New Diamond Oil Tanker

The fire stricken tanker new diamond is now bound for an offshore oil terminal at kandla port trust according to indian media.

New diamond oil tanker.

The combined effort made by the indian navy and sri lanka navy as well as the sri lanka air force fire fighters had succeeded to a great extent in containing the fire that erupted in the panama flagged mt new diamond oil tanker ship after 72 hours of firefighting. Mt new diamond is currently at a distance of 52 nautical miles off the sri lankan coast by darshana sanjeewa balasuriya the indian coast guard sri lanka navy and commercial divers yesterday. The vessel new diamond imo. For all the latest headlines follow our google news channel online or via the app.

The current position of new diamond is in gulf of oman with coordinates 25 75114 57 08128 as reported on 2020 08 25 19 56 by ais to our vessel tracker app. Four tugboats three sri lankan navy ships and four indian ships have been battling the fire the mt new diamond since thursday. The vessel s current speed is 9 knots. Some of the fuel oil from the mt new diamond leaked into the sea but was quickly contained and none of the 270 000 tonnes of its crude oil cargo leaked or caught fire averting what could have.

4 hours ago sri lanka has asked the ship s owners to tow the 330 metre 1 100 foot greek tanker. After a long tow around india s coastline her cargo of crude oil. 9191424 mmsi 351247000 is a crude oil tanker built in 2000 20 years old and currently sailing under the flag of panama. Local the sri lanka navy reported that the situation with the oil tanker mt new diamond was brought under control and the ship was towed more than 35 nautical miles to safer waters.

The oil tanker contained 270 000 metric tons of crude oil and the vessel was heading towards india when the mishap occurred on 3 september in the south eastern seas of sri lanka. Some of the 1 700 tonnes of heavy fuel oil on board the new diamond poured into the indian ocean. The vessel is en route to the port of fujairah sailing at a speed of 0 1 knots and expected to arrive there on aug 16 02 00. The fire on a large oil tanker off sri lanka s coast has been brought under control but is still not extinguished the navy said saturday.

The current position of new diamond is at arabian sea coordinates 25 18501 n 56 55859 e reported 11 mins ago by ais. 3 4 at the time the ship was carrying 270 000 tonnes of oil from kuwait to the paradip refinery in india with 18 filipino and five greek crewmembers on board.