Tanker collides with container ship off Dutch coast
By DPA, IANSTuesday, October 12, 2010
ATHENS/AMSTERDAM - A Greek-owned tanker loaded with jet fuel collided with a container ship off the coast of Amsterdam, officials from the Ministry of Maritime Affairs in Athens said Tuesday.
The officials said the tanker Mindoro, with a crew of 24, including Greeks, Filipinos and a Romanian, had briefly leaked fuel into the North Sea following the collision with the Cypriot-flagged container vessel York Ranger.
No one was injured in the collision, which occurred 20 nautical miles off the Dutch coast at Scheveningen, according to the officials.
The owners of the Mindoro, Cardiss Marine, told DPA that the tanker had a five-meter hole in its hull close to the waterline and that there was a small amount of fuel in the water but that it was evaporating very quickly.
“The Dutch coastguard is on hand and together with our crew they have contained the leakage by transferring the remaining fuel into another part of the ship so that it has not polluted the water,” a company representative said. “Everything is under control.”
The Cypriot container ship, with a crew of 12, had asked permission to sail for Rotterdam from St Petersburg.
