An oil tanker on fire in the Baltic Sea off the coast of north-eastern Germany is to be towed to port, rescue officials said on Friday. “The fire is now largely under control,” Till Backhaus, the environment minister in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, told the Ostsee-Zeitung newspaper. The 73-metre Annika, which was reportedly carrying 640 tons of heavy fuel oil when a fire broke out on board early on Friday, is to be towed to Rostock port, where the blaze which has been contained to the engine room is to be put out entirely. The blaze on the vessel which was en route from Rostock to Trav…