An Eitzen Chemical-operated vessel has been caught up in a possible pollution case in Australia which has seen the crew questioned by local authorities.
The captain and officers of the 44,720-dwt chemical tanker Siteam Anja (built 1996) were interviewed by police in Tasmania on Sunday after a black sludge was found in a nearby waterway, the Australian Associated Press (AAP) reported.
bout 3,000 litres of water containing the carbon-based substances were pumped out of the River Derwent on Friday with local authorities reporting most of the rogue sludge had dispersed by Saturday.
The Singapore-flagged Eitzen vessel had spent Thursday and Friday berthed at Selfs Point on the river which is near the Tasman capital of Hobart. When the ship reached the state
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