MARINE & SUBSEA

Tanker hits platform

WHILE Europeans were preparing to ring in the New Year, a German-owned chemical tanker damaged an unused North Sea platform’s legs and bow when the vessel ploughed into it on New Year’s Eve.

The damaged tanker.

The damaged tanker.

VesselsValue data showed the Portuguese-flagged, 2013-built tanker Elsa Essberger was moored in Rotterdam, thus not continuing its journey from Antwerp to Malmo after striking the Unocal Q1 Halfweg platform...

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