Collision Near China Leaves Iranian Oil Tanker in Flames
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Collision Near China Leaves Iranian Oil Tanker in Flames
Exclusive video shows the ongoing search and rescue operation for missing crew members after a Panama-registered oil taker
and a Hong Kong cargo ship collided off the east China coast pic.twitter.com/foIIetkgw5 Flames and thick black smoke were seen pouring from the burning tanker on Monday in video and photographs released by the South Korean Coast Guard and the Chinese state news media.
8, 2018
HONG KONG — Rescuers were searching Monday for crewmen missing from an Iranian oil tanker
that had collided with another ship off China’s coast, leaving the tanker in flames and at risk of exploding and sinking, the Chinese authorities said.
Four Chinese government ships, two pollution control vessels, four commercial vessels, several fishing boats
and a South Korean Coast Guard ship were aiding the search.
The 899-foot Sanchi is owned by Bright Shipping Limited, a subsidiary of the National Iranian Tanker Company registered
in Hong Kong, according to the Chinese authorities and an International Maritime Organization database.
All 21 Chinese crew members of the CF Crystal, which was transporting grain from the United States
to Guangdong Province in southeastern China, were rescued, China’s Ministry of Transport said.
The Panamanian-flagged tanker, the Sanchi, collided with the CF Crystal, a Hong Kong-registered
bulk freighter, around 8 p.m. Saturday about 160 nautical miles east of Shanghai.
Exclusive video shows the ongoing search and rescue operation for missing crew members after a Panama-registered oil taker
and a Hong Kong cargo ship collided off the east China coast pic.twitter.com/foIIetkgw5 Flames and thick black smoke were seen pouring from the burning tanker on Monday in video and photographs released by the South Korean Coast Guard and the Chinese state news media.
8, 2018
HONG KONG — Rescuers were searching Monday for crewmen missing from an Iranian oil tanker
that had collided with another ship off China’s coast, leaving the tanker in flames and at risk of exploding and sinking, the Chinese authorities said.
Four Chinese government ships, two pollution control vessels, four commercial vessels, several fishing boats
and a South Korean Coast Guard ship were aiding the search.
The 899-foot Sanchi is owned by Bright Shipping Limited, a subsidiary of the National Iranian Tanker Company registered
in Hong Kong, according to the Chinese authorities and an International Maritime Organization database.
All 21 Chinese crew members of the CF Crystal, which was transporting grain from the United States
to Guangdong Province in southeastern China, were rescued, China’s Ministry of Transport said.
The Panamanian-flagged tanker, the Sanchi, collided with the CF Crystal, a Hong Kong-registered
bulk freighter, around 8 p.m. Saturday about 160 nautical miles east of Shanghai.