To make matters worse,<p><pre><code> "The Solong was carrying 15 containers of sodium cyanide among its cargo, according to a report from maritime data provider Lloyd's List Intelligence."</code></pre>
For most of England there is a high pollution alert; I’m pretty sure a fire of this scale couldn’t cause high pollution levels across the whole of Eastern England, and much of Belgium.
Was it hypothesised that an aggressor could hack into a ship and control?<p>I know nothing about this case, but a belligerent actor control taking control has been thought of as a risk.
The fact that both vessels tracks could be viewed on marine traffic.com means the collision could have been averted by automated systems simply detecting that two ships were about to occupy the same bit of ocean.<p>Unfortunately ships prefer to use the 'captain looking out of the window' method of navigation, which is less reliable.