Team Herald
VASCO: An emergency meeting of the Dock Safety Committee of Mormugao Port Trust was conveyed by MPT Chairman MPT I Jeyakumar with the officials of ZACL on Wednesday. The meeting was called to take stock of the situation post the accident of the ammonia tanker and to review the cause, mitigation measure and the preventive action plan taken by ZACL.
It was informed by ZACL that they received a call from their Ammonia terminal at jetty, Mormugoa at around 02.45 hrs on 19/01/2018 and immediately the emergency management team, as per ZACL Disaster Management Plan, reached the site along with Fire tender and crew,. ZACL were assisted by the Goa State Fire Services, MPT Fire Brigade and Ambulances.
The leakage was brought under control at around 0350 hrs and ZACL Technical Team and Director of Goa Fire Services approached the tanker with the Self Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) to identify the leak.
The officials of ZACL informed that all the ammonia tankers are inspected and tested for their integrity, every year by the competent agency approved by the Chief Controller of Explosives, Nagpur and at the time of the incident, the certificates of all the six tankers plying were valid.
The officials conveyed that they will submit a detailed report along with all the relevant test certificates and the detailed preventive action plan to avoid the recurrence of such incident in future.
