jointly with personnel from the Chennai Port, Kamarajar Port, state government and its agencies, IOCL, NGOs, Cadet Trainees from maritime educational institutions and fishermen.
jointly with personnel from the Chennai Port, Kamarajar Port, state government and its agencies, IOCL, NGOs, Cadet Trainees from maritime educational institutions and fishermen.
Top officials from Ministries of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Shipping have been deputed to conduct spot inspection of the affected areas and coordinate and review the oil spillage cleaning work, it said.
They also met the state Chief Secretary Girija Vaidyanathan to discuss the matter, the release said, adding, Chennai Port and Kamarajar Port have set up control rooms to deal with the situation.
"Kamarajar Port has Tier-I Oil Spill Response Equipment, which was deployed by the Port.National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management, an autonomous centre of Ministry of Environment has been engaged by Kamarajar Port to study the impact on the environment," it added.
At Ernavur, which had the maximum drift of sludge, booms have been deployed along the shore line to contain the oil.
Further, Coast Guard ship and helicopters were carrying out regular sorties for continuous monitoring of oil slick. If oil spillage accumulation was spotted anywhere, manpower and material under the overall supervision of Coast Guard will be deployed, it said.
The Directorate General of Shipping has instituted a statutory inquiry under the Merchant Shipping Act to ascertain the causes and contributory factors that led to the accident and both the ships have been restrained from leaving the Port.
DG Shipping was also holding discussions with the owners of the two ships regarding the payment of claims, the statement said.
"Government is taking all the measures to manage the situation. Authorities involved in the operations are confident that the situation is under control and the entire cleaning up operation will be completed in a couple of days," it added.
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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