KUALA LUMPUR/SINGAPORE: Malaysian maritime authorities were searching on Tuesday (May 2) for three crew missing from a Gabon-registered tanker a day after the 26-year-old vessel caught fire in waters off the southern coast. The ship, Pablo, sailing from China to Singapore to pick up crude oil, was not carr
KUALA LUMPUR/SINGAPORE: Malaysian maritime authorities were searching on Tuesday for three crew missing from a Gabon-registered tanker a day after the 26-year-old vessel caught fire in waters off the southern coast.
However, it did not rule out the chance that the men, two Indian nationals and a Ukrainian, could still be aboard, as smoke made it unsafe to inspect the vessel after the fire appeared to have stopped by afternoon. The remaining 25 crew were rescued, including 23 picked up by two ships nearby, authorities said. Four had serious injuries.Pablo Union Shipping, the Marshall Islands-based owner of the vessel, according to shipping databases, could not be located to seek comment. The vessel's insurers were unknown.
Built in 1997, the vessel had been anchored off China's eastern port of Zhoushan for about two months between February and April, before sailing towards an anchorage area off Singapore and Malaysia, data from Kpler and Vortexa showed.
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