A GREEK tanker collided with a container ship 30km off the Dutch coast yesterday and briefly leaked jet fuel into the North Sea, a Coast Guard spokesman said.

A Greek tanker collided with a container ship 30km off the Dutch coast today and briefly leaked jet fuel into the North Sea, a Coast Guard spokesman said.

A helicopter carrying 17 people crashed into the North Sea near the Dutch port of Den Helder but rescuers managed to pull everyone out of the wreckage and the water, a Coast Guard official said.

A freighter collided with another vessel in a busy shipping lane off the Dutch coast today and sank, a coast guard spokesman said.