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by Juliette MICHEL NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Tankers like those apparently attacked Thursday in the Gulf of Oman operate through increasingly treacherous waters, facing mounting dangers from piracy and collision as well as geopolitical hazards. Around 60 million barrels of petroleum product move each day on the seas globally, according to the US Energy Information Administration. And around a third of this volume passes through the Straits of Hormuz, a critical shipping passage. […]
NIAMEY, Nigeria (AFP) — The death toll from a May 6 tanker truck explosion near the international airport in Niger’s capital has risen to 76, state television reported late Sunday. An earlier official report Tuesday gave 60 dead, including 55 who died at the time of the explosion a few hundred metres (yards) from the airport in Niamey. Most of the victims were trying to collect spilt fuel flowing from the overturned truck when the […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — An oil tanker and a fishing boat collided Tuesday morning off Hong Kong’s Lamma Island, police said, sinking the fishing vessel. Thirteen people on the oil tanker — thought to be everyone on board — were found safe, a police spokeswoman told AFP. Police said they were still looking for possible missing people from the fishing boat. The size of the vessels involved in the collision — which took place […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) — The death toll from an oil tanker explosion in central Pakistan has risen to 190, hospital and government officials said Friday, as 16 more people succumbed to their injuries. The tanker overturned early Sunday on a main highway from Karachi to Lahore while carrying some 40,000 litres of fuel. It exploded minutes later as crowds from a nearby village gathered to scavenge for fuel, despite warnings by the driver as well […]
The Indonesian navy on Thursday (December 17) conducted a search and rescue for the missing crew members of a vessel that sunk off Indonesia. Six crew members are still missing after a general cargo freighter sank in the Singapore Strait following a collision with a chemical tanker at 8:14 p.m. (7.14 a.m. ET) on Wednesday (December 16). The 10,385 deadweight tonne (dwt) cargo freighter Thorco Cloud, operated by Danish shipper Thorco Shipping and registered in […]
