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The unmanned naphtha-ferrying tanker, which ran aground off Panaji last month, is in the danger of breaking up and could result in possible spillage of naphtha, oil and diesel present in its hold, the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) told the Bombay High Co ...
Director General (Shipping), a Central government body which functions under the aegis of the Union Shipping Ministry, has been tasked with the responsibility of finalising marine engineering experts to salvage naphtha from a tanker stranded off the ...
Goa could face a crisis as serious as the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy if the 2,500-ton cargo of naphtha gas aboard a tanker which ran aground off Panaji nearly a fortnight ago, happens to leak, state Congress chief Girish Chodankar warned on Wednesday. ...
The Goa government is looking to Singapore-based marine engineering companies to salvage an unmanned tanker which ran aground during a storm last month off the Panaji. ...
The Opposition in Goa on Thursday demanded a state government probe into the ongoing controversy surrounding a stranded naphtha tanker, with opposition leader Digambar Kamat questioning how the malfunctioning tanker arrived in the state and for what ...
The Congress in Goa on Tuesday demanded action against the officials who allowed an unmanned tanker carrying naphtha to drift and later run aground off the Panaji coast, because of the threat of a potential "ecological disaster" which the vessel now ...
Goa's travel and tourism industry stakeholders on Monday said that a "big disaster" had been averted, thanks to the Goa government's handling of an ecological crisis which emerged off the state's coastline in the form of a drifting naphtha-ferrying t ...
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Saturday that it was impossible to tow the naphtha carrying tanker, which ran aground off the shores near Panaji earlier this week. ...
