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Bhubaneswar ( Orissa) : A month after the Mongolian cargo ship MV Black Rose sank in the Bay of Bengal off Orissa coast near Paradip, the Paradip Port Trust (PPT) has awarded the much awaited oil salvaging contract to an US based agency.
Florida-based Resolve Marine Group has been chosen through a global tender to drain out 940 metric tons of furnace oil trapped in the wreckage, PPT chairman K.Raghuramaiha told reporters in Paradip.
“The work on draining out oil from the capsized vessel will begin within 10 days. The entire exercise will last 45 days,” PPT sources said, adding, the operation will entail an expenditure of about Rs 17.50 crore.
The port authorities had earlier engaged Visakhapatnam-based M/S J. Enterprises and Divers in plugging air vents, sounding pipes and other holes of the sunken ship to prevent minor leakage of oil.
‘In another development, oil eating microbes were released by Energy and Research Institute, New Delhi, and Research and Development wing of Indian Oil Corporation in the area for cleaning up the spilled oil on the coast as well as in the water, where the vessel ran aground.
To a query, the PPT chairman Mr Raghuramaiha said action would be taken against the erring officials who allowed the ship to anchor in the port without having valid documents.
Meanwhile, Sea Trans Marine Private Ltd, a Kolkata-based shipping agency has filed a case in an international court in London against the owner and Management Company of the vessel Black Rose
