Tag: oil spill prevention

West P&I Club has analyzed a pollution incident during a routine bunkering operation at a port where fuel was observed to be overflowing.

CREA released a report looking at the EU imports of Russian fossil fuels in the third year of the invasion in Ukraine.

West P&I Club informed about a pollution incident regarding the structural failure of drain lines passing through fuel oil tanks.

A bulk carrier ran aground off the southwest coast of China and has been refloated with all 23 crew members rescued safely.

The West of England P&I Club has provided mitigation measures to the concerning trend of pollution incidents involving vessels operating within Turkish waters and calling to Turkish ports.

While it may sound unusual, popcorn plays a crucial role in oil spill prevention exercises, offering an innovative way to protect the marine environment.

MPA Singapore was alerted to a distress call from a tanker on 12 January, reporting that it was taking in water.

Five crewmembers were rescued from the Mississippi River after their vessel collided with a bulker on 29 December.

Egyptian authorities are scrambling to salvage the VSG Glory, a cargo ship that began sinking on Monday near the coral reefs off Quseir in the Red Sea Governorate after being stranded for 10 days, maritime sources told Reuters. The vessel, carrying 21 crew, 4,000 metric tons of bran, 70 tons of fuel oil and 50 tons of diesel, sustained a 60-centimeter (23.6 inch) hull breach, allowing seawater to flood its engine room. Its crew has since been rescued. Efforts to stabilize the ship have been hampered by deteriorating weather, causing the vessel to tilt further. Emergency teams have deployed additional pumps in a bid to extract the rising water. Salvage operations led by the Red Sea Governorate and the Ministry of Environment have so far extracted 250 tons of contaminated water and fuel, but the sources say some fuel remains on board, posing a grave risk to the region's delicate coral reef ecosystem This marks the second maritime disaster in the Red Sea in less than a month. On Nov. 25, a tourist boat capsized near Marsa Alam, south of Quseir, leaving at least four dead and seven missing, with 33 passengers rescued, Reuters informs. 

The transfer of 150,000 tons of crude oil (approximately 1,000,000 barrels) from the Greek-owned tanker Sounion to the tanker Delta Blue was successfully completed at an anchorage near Suez.