A second team of Japanese experts went to Mauritius on Wednesday using special oil-absorbing materials to clean up tons of oil that leaked from a ship owned by Japan after it ran aground earlier this month. “The oil leak from the beach ship has caused severe damage to the people …
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Mauritius has arrested the captain of a bulk carrier that ran aground on the coast last month, causing devastating oil radiation in one of the most pristine maritime environments in the world. Japanese owner MV Wakashio struck a coral reef off the Indian Ocean island on July 25 and began …
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Mauritius has arrested the captain of a Japanese bulk carrier that ran aground off the coast, causing an oil spill in one of the most pristine maritime environments in the world. “We have arrested the captain of the ship and another member of the crew. “After being heard by the …
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A ship that has leaked more than 1,000 tons of oil into independent waters off the coast of Mauritius has split in two. The Japanese-owned bulk carrier MV Wakashio landed on a coral reef off the southeast coast of Mauritius on July 25 and began oiling more than a week …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – A Japanese bulk carrier cut off a coral reef off the Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius on July 25, spilled some 1,000 tons of steel oil and declared a state of “environmental distress”. A general view shows the bulk carrier MV Wakashio, which ran on a reef, …
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