MV Wakashio, the tanker that ran aground a reef at Pointe d’Esny on the southeast coast of Mauritius has now caused potentially lasting damage after 1000 tones of oil spilt into the Indian Ocean on Thursday, 6th Aug 2020.
The ship carrying 3800 tonnes of fuel was stranded on the reef since the 25th of July, 2020 following which a salvage team was sent. No injuries were reported by the crew of 20 members who are now quarantining on the island, confirmed owner Nagishiki Shipping.
However, the...
Mauritius’ Prime Minister, Pravind Jugnauth, has declared a “state of environmental emergency” after Wakashio, a Japanese bulker that ran aground off the coast of the island nation, began spilling…
Locals have spent the past days fabricating their own oil booms made out straw, clothing, plastic bottles and dried sugar cane leaves and yet the oil continues to flow from the bulk carrier around the delicate, pristine shorelines of south and eastern Mauritius. Worse still, bad weather and the...
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Mauritius declared an environmental emergency on Friday over fuel oil leak from stranded Japanese bulk carrier off the country’s coast, reports Kyodo News.
Danger for Mauritius!A state of environmental emergency was declared by The Mauritius government on Friday over a large amount of fuel that leaked into the sea from a stranded Japanese-owned bulk carrier off the country’s coast.
Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth in a Twitter post said that the stranded Panama-flagged vessel Wakashio “represents...
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Fuel oil has started to wash ashore from the leaking bulk carrier MV Wakashio […] The post Giant grounded bulker spills fuel oil off Mauritius appeared first on Offshore Energy.
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An environmental crisis is playing out in the Indian Ocean where a grounded Panamanian-flagged newcastlemax is spewing bunker fuel onto the pristine shores of southeastern Mauritius. The 203,000 dwt bulk carrier, which ran aground on a reef July 26, has a gash on its starboard hull through which...
The 203,000 dwt bulk carrier, which ran aground on a reef just off the southeast coastline of Mauritius on July 26, has started spilling bunker fuel into the famous azure seas of the French speaking republic. Local authorities have ordered the public, including boat operators and fishermen, not to...
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A salvage operation is under way to remove bulk carrier MV Wakashio, which grounded on a reef off Pointe d’Esny, southeast Mauritius. Minister of the Environment, Kavi Ramano, reported to the Mauritian parliament on 28 […]
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Authorities in Mauritius and a number of foreign salvage companies will embark on an operation to refloat a cargo vessel that had run aground on a reef off the Indian ..
A salvage team has been deployed to refloat the 203,130 dwt bulk carrier after the ship grounded in the southeast of Mauritius on Saturday when sailing from China to Brazil. According to Mauritius’s Ministry of Environment, a tugboat with oil spill response equipment and a team of 10 people is on...
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