The owner of container ship Solong which collided with a tanker in the North Sea says there is no sodium cyanide on board.
Shipping company Ernst Russ said Solong has empty containers previously used to transport the “hazardous chemical”.
There were fears the Portuguese vessel was carrying sodium cyanide when it collided with tanker Stena Immaculate on Monday morning.
Ernst Russ said in a statement:
“We are able to confirm that there are no containers onboard ladened with sodium cyanide, as has been misreported.
“There are four empty containers that have previously contained the hazardous chemical, and these containers will continue to be monitored.”
Efforts to find a missing crew member from Salong ended on Monday night after “an extensive search”. The firm has given its "deepest sympathy" to the family of the missing crew member after the Coastguard called the search off.
Fires on the vessels are continuing to burn off the East Yorkshire coast.
Minister for aviation, maritime and security Mike Kane has given this update in the Commons.
A 1000 metre temporary exclusion zones remains in place around both vessels but maritime traffic through the Humber Estuary is continuing.


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