Jordan may need specialist help to clean up Aqaba oil spill – The National

Jordan may need specialist help to clean up Aqaba oil spill – The National

Jordanian authorities are still working to clean up oil that leaked from ship two weeks ago and washed up in a marine reserve along its Aqaba coast on the Red Sea, officials and residents said.

After announcing that the August 14 spill in Jordanian territorial waters was minor and would be contained within hours, state television said on Sunday that 11 tonnes of spilled fuel oil caused "damage to a number of piers at the container terminal and the passenger port and to a number of Aqaba's southern beaches".

State television said the leak "spread to large areas over three days because of the wind and waves, and a large proportion reached the beaches".