SINGAPORE, Jan 4 (Reuters)– Nearly 300 tonnes of oil splashed right into the slim strait dividing Singapore as well as Malaysia after an accident in between 2 container vessels, the Singapore Marine Port Authority (MPA) claimed on Wednesday.

There were no records of injuries as well as 12 anti-pollution craft had actually been sent out to tidy up the mid-sized oil spill, the MPA claimed in a declaration.

“Traffic in the East Johor Straits and Singapore’s port operations remains unaffected”, it claimed, including that the spill had actually been had off the western side of Singapore’s Pulau Ubin island.

The spill was brought on by damages to the gas container of the container vessel APL Denver after a collsion with the WAN HAI 301 off Pasir Gudang Port in Johor, Malaysia late on Tuesday.

APL Denver is had by Germany’s HLL Pacific Schiffahrts as well as signed up in Gibraltar, while WAN HAI 301 is had by Wan Hai Lines Singapore as well as run by Taiwan’s Wan Hai Lines.

The International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation, a charitable organisation handling oil as well as chemical spills, specifies a huge oil spill as greater than 700 tonnes.

(Reporting by Fathin Ungku; Graphic by Henning Gloystein; Editing by Richard Pullin)

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