Ship owner, operator of interest in California oil spill
HUNTINGTON BEACH: The US Coast Guard has designated the Mediterranean Shipping Company and others as parties of interest in an investigation into a vessel that was determined to be the source of an offshore pipeline leak in Southern California.
Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board marine casualty investigators boarded a container ship, MSC DANIT, on Saturday in the Port of Long Beach that was involved in a January anchor-dragging incident discovered to be the source of the spill off Huntington Beach on October 2, according to Lt. Cmdr. Braden Rostad.
The designation announced in a statement on Saturday names ship operator Mediterranean Shipping Company SA and ship owner Dordellas Finance Corporation.
