Clean-up operations off Mumbai coast completed, claims MSC
17 Sep 2010
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) today said it has completed clean-up of the oil spill, using specialised tug boats, five weeks following the collision of two ships off the Mumbai coast.
On 7 August, two Panamanian ships, MSC Chitra and MV Khalija-III, collided five nautical miles off the Mumbai coast. All crew members of the two vessels involved in the collision were rescued.
One of the ships with diesel and lubricant oil in its hold capsized, causing an oil slick that spread across a distance of two nautical miles.
"We have four specialised tug boats on standby around the Chitra.
These tug boats are equipped for oil spill clean-up measures, and as the oil, if any oil is there, even small traces of oil, they get to the oil point, they disperse the oil and make sure that the oil does not become a hazard," Deepak Tewari, chief executive officer of MSC, said.
Many containers tumbled into the sea as MSC Chitra tilted steeply from the impact of the collision.
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