After reviewing the country's preparedness to handle oil spills, the ministry of shipping has decided to outsource all future clean-up operations to global agencies with expertise in the area.

Clean-up operations in the wake of the MSC Chitra oil spill have been suspended owing to a gas leak from the vessel.

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KOCHI: Security agencies, including the Navy and the Coast Guard, along with the Lakshadweep officials began efforts to prevent a possible oil spillage from the cargo ship which ran into a coral reef off Kavaratti in the Lakshadweep islands.

Rahi Gaikwad

Tests on water samples showed presence of mild pesticide content
Deck being subjected to thorough check before considering further operations

Mumbai: Amid assurances that all the hazardous cargo on MSC Chitra was

400 sq m Of Marine Habitat Under Threat; Coast Guard Warns Of Oil Spill
Viju B | TNN

Nearly 100 containers that fell into the waters following the collision between two merchant vessels off the Mumbai coast are still missing and two of them are carrying hazardous chemicals, a senior Mumbai Port Trust official said today.

Mumbai: Movement of goods began along the navigational channel in the Mumbai harbour, which opened partially on Thursday after a five-day shutdown, Union Shipping Minister G. K. Vasan told a press conference here.

Kavitha Iyer

Saturday

The collision of two large ships off the Mumbai coast and the resulting oil spill has come as a test of India's preparedness to handle shipping disasters. Any significant shipping accident has a serious environmental fallout, because oil or other hazardous cargo is discharged into the sea.

The Coast Guard today plugged the two ruptured tanks of the MSC Chitra which were spilling oil into the sea off the Mumbai coast since the ship collided with another vessel, MV Khalijia III, on Saturday morning.