{"id":44329,"date":"2024-06-07T17:35:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/port-of-antwerp-closes-a-dock-and-a-lock-due-to-oil-spill\/44329\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T17:35:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T14:35:19","slug":"port-of-antwerp-closes-a-dock-and-a-lock-due-to-oil-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/port-of-antwerp-closes-a-dock-and-a-lock-due-to-oil-spill\/44329\/","title":{"rendered":"Port of Antwerp Closes a Dock and a Lock Due to Oil Spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"meta\">\n<meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-06-07T10:04:24.0000000\"\/><br \/>\n<span class=\"date\">June 7, 2024<\/span><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2024-06-07T10:04:24.0000000\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"images-wrapper single\">\n<div class=\"images\">\n<div class=\"image active\">\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(File photo: Port of Antwerp-Bruges)\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Authorities at the port of Antwerp have closed a dock and are using drones to monitor the fallout from an oil spill that occurred while a ship was bunkering at one of its docks, a port spokesperson said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are doing everything we can to make sure the oil stays locally,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium&#8217;s biggest port closed its Deurganck Dock as well as the Kieldrecht lock, the largest lock in the world when considering water volume, to prevent the spill&#8217;s spread.<\/p>\n<p>The port spokesperson said 20 ships needed to be cleaned from the oil before they could leave the dock, as well as the dock&#8217;s walls and water. She could not say how much oil spilt into the water during the incident or specify the type of ship that lost it.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Reuters &#8211; Reporting by Charlotte Van Campenhout and Tassilo Hummel; Editing by Jan Harvey and Benoit Van Overstraeten)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 7, 2024 (File photo: Port of Antwerp-Bruges) Authorities at the port of Antwerp have closed a dock and are using drones to monitor the fallout from an oil spill that occurred while a ship was bunkering at one of its docks, a port spokesperson said on Friday. &#8220;We are doing everything we can to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/44330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}