Overview

• Multi-member state and district committees convened to coordinate damage assessment, pollution control and engagement with MSC over compensation and remediation
• The government formally demanded that MSC assume full liability for environmental and economic losses and arrange removal of the sunken vessel
• Indian Coast Guard vessels and aircraft remain deployed on oil recovery operations, with fuel extraction slated for June 3 and container salvage planned after the monsoon
• Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, INCOIS and other agencies launched vessel-based surveys and are collecting water, sediment and marine life samples to gauge chemical contamination
• Over 55 containers, plastic nurdles, wooden logs and other debris have washed onto Kerala coasts and 22 villages in Kanyakumari, where an expert team recovered a container at Vaniyakudi on May 30