COPENHAGEN, Denmark: A Russian frigate has collided with a Marshall Islands-flagged container ship off Copenhagen, Denmarks navy said. Weather reports show that there was thick fog in the area at the time of the collision on Wednesday morning.
The navy also said that no one appeared to have been injured and that there have been no reports of any leaks during the collision near the Oresund link, a tunnel and bridge that connects Copenhagen to Malmo, Swedens third largest city.
It said the civilian vessel, Ice Rose, had anchored in Danish waters and that it had been withheld …. until there is assurance of the ships seaworthiness.
The whereabouts of the unidentified Russian frigate was not known.
The collision occurred in the southern part of the narrow Oresund straight between the Danish capital and southern Sweden,…