A crew member of a cargo ship that struck a US-flagged oil tanker today is still missing, the vessel’s owner has confirmed.
Solong’s Hamburg-based owner, Ernst Russ, tonight gave the worrying update after the ship hit the MV Stena Immaculate causing it to explode into a ‘massive fireball’ off the Yorkshire coast today, leaking some 18,000 tonnes of fuel into the North Sea.
In a statement, the shipping firm’s owner Ernst Russ said: ’13 of the 14 Solong crew members have been brought safely shore. Efforts to locate the missing crew member are ongoing.’
The Solong and the chemical tanker Stena Immaculate both sustained significant damage in the collision, Russ added.
‘Both vessels have sustained significant damage in the impact of the collision and the subsequent fire,’ he said.
Fire and rescue services attend after a collision between oil tanker MV Stena Immaculate and the cargo vessel MV Solong off the coast of the Humber Estuary
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