An oil tanker and a bulk carrier collided in the English Channel on Saturday amid calm sea conditions, leaving no crew members injured and no pollution to the water.

The collision, which happened in the Dover Strait, left the Valles Steamship-owned Seafrontier with a gash in the hull above the waterline and damage to the superstructure. The 2011-built, 48,580-dwt tanker was carrying 38,000 tonnes of petrol.

The 2013-built, 75,500-dwt Chinese-owned bulker Huayang Endeavour was also damaged.

“Although both vessels have been damaged, there is no water ingress and no pollution. There are no injuries and all of the crew are accounted for,” a spokesperson for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) was reported saying.

Huayang Endeavour was enroute to Lagos in Nigeria and Seafrontier was sailing to Puerto Barrios in Guatemala.

Seafrontier has been taken under tow by a tug while Huayang Endeavour is anchored mid-Channel and would be taken to dock in the UK.

An investigation into the collision is underway.

Source:seatrade-maritime.com