GENESSA

scrapped

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Beached

Beached at Alang 21.05.18

sold to Breakers

sold to Breakers

Fire on tanker extinguished

The blaze aboard the "Genessa" was extinguished after 28 hours of firefighting by 10 tugs in the night of Jan 18. DPT marine and fire staff along with deputy conservator and harbour master boarded the vessel on Jan 19 and sealed the accommodation quarter from where the fire was suspected to have sparked. A special vessel from Kandla port was called to dewater the oil tanker as the engine room was filled with water, which resulted in the ship tilting on one side. It systematically removed the water that was mixed with lot of furnace oil and foam. There was no spillage of cargo or the furnace oil. The cargo compartment of the tanker, which was carrying nearly 31,000 tonnes of high-speed diesel (HSD), was also secured.. The next priority was to safely offload the HSD from the vessel for which DPT was in touch with various experts, including those of the P&I club either by transferring the HSD to another ship or to bring the tanker to the berth and then offload. However, the pipeline and wiring has been considerably damaged in the fire. The process will take a long time, probably even a month as it would have to be done with utmost caution. Meanwhile, the mercantile marine department (MMD) has already started investigation into the fire. It looked like that the the fire was sparked by leaking of furnace oil in the engine room. The focus has also now shifted to emptying nearly 600 tonnes of furnace oil from the vessel. DPT has kept three of its tugs near the vessel as a standby.