HONG KONG — A merchant ship collided with a Malaysian oil tanker on Tuesday morning, puncturing the tanker’s hull and spilling 2,500 tons of crude oil into the Singapore Strait, maritime officials reported. The damage appeared to be limited to one compartment in the double-hulled tanker, the Bunga Kelana 3, with the spill amounting to about 18,000 barrels. In comparison, the most conservative estimates of the ongoing BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico are 5,000 barrels a day. The spill...
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