The accident occurred while the tug was refueling. The spill was significant, but estimated to be confined mainly to the area around the port of Agios in the city of Kemi.
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— Possible impacts on the marine environment will be monitored through regular sampling. The border guard is also investigating the case, the release said.
Finland/ On the Gulf of Bothnia, thousands of liters of oil leaked from an icebreaker tug
According to experts, collecting stains of petroleum products from ice is more difficult than from water due to, among others, difficulties with installing mechanical collectors – brushes and dams, as well as the possibility of leakage penetrating under the ice.
This year, in February, the largest amount of ice in Finland's coastal waters has been observed in about 15 years. In the north, in the waters of the Gulf of Bothnia in the Tornio region near Kemi, the ice is about 75 cm thick, i.e. almost twice as thick as in the south of the country, in the Gulf of Finland.
