Engine Room Explosion Kills Two Aboard Chemical Tanker

 

 

 

 

 

The Chemical Master at Rotterdam (file image courtesy Alf van Beem / public domain)

PUBLISHED NOV 23, 2021 6:43 PM BY 

THE MARITIME EXECUTIVE

[Brief] On Monday night, the chemical tanker Chemical Master sustained an engine room explosion, leaving it disabled and adrift off the coast of Portugal. 

The blast killed two Indian seafarers, operator Chemship BV has confirmed. 

The Chemical Master was under way off Portugal at the time of the casualty, en route from Haifa to Rotterdam. As of Tuesday night she was adrift off Setubal, accompanied by the harbor tug Portugs Sines.

The Maltese-flagged Chemical Master is a 2009-built stainless-tank chemical tanker. Her port state control inspection record shows no recent deficiencies, and she has been under the same firm's management since 2015. 

 

 

 

Cargo safe after vessel runs aground during strong winds in Prince Rupert Harbour

 

 

 

Canadian Coast Guard received no reports of injuries, or containers lost overboard

 

 

 

A large container vessel carrying cargo broke free of its moorings and ran aground in the Prince Rupert harbour, the Canadian Coast Guard Fisheries and Oceans Canada, confirmed on Nov. 24.

At approximately 2 p.m. today, strong winds caused the container vessel MSC Altair to break its lines from where it was berthed at Fairview Container Terminal,” Monika Cote, manager of corporate communications for Prince Rupert Port Authority (PRPA), stated in an email to The Northern View.

The incident grounded the ship on the eastern side of Digby Island. Initial reports indicate no significant damage to the vessel, and no injuries

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Cronología Judicial del Prestige

 

Publicado por La Voz de Galicia

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El petrolero Urquiola explota en la entrada del puerto de A Coruña

 

 

 

 

 

La Vanguardia

EL 12 de mayo de 1976 A Coruña sufre una gran catástrofe ecológica al verterse en su costa 100.000 toneladas de crudo

El hundimiento del Urquiola

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El 12 de mayo de 1976 el buque petrolero español Urquiola , procedente del Golfo Pérsico, protagoniza en las costas gallegas una de las peores catástrofes ecológicas jamás acaecidas en la Península.

El petrolero había atracado por vez primera en A Coruña dos años antes, el 21 de febrero de 1974. Pero en esta ocasión, quedó embarrancado a la entrada del puerto coruñense. De acuerdo con las afirmaciones de Benigno Sánchez Lebón, práctico del puerto en aquellas fechas, una mala señalización de una aguja rocosa hizo que este gran buque, portador de una carga de la empresa

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