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Mumbai oil spillPresented by

AbhishekAnandAnilAnkitArun

AshishAshleshaRahmanBasundra

Jijin



WHENAND

HOW?

y Happened on Saturday (7th august), 10 km away from the Mumbai harbor.

y Between two Panamanian ships MSC CHITRA and MV KHALIJA .

y R eason for collision MSC CHITRA lost signalfrom the port, though khalija was in contact .The collision happened because of a navigationalerror caused by the f ailure of radio communication.





y The oil leak from the sinking cargo v essel MSC Chitra

has been plugged with the Indian Coast Guard say ing

Operation Chitra has been successful and the ship hasbeen stabilised. But nearly 800 tonnes of oil is already believ ed to hav e leaked out into the A rabian Sea andhas been seen floating close to the coastline

threatening marine life.y There are eight main fuel tanks on board the ship and

two of these tanks leaked tonnes of oil into the sea.Coast Guard helicopters hav e been spray ing anti-

dispersants to prev ent the oil spill from spreading. A team from Holland has also been called in to help incontaining the spill.



MSC Chitra was also carry ing 1219 containers out of

which 31 had hazardous chemicals like pesticides. Inthe last three days approximately 400 containers hav eslipped into the sea.

The oil spill has already spread ov er an area of 25square kilometers and the hazardous chemicals andpesticides may affect about 200 species of marine life.Mangrov es off Navi Mumbai are in danger of being

destroyed and the debris caused by the collision of ships may pose navigational problems.





Skeletal maritime activity resumes after ship-collision

y Fiv e days after two ships collided near Mumbai harbour,skeletal maritime activity was resumed on Thursday.

y Sev en ships hav e so f ar been allowed in and out of Mumbai port.

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They were escorted by Indian naval ship INS Matangathrough the approximately 200-metre-wide mainshipping channel leading to the Mumbai Port Trust andJawaharlal Nehru Port Trust.

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The ships are being escorted by a helicopter and aminesweeper ship besides two surv ey boats with sonarscanners.



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The Indian Nav y's surv ey v essel, INS Y amnua,Wednesday launched a surv ey of the entire shippingchannel leading to and from the two main ports totrace out sunken containers.

y By Wednesday ev ening, it had managed to identify thelocation of three such containers ly ing underwater andprominent markers hav e been set up to warn all v esselsin the vicinity..



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The danger of sunken or floating containers loomslarge ov er the country's biggest and busiest port sincearound 120 containers had f allen off the beleagueredMSC Chitra of Panama till Tuesday.

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A s a result, all normal maritime activities had come toa halt in Mumbai since Saturday when MSC Chitra anda St. Kitts cargo carrier MV Khalijia-III collided,around f iv e km off Mumbai.

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Though skeletal operations hav e begun, the portauthorities are hopeful that normal maritime activitiescould be resumed by Sunday.





Oil spill has created huge mess on beachesEnvironmentalists have expressed concern

over the damage the oil spill has done to

some of the beaches in Mumbai and

neighbouring Raigad.



PREVENTIVE MEASURESThe state gov ernment is considering using the 'hair

boom' technique to mop up the oil spill off the Mumbai coast. Human hair is porous, and oil seeps into its outerlayer. It is also biodegradable; therefore, it is one of the

safest cleaning solutions to an oil spill.

To giv e international lev el course to coast guardsfocusing on oil spill assessment and shoreline clean-up

exercise to train off icials in tackling such disasters.



Installation of Radiation Monitor Portals.

Secondary containment - methods to prev ent releases

of oil or hydrocarbons into environment.y Double-hulling - build double hulls into v essels, which

reduces the risk and sev erity of a spill in case of a collision or grounding. Existing single-hull v essels can

also be rebuilt to hav e a double hull.y A ll major cargo v essels and oil tanker should be

equipped with proper navigation system.so as to av oidthe collision



IMPACT TO INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Shi ing c panies are rep rte ly lamenting their l ssesf l l wing s spension of ship mov ement to and from the portsof mbai and due to the oil spill off the umbai coast.

The dispatches hav e come down to 1 -15 containers.

A shipping channel on the west coast of India has been closed after a collision between two v essels on Saturday sentcontainers into the sea and also caused an oil spill.

Shipping between the ports of umbai and Jawaharlal ehru will be disrupted f or at least a wee and aers Line hasstopped accepted bookings f or the area.



Mumbai oil spill to incur loss USD 4 billion by weekend. F

our billion dollar of trade will be lost if the oil spill off theMumbai coast is not dealt with by the weekend.

It pegs losses to Indian importers and exporters at USD 20million by the end of the week.

A common cause of economic loss to f ishermen isinterruption to their activities by the presence of oil orthe performance of clean-up operations.

Hotel and restaurant owners and others who gain theirliv elihood from the tourist trade can also suffertemporary losses.



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