Orissa forms crisis group to monitor oil spill off ParadipOctober 8th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Orissa Thursday formed a crisis group to monitor the pollution caused by oil spill from a sunken Mongolian ship near Paradip port, an official said. "We have formed a crisis group comprising several experts and officials.
Orissa directed to monitor oil spill off Paradip portOctober 7th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The central government has directed Orissa to form a crisis group to monitor the pollution caused due to oil spilling off a sunken Mongolian ship near Paradip port, officials said Wednesday. Biswajit Mohanty, member of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL), said that the government has directed the state to ensure that the pollution does not pose danger to the rare Olive Ridley turtles, whose nesting place is near the accident site.
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.
Expert team to verify fresh spillage from sunken shipOctober 5th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Orissa will Tuesday send a three member expert team to verify media reports about fresh spillage from a ship that had sunk off the Paradip coast last month, officials said Monday. "We have received reports from the media.
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.
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.
Bids invited to remove oil from ship sunk off Orissa coastSeptember 24th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Paradip port authorities have invited bids from salvage firms to remove oil from a vessel that sank near the port in Orissa 15 days ago, official sources said Thursday. The oil poses a major threat to the coast if it leaks.
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.
Mongolian ship causing no ecological damageSeptember 22nd, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - A Mongolian ship that sank near the Paradip Port off the Orissa coast is causing no environmental damage, port authorities said Tuesday. The Paradip Port Trust said the vessel sank Sep 9 with 924 tonnes of furnace oil.
Paradip Port launches clean-up drive to contain oil spillSeptember 21st, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Paradip Port Monday launched a drive along its coast to contain possible environmental damage from a Mongolian ship that sank off the coast Sep 9. The vessel MV Black Rose, carrying about 25,000 tonnes of iron ore fines and 900 tonnes of oil, capsized in Bay of Bengal, five km off the Paradip coast.
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.
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.
Two ships sink off Gujarat coast, 20 rescuedJune 26th, 2009 MUMBAI - Two Indian ships sank at different locations in the Arabian Sea off the Gujarat coast Thursday. There were no casualties and 20 crew members were rescued, an Indian maritime authority said here Friday.
Saudi ship caught in storm, feared sunk off Gujarat coastJune 25th, 2009 OKHA - A Saudi merchant ship named Al-Jawaz-e-Karam was reported missing and feared sunk about 12 nautical miles off the Okha port in the deep waters of the Arabian sea in western Gujarat Thursday morning. "The upper layer disturbance over the Arabian sea had led to cyclonic conditions off the Okha coast (since Wednesday), in which two merchant ships, both bearing a Saudi flag - Al-Hussani and Al-Jawaaz-e-Karam - were caught in the mid-sea in the early hours (Thursday)," a senior coast guard official told IANS.
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