Captain a container ship that hit an oil tanker that transports fuel for the US Army There was a Russian citizen on Monday, a company that owns that ship on Wednesday.
The man was arrested in northern England on Tuesday on suspicion of rough carelessness. One crew member lacks and assumed that after the collision, which forced both crews to leave the ship.
There were no immediate indications that Captain’s nationality played a role in the collision. Russians make up about 10 percent of international seafarers, according to the International Chamber of Shipping. British legislators said on Tuesday that they have no evidence to suggest a bad game.
Ernst Russ, a company that owns a container ship, called Solong, said in a statement that the captain of the Russian citizen, while other crew members were Russian and Philippine.
“Ernst Russ can confirm that the lord of the container Solong was detained by Humberside police,” the company added in a separate update. “The master and our whole team actively help in investigations.”
The collision on Monday morning, about 13 nautical kilometers from the northeast coast of England, went down to a series of explosions and fires on both vessels that sent showers of black smoke that rose in the air. Given that Solong entered the tanker, named Stena Immaculate, in the daily hours while the tanker was motionless, experts asked why radar and awake systems did not prevent the collision.
One Solong crew member is assumed that an extensive search has been abolished on Monday, although all other crew members have escaped unharmed.
On Tuesday, the Humbersidea police, a force responsible for the area, said the 59-year-old man was arrested on suspicion that the murder of a rough carelessness was related to the collision. As a typical practice under British law, police have refused to provide further details about its identity.
Stena Immaculate wore a jet fuel, and the US Navy operated at the time of the collision, according to the British Minister of Transport, Mike Kane, who met Parliament on the episode on Tuesday. Mr. Kane also asked if the collision was intentionally.
“I think there were a misdemeanor game of speculation; there is no evidence that would point out at the moment,” Mr. Kane said, adding that the British government was in contact with his American and Portuguese colleagues. Still, he added, “Something went wrong” to cause a fall.
Stena Immaculate owned is Crowley, a logistical company based in Florida and was charter on a short -term basis serve US government surgery.
