An explosion rocked an oil tanker off Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jeddah on the Red Sea, international media reported on Monday.
All 22 sailors on board the Singapore-flagged BW Rhine escaped without injury, shipping company Hafnia said in a statement. The company warned it was possible some oil leaked out from the site of the blast.
“BW Rhine has been hit from an external source whilst discharging at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia at approximately 00:40 local time on 14 December 2020 [21:40 GMT on Sunday], causing an explosion and subsequent fire on board,” Hafnia said in the statement on its website.
The ship’s crew put out the fire, the company said, adding that parts of the ship’s hull had been damaged.
“It is possible that some oil has escaped from the vessel, but this has not been confirmed and instrumentation currently indicates that oil levels on board are at the same level as before the incident,” Hafnia said.The BW Rhine loaded about 60,000 tonnes of gasoline from Yanbu port on December 6, according to shipping data on Refinitiv. The tanker is currently 84-percent full, according to its draft. Source: https://www.daily-bangladesh.com/
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