KOLKATA: After a valiant firefighting effort lasting for over eight hours, the 22-member Indian crew on board the MV SSL Kolkata in the end abandoned send round 8.30 am on Thursday. Eleven of them have already been rescued through the Indian Coast Guard Ship (ICGS) Rajkiran that sailed from Haldia past due on Wednesday after receiving an SOS from the stricken vessel.
“The 147.85-metre-long send had sailed from Krishnapatnam for Kolkata with 464 containers on board. Shortly after nighttime there seems to have been an explosion in some of the containers. The send used to be then close to the Sandheads – an anchorage for the Kolkata and Haldia ports – in the Bay of Bengal. The send’s corporate made rapid efforts to control the situation however due to top winds, the fireplace quickly unfold to almost 60 containers. As the send began shedding stability, the captain decided to manoevre the vessel to a shallower a part of the Sandheads. Its location used to be about 55 nautical miles off the Sandheads when Coast Guard Dorniers and the ICGS Rajkiran made contact round 8.30 am on Thursday,” a senior Coast Guard reliable mentioned.
By then, the captain had ordered the crew to abandon send as nearly 70% of the send used to be on fire. Despite bad weather and rough sea, 11 of the crew were picked up through the Coast Guard vessel. More Coast Guard ships with exterior firefighting systems are already on their manner from Visakhapatnam to take a look at and douse the major fire. Since the vessel is manoeuvring in shallow space off sandheads, the grounding and consequent oil spill from its gasoline (211 MT) can't be dominated out. The ships from Visakhapatnam and Chennai are embarking air pollution equipment for controlling conceivable oil spill threat, K R Nautiyal, ADG and Commander, Coast Guard, Eastern Seaboard, confirmed.
At the Coast Guard’s Regional Headquarters (North East) in Kolkata, IG and commander K S Sheoran is tracking the rescue operations and co-ordinating with the Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT), Haldia Dock Complex, Dhamra Port and proprietor/agent of the vessel for firefighting and seek and rescue operations.
“We also are tracking the situation closely. One of our tugs has already been sent from Haldia to the spot of occurrence. We also are doing our very best to stop any oil spillage,” KoPT chairman Vinit Kumar mentioned.
“The 147.85-metre-long send had sailed from Krishnapatnam for Kolkata with 464 containers on board. Shortly after nighttime there seems to have been an explosion in some of the containers. The send used to be then close to the Sandheads – an anchorage for the Kolkata and Haldia ports – in the Bay of Bengal. The send’s corporate made rapid efforts to control the situation however due to top winds, the fireplace quickly unfold to almost 60 containers. As the send began shedding stability, the captain decided to manoevre the vessel to a shallower a part of the Sandheads. Its location used to be about 55 nautical miles off the Sandheads when Coast Guard Dorniers and the ICGS Rajkiran made contact round 8.30 am on Thursday,” a senior Coast Guard reliable mentioned.
By then, the captain had ordered the crew to abandon send as nearly 70% of the send used to be on fire. Despite bad weather and rough sea, 11 of the crew were picked up through the Coast Guard vessel. More Coast Guard ships with exterior firefighting systems are already on their manner from Visakhapatnam to take a look at and douse the major fire. Since the vessel is manoeuvring in shallow space off sandheads, the grounding and consequent oil spill from its gasoline (211 MT) can't be dominated out. The ships from Visakhapatnam and Chennai are embarking air pollution equipment for controlling conceivable oil spill threat, K R Nautiyal, ADG and Commander, Coast Guard, Eastern Seaboard, confirmed.
At the Coast Guard’s Regional Headquarters (North East) in Kolkata, IG and commander K S Sheoran is tracking the rescue operations and co-ordinating with the Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT), Haldia Dock Complex, Dhamra Port and proprietor/agent of the vessel for firefighting and seek and rescue operations.
“We also are tracking the situation closely. One of our tugs has already been sent from Haldia to the spot of occurrence. We also are doing our very best to stop any oil spillage,” KoPT chairman Vinit Kumar mentioned.
Container vessel catches fire, 11 crew rescued
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