New Diamond Oil Tanker

Four tugboats three sri lankan navy ships and four indian ships have been battling the fire the mt new diamond since thursday.

New diamond oil tanker.

The vessel new diamond imo. The combined effort made by the indian navy and sri lanka navy as well as the sri lanka air force fire fighters had succeeded to a great extent in containing the fire that erupted in the panama flagged mt new diamond oil tanker ship after 72 hours of firefighting. The oil tanker contained 270 000 metric tons of crude oil and the vessel was heading towards india when the mishap occurred on 3 september in the south eastern seas of sri lanka. The current position of new diamond is in gulf of oman with coordinates 25 75114 57 08128 as reported on 2020 08 25 19 56 by ais to our vessel tracker app.

For all the latest headlines follow our google news channel online or via the app. The current position of new diamond is at arabian sea coordinates 25 18501 n 56 55859 e reported 11 mins ago by ais. The vessel is en route to the port of fujairah sailing at a speed of 0 1 knots and expected to arrive there on aug 16 02 00. Some of the 1 700 tonnes of heavy fuel oil on board the new diamond poured into the indian ocean.

After a long tow around india s coastline her cargo of crude oil. 3 4 at the time the ship was carrying 270 000 tonnes of oil from kuwait to the paradip refinery in india with 18 filipino and five greek crewmembers on board. The fire on a large oil tanker off sri lanka s coast has been brought under control but is still not extinguished the navy said saturday. On 3 september 2020 a fire broke out in the engine room of new diamond at around 07 45 local time when the ship was about 65 kilometres 40 mi east of sri lanka in the sangaman kanda point.

4 hours ago sri lanka has asked the ship s owners to tow the 330 metre 1 100 foot greek tanker. 351247000 is a crude oil tanker that was built in 2000 20 years old it s sailing under the flag of pa panama. The vessel s current speed is 9 knots. The fire stricken tanker new diamond is now bound for an offshore oil terminal at kandla port trust according to indian media.

Some of the fuel oil from the mt new diamond leaked into the sea but was quickly contained and none of the 270 000 tonnes of its crude oil cargo leaked or caught fire averting what could have. Local the sri lanka navy reported that the situation with the oil tanker mt new diamond was brought under control and the ship was towed more than 35 nautical miles to safer waters.