The oil spill, which affected beaches along the island resort of Sentosa and other parts of Singapore’s southern shoreline, sparked a multi-day cleanup operation.
A Netherlands-flagged ship struck a stationary vessel in Singapore on June 14, causing a major oil spill that blackened the waters of popular beaches. A Netherlands-flagged ship struck a stationary vessel in Singapore, causing an oil spill that blackened the waters of the city state’s popular beaches and prompted a huge cleanup operation along its southern shores.
The allision — when a moving vessel collides with a stationary object — ruptured one of the Marine Honour’s oil cargo tanks, causing its “contents of low-Sulphur fuel oil” to be released into the sea, said the statement from the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, the National Environment Agency, the National Parks Board and Sentosa Development Corporation.The strike took place around 2 p.m.
In a Monday statement to The Washington Post, the Sentosa Development Corporation, a government agency, said its “primary focus is on the recovery efforts and the restoration of water quality along the three affected beaches” there, adding that some 100 trained workers were deployed across Sentosa’s beaches to assist in the cleanup operation using specialized oil containment and recovery equipment.
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