Overview

• As of May 27, around 30 containers have washed ashore in Kerala’s Alappuzha and Kollam districts with none found to contain hazardous substances.
• The vessel had 643 containers on board, including 13 carrying calcium carbide, and held 84.44 tonnes of diesel and 367.1 tonnes of furnace oil in its tanks.
• Indian Coast Guard vessels and a Dornier aircraft are spraying dispersants and conducting aerial surveillance over a roughly 2×1 nautical mile oil slick southwest of Alappuzha.
• The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services has warned that more containers may drift ashore along Alappuzha, Kollam, Ernakulam and Thiruvananthapuram coasts.
• The National Oil Spill Contingency Plan is being led by the Coast Guard director general under a Tier 2 response, with T&T Salvage commissioned to oversee recovery and clean-up operations.