The vessel was saved all 31 members of the crew.
Officially, the company did not say what the cargo is on Board the ship, but the port administration of Veracruz reports that it is about 81 thousand barrels of diesel fuel and approximately 23 thousand barrels of gasoline of different types.
The ship El Burgos, owned by Mexican oil company Pemex, caught fire on Saturday after an explosion on Board in the Gulf of Mexico near the port of Veracruz. According to Pemex, the vessel was saved all 31 members of the crew, no injuries. “The risk to the population to or near the designated incident facilities there,” — stated in the message of Pemex in his microblog on Twitter.
Officially, the company did not say what the cargo is on Board the ship, but the port administration of Veracruz reports that it is about 81 thousand barrels of diesel fuel and approximately 23 thousand barrels of gasoline of different types. The portal Tribuna Campeche reported that on Board the tanker could be almost 170 thousand barrels of fuel. To the scene were sent to several special vessels for fire fighting, joined the works in the ships of the Navy of Mexico.
