NEW DELHI : An oil tanker carrying crude for state-owned Indian Oil Corp. Ltd’s (IOC’s) Paradip refinery from Kuwait caught fire 38 nautical miles off the eastern coast of Sri Lanka on Thursday, a company official said.
The fire started in the engine room of the Panama-registered very large crude carrier (VLCC) MT New Diamond, which was chartered by India’s largest refiner and oil marketing company to carry 270,000 thousand tonnes of crude oil.
“While all 23 crew members were evacuated from the ship, one of them is in a critical condition,” said an IOC official requesting anonymity.
