Dublin Port has said that a fuel oil spill occurred at Dublin Port last night but that it has been contained within a confined area.<\/p>\n
It said the incident happened at a berth on the eastern port around 8pm last night and that the Port’s Oil Spill Response Plan was activated immediately.<\/p>\n
“The Dublin Port shipping channel remains largely unaffected and there is no impact on other river users at this time.<\/p>\n
“The leak was stopped at source, and the spill is contained within a confined area at the incident,” a statement from the Dublin Port Company said.<\/p>\n
Adding: “The relevant response teams remain onsite and are actively assessing and managing the situation, in co-ordination with relevant authorities, including the Coast Guard Containment booms, have been deployed and specialist contractors are onsite to manage and recover the material.”<\/p>\n
“Port customers, drivers and passengers should follow advice from terminal operators. Leisure users are unaffected but should continue to monitor www.dublinport.ie for updates.<\/p>\n
“Dublin Port takes environmental protection very seriously and our priority is the safety and containment of the incident.”<\/p>\n
An investigation is under way to determine the cause and scale of the spill, the company said. <\/p>\n
The statement added that further updates would be provided when available, and that it is not permitted to fly drones over the port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin Port has said that a fuel oil spill occurred at Dublin Port last night but that it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-409983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}