is taking longer to unload and reload than expected.
Last week three crew from the Fesco Askold container ship tested positive for Covid-19 throwing a scare into the coronavirus-free community.
It was...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Cargo vessels including those for StarKist Samoa, as well as fishing fleet supplying fish for the cannery, are exempted under the governor’s COVID-19 emergency declaration.
This message was emphasized by ASG’s COVID-19 Task Force chairman, Iulogologo Joseph Pereira...

![The container vessel, Fesco Askold in a file photo, shown heading in to dock at the Port of Pago Pago. [SN file photo] The container vessel, Fesco Askold](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fesco_askold_1.jpg?itok=u0prMImF)
![The Fesco Askold container ship returning to dock in Pago Pago harbor. [SN file photo] The Fesco Askold container ship in Pago Pago harbor](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fesco_askold_0.jpg?itok=-UQDebZ_)
![This Samoa News phots taken yesterday shows the cargo vessel Fesco Askold slowly pulling into Port of Pago Pago harbor before 12noon yesterday. Two vessels were waiting outside of Tutuila Island for a couple of days per orders of the ASG Health Dept. The kerfuffle was finally resolved via the COVID-19 Task Force — DoH was told such vessels are exempt under the governor’s COVID-19 emergency declaration. [photo: FS] The cargo vessel Fesco Askold slowly pulling into Port of Pago Pago](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/vessel_askold.jpg?itok=qVW2QDKo)