NewLead Holdings said it has dispatched an engineer to a chartered-in bitumen tanker that was left at a Norwegian port after the ship began taking on water.

Firefighters were called out 7 February to the port of Drammenhavn to pump water from the 3,370-dwt Ioli (built 2009), according to local port officials. The ship had taken on "several thousand" litres of water in the engineroom, the port officials said.

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