A container ship with dangerous cargo sank off the coast of India

A container ship with dangerous cargo sank in the Arabian Sea, near the coast of the Indian city of Kochi. This was reported by the Indian Express newspaper on May 25.

"The Liberian-flagged MSC ELSA 3 container ship, which began listing 38 nautical miles off the coast of Kochi on Saturday, has now completely capsized and is under threat of an oil spill," the newspaper writes.

It is noted that the captain of the vessel was from Russia, the crew also included 20 Filipinos, two Ukrainians and a Georgian citizen. The press service of the Indian Coast Guard clarified that all 24 crew members had been evacuated.

"There were 640 containers on board, including 13 with dangerous cargo and 12 with calcium carbide. In addition, the ship's tanks contained 84.44 tons of diesel fuel and 367.1 tons of fuel oil," the ministry said in a statement posted on the social network X (ex. Twitter).

On the wave: what happened to tankers on Sakhalin and in the Leningrad region

Two major accidents are currently under active remediation efforts

In February, it was reported that the Koala tanker, carrying 130 thousand tons of fuel oil, sank in the port of Ust-Luga. Later, the governor of the Leningrad Region, Alexander Drozdenko, said that the ship's engine had failed, resulting in damage to the engine room. He noted that the tanker is moored at the pier, and there is no threat of an oil spill.