The Liberian flagged container ship, MV Rena, which ran aground on the Astrolabe Reef off Tauranga, New Zealand last week is continuing to suffer structural cracking and is continuing to spill bunker oil and losing containers overboard. Several beaches on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island were closed after oil and containers from the ship washed ashore. Attempts at salvage has been prevented by bad weather.
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