There is no threat for the environment and for tourists in the wake of the fuel oil spill from the sunken ship near the Black Sea town of Sozopol.
This was the message of Valtcho Tcholakov regional district of Bourgas after a meeting of the crisis center including environmentalists and cabinet ministers.
Valtcho Tcholakov also said that the maritime administration had taken all necessary measures installing fences that would prevent the spill from spreading and added that for the time being the situation was under control.
The fuel oil has spread from the wreck of the American ship Mopang, which sank off the town of Sozopol in 1921, after it came across a mine. According to the archives of Port Bourgas, Mopand carried 650 tonnes of ship fuel in its reservoirs.
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