A tanker with 750 tons of diesel sank off the coast of Tunisia – SME.sk

The cargo has not yet escaped into the sea, the crew has managed to get to safety. TUNIS. A tanker carrying 750 tons of diesel sank off the southeast coast of Tunisia. The cargo has not yet escaped into the sea and the crew has managed to get to safety. Local authorities are doing everything they can to prevent an environmental disaster in the region. The civil protection committee, flying the flag of Equatorial Guinea from the Egyptian port of Dumyat to the island of Malta, asked for permission to enter Tunisian waters on Friday night due to bad weather conditions, the civil protection committee will decide on further measures. .Related Article Related Article If Russia does not make peace, according to Zelenský, it must leave the international community forever. Read When the water in the engine room reached a height of two meters, the authorities decided to evacuate a crew of seven, consisting of sailors from Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey. According to shiptracker.com, the Xelo tanker is 58 meters long and nine meters wide. A previous similar disaster occurred in October 2018, when the Tunisian cargo ship Ulysse crashed into the Cypriot vessel Virginia, which was moored about 30 kilometers from the northern tip of the French island of Corsica, leaking about 520 cubic meters of fuel into the Mediterranean.