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The Sanchi oil tanker of the National Iranian Oil Company is sunk
The company has confirmed the dead women of all the 32 marine boarded ones on the ship
January 15, 2018
Contrarily to the waits and the hopes of the navigation company Iranian National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), the serious incident to own Sanchi oil tanker happened in the Sea of China has been tramutato in tragedy. 6th January the ship, of 164 thousand gross capacities in tons, had entered in collision to about 160 miles nautical to east of the matting of the Yangtze river with rinfusiera CF Crystal of 76 thousand gross capacities in tons of the Chinese company Wenling Changfeng Shipping Co.
Initially the NIOC confided that, in spite of the huge damages endured from the Sanchi in the incident, the oil tanker, that transported about 136 thousand tons of light oil from Iran to South Korea did not have to sink. The attempts to on board save the 32 marine ones of the ship, of which 30 Iranians and two bengalis, are hindered by the toxic smoke and fires exploded on the raw ones tanker. Yesterday an explosion on board of the ship has aggravated the precarious situation and has determined the sinking of the ship. The shipowning society, porgendo the condolences to the families of the marine ones, has confirmed that not there are dispersed marine the 29 while still alive hopes to find anchor after the rescue operations had allowed to recover the remains of three played hooky of the oil tanker.
Al moment of the collision on portarinfuse the CF Crystal, that it transported 64 thousand tons of cereals from the United States to China, was 21 marine all of Chinese nationality that has been features in salvo.
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