Tunisian Minister of Environment, Leila Chikhaoui, pointed out that “the situation is under control”, following a commercial cargo ship loaded with 750 tons of fuel sank off the southern coast of the country.
The official spokesman for the Gabes city court, Mohamed El-Kray, stated that there are “small fuel leaks that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
The ship was coming from the Egyptian port of Damietta and heading to Malta, but difficulties prevented it from continuing its course due to bad weather and turbulence at sea. On Friday evening, it asked the Tunisian authorities to enable it to enter the country’s territorial waters.
