On the way to Tunisia from Izmir, the 1995-built 116-meter-long Turkish-flagged container ship Yusuf Çepnioğlu ran aground near the island of Mykonos.
The 538 TEU container ship Yusef Cepnioglu, built in 1995 and previously operated by Feedlink as Nordsea Trader, has gone aground on the rocks at Mykonos, Greece. !2 of the 14 crew aboard were rescued by the Hellenic Coastguard and another vessel, and the remaining two, the Master and First Engineer, were lifted off later by the helicopter from USS Bataan, which was operating nearby.
On the way to Tunisia from Izmir, the 1995-built 116-meter-long Turkish-flagged container ship Yusuf Çepnioğlu ran aground near the island of Mykonos.
Departed from Aliaga Nemrut and bouded for port of Bizerte in Tunisia, with 14 crew member on board, Yusuf Cepnioğlu went aground at 05:30 Local Time on the northwest coast of the island of Mykonos.
The 14 crew members on board, rescued by Greek search and rescue teams..
As the ship was getting water on the ship's engine room all crew members were reported to have been evacuated due to risk of sinking.
In the statement made by the Greek Coast Guard, 11 people rescued by the coast guard, the other three Super Puma helicopters dispatched to the region that were expressed.
The ship, with 204 containers on board, has been reported that caused no marine pollution yet.
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