A Malta-registered tanker burst into flames yesterday after colliding with a container ship in a shipping channel off the coast of Dubai.
The tanker, Kashmir, was carrying about 30,000 tons of oil condensate, and was headed from Iran to the UAE.
Two of the tanker’s crew who were pulled from the water suffered minor injuries but no one died. The blaze has been extinguished.
The inbound tanker struck a feeder vessel, a ship that shuttles cargo containers from big ports to smaller ones, about five miles from the Jebel Ali Port, on the southwestern end of Dubai. The tanker was carrying a liquid used to make plastic.
Fire extended from the waterline to above the top of the tanker as thick black smoke billowed hundreds of feet in the air out of a gash in the ship’s hull.
What looked like “viscous material” pouring from the ship also burned on top of the water, as did two other chunks of wreckage about a half mile away.
Police helicopters and boats along with the Emirates Coast Guard and the port’s emergency response division assisted in the rescue efforts, officials said.
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