LNG Carrier Rescues Fisherman (Philippines)

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines today announced that on August 17, the MOL-managed LNG carrier Energy Advance found and rescued one fisherman on a fishing boat that had been drifting without sufficient fuel about 300km east of the Mindanao Island.

The rescue went as follows:

At 13:00 of August 17 (local time), the Energy Advance, out of Sodegaura, Japan, bound for Dampier, Australia, found a fishing boat that had run out of fuel.

At 13:44 on the same day, the fisherman aboard the fishing boat was rescued.

He was turned over to the Port Authority of the Republic of the Philippines at 13:55 on August 18.

Outline of Energy Advance

• Gross Tonnage: 119,233 MT
• Length: 289.53m
• Seafarers: 10 Japanese, 19 Filipinos
• Registry: Japan

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LNG World News Staff, August 20, 2013; Image: MOL