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SOURCE: CHANNEL TV- An explosion Sunday on an oil tanker at a port in northwest Russia forced the crew to evacuate and was being investigated, the country’s federal shipping agency said.
The Rosmorrechflot maritime and river transport agency wrote on Telegram that “an explosion took place in the engine room” of the “Koala” in Ust-Luga port west of Saint Petersburg on Sunday morning.
It said the crew fled the vessel but the blast did not cause “a spill of the cargo or a leak of oil products” and there was no risk of the ship sinking.
“The appropriate agencies are investigating the incident,” it said, and the ship’s condition would be inspected.
Ship tracking site Vesselfinder showed that the Koala, built in 2023 and flying the Antigua and Barbuda flag, arrived at Ust-Luga on Thursday.
Russia’s Baza Telegram channel wrote that the ship is carrying 130,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil.
Two tankers carrying oil were wrecked in the Black Sea in December causing a massive spill of fuel that is still washing up ashore.
The United States in January designated more than 180 Russian ships it assesses to be part of Russia’s “shadow fleet” exporting crude oil despite Western sanctions. The Koala is not on this list.
Ukraine’s security services in January claimed to have used drones to strike a fuel terminal at Ust-Luga, saying that “through it, Russia sells oil and gas with the help of the ‘shadow fleet’”.
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This is a very scary situation. omg
This is a very scary situation. omg
Antigua and Barbuda need to be careful about which ships fly its flag because hmmm
Hope this doesn’t lead to negative consequences for our maritime industry.
Is it really scary? When you go to war you attack any opposition. Have we forgotten that there was a Russian yacht named Alfa Nero in Antigua. Have we forgotten what happened to it lead by our government? Well anything with an Antiguan flag is Antiguan just like any and everything owned by a Russian is Russian. I recall reading that anyone purchasing Alfa Nero was doing so at his/her own risk. Well any vessel flying an Antiguan flag is doing so at its own risk. Who do we have to blame if the explosion was an orchestrated one? Our government……
@ straight shooter. You have the rifle pointed in the wrong direction. I know that you have a deep yearning to place certain persons in your cross hairs, but try my humble suggestion ss far as direction of your rifle – selfie-style; and so rid us of the curse once and for all.
I would advocate for the withdrawal of all vessels flagged for convenience with the Antiguan fag, as sovereignty domicile, and let ownership so dispose-be informed thus; of Antigua’s neutrality and thereby-contractual obligations becomes null and void under treaty of international applicable liability designation of free nation states. There is no way governance in hindsight could have foretell or forecast the intention of any entity or conglomerate; who would have so registered for the use of connivance and for the obligation to imply impact detrimental to one’s self survivability,
in the.conflicts of geopolitical national conquest aspirations of boundaries demarcation. Our collective moto is the mantra: “to strive and provide to survive” and we have done that on our little footprint of Antigua 🇦🇬 Barbuda. As not to let foolish governance, -such as any to be dammed to the relevance of their ineptitude and foolish indulgence: be that which is not nantionalisticly personified.
Handit2me
I chuckle at your attempt to be didactic in your response. It means absolutely nothing. You don’t even know what you’re trying to say. Lol.🤣🤣🤣
@Straight Shooter
If you paid attention to the last portion of the article, you would realize that your comments are misplaced.
We have a maritime division that vets and approves ships globally who met the requirements. It happens worldwide. Don’t make every argument a political one.
Alfa Nero was legally acquired via a legislative process. After all, every sovereignty has its own process of acquisition. Stop making yourselves fools on this issue.
Hi Davie Boi: I don’t reference you said or, mention any of you objective input; that would lead me to ascertain if anything you offered, that would conjur any of my valid intent at emulation of your stance. But I am willing to let an Ass be the Boss: such as when you believe in things you don’t understand. Kill the messenger! Eh! By a failure to independently think your audacity is much too vain and, politically slanted to not rationalize the reality of the global theater on the ground-and quite
different from your little subjective personalized pique. Auh! A coo dey !?
@Handit2me
I might be a boi, but you’re a coward with no name.
Lol, what are trying to say? I’m confused. If you can’t handle the weed, leave it alone, jack.