DUBAI\/OSLO, May 26 (Reuters) – United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said on Tuesday that a tanker had \u200creported an external explosion on the vessel’s \u200cport side, close to the waterline, 60 nautical miles off Oman’s \u200bcapital Muscat.<\/p>\n
UKMTO said the vessel, identified as the Olympic Life, and its crew were safe, although the tanker reported some bunker fuel had been discharged into the sea. \u200cIt said the \u2060cause of the incident was unknown.<\/p>\n
According to MarineTraffic vessel-tracking data, the Greek-owned Very Large \u2060Crude Carrier was sailing past Muscat at around 0700 GMT, heading out of the Gulf of Oman, and \u200bwas not \u200bcarrying cargo.<\/p>\n
The ship’s technical \u200bmanager, Springfield Shipping, said \u200cthe vessel was struck by an unidentified object at about 0920 GMT, but remained stable and operational.<\/p>\n
“An initial assessment indicated that there was damage to one of the vessel’s bunker tanks. A sheen was reported in \u200cthe water after the incident,” \u200bit said in a statement \u200bto Reuters, adding that \u200bthe spill had since been contained.<\/p>\n
The \u200cvessel is owned by Athens-based \u200bOlympic Shipping & Management, \u200bthe successor to Olympic Management founded by late shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, according to the Onassis \u200bFoundation’s website.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by \u200cAhmed Elimam and Jana Choukeir; Additional reporting by \u200bNerijus Adomaitis in Oslo; Editing by Bernadette \u200bBaum, Alison Williams, Rod Nickel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBAI\/OSLO, May 26 (Reuters) – United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said on Tuesday that a tanker had \u200creported…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[206456,59,57,58,108331,206455,50,4528,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-605590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-bunker-fuel","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-gulf-of-oman","tag-nautical-miles","tag-news","tag-oman","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}