MV MOL Comfort, a container carrier owned by M/s Mitsui Osaka Lines, Japan, laden with 4,268 containers and reportedly on a voyage from Colombo to Jeddah, broke up in mid-sea earlier this week near Goa coast.
Goa government had earlier said there were reports that the ship's cargo consisted of arms and ammunition. On June 24, a part of the ship was reported about 530 nautical miles from here.
Coast Guard Deputy Inspector General S D Bhanot today said here that the containers might sink midway as the ship was far off. "There is no fear that they might reach the coast, they will sink midway. ICG is keeping a close watch," he said.
Authorities in Sindhudurg and Ratnagiri districts of Maharashtra too are on alert. "We have asked the fishermen and people living in the coastal belt not to touch any container, if it floats onto shore," Captain V H Ingle, a port official of Maharashtra government, told PTI.