Oil spill off Mumbai coast plugged: Coast guard

Leaking oil from MSC Chitra stops on its won as ship stops tilting

PTI | August 10, 2010



The oil spill from Panamanian ship MSC Chitra, which ran aground off Mumbai harbour after Saturday's collision with another vessel, has stopped, the Coast Guard said today.

"The leakage of oil from the ship has stopped on its own," S P S Basra, IG Coast Guard (Western Region) told PTI.

"It is observed that in the last six hours, the fuel from the ship tank has stopped coming out. So, it is a relief kind of a thing," Basra said.

Oil was leaking from two of the 12 tanks of the vessel which had got damaged due to the collision. The two tanks could together hold 879 tonnes of oil, sources in the Coast Guard said.

The ship contained around 2,600 tonne oil of which 500 tonne is believed to have leaked into the Arabian sea, threatening marine life and ecology along the Mumbai coastline.

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