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Tanker drifted on Volga folllowing engine failure
The "Synergy 2" suffered engine failure while proceeding upstream on the Volga river in the Astrakhan port area, shortly after tanker passed under the railway bridge on May 8, 2018 at 8.40 p.m. The tanker with 5.000 tons of heavy fuel on board is en route to Azov. To avoid the allision with the bridge, the tanker dropped two anchors, but it didn’t stop the drift. The tanker drifted below the bridge, some 150 meters downstream from a fairway bridge arch, blocking all traffic. The anker was removed from the fairway only in the morning of May 9 and returned to Astrakhan for inspection.
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