Eleven crewmen are still missing after their cargo vessel sank - TopicsExpress



          

Eleven crewmen are still missing after their cargo vessel sank when it collided with a container ship south of Po Toi Island, outside Hong Kong waters before dawn today. The only survivor, a 47-year-old man, was picked up by a passing fishing boat and taken to Hong Kong after the collision which happened 3.7 kilometres south of Po Toi Island at about 2.30am. He is being treated at Ruttonjee Hospital in Wan Chai. The air and sea search and rescue operation, coordinated by the Guangdong Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, is still underway. From Hong Kong, five Marine Police launches, three fireboats, two diving vessels and a Government Flying Service helicopter are also involved in the search. The 97-metre Zhong Xing 2 was carrying cement from Hebei Province from Haikou in Hainan Province at the time the collision, according to the Hong Kong Marine Department. It had a crew of 12.A Marine Department spokeswoman said the mainland-registered vessel collided with a 300-metre Marshall Islands-registered container ship, MOL Motivator, which was leaving for Yantian in Guangdong from Hong Kong
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 06:09:41 +0000

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