Petrolimex 14, one of the vessels participating in the rescue and search for nine missing crewmen. (Photo: daidoanket.vn)Hanoi (VNA) - The Vietnam Maritime Search and RescueCo-ordination Centre is mobilising efforts and has called for support from allvessels to participate in the search for nine missing crewmen.
The crewmen were on board a cargo ship that sank in the Vung Tausea on March 28.
At about 4.37am the same day, the centre received an emergencyrescue signal from the Hai Thanh 26, some 44 nautical miles east of Vung Tau cityin southern coastal Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.
The centre immediately asked the Petrolimex 14 - another vesselsailing some five nautical miles near the signal site - to come to the area. Atthe same time, the centre also informed two other vessels - SAR413 and SAR 272- to reach the area to support the rescue.
Arriving at the area, Petrolimex 14 found a breeches-buoy withtwo crewmen on board. Both were rescued. One of the crewmen said the othercrewmen of Hai Thanh 26 had drifted away on another breeches-buoy.
The Petrolimex and two vessels continued their search arounduntil they found another breaches-buoy at about 8.10am, but there was no one onboard.
According to Hoang Tien Khoi, one of the two crewmen rescued bythe Petrolimex 14, the Hai Thanh 26 - a cargo ship with some 3,000-tonnetransport capacity - sank after colliding with another cargo ship in the Vung Tausea.
The accidentoccurred when the cargo ship with 11 crewmen and clinker on board was sailingfrom northern Hai Phong city to southern Can Tho city, Khoi said.
Following theaccident, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc issued a dispatch requesting theMinistry of Transport, in conjunction with the National Committee for Searchand Rescue, the Ministry of National Defence and other related ministries,agencies and localities, to take urgent measures to look for the missingcrewmen. It was ordered to work with the Ministry of Public Security to clearup the cause of the accident and report to the PM.
PM Phuc alsoasked the People’s Committee of Ba Ria-Vung Tau and the owner of the Hai Thanh26 to visit the rescued crewmen and families of the missing.
The Ministry ofTransport must instruct the Vietnam Maritime Administration and competentagencies to tighten management over marine shipping in order to ensure safetyand avoid similar accidents, the dispatch noted.-VNA
The crewmen were on board a cargo ship that sank in the Vung Tausea on March 28.
At about 4.37am the same day, the centre received an emergencyrescue signal from the Hai Thanh 26, some 44 nautical miles east of Vung Tau cityin southern coastal Ba Ria-Vung Tau province.
The centre immediately asked the Petrolimex 14 - another vesselsailing some five nautical miles near the signal site - to come to the area. Atthe same time, the centre also informed two other vessels - SAR413 and SAR 272- to reach the area to support the rescue.
Arriving at the area, Petrolimex 14 found a breeches-buoy withtwo crewmen on board. Both were rescued. One of the crewmen said the othercrewmen of Hai Thanh 26 had drifted away on another breeches-buoy.
The Petrolimex and two vessels continued their search arounduntil they found another breaches-buoy at about 8.10am, but there was no one onboard.
According to Hoang Tien Khoi, one of the two crewmen rescued bythe Petrolimex 14, the Hai Thanh 26 - a cargo ship with some 3,000-tonnetransport capacity - sank after colliding with another cargo ship in the Vung Tausea.
The accidentoccurred when the cargo ship with 11 crewmen and clinker on board was sailingfrom northern Hai Phong city to southern Can Tho city, Khoi said.
Following theaccident, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc issued a dispatch requesting theMinistry of Transport, in conjunction with the National Committee for Searchand Rescue, the Ministry of National Defence and other related ministries,agencies and localities, to take urgent measures to look for the missingcrewmen. It was ordered to work with the Ministry of Public Security to clearup the cause of the accident and report to the PM.
PM Phuc alsoasked the People’s Committee of Ba Ria-Vung Tau and the owner of the Hai Thanh26 to visit the rescued crewmen and families of the missing.
The Ministry ofTransport must instruct the Vietnam Maritime Administration and competentagencies to tighten management over marine shipping in order to ensure safetyand avoid similar accidents, the dispatch noted.-VNA
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