A laden Hong Kong-owned VLCC has gone aground off Indonesia near to a Singapore gas pipeline.
The Indonesia transport ministry’s Sea and Coast Guard (KPLP) said the 306,000-dwt Young Yong (built 2001) got stuck near Takong Kecil Island off Batam City on Friday.
An operation had been planned for Sunday to evacuate the 25-strong crew on board the Djibouti-flagged ship.
The ship owner, listed as East Wind Ship Management of Hong Kong, was involved in the operation, KPLP director Mugen Sartoto said in a statement.
The evacuation operation needed to be conducted carefully as the tanker is within the Singaporean gas pipeline area, he added.
Two coast guard and port authority ships were due to be involved.
AIS data showed the vessel still aground on Monday morning.
No casualties or environmental damage were reported in the incident. There has been no word on a cause.
The KPLP sent eight officers on two patrol boats to survey the conditions of the seabed where the Young Yong had run aground, as well as to monitor and secure the ship the same day.
AIS data records the VLCC as having left Yantai in China on 22 September, heading to anchorage off Nipa Island in Indonesia.
Loaded with crude
Sartoto said the vessel had left Tanjung Pelepas in Malaysia on 18 October.
The vessel is carrying 284,000 tonnes of crude, he added.
The ship is the former Maran Castor sold last year by the Angelicoussis Group. Unknown Chinese interests were reported as the buyers at the time.
East Wind could not be contacted for comment.
The tanker was detained in China last December with 13 deficiencies.
Grounds for the detention included faults with lifeboats and personal equipment for fire safety.
