US firm to remove oil from sunken Mongolian ship

October 9th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - A month after a Mongolian-flagged cargo ship sank off Paradip harbour, the 26 crew members are still stranded in the port and cannot understand why they are not being allowed to go home. "We don't have any idea why we have been detained here.

October 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.

October 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.

October 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.

September 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.

September 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.

September 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.

September 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.

September 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.

September 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.

September 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.

September 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.

September 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.

September 13th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - Sabir Bux, an internationally acclaimed scuba diver, is facing trouble for allegedly entering a restricted area in the Bay of Bengal near Paradip port in Orissa. While Bux Monday said he went along with members of his team to track a missing engineer of a sunken ship, the port authorities said Bux's visit was illegal and they would file a criminal case against him.

September 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.