Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) asked the Goa government to hire two tugs of 100 ton each from Mumbai in order to tow away the oil tanker MT PratibhaBhima to a safe location in the Mormugao harbour.
MPT feels that the two tugs along with the three tugs it already possesses could be used to guide the tanker safely to the harbour.
The port authority also demanded the state government to pay the MPT’s dues of about 7.5 crore for berthing the ship in a safe location for the four months during the monsoon, till September.
MPT said this in a written reply to the Captain of Ports (CoP). MPT has two tugs of 45 ton each and another of 50 ton. With heavy winds and rough seas, all three will not be able to pull in the 1.5 lakh ton 274 m-long ship because it is a “dead ship”, the port said in the written reply.
MPT wrote the letter in response to the CoP’s request to the former to tow the ship to port.
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