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After the palmy motorboat of the ship-to-ship bunkering work astatine the Vizhinjam International Seaport, reducing dependence connected overseas ports for fuelling vessels, the larboard owned by the Kerala Maritime Board (KMB) has begun bunkering work to ships from coastal barges. The larboard has completed a 120KL (120,000 litres) diesel bunker transportation to a Vietnam-flagged merchant vessel, MT Solis, from coastal barge MT Genesis astatine Vizhinjam anchorage.
The Vietnam-flagged vas was nether the detention of the Mercantile Merchant Department from March 26 aft it collided with the Indian sportfishing vessel St Joseph successful the Arabian Sea, astir 56-80 nautical miles disconnected the seashore of Kerala-Tamil Nadu, connected March 7. Nine Indian fishermen were rescued from the oversea by the merchant vessel’s unit pursuing a collision, portion 2 were reported missing.
According to the authorities, the vas ran retired of substance and provisions aft the prolonged detention astatine the anchorage of the KBM port. Following this, the larboard authorities provided the bunkering work to the vessel. The proviso of provisions to the vas was provided earlier. This is the archetypal bunkering work to vessel from the coastal barge nether a larboard owned by the KMB, which has astir 17 non-major ports nether its custody.
Meanwhile, an probe is nether mode nether the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act into the marine mishap disconnected the seashore of Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Since the vas whitethorn beryllium required for further investigation, grounds collection, oregon inquiry, its aboriginal merchandise whitethorn prejudice the investigation. The vas has been instructed not to proceed to oversea oregon permission the larboard without anterior written support from the authorities.
