Turkish cargo ship sinks after collision
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ISTANBUL — A Turkish cargo ship with 10 crew aboard sank Wednesday after a collision with a tanker off Istanbul, with no immediate signs of survivors, Turkish authorities said.
A lifeboat and other debris belonging to the Tugberk Imamoglu have been found, but there is no sign of the crew, the General Directorate of Maritime Affairs said in a statement.
“There are 10 seafarers on board, including the captain,” Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said. “They are all Turkish. We can say that the sinking occurred rapidly in 11 minutes. No one has been found alive.”
The ship collided with the Turkish-flagged tanker Alsu in the Marmara Sea at 3 a.m., the statement said. An emergency signal was received from the Tugberk Imamoglu and the first rescue craft reached the site 4:10 a.m.
The vessel, carrying rolled steel, collided with the Alsu about 32 kilometres south of Silivri, a western suburb of Turkey’s largest city.
“It is assessed that the Tugberk Imamoglu vessel sank because it did not respond to any calls and the mobile phones of the personnel on board went unanswered,” the maritime directorate said.
The directorate’s head, Unal Baylan, said the ships had been communicating with each other by radio immediately prior to the collision. “This indicates that the two captains saw each other and were talking to each other to adjust their routes,” he told a news conference.
The Silivri Public Prosecutor’s Office said it had launched an investigation into the sinking.
The owner of the Tugberk Imamoglu, meanwhile, said the captain had contacted the Alsu before the collision to warn that it was entering the cargo vessel’s shipping lane.
“Despite this, according to our initial findings, the collision occurred as a result of M/T Alsu’s navigational movements and our ship sank shortly afterward,” the statement from Imamoglu Denizcilik said.
The private news agency DHA reported that radio recordings showed the Tugberk Imamoglu captain warned the Alsu to steer to port side in a bid to avoid a collision.
There was no immediate response to the claim from the Alsu’s owners.
The 90-metre cargo ship was travelling from Turkey’s Mediterranean post of Iskenderun to Eregli in the Black Sea. The 91-metre Alsu is an oil or chemical tanker, and was sailing from Kocaeli, east of Istanbul, to Aliaga on the Aegean coast, according to the Marine Traffic website.
» The Associated Press