Information from Marine Traffic, a website that tracks vessels, appeared to show the Stena Immaculate, an oil tanker, and the Solong, a container ship, on an intersecting route surrounded by emergency response vessels just off the coast of the mouth of the River Humber, near Hull.
According to the tracker, the Stena Immaculate, a U.S.-flagged vessel, was anchored at the time of the crash, raising questions about how the two vessels had managed to collide during the daylight hours. The Solong, sailing under the Portuguese flag, was headed to Rotterdam in the Netherlands after leaving a port in Scotland on Sunday, according to the vessel tracker.
Erik Hanell, the chief executive of Stena Bulk, which co-owns the Stena Immaculate, told the BBC that all of the crew of that tanker were accounted for and safe.
Martyn Boyers, the chief executive of the port of Grimsby East, spoke to Sky News, a British news channel, and said that the area had been foggy on Monday morning, which may have contributed to visibility issues. He said that at least 32 people had been brought into the port of Grimsby and that some of them had been taken by ambulance to local hospitals. It remains unclear how many of those people were injured.
“Altogether, 32 casualties were brought through the port, and there was a line of ambulances waiting to take them to Princess Diana Hospital, which is what they’re still doing now,” he told Sky News. He added, “This morning, it’s been very foggy, and the fog has never lifted. So I would imagine that at that time, when the accident took place, that there would have been fog.”
