WAFB - Local News (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
It won't release a witness list for Tuesday's hearing about the collision in which the 600-foot tanker Tintomara ran over a barge loaded with oil about 1:30 a.m. July 23rd, but a news release early this month identified "parties of interest."
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
The pilots of two vessels that collided on the Mississippi River - spilling an estimated 400,000 gallons of oil - are slated to testify next week before the US coast guard about the devastating accident.The spill on July 23 forced the closure of a 100-mile stretch of river after a tugboat, the Mel Oliver, collided with a large petrol tanker, the Tintomara, just outside of New Orleans.In a preliminary...
Beyond Katrina (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
U.S. Coast Guard Photograph contractors clean number six fuel oil Friday, July 25, 2008, near Belle Chasse, downriver from New Orleans. The motor vessel Tintomara and a tug and barge collided Wednesday, July 23, 2008, spilling nearly 420,000 gallons of...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
... to be cleared, it was expected to take days to clear the backlog that developed after the tanker Tintomara collided with a barge in the early morning hours Wednesday. About 419,000 gallons of fuel oil spilled from the barge into the Mississippi at New Orleans. The shutdown of a 100-mile stretch of river to the Gulf of Mexico halted vessels ranging from oil supertankers to grain barges in...
SignalBlog (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
... to be cleared, it was expected to take days to clear the backlog that developed after the tanker Tintomara collided with a barge in the early morning hours Wednesday. About 419,000 gallons of fuel oil spilled from the barge into the Mississippi at New Orleans. The shutdown of a 100-mile stretch of river to the Gulf of Mexico halted vessels ranging from oil supertankers to grain barges in...
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
With more than 200 ships to be cleared, it was expected to take days to clear the backlog that developed after the tanker Tintomara collided with a barge early Wednesday. About 419,000 gallons of fuel oil spilled from the barge into the Mississippi at New Orleans.
Examiner (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
(AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard - Petty Officer 2nd Class Thomas M. Blue)In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard a 41-foot smallboat from Coast Guard Station New Orleans patrols a safety zone around the partially sunken barge Wednesday July 23, 2008 as industry officials prepare a salvage plan for the barge. Early Wednesday morning the motor vessel Tintomara and the tugboat Mel Oliver collided...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
... to be cleared, it was expected to take days to clear the backlog that developed after the tanker Tintomara collided with a barge in the early morning hours Wednesday. About 419,000 gallons of fuel oil spilled from the barge into the Mississippi at New Orleans.
The shutdown of a 100-mile stretch of river to the Gulf of Mexico halted vessels ranging from oil supertankers to grain barges...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
A 100-mile stretch of the river has been shut down since Wednesday, when a barge split open in a collision with the Liberian-flagged tanker Tintomara. Roughly 419,000 gallons spilled into the fast-flowing waterway to commerce, and crews have sopped up about 11,000 — just a fraction of what the barge was carrying.The first ship to leave the mouth of the river, the Overseas New York, is bound...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
(AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard - Petty Officer 2nd Class Thomas M. Blue)In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard a 41-foot smallboat from Coast Guard Station New Orleans patrols a safety zone around the partially sunken barge Wednesday July 23, 2008 as industry officials prepare a salvage plan for the barge. Early Wednesday morning the motor vessel Tintomara and the tugboat Mel Oliver collided...
CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
... shut down since Wednesday, when a barge split open in a collision with the Liberian-flagged tanker Tintomara. Roughly 419,000 gallons spilled into the fast-flowing waterway to commerce, and crews have sopped up about 11,000 - just a fraction of what the barge was carrying.The first ship to leave the mouth of the river, the Overseas New York, is bound for refineries upriver from New Orleans,...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
(AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard - Petty Officer 2nd Class Thomas M. Blue)In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard a 41-foot smallboat from Coast Guard Station New Orleans patrols a safety zone around the partially sunken barge Wednesday July 23, 2008 as industry officials prepare a salvage plan for the barge. Early Wednesday morning the motor vessel Tintomara and the tugboat Mel Oliver collided...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
... aboard a barge that split open early Wednesday in a collision with the Liberian-flagged tanker Tintomara. The Coast Guard said it could take days to reopen the nation's bustling waterway to commerce.Many of the ships waited at the river's Gulf of Mexico outlet to head upriver to grain and petrochemical terminals above New Orleans, one of the world's busiest ports.The Coast Guard said 58...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
... aboard a barge that split open early Wednesday in a collision with the Liberian-flagged tanker Tintomara. The Coast Guard said it could take days to reopen the nation's bustling waterway to commerce.Many of the ships waited at the river's Gulf of Mexico outlet to head upriver to grain and petrochemical terminals above New Orleans, one of the world's busiest ports.The Coast Guard said 58...
SignalBlog (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
... aboard the barge that split open early Wednesday in the collision with the Liberian-flagged tanker Tintomara. The Coast Guard said 38 southbound vessels and 21 northbound vessels had been halted, a stackup expected to grow. Grain barges moving south from the American heartland were able to reach huge elevators at the Port of South Louisiana _ upriver from New Orleans _ but grain cargo ships...
