The Bangladesh Transport Company (BSC) has made up our minds to pause the usage of both the 37-yr-old MT Bangla’s Jyoti and another vessel MT Bangla’s Shourabh for oil transportation.
As a change, the BSC will count on chartered vessels to transport BPC’s rude oil except fresh ships are purchased.
BSC Managing Director Commodore Mahmudul Malek informed The Industry Typical, “The distress of no longer transporting oil the usage of the MT Bangla’s Jyoti and MT Bangla’s Sourav vessels is actively below consideration by the BSC. It is in the strategy of acquiring a fresh vessel, and meanwhile, chartered ships will take care of the rude oil transport.”
Moreover, the discharge of oil from the hearth-broken BSC vessel MT Bangla’s Jyoti has been done.
The vessel, which had an explosion and fire at Chattogram port, had its rude oil offloaded on the Eastern Refinery by the Bangladesh Petroleum Company (BPC) on Thursday (3 October) morning.
The Jyoti became carrying 10,916.846 metric tonnes of rude oil. After inspection and clearance from the Department of Explosives, the oil discharge started yesterday morning and concluded early Thursday.
The explosion occurred on Monday (30 September) at 10:54am, when rude oil became being discharged.
The hearth became precipitated by an accumulation of flammable gas in the vessel’s four high stores.
The incident resulted in the deaths of Deck Cadet Saurabh Kumar Saha, BSC Foreman Nurul Islam, and worker M Harun.
In step with BPC, the mom vessel ‘Omera Legacy,’ carrying approximately 98,383 metric tonnes of Marban rude oil from Abu Dhabi, arrived on the Qutubdia outer anchorage on 17 September.
Discharge operations started on Monday (30 September) morning , nonetheless round 800 metric tonnes of rude oil had been discharged when the hearth broke out in the four high stores of the Jyoti.
Following the accident, BPC formed a seven-member investigation committee, chaired by Eastern Refinery Cramped’s Managing Director Engineer Md Sharif Hasnat. The committee submitted its portray on the identical day, concluding that the hearth became triggered by an excessive buildup of flammable gas in the Jyoti’s four high stores.
The portray highlighted the dangers linked to oil lightering operations the usage of BSC’s vessels, MT Bangla’s Jyoti and MT Bangla’s Sourav.
To boot to, the BSC formed two separate committees to study the accident, organize the burial of the victims, and address compensation points.
