The captain of the Solong container vessel, Vladimir Motin, to look in courtroom over the demise of a crew member after his cargo ship crashed right into a US gasoline tanker.
British police have charged the Russian captain of a cargo ship that crashed right into a United States gasoline tanker within the North Sea this week with manslaughter and gross negligence over the demise of a crew member.
Humberside police stated on Friday evening that Vladimir Motin, 59, from Primorsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was remanded in police custody and can seem at Hull Magistrates Court docket on Saturday.
On Monday, the Portuguese-flagged Solong container vessel, of which Motin was the captain, hit the Stena Immaculate tanker at full velocity whereas it was anchored off the coast of Hull in northeastern England. The Stena Immaculate was carrying US navy jet gasoline.
Through the crash, which brought on huge fires and explosions, one of many Solong’s crew members, 38-year-old Filipino nationwide Mark Angelo Pernia, went lacking and is now “presumed” useless.
“In depth searches had been carried out by HM Coastguard to find the lacking crew member, now presumed deceased,” Humberside police stated in a press release.
“The household are being supported by specialist skilled officers and our ideas stay with them at this troublesome time,” it added.
The remaining 36 crew members from each vessels survived the incident and had been dropped at shore.
On Friday, the Russian embassy in London stated on its Telegram channel that its diplomats had held a “detailed phone dialog with the captain of the vessel” on Thursday.
“In keeping with him, he feels properly. The Russian citizen has been supplied with an interpreter and a lawyer, with whom our workers additionally preserve fixed contact,” the embassy wrote, including that it was in “shut contact with the British competent authorities.”
The coastguard stated on Thursday that salvage corporations boarded the 2 vessels to hold out preliminary harm assessments, because the Stena Immaculate stays anchored on the level of the crash and the Solong drifted south of the location.
In an replace on Friday, chief coastguard Paddy O’Callaghan stated the vessels had been “steady”.
“There are actually solely small periodic pockets of fireplace on the Solong, which aren’t inflicting undue concern. Specialist tugs with firefighting functionality stay at each vessels’ places,” O’Callaghan stated including that there continues to be “no trigger for concern” of air pollution from the crash.
Whereas the British authorities has dominated out foul play within the crash, investigators are nonetheless analyzing its causes.
Furthermore, Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated the state of affairs was “fairly contained” on Thursday.
