WASHINGTON, April 29 – RIA Novosti. Part of the oil tankers, which accumulated off the coast of California, within five days leave, but most will remain there indefinitely, said Wednesday RIA Novosti Director of the dispatch service of the southern California port captain Kim Louttit.
last Friday, the Coast guard reported a cluster of 27 tankers off the coast of southern California, calling it a unique situation. Tankers are forced to anchor because of the glut of oil on the market filled with stores it was nowhere to unload.
According to the captain, just on the roads in his area of responsibility is 28 vessels. Some of them also do not have the exact time continue swimming. In particular, for an indefinite period, there remained five cruise liners, swimming which temporarily halted due to pandemic coronavirus, as well as one ship with the cars.
this week it is expected the arrival of five tankers, but four of them will have to unload, and only one anchor for a long time, said Louttit.
“So we have a mixture of those who gets at the Park, and those who unloaded, depending on which they of the company”, – said the Agency interlocutor.
Only in the coastal zone there are 48 Parking lots of ships now free 20 of them, he added. The current situation does not interfere with the movement, said Louttit.
“the Current 28 – that’s three times more than usual, but nothing we hadn’t done it successfully before,” he said.
