An engineer aboard the product tanker “MT TORC” lost his life on January 8 while the Turkish product tanker was travelling to Italy across the Mediterranean Sea due to a boiler explosion.
The incident concerning the MT TORC, which Besiktas Shipping, a Turkish business, is managing, is under investigation. On Monday at 1:05 PM GMT, an explosion occurred in the 13,200 dwt tanker’s engine room. “Mehmet Altas,” the second engineer, suffered fatal wounds and died before emergency medical assistance...