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Singapore Minister of Transport confirmed that port congestion was not caused by the serious oil spill that occurred after a collision between a bulldozer and a fuel tanker.
In a Facebook post on June 18, four days after the accident, Minister Chee Hong Tat said: “The accident is still being investigated, but preliminary results show that the collision that occurred on June 14 was due to the excavator experiencing a sudden loss of engine and engine failure.” . Steering controls. It is not because of congestion because the waters of our ports and marinas are not crowded.
However, Chee said: “Previous reports of delays experienced by container ships are a separate matter due to the consolidation of container ships arriving at PSA (the container terminal operator in Singapore).
The Red Sea crisis caused a rise in the number of ships arriving at the second busiest port in the world due to disruption in schedules.
