Grimbi, UK:
A person went missing on Monday when a cargo ship fled to the American-Signal Chartered Tanker carrying a jet fuel in the North Sea, causing a “many toxic hazards” from the English coast.
Dozens of people were rescued in a large operation coordinated by the UK Coastguard as images showed a large pile of thick, black smoke and flames from a view of about 10 miles (16 km) from the east coast.
Stena’s US-based operators Crole said in a statement, “Staina impeccable tanker” was removed from the North Sea coast near the plow … (and) the container ship was killed by Solong.
Stena was on a short-lived American military charter with military sealing command, according to Jillian Morris, command spokesperson, who operates civic-powered ships providing ocean transport for the US Department of Defense.
Crowley stated that the effect of the conflict “tanker” A1-jate fuel broke and caught fire, in which fuel was released “.
According to Lloyd’s list information service, it was carrying around 220,000 barrels of jet fuel, while Sodium was carrying 15 containers of cyanide, but it is not known whether the flammable compound was leaked.
A spokesperson of the UK Prime Minister Kir Stemner called the situation “extremely related”.
The ambulance crew assessed 36 patients on the scene and did not require any hospital treatment, East Midland’s Ambulance Service’s Alastair Smith said in a statement.
A statement by the ship’s German-based owner Arnant Ras said that thirteen was brought to the shore from 14 crew members of Solong and attempts to locate the missing crew member.
All the crew members aboard in Staina Bedag were confirmed to survive, the tanker’s Swedish owner, a spokesperson of Stena Bulk told the AFP.
– ‘Toxic danger’ –
There were reports of “fire on both ships”, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) confirmed AFP.
A spokesman for the government’s maritime accident investigation branch said, “Our team of inspectors and assistant employees is collecting evidence and initially evaluating the accident to determine our next steps”.
Environmental Risk Advisory Group, Ivar Vince, founder of Ask Consultants, told AFP that “good news is that it is not consistently, it’s not like a crude oil spread”.
He said, “Most of them will evaporate very quickly and whatever is not evaporated will be shown down very quickly by microorganisms”, although warning that “it will kill fish and other creatures”.
Paul Johnson, a senior scientist at the Greenpeace Research Laboratories at Exeter University, said, “We are extremely concerned about many toxic hazards that can do these chemicals for marine life.”
Jet fuel entered the water close to a breeding ground for port porpoise, sodium cyanide “is a highly toxic chemical that can cause severe damage”, he said.
– Suspended Hamber Traffic –
All vessel movements were “suspended” in Hamber Muhana that flows into the North Sea, according to the Associated British ports (ABP), which operates in the region’s plow and the ports of the Imminham.
The German Central Command for maritime emergency stated that it was also sending a vessel that was capable of fire fighting and recovery of oil.
The accident was raised on alarm 0948 GMT about the accident near the port city of Hull in Eastern Yorkshire.
The UK Coastguard stated that a coastguard was part of a helicopter, an aircraft, a life guard from four towns and the large rescue operations of other nearby ships.
Paul Lancaster, a native of Grimbi, a former Esman, told AFP that “I do not understand how two ships can grow up”.
“There must have been a large -scale engineering problem,” he said outside a pub in Grimbi.
– Freaks rare –
The collisions in the busy North Sea are rare.
In October 2023, two cargo ships, Verity and Polsi, collided near the Heligoland Islands in Germany in the North Sea.
Three people were killed and two others are still missing and are considered dead.
In October 2015, Flintstar Freater, 125 tonnes of diesel and 427 tonne tons of fuel oil, which drowned after colliding with an al -arich tanker from eight kilometers (five mi) from the coast of Belgium.
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