An oil tanker caught fire after an explosion as it was leaving Saudi Arabia. Shipping company Hafnia said the BW Rhine was hit by an unidentified "external source" while the ship was discharging at the port of Jeddah.
Dramatics pictures showed a huge fire in the centre of the vessel with clouds of black smoke towering into the air. The Singapore-flagged tanker was loaded with 60,000 tonnes of gasoline on December 6 and was still 84 per cent full when the blaze took hold.
At maximum capacity it can take 80,000 tonnes but the company didn't believe it had leaked despite damage from the fire. Crew put out the fire and no-one was injured, the company said, adding that parts of the ship's hull had been damaged.
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