Tanker and container ship collide off Dutch coast

A Greek tanker carrying aircraft fuel and a Cypriot container ship have collided some 30 kilometres off the coast of Scheveningen.


The collision has left a hole up to five metres long in the side of the Mindoro, which leaked kerosene into the sea for a time, the Telegraaf reports.
But part of the fuel in the damaged tank has now been pumped into another part of the hold, the paper says. Most of the leaked fuel has evaporated and what has ended up in the sea will also evaporate, a spokesman for the coast guard said
The tanker will probably be towed off later today. The container ship Jork Ranger, which received some damage to its bow, was given official permission to continue on to Rotterdam.
It is not yet clear how the accident happened.

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