The capsizing of the container ship, ‘Deneb’, in Algeciras Port on Saturday, just a few days after the oil tank fire at North Mole, Gibraltar, has revived concerns in the bay of a future environmental disaster.
Ecologist groups are highlighting the problem and demanding a concrete policy to fight against the dangers with more fines or the creation of a control centre of maritime traffic for the Strait which sees more than 90,000 ships crossing the area each year.
A salvage vessel, Svitzer, is currently unloading the capsized container ship. It comes from the same company which carried out the salvage operation on the ‘New Flame’ a Panamanian freighter which ran aground on Gibraltar in December 2007.
The ‘Deneb’ capsized for a problem of stability which is now being investigated.
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