Would this be a problem?

[beamie]

Being my business her is my comments...

Tanker Disaster??????????. Someone screwed that headline up. That is no tanker. That is a bulk ship. For hauling cargo like grain, sugar, salt,,,you get the picture. With its own cranes for offloading.

The oil leaking is its own bunker fuel. Like Mike P said it is heavy #6. It is crap, the cheapest stuff going...usually. Must be heated to 230 or so degree before it will burn. Could be burning an IFO-intermediate fuel oil but probably not.

We refer the ships fuel to bunker weather it is Heavy, medium or light fuels. This term stems from the days of coal bunkering ships. The term was held on to all these years.

Gloucester2....Don't quite understand you comment on something having to be done for this type of tranportation. Do you suggest a bridge and train to China???

Saddens me the loss of life. The helo CG guys got some "bigs ones" flying in some of the bad weather that they do.