US firm to remove oil from sunken Mongolian shipOctober 9th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - US-based marine service firm Resolve Marine Group has won the bid to remove oil from a Mongolian vessel that sank off Paradip harbour in Orissa last month. "The Florida-based company, which has branches in Singapore, has been assigned to pump the oil out of the sunken ship," a release from the Paradip Port said Friday.
Fresh oil from sunken ship blackening Orissa coastline: expertsOctober 6th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - A fresh oil spill, probably from a Mongolian ship that sank last month, has blackened part of the Orissa coastline in an area close to the nesting site of rare Olive Ridley sea turtles, say experts. A team of two scientists of the Dehradun-based government-run Wild Life Institute of India (WII) said they visited some areas of the coastline Monday and found a fresh oil spill over a one-and-a-half kilometer stretch near Paradip port.
Bad weather prevents oil-plugging on sunken shipSeptember 30th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - For the third day running Wednesday bad weather prevented work to plug the holes to stop oil leakage from a ship that sank off Orissa's Paradip port in eastern India, officials said. Work was disrupted due to bad weather after only one day's work Sep 27, deputy conservator of Paradip Port G.K.
Andhra-based company to plug holes of sunken shipSeptember 27th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - A company based in Andhra Pradesh has been awarded the contract to plug the holes in a ship that sank off Orissas Paradip port Sep 9, a port official said Sunday. We have finalized the contract for the work to plug air vents, sounding pipes and other holes to ensure that there is no oil leakage from the ship, port deputy chairman Biplav Kumar told IANS.
Central team visits Paradip, recommends measuresSeptember 26th, 2009 PARADIP - A central team, which was here Saturday to inspect the Mongolian ship that sunk off the Paradip coast, recommended stringent measures to avert such accidents. The five-member team said no ship older than 25 years would be allowed into the port.
Central team reaches Paradip to inspect capsized shipSeptember 26th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Following reports of minor oil spills, a five-member team of the central shipping ministry Saturday reached Orissa's Paradip port to inspect the ship that sank off its coast earlier this month. The team includes P.
Oil removal from sunken ship 'long process', wildlife body worriedSeptember 23rd, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - A global tender will be floated to pump the stored oil out of a Mongolian ship that sank off Orissa's Paradip port Sep 9, but the process could take up to a month, port officials said Wednesday. A wildlife society is concerned that the delay could harm the breeding ground of Olive Ridley turtles.
Oil spill on Orissa coast could be from sunken ship: expertSeptember 22nd, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - A team of experts Tuesday found oil patches along the coast of Orissa's Paradip port and suspected it could have leaked from a ship that sank near the harbour Sep 9. We found oil patches three kilometers away from the port.
Russian engineer's body recovered from sunken ship off OrissaSeptember 18th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The body of a Russian engineer has been recovered from the cargo ship that sank off Orissa's Paradip port earlier this month, an official said Friday. His body was fished out from the ship by divers pressed into service by the Paradip port authorities.
Orissa port gears up to remove oil from sunken shipSeptember 14th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The administration in Orissa's Paradip port is gearing up for the removal of fuel oil from a sunken ship, a senior port official said Monday after experts warned that a spill could pollute the marine environment. "A team of experts and divers has arrived here from Kolkata.
Sunken ship could threaten Olive Ridleys in OrissaSeptember 11th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The mass breeding of rare Olive Ridley turtles is likely to be hit due to the sinking of a cargo ship, carrying iron ore fines and oil, in the Bay of Bengal off the Orissa coast two days ago, a marine expert warned Friday. The Mongolian vessel capsized in the harbour area of Paradip port, some 100 km from here, carrying about 25,000 tonnes of iron ore fines and 900 tonnes of oil.
Russian engineer of sunken ship still untracedSeptember 10th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The search was still on Thursday to find the missing Russian engineer of a cargo ship that sank off Orissa's Paradip coast Wednesday, officials said. Twenty six of the 27 crew members onboard the ship have been rescued.
Any talks on release of 5 Lithuanians taken hostage by pirates could last months, expert saysAugust 5th, 2009 Expert: Lithuanian hostage crisis could drag onVILNIUS, Lithuania — A Lithuanian maritime expert says that any negotiations with pirates about the release of five Lithuanian sailors abducted in Nigeria could last months. Petras Bekeza, the chairman of Lithuania's sailors' union, says that the pirates who seized the crew members of a Lithuanian ship on Monday while it was docked in a Nigerian port may not have known that the small nation of Lithuania is in a deep economic crisis.
Divers find silver on sunken ship off Argentina, easing doubts about insurance claimsJuly 15th, 2009 Divers find silver on sunken ship, easing doubtsBUENOS AIRES — Divers battling high winds and waves have recovered nearly a ton of unrefined silver from a ship that recently sank off the Argentine coast, police said Wednesday, easing suspicions about insurance claims on the vessel. About 20 divers aided by a robot submarine recovered the metal from the wreck of the Polar Mist on Tuesday, said a police official in the city of Rio Gallegos.
Wreckage of sunken 'gold ship' locatedJune 19th, 2009 BUENOS AIRES - A ship that sank in the South Atlantic in January, allegedly with over nine tonnes of gold and silver on board, was located off Argentina's Patagonian coast. According to Argentine media reports Friday, it remained unclear whether the ship's load - worth an estimated $16.4 million - was still inside the Polar Mist.
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