Japan to send disaster relief team to Mauritius over fuel leakage

Japan will send a disaster relief team to Mauritius in response to fuel leakage from a stranded Japanese-owned freighter that ran aground off the Indian Ocean island nation, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday.The six-member expert team will leave Japan on Monday, the ministry said after Mauritius declared a state of environmental emergency over the fuel leakage on Friday.Earlier Sunday, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., the operator of the Panama-flagged bulk carrier Wakashio, said more than 1,000 tons of fuel oil have leaked from the vessel."We're terribly sorry," Akihiko Ono, executive vice preside…READ FULL ARTICLE