Printed on: Aug 19, 2025 12:55 pm IST
The message directed that every one Marine and Bay police stations in Palghar district must be on a lookout for such containers.
Maharashtra’s Palghar police had been placed on alert on Monday following a message from the upper authorities concerning the possible drifting of some containers from a cargo ship within the Arabian Sea, information company PTI reported, citing officers.
As per the police message circulated on Monday, 48 containers fell from the ship ‘MV Phonnix 15’ after it crossed 20 nautical miles from Salah in Oman. The Directorate Common of Transport stated that 48 containers from the vessel fell into the ocean. Out of those 48 containers, 8 have been recovered thus far. The remaining containers have both sunk or are suspected to have drifted in the direction of the shore, the message stated.
The message directed that every one Marine and Bay police stations in Palghar district must be on a lookout for such containers. The Palghar districts, together with Safala, Kelva, Satpati, Tarapur, Wangaon, Dahanu, and Gholwad, are instructed to stay vigilant.
Additional, the message instructed that if any floating container or associated supplies are discovered by native fishermen or villages within the coastal space or patrol groups, the data ought to be conveyed to the Indian Navy or Coast Guard and the Palghar police management room.
In such a case, the officer-in-charge of the safety department of Palghar police ought to be knowledgeable over the phone with none delay, the message stated. The Palghar police have arrange management rooms and are on steady surveillance of the Konkan shoreline. They’re coordinating with the central maritime businesses to make sure security and safety.
Earlier in June, a cargo ship containing hazardous cargo caught hearth about 78 nautical miles off Kerala’s Beypore port. The 268-metre Singapore-flagged container vessel MV Wan Hai 503 was carrying 22 crew members. Indian coast guards
In Might this yr, Kerala authorities had been on excessive alert after containers from a Liberian-flagged cargo ship that sank off the state’s coast started washing ashore. The state needed to declare an identical emergency then as effectively.
