Oil leak following ship collision off Mumbai

A container ship started discharging three to four tonnes of oil by the hour after a collision with another vessel barely five nautical miles off Mumbai on Saturday.

Around 9.50 am, Panamanian container vessel MSC Chitra, while leaving JNPT Nhava Sheva port, collided with the inbound Khalijia-3, which was involved in another mishap off Mumbai on July 18. The Khalija-3 had been recently repaired and crew and salvagers were taking it to the port when the collision took place. The vessel was carrying 30,000 tonnes of steel coils.

The impact of the collision, according to eyewitnesses, was so huge that containers from MSC Chitra were hurled into the sea and oil began to leak from the vessel. Thirty-three crew members were rescued by Mumbai Port Trust workers and the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre.
(Source:www.cargonewsasia.com)