- Poured. Brazil discovers the origin of the oil that soils its beaches ... but the spots keep coming
The shipping company responsible for the Greek oil tanker Bouboulina, "main suspect" according to the Brazilian authorities of the black tide that pollutes the northeast coast of the country, said Saturday that the ship arrived at its destination "without registering any leakage" .
"The ship arrived at its destination without problems and unloaded all its cargo without having registered any leakage," Delta Tankers Ltd said in a statement.
"There is no evidence that the ship stopped, performed any type of STS operation (from ship to ship), suffered any escape, braked or deviated from its route , on its route from Venezuela to Melaka, Malaysia," the company said.
The shipping company, based in Athens, said it had carried out "a thorough investigation of the material from the cameras and sensors that all (our) ships carry as part of (our) policy of safety and respect for the environment."
Delta Tankers explained that the Bouboulina sailed from Venezuela with its cargo on July 19 "went directly, without any stop anywhere else, to Melaka, Malaysia, where it unloaded its total cargo without any loss."
Previously the Greek authorities explained to the AFP that the ship was one of the five suspects of being responsible for the huge black tide that appeared along 2,000 km of coasts in northeastern Brazil, at the beginning of September.
A spokeswoman for the Greek coastguard service, which has competences in commercial navigation, told AFP that "the investigation carried out in Brazil showed that five ships , from many other countries, are suspects, including a Greek."
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