EMEA News
Fire on Fuel Oil Tanker After Engine Room Explosion
An engine room explosion caused the 35,669 DWT Liberian-flagged oil and chemicals tanker, Alia, to catch fire Tuesday off the Danish coast in the North Sea, World Maritime News reports.
The tanker, which is said to be managed by Tb Marine Shipmanagement, was reported to have been en route to Gothenburg from Malta with a cargo of fuel oil, and was 64 nautical miles west of Hvide Sande at the time of the incident.
The vessel's crew is said to have called ESVAGT (Esvagt), a Danish rescue and support vessel operator, to help extinguish the blaze, which then deployed two rescue vessels to assist Alia.
The rescue vessels, Esvagt Gama and Esvagt Omega, are said to have cooled the tanker's hull for about three hours by spraying water on it, enabling the crew to enter the engine room and fight the fire onboard.
The vessel was said to to be adrift in the North Sea, waiting to be towed to a nearby port, following the fire fighting operation.
No spills or injuries have been reported as a result of the incident.
On Wednesday, a clean up operation was reported to be underway after a 14km long oil slick caused by a collision between two tankers 10 nautical miles off Shimonoseki, Japan.
