Oil slick from cargo ship off Gibraltar reaches shore

Gibraltar (AFP) Sept 2, 2022

Small amounts of oil from a bulk carrier that collided with a gas tanker off Gibraltar has reached the shoreline of the British territory and neighbouring Spain, local officials said Friday. The head of Gibraltar's government, Fabian Picardo, told Spanish news radio Cadena Ser that a slick from the stricken vessel had reached "parts of the coast of Gibraltar." "But it was a small slick,