{"id":8763,"date":"2025-06-10T12:23:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/indian-coast-guard-battles-massive-fire-on-container-ship-listing-off-kerala\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T12:23:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:23:32","slug":"indian-coast-guard-battles-massive-fire-on-container-ship-listing-off-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/indian-coast-guard-battles-massive-fire-on-container-ship-listing-off-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian coast guard battles massive fire on container ship listing off Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbq7gqye001w27qcggd609l3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            India\u2019s coast guard is fighting a massive blaze aboard a container ship that\u2019s threatening to sink about 15 nautical miles off the coast of Kerala as the search continues for four missing crew members.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbq7jobs00053b6mhszyfgzw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Images showed flames and towering plumes of diesel smoke rising from the Singaporean-flagged MV Wan Hai 503 that was tilting \u201c10 to 15 degrees\u201d in the water, according to Indian Coast Guard Commandant Amit Uniyal.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbq7jobs00063b6mnt66j9cz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Explosions were still being heard on Tuesday, more than 24 hours after the Indian Coast Guard responded to a distress call. Around 9:30am local time Monday, the ship\u2019s crew reported a fire caused by an explosion, Uniyal said, though it\u2019s not clear what caused the blast.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbq7jobs00073b6m3dh6vg66@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Eighteen sailors were rescued from the stricken ship with \u201csome injuries,\u201d according to The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore. Four crew members remain missing.    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/interactive-video\/instances\/cmbq8epdz00013b6maahmfz3n@published\" class=\"interactive-video\" data-component-name=\"interactive-video\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"interactive-video__container\">            <video class=\"interactive-video__player\" loop=\"\" muted=\"\" autoplay=\"\" playsinline=\"\"><\/video>        <\/div>\n<div class=\"interactive-video__metadata\">\n<div class=\"interactive-video__caption\">                    <span data-editable=\"metaCaption\" class=\"inline-placeholder\"><\/span><figcaption class=\"interactive-video__credit\">Indian Coast Guard<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbq7gvyc00003b6m997ez4am@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The 269-meter (890-foot) vessel left Colombo, Sri Lanka on June 7 and was set to arrive in Mumbai, India on Monday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbq7jobs000a3b6miykks8y1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Five Indian Coast Guard vessels were fighting the fire Tuesday, reporting that \u201cexplosions persist from mid\u2011ships to the container bay ahead of the accommodation block,\u201d according to an official social media account.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbq7jobs000b3b6m9dp30t37@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Images posted by the Indian Coast Guard show flames, black smoke and charred containers. An environmental observation vessel is monitoring their efforts, but the scale of the impact is not yet known.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbq7jobs000c3b6mzgi423j0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The incident is the second serious shipping incident off Kerala in under a month, after the Liberian-flagged MSC ELSA 3 sank on May 25.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbq7jobs000d3b6mihtxpok0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The vessel went down with over 600 containers including 13 containing \u201chazardous cargo,\u201d according to the government of Kerela which initiated an environmental emergency and instructed fisherman against working in the area.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbq7jobs000e3b6m8zx20dz6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            India\u2019s Director General of Shipping said none of the 61 containers that washed ashore from the MSC Elsa 3 contained hazardous cargo and 51 had been removed from the shoreline as of June 9.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbq7jobs000f3b6m0ggp1m46@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            An underwater operation has been launched to cap the sunken ship\u2019s oil tanks and eventually salvage its fuel, the office wrote in a statement.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s coast guard is fighting a massive blaze aboard a container ship that\u2019s threatening to sink about 15 nautical miles off the coast of Kerala as the search continues for four missing crew members. 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