The captain of the Portuguese-flagged container vessel Solong, which was involved in a collision with the tanker Stena Immaculate in the UK North Sea on 10 March, has been arrested on suspicion of “gross negligence manslaughter”.
The two vessels caught fire after the hull of the jet fuel-carrying tanker was ruptured, leaving one seafarer from the Solong crew missing and presumed dead.
Although yesterday’s estimations suggested that the boxship might sink, the latest developments indicate that...
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