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Singapore’s Transport Minister said today (20 June) that much progress has been made in cleaning up the oil spill that happened six days ago.

Chee Hong Tat said in a Facebook post, “We have made progress in the clean-up, but it will still take some time before the oil will be completely removed. Currently, we are focused on cleaning up the oil slicks and sheens from water and land which are visible through drone surveillance and satellite imagery. In the next phase, we would need to flush out...

https://container-news.com/singapore-oil-spill-minister-says-most-oil-removed/

Singapore’s Transport Minister has asserted that port congestion is not to blame for the serious oil spill that occurred after an allision between a dredger and a bunker tanker.

In a Facebook post on 18 June, four days after the accident, the minister, Chee Hong Tat, said: “Investigations are still ongoing, but preliminary findings show that the allision on 14 June was caused by the dredger experiencing sudden loss of engine and steering controls. It is not due to congestion as our port waters...

https://container-news.com/singapores-transport-minister-boxship-queues-in-singapore-unrelated-to-oil-spill/

Challenges continue to plague Singapore’s port authority as it strives to clear up a massive oil spill that is spreading in the city-state’s waters despite many efforts to contain it.

Approximately 400 tonnes of fuel oil spilled into the water after a Van Oord dredger, Vox Maxima, hit Straits Bunkering’s bunker tanker Marine Honour, while the latter vessel was supplying fuel to the Evergreen Marine Corporation boxship Ever Blink on 14 June. The impact created a gaping hole in the fuel tank of...

https://container-news.com/singapore-still-struggling-to-clear-oil-spill-after-four-days/