Monday, February 8, 2010

Finnish containership lost hazardous cargo in Baltic Sea

Finnish container carrier MS Linda lost three containers into the Baltic Sea off Gotland in Swedish waters on Saturday.

Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå (TT), a Swedish news agency, reported that one of the containers contained several tonnes of toxic chemicals.

TT quoted the Swedish Coast Guard as saying that the bottom container in a stack of four had collapsed, tipping the other three into the sea.

According to Finnish shipping company Langh two of the containers lost overboard contained food and non-hazardous chemicals.

The Swedish authorities assumed that the containers had sunk.

-Helsinki Times

Story Source: www.helsinkitimes.fi

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