Basuo Maritime Safety Administration and Basuo Maritime Search and Rescue Sub-center
organized the first unscripted comprehensive oil spill emergency drill in the second loading
area of Basuo Port. Dongfang City Emergency Management Bureau, Hainan Basuo Port Co.,
Ltd. and many other related Units and enterprises jointly participated in this exercise.
At 9 a.m., when the "Fuchi" ship was berthed at the hazardous chemical terminal,a sudden
strong convective weather was occurred during unloading. The instantaneous strong wind
accompanied by strong lightning caused the ship to pull off the shore oil pipeline arm,Both
the sea and the ship’s deck suffered from oil spill pollution, the ship’s deck caught fire and
lost power due to failure.
The duty officers of the Basuo Maritime Safety Bureau immediately activated the emergency
plan after receiving the police verification, coordinated the rescue forces such as terminal
firefighting, tugboats, and clean-up ships to rush to the scene, and assigned maritime emergency
law enforcement personnel to the scene to conduct ship firefighting, personnel first aid and
evacuation, and marine oil spills containment and recovery by using oil booms and
oil absorbent pads, ship emergency towing, marine environment monitoring and other
emergency response work.
After coordinated disposal, the open fire of the accident ship was extinguished at 10 am, and
the people on the ship were evacuated and medical rescue was carried out; at 11 am, the
cleaning vessel completed the control and recovery of the oil spilled at sea; at 11:30 am, the
tugboat was planned to tow on site, At this point, the accident disposal was successfully
completed and the drill was ended successfully.