A salvage team managed to install equipment around the container ship ‘SSL Kolkata’, on August 9. This equipment aims to offload bunker fuel from the vessel, which suffered an explosion to one of its containers and a subsequent fire during June.
The vessel was en route from Krishnapatnam Port to the port of Kolkata, carrying 464 containers, when it suffered an explosion to one of its containers and a subsequent fire.
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Despite immediate response of the crew and company to control the situation, the fire quickly spread to the rest of the containers, due to high winds, local media reported.
The vessel remains aground in soft mud some 7.5 nautical miles off the lndian Sunderbans, Kolkata, West Bengal. However, counter pollution preparations have started as from July.
