An accident occurred with an oil tanker in Russia: a spill of petroleum products is recorded
21.04.2025 - 15:30
On the morning of April 20, an oil spill from the tanker “Alexander Kashchuk” occurred in the sea port of Kholmsk, in the south of the Sakhalin region of the Russian Federation.
It is noted that in order to prevent the spread of oil products into the environment, the vessel was fenced off with booms.
The scale of the spill and its causes are currently unknown.
The Sakhalin Transport Prosecutor’s Office has taken control of the course of emergency and rescue operations and has begun an investigation into the circumstances of the incident.
The tanker “Alexander Kashchuk”, 85 meters long and almost 13 meters wide, was launched in 2009.
This is not the first such incident in the Russian Far East in recent months. On January 3, the Russians allowed a fuel oil leak during pumping from the tanker “Ostrov Sakhalin” to the shore capacity of the CHPP-1 of JSC “Kamchatskenergo” in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
It was previously reported that the losses from the fuel oil spill in the Kerch Strait amounted to almost a billion dollars.
