The Governor of the Russian Pacific Island region in Sakhalin has stated an emergency after a Chinese cargo ship ran aground off the southwest coast.
There is no danger to the crew 2, which carries coal and heavy fuel oil, Governor Valery Limarenko said in a post on a telegram on Sunday. The Russian Ministry of Emergency said that 20 crew rose.
Limarenko said that there was no fuel spill that was recorded, but the local government must be prepared for any scenario. Bad weather has prevented access by the rescue team to bulk carriers, which are stranded in shallow waters outside the Nevelsky Sakhalin district, he added.
The regional authority said they were preparing to pump fuel from damaged ships, maroon about 200 meters (650 feet) off the coast.
Earlier this year, hundreds of volunteers in southwestern Russia spent weeks trying to accommodate large-scale fuel oil spills from two tankers hit by a storm in the Kerch Strait near Crimea.
The Sakhalin region, which is located in the Far East Russia, consists of a large island of the same name and four Kuril Island, the subject of territorial disputes for several decades between Russia and Japan who have prevented them signed a peace agreement at The End of World War II.
Soviet troops arrested the islands, known in Japan as the northern region, at the end of the war, and Russia had maintained control since then.
Source: AP
