Cleaning work in Dalian Bashny.Net

Oil spill after pipeline blast in the port city of Dalian on July 16 is eliminated by a small group of fishermen, local residents and government employees. Involved about 250 oil cleaning ships and 8,000 fishing boats, most of the work is done by hand. The size of the oil slick has reached 430 square meters. km, but its spread was stopped before the oil came into international waters. The explosion occurred due to improper injection desulfurizer into the pipes. As long as workers continue cleaning works, and activists of the "Greenpeace" accused the company «Dalian Port» in an inadequate response to its actions, the company has already started operations at two of its terminals. Management has assumed the interim administration.
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1. Working removes the oil slick in the port near Dalian on July 23. Exports of fuel remains suspended because of ongoing cleaning work in the main port city. (REUTERS / Stringer)





2. Workers clean the oil slick in the port of Dalian on 27 July. (REUTERS / Stringer)



3. A fisherman collects oil in the special containers. (REUTERS / Jiang He / Greenpeace)



4. Work on the boat floats on the oil slick near the port of Dalian. (REUTERS / Stringer)



5. A fisherman cleans oil from hands on the edge of the can. (REUTERS / Jiang He / Greenpeace)



6. Local fisherman collects the oil from the water in the fishing village Nantuo July 22. (AP Photo / Greenpeace, Jiang He)



7. Local fishermen are resting right next to the cans with the collected oil into the Yellow Sea port of Xingang. (AP Photo / Greenpeace, Jiang He)



8. A local fisherman removes the oil port of Dalian on July 23. (AP Photo / Greenpeace, Jiang He)



9. A fisherman working on board a boat floating on a pool of oil filling in Dalian on July 23. (REUTERS / Jiang He / Greenpeace)



10. The boat floats on the oil slick in the fishing port, where the collected oil is being taken ashore for storage. (REUTERS / Arthur JD / Greenpeace)



11. Local fishermen carry oil from the water collected in the port Dayyugou. (REUTERS / Stringer)



12. Local fishermen collect oil barrels close to the port Xingang. (AP Photo / Greenpeace, Jiang He)



13. Work sets oil containers collected in the waters of the port Beylianggang in Dalian, Liaoning Province. (REUTERS / Stringer)



14. A man walks past barrels of recovered oil. (AP Photo / Greenpeace, Arthur JD)



15. smeared in oil fisherman resting next to a container with the collected oil. (REUTERS / Stringer)



16. Fishermen collect the oil from the waters around Dalian on July 25. (REUTERS / Arthur JD / Greenpeace)



17. Fisherman drinks during the cleaning work. (REUTERS / Jiang He / Greenpeace)



18. Dove is on the oil slick off the coast of Xingang in Dalian Bay, to the north-east of China, Liaoning Province. (AP Photo / Xinhua, Yao Jianfeng)



19. Work collects oil from the leak in the port of Dalian. (REUTERS / Stringer)



20. Left: a woman waiting for her turn to pour oil from a barrel on 27 July. (LIU JIN / AFP / Getty Images) Right: stained in Chinese oil refineries involved in operations in the Gulf Gantszintsy affected by the oil spill. (AP Photo)



21. People walk along the coastline affected by the oil spill in Dalian. (REUTERS / Jiang He / Greenpeace)



22. Workers are collected in a container with Dalian Port oil. (REUTERS / Stringer)



23. Work looks at his oil-covered body, standing next to buckets of collected oil. (LIU JIN / AFP / Getty Images)



24. Tourists rest near the buoys placed here to keep the oil in the Gulf of Fuji. (REUTERS / Stringer)



25. Work is near the container with the collected oil near the port of Dalian. (REUTERS / Jiang He / Greenpeace)



26. Fishermen clean oil in the port of Dalian. (REUTERS / Stringer)



27. Work demonstrates mired in oil feet after cleaning in the port of Dalian. (LIU JIN / AFP / Getty Images)



28. Fisherman transporting barrels of oil in the port of Dalian on 27 July. (LIU JIN / AFP / Getty Images)



29. The Working collects oil from the surface of the water in the port of Dalian. (REUTERS / Stringer)



30. Working removes oil from the surface of the water in the port of Dalian. (REUTERS / Stringer)



31. Cleaning of the port of Dalian continues. (LIU JIN / AFP / Getty Images)



32. Fishermen collect deposits of oil on the coast of Dalian on 26 July. (AP Photo / Greenpeace, Jiang He)



33. Chinese workers put neftepogloschayuschy material Gulf Gantszintsy affected by the oil spill. (AP Photo)



34. A fisherman collects soiled in oil algae in Dalian on 27 July. (REUTERS / Stringer)



35. Seashells coated with oil, lie on the coast of Dalian on 26 July. (REUTERS / Arthur JD / Greenpeace)



36. Working removes oil, which fell on the beach in Dalian. (REUTERS / Stringer / Sheng Li)



37. Workers clean oil from the beach using manual tools and tractors. (REUTERS / Stringer)



38. Work pours oil into the can with the help of his helmet in Dalian on July 22. (REUTERS / Stringer)



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