Tanker collision off Qingdao may spill hundreds of tons of oil, as maritime vessels conduct emergency clean-up Photo: Screenshot of a tweet on Tuesday by Tanker Trackers, an online service that tracks shipments of crude oil.
Hundreds of tons of oil might have leaked into the sea after a tanker collision off Qingdao, East China’s Shandong Province. Maritime authorities have sent a dozen vessels to the site for an emergency clean-up, the Shandong Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) told the Global Times on Wednesday.
The Suezmax tanker A Symphony registered in Liberia had a hole about six to seven meters long and two meters wide above the sea surface after being rammed by an inbound Panamanian bulk carrier Sea Justice while the tanker was at anchor, an official of the Command Center of the MSA who asked to remain anonymous revealed to the Global Times.
Ships, equipment in place to remove oil from stricken tanker in China
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Clean-up work continued on Wednesday near the Chinese port city of Qingdao, a day after a yet-to-be determined quantity of oil spilled into the Yellow Sea after a tanker carrying around a million barrels of bitumen mix collided with a bulk vessel in thick fog.
“There are oil spill experts on the scene that have started clean-up operations,” said a spokesman for Goodwood Ship Management, manager of the Liberia-flagged tanker, A Symphony, that was at anchor when involved in the collision with bulk shipping vessel Sea Justice.
China’s Shandong Maritime Safety Administration on Tuesday instructed ships to stay at least 10 nautical miles from A Symphony, but didn’t provide details on how much oil has leaked.