Vessel collides with oil tanker

Vessel collides with oil tanker

SINGAPORE (Reuter): An oil tanker collided with a fishing vessel in the Straits of Malacca yesterday, Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence and shipping sources said.

Three people on board the fishing vessel Jasa Baru were picked up by the Panamanian-registered 1,822-gross ton tanker B Cupid, but one person was reported missing, Lloyd's said.

"The Jasa Baru is probably Indonesian," an official from the Malaysian Rescue Coordination Center in Klang said by telephone.

"There are no reports so far of any oil spill," he said.