The Indian Coast Guard ships and aircraft deployed on Monday to detect and detention of oil from a cargo ship that sinking the coast on Sunday.
Three Indian Coast Guard (ICG) vessels Vikram, Saksham and Samarth relies on infrared cameras to detect the range of oil leakage near the Liberian container ship Elsa 3, which fell from the coast of Kochi on Sunday morning.
They also took advantage of the oil leakage dispersion (OSD) to spread the oil spread from a container that carried 84.44 MT diesel and 367.1 MT furnaces.
In addition to the dedicated control vessel for pollution control, it is mobilized from the bombai to catalyze the efforts to detain oil leakage, while the Dornier ICG aircraft equipped with a specialized device is located in Kochi for an oil leak assessment.
To ensure the safety of other vessels, all ships were diverted through the route and Mariners warned to carefully navigate due to floating residues and potential navigation risks. Two coast patrol ships (OPVs) were deployed to monitor the clock on the spot, while a vessel for self -entitlement of the Samura Prague and other OPVs was mobilized with a large number of OSD.
The vessel carried 640 containers, of which 13 with dangerous cargo and 12 containing calcium carbide.
The Mercantile Marine, Kochi department, issued a warning on the responsibility for pollution to the MSC vessel owners under the 1958 Business Transport Act, while the MSC appointed the T&T to recover the container, remove oil and environmental cleaning.
ICG also advised the State Government to prepare for cleaning the coast and alert local communities not to handle any costs or remnants that could be washed ashore. In addition, ICG officials are in constant communication with the government agencies in question, in the consulting position, for the cleaning of the coast, they will learn it.
Published – May 26, 2025 17:38
