A massive response effort was underway after a tanker collided with a tank barge tow in the Houston Ship Channel Friday afternoon, spilling an estimated 9,000 bbl. of gasoline product and closing the waterway near Bayport, Texas, Coast Guard and state officials said.
The 755’x121’ Genesis River, a Panama flagged liquid propane gas tanker, collided at about 3:30 p.m. with the 69’x26’x9’, 1,350-hp tug Voyager operated by Kirby Inland Marine as it pushed two 25,000-bbl. tank barges of reformate, a...