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Green Marine

June 23, 2006 · about 20 years ago

Container ship leak worse than expected

South-east Queensland authorities say a chemical leak on a foreign cargo ship that berthed at the Port of Brisbane late yesterday is worse than originally feared. Emergency crews have worked through the night at Fisherman Islands to neutralise the danger from toxic and highly flammable cleaning chem

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South-east Queensland authorities say a chemical leak on a foreign cargo ship that berthed at the Port of Brisbane late yesterday is worse than originally feared.

Emergency crews have worked through the night at Fisherman Islands to neutralise the danger from toxic and highly flammable cleaning chemicals.

This morning they have called in a tanker to pump nitrogen gas into the containers.

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