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Oil spill containment efforts are progressing well, said T&T Salvage Asia, a maritime group involved in the cleanup operation on Friday, June 21. The oil spill incident took place on the southern coast of Singapore on June 14. «As of now, I personaOil spill incident: Containment efforts progressing well, says cleanup company
Oil spill containment efforts are progressing well, said T&T Salvage Asia, a maritime group involved in the cleanup operation on Friday, June 21. The oil spill incident took place on the southern coast of Singapore on June 14. «As of now, I personally think that we are - if not already - close to reaching the balance point where we can actually say we have control over the containment,» Captain Anuj Sahai, managing director of T&T Salvage Asia, shared in an interview with the media while out at sea near Siloso Beach. His company is in charge of the stretch between Labrador Park and Sentosa Cove, and islands like St John's Island. He said that his team is still trying to prevent the oil from reaching other beaches. «It will take a while, I think it's premature at this point to give a number or a date [on a complete cleanup], but the way we've gone about doing it as a team together has been very efficient,» he added. This comes after an oil spill occurred at Pasir Panjang Terminal on June 14 due to an allision between a dredging boat and a bunker vessel, which saw 400 tonnes of fuel pour into the sea. Read more