Sea contaminated with oil after ships collide

A Belgian cargo vessel leaked oil into waters off northern China after a Chinese ship crashed into it at a refuelling dock, a state news agency said.

The Belgian ship, Lowlands Prosperity, was docked late yesterday at the Caofeidian port, a steelmaking and energy base in northeastern Hebei province, near Beijing, when a Chinese oil supplying ship hit the vessel’s stern, the official Xinhua News Agency said.