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The Maritime Government
On Friday, a product tanker spilled gas oil over the facet throughout a bunkering operation with a gas barge close to Kenner, Louisiana, in response to the U.S. Coast Guard.
The tanker Hafnia Rhine was anchored at Mississippi River mile marker 115, a busy anchorage and barge fleeting space. At about 1800 hours, Coast Guard Sector New Orleans acquired discover that the tanker had discharged oil throughout a fueling operation. The command middle dispatched a air pollution response workforce to research.
The responders estimated that the tanker discharged about 2,100 gallons of oil into the river earlier than the crew managed to safe the supply of the gas oil. The drifting gas slick contaminated an estimated 50-60 barges downstream.
Photographs courtesy USCG
Two oil spill removing contractors have been employed to reply, they usually have deployed sorbent increase and containment increase across the affected barges. The responders are additionally utilizing sorbents to get well a few of the spilled oil.
No accidents or wildlife impacts have been reported, and the reason for the spill stays below investigation.
Oil spills are a periodic prevalence on the busy stretch of the Mississippi River upstream from New Orleans. In 2019, a considerable spill of unknown origin or amount drifted alongside the waterfront of New Orleans’ French Quarter, a well-known tourism and nightlife hub. An identical spill affecting the identical space occurred in April 2018, when a freighter hit a pier upriver of the French Quarter, and once more later that month when a tanker by chance discharged gas oil close to Norco, Louisiana.
