Oil tanker, cargo ship collide again in Baltic Sea -------------------------------------------------- FINLAND: February 28, 2003
HELSINKI - A tanker carrying 27,000 tonnes of crude oil collided with a dry cargo vessel yesterday in icy conditions in the Baltic Sea, the second such collision by the two ships this week, Finnish authorities said.
Neither the Maltese-registered 28,640 deadweight tonnage (DWT) handy tanker Yevgeniy Titov nor the 3,900 DWT Gibraltar-flagged cargo ship Bremer Saturn, carrying timber, suffered damages and no spills were reported.
The Finnish Maritime Administration said the vessels are currently stuck off the coast of Finland in the pack ice, which ice breakers are trying to clear.
"They collided again, but it's not serious," said Markku Mylly, responsible for ice breaking at the maritime authority.
The two vessels first collided on Monday with slight damage to the Bremer Saturn.
"There is still a lot of ice and ice pressure because the winds are pushing the ice together, so it's not good, it's difficult for ships in the Baltic Sea," he said.
Both vessels were ice classed and believed to be single hulled, Mylly said.
Finland is concerned about the icy sea conditions this winter, fearing an environmental disaster should an oil tanker not sufficiently protected against the thick ice suffer damanges and cause an oil spill.
Port authorities in Finland, Russia and Estonia are assisting vessels through the ice.
"We have enough ice breakers to assist ships to Finnish port but not more than that. Other countries have to help their vessels," Mylly said.
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