China Agrees to Joint Tanker Collision Probe with Panama, Iran, Hong Kong

BEIJING, Jan 25 (Reuters)– The maritime authorities of China, Panama, Iran and also Hong Kong on Thursday authorized an arrangement to collectively explore an accident in the East China Sea that created the most awful oil ship calamity in years, according to China’s Ministry of Transport.

Investigation job will certainly be arranged by a joint group made up of agents of all 4 signatures to the arrangement, a quick declaration from the ministry claimed.

The Panama- signed up Sanchi vessel (IMO:9356608), run by Iran’s leading oil ship ping driver, clashed onJan 6 with the CF Crystal (IMO:9497050) concerning 160 maritime miles off the coastline of China near Shanghai and also the mouth of the Yangtze River Delta.

The Sanchi, which was cruising from Iran to South Korea, bring 136,000 tonnes of condensate, an ultra light crude, sank onJan 14 after wandering ablaze for greater than a week. The ship‘s team of 30 Iranians and also 2 Bangladeshis are thought to have actually been eliminated.

The black boxes for the Sanchi and also the CF Crystal have actually been opened up, the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) reported on Wednesday.

(Reporting by Tom Daly; Editing by Kenneth Maxwell)