Barge Collision Spills Gasoline in Houston Ship Channel

Barge Collision Spills Gasoline in Houston Ship Channel
Maritime traffic moves through the Houston Ship Chanel past the site of now-extinguished petrochemical tank fire at Intercontinental Terminals Company in Deer Park, Texas, on March 20, 2019. Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP
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BAYPORT, Texas—Multiple vessels collided in the Teon the afternoon of May 10, spilling an unknown volume of a toxic gasoline product and forcing the partial closure of the commercial waterway. The waterway remains partially closed on Saturday.

Authorities said at a news conference Saturday that the hull of a 755-foot tanker punctured storage tanks on a tug boat that was pushing two barges along the Houston Ship Channel.