Owners of tug involved in Transocean Winner grounding face grilling
ByDavid Kerr
The UK Parliament’s transport select committee questioned why the captain of MV Alp Forward was towing the 17,300 tonne Transocean Winner in a storm on Monday, August 8.
The owners of a tug which crashed in the Western Isles while towing a huge oil rig, spilling fuel into the sea, will be pressed by a parliamentary committee today.
The UK Parliament’s transport select committee has launched a probe into the incident with questions being asked about why the captain of MV Alp Forward was towing the 17,300 tonne Transocean Winner in a storm on Monday, August 8.
Another focus for the committee – which is made up of six Conservative, four Labour and one SNP MP – is to look at the government’s controversial axing of a salvage tug service on the west coast of Scotland.
