The search for a missing crew member of a cargo ship that collided with an oil tanker in the North Sea has been called off as fires aboard continued to burn overnight, according to the coastguard. A Portuguese-registered container ship,

The cargo ship Solong was not laden with sodium cyanide at the time of the collision, say its owner The owner of a cargo ship involved in a collision with a fuel tanker in the North Sea has said it was not laden with highly toxic chemicals.

A cargo ship struck an anchored tanker in the North Sea, engulfing both vessels in flames and rupturing a cargo tank filled with jet fuel. One seafarer was hospitalized and the other 36 mariners across both crews were safe and accounted for,