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Cash sought from vessels over spill
By Zheng Caixiong (China Daily)
Updated: 2004-12-15 10:39
GUANGZHOU: South China's Guangdong Province plans to go after damages from
two vessels that collided and dumped thousands of litres of oil at the mouth of
the Pearl River.
Oil leaks from an
oil tanker ship that collided with another ship at the sea close to the
mouth of the Pearl River in South China, December 8, 2004.
| But the amount of compensation sought will not be available until a damage
assessment report is complete, said an official from the Guangdong Provincial
Bureau of Ocean and Aquatic Products Industry yesterday.
A task force is now assessing the damage to local marine ecology and
environment caused by the spill of crude oil. Its report is expected in two
weeks.
"The marine accident resulted in the spillage of more than 1,200 tons of
crude oil which has seriously damaged the ocean environment and ecology in the
waters in Guangdong Province," the official told China Daily.
The crude oil spill is the biggest to date in Chinese waters.
Some of the crude oil has dissolved into the deep ocean water, adding to the
difficulty of recovering it and cleaning it up, said the official who refused to
be named.
As of yesterday afternoon, the cleanup was ongoing and is expected to last a
couple of more days.
The collision happened near the mouth of the Pearl River on December 7 when a
Panama registered ship collided with a German vessel.
Hvundai Advance, the Pana-manian ship, was sailing from Shenzhen to Singapore
when it collided with Mscilona, sailing from Shenzhen to Shanghai. No deaths or
injures were reported.
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