Product tanker AMPAR 8 suffered an explosion, followed by fire, in the afternoon Mar 27 in Chao Praya river mouth, Bangkok area, Thailand, while mooring at the Bangchak depot in Phra Khanong district.
The ship arrived from Koh Si Chang Anchorage with a cargo of some 3,000 tons of reportedly, crude oil (offloaded from a large tanker). One crew died in the explosion, three were injured. Tanker drifted downstream for some 3 miles, and finally, managed to drop anchor. The fire was extinguished by firefighters in about an hour.
Oil Products Tanker AMPAR 8 is currently located at SEASIA – Gulf of Thailand at position 13° 33′ 14.7″ N, 100° 34′ 39.7″ E as reported by MarineTraffic Terrestrial Automatic Identification System on 2022-03-27 07:22 UTC (13 hours, 17 minutes ago)
The wind in this area at that time blows from the North direction at force 0 Beaufort.
The vessel departed from BANGKOK, TH on 2022-03-27 16:49 LT (UTC +7) and is currently sailing at 2.7 knots with Southeast direction heading to BANGKOK, TH with reported Estimated Time of Arrival at 2022-03-28 19:02 LT (UTC +7) local time (in 15 hours, 21 minutes )
AMPAR 8 (IMO: 8740101) is an Oil Products Tanker that was built in 2007 (15 years ago) and is sailing under the flag of Thailand.
Its carrying capacity is 3500 t DWT and its current draught is reported to be 4.8 meters. Her length overall (LOA) is 83 meters and her width is 14 meters.
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