Dry-cargo ship sinks in Japanese port, Russian crew rescued

TOKYO, November 9 (Itar-Tass) - The dry-cargo ship Damanta arriving
from Russia's Sakhalin sank on Tuesday in the port of Wakkanai of Japan's northernmost Hokkaido Island, local coast guard officers have reported.
They said water had flooded the ship and it sank slightly more than
ten meters away from the berth. There was a crew of seven Russian
nationals on board the ship registered in Cambodia. All of them were
rescued.
The Damanta was to have delivered in Japan crabs from the Sakhalin
port of Korsakov. An oil spill developed at the site of the sinking, but
the port services have localized it. The Japanese authorities are looking into the incident.