Oil Spill in Algoa Bay – Again – as Plans for Offshore Bunkering Mooted

This week there was an oil spill in South Africa’s Algoa Bay, a whale heritage site. A Croatian-flagged vessel, MV Solin, was taking bunkers offshore from the bunker tanker Sea Express while at the Algoa Bay anchorage number 1. Although it was a small quantity of about 80 litres of heavy fuel oil that spilled into the sea, this serves as an example of how easy it is that this can kind of situation can occur, and how much work it takes to fix the problem.