According to SCMP on October 10, the Governor of Sakhalin, Mr. Valery Limarenko, issued an emergency situation after this incident, and affirmed that there was no threat to 20 crew members present on board.
An Yang 2 ship is transporting coal and heavy fuel oil when there is a problem. Although the phenomenon of oil spill has not been recorded, the local authorities still maintain its readiness to respond to all emergency situations. Bad weather conditions have hindered efforts to access and rescue berries, which are located in the shallow waters off the coast of Nevelsky district of Sakhalin.
Regional authorities said they were preparing a fuel pumping plan from the damaged ship, about 200 meters from the shore. This measure is to minimize the risk of oil spills, especially in the context of unfavorable weather, which can make the situation more serious.
Earlier, earlier this year, Russia faced a large oil spill when two ships carrying oil and storms were damaged in the Kerch strait, near the Crimea peninsula. Hundreds of volunteers have made efforts for weeks to control and overcome the consequences of this oil spill.
The Sakhalin region, where the stranding of An Yang 2 ship, includes the large Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands, which is a hot territorial dispute that lasts for Russia and Japan. This dispute has prevented the two countries unable to sign the official peace treaty since World War II.
On the same day, an incident occurred with An Yang 2, a Russian oil-carrying ship named Koala also crashed in rash in the Baltic Sea, near the Ust-Luga port, from St. Petersburg is about 150 km. The Koala ship is carrying 118,000 tons of fuel oil when an explosion occurs in the engine room, causing water to overflow inside the ship. Fortunately, all 24 crew members were evacuated safely ashore.
The Governor of the Leningrad Region, Mr. Alexander Drozdenko, confirmed the accident and said the engine room of the Koala ship was damaged when starting the engine. Although the tail of the ship is stranded on the sand, the ship is still safely anchored at a wharf without an oil spill.
The Koala ship hangs the Antigua and Barbados flag, but it is unclear whether the ship belongs to the "dark" oil fleet that Russia uses to avoid international sanctions.
