Taipei, March 22 (CNA) The Maritime and Port Bureau (MPB) on Tuesday successfully refloated a stranded Belize-registered vessel that ran aground off the coast of southeastern Taiwan on March 8.
A Belize-registered cargo ship ran aground off the southeast coast yesterday morning, the Maritime and Port Bureau said.
All 16 crew members aboard are safe, and neither hull damage nor an oil spill was found, it said.
The <i>Uniprofit</i> was stranded offshore near Taitung County’s Fugang Fishing Harbor after the ship’s steering system malfunctioned, the bureau said in a statement.
Of 16 crew on board, 11 are from China and five from Indonesia, it said.
The ship, which carries mainly general goods and petrochemical products, has 149 twenty-foot-equivalent units and 399.5 tonnes of oil on board, the bureau said.
It departed from China’s Yantai Port