London – A severely damaged load ship that crashed with an American oil tanker at the North Sea earlier this month arrived at the Scottish port of Aberdeen on Friday, after a fire that lasted almost a week.
After a trip assisted by pulls that lasted a few days, the Solong with Portugal flag docked in Aberdeen to “attract leverage” and damage evaluation.
The damage to the ship after your Collision on March 10 With an anchored oil tanker, the MV Stena Immaculate, and the resulting fire was clearly visible from the shore. The oil tanker was Fuel transport for airplanes for the US army In the North Sea.
“The rescue of the Solong has progressed to allow its relocation to the port of Aberdeen to catch,” said coastal guard Chief Paddy O’Callaghan. “The Immaculate Stena remains in a stable condition with an ongoing rescue.”
A spokesman for Ent Russ, the company that has the Solong, said that the fire ship will be “completely evaluated by specialized marine evaluators and insurers” in Aberdeen.
The Russian captain of the Solong, Vladimir Motin, has been arrested for the death of a crew member, the 38 -year -old Filipino National, Mark Angelo Pernia, who is missing and allegedly dead. Motin, 59, has been accused of “homicide of serious negligence” and must appear before the Central Criminal Court of London, better known as Old Bailey, April 14.
Rescuers saved 36 people from both ships.
The United Kingdom authorities have said that there is nothing to indicate that the collision was connected to national security, but the investigations are ongoing.
Fortunately, the environmental damage of the collision was much lower than was thought, although thousands of granules used in the production of plastics, known as nurrs, of the containers broken in the Solong have begun to wash the beaches in eastern England.
According to conservationists, nurrs are not toxic, but they can damage animals if they are ingested.
Local authorities are working to eliminate nurrs.
