The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has evacuated all 22 crew members from a product tanker in distress on Wednesday.

The ship was named as Global King, but appears to be the 6,700-dwt Global King 1 (built 2007).

The tanker was reported to be taking on water 93 nautical miles off Porbandar.

The ICG said the asphalt/bitumen tanker, formerly Asphalt Spring, was the subject of a “swift rescue operation”.