Rahi Gaikwad

Mumbai: While the sea around Mumbai faces a potential environment disaster after an oil spill in the Arabian Sea, the three-day ordeal of containing it came to an end on Monday evening. While the Coast Guard continued chemical spraying to contain the oil slick, the tilting cargo ship MSC Chitra, involved in a collision with another vessel earlier, stabilised.

New Delhi: The government on Monday said legal action has been initiated against owners of the two cargo ships which collided off the Mumbai coast, resulting in oil spill endangering marine life and environment.

A team of experts from Singapore arrives to assist in the operations; port closed for shipping activity during the night

Mumbai: The oil spill is under control but salvage operations off the Mumbai coast are expected to last a month, Maharashtra Environment Minister Suresh Shetty told journalists here on Monday.

Environment minister Jairam Ramesh and the Director General of Shipping have initiated probes into the oil spill that took place when two Panamanian merchant ships collided off the Mumbai coast resulting in an oil spill.

MUMBAI: The Coast Guard on Sunday sounded an alert over the oil spill off the Mumbai coast as the slick covered a large area, up to five nautical miles, from the spot where two ships collided on Saturday morning.

Mumbai Cargo ship MSC Chitra that collided with another

THE smallest profits in the commodity shipping market in 18 months may be ending as a rebound in steel and iron-ore prices signal improving Chinese demand that will ease the transport glut.

Mumbai: A Panamanian cargo ship M V Khalijia 3 carrying a cargo of steel coils was grounded off Mumbai