Ship Malfunction Causes Oil Spill off Egypt Coast
Date: 23-Nov-04
Country: EGYPT
"The spill happened early on Saturday," the official said.
He added the tanker Good Hope had stopped leaking oil but
there was a spill about 1 km (0.6 miles) square in size about 1
km from Egypt's north coast, east of the port city of Alexandria.
He said local authorities were cleaning up the spill and had no plans to close ports on Egypt's Mediterranean coast.
Further details about the tanker were not immediately available.