MOL ship involved in collision off HK coast

Rescuers were searching for 11 crew members missing after their cargo ship collided with a large MOL container vessel and sank just off the southeastern edge of Hong Kong early on Monday morning, according to international media reports.

Fishing boats nearby rescued one injured crew member from the sunken cargo ship, a police spokeswoman told The Wall Street Journal. The survivor told authorities there were 11 others aboard the ship.

According to CargoNews Asia, quoting the Hong Kong Marine Department, the 97m cargo vessel Zhong Xing 2 was carrying cement to Hebei Province from Haikou in Hainan Province at the time of the collision. The larger ship involved in the collision was a Marshall Islands-registered container ship, the MOL Motivator, which was sailing from Hong Kong to nearby Shenzhen and has reportedly continued to a Shenzen port.