A Bahamas-registered container ship collided with another container vessel Tuesday on the Hooghly river near India’s eastern Port of Kolkata. No injuries or oil spill were reported.
Reports said the head-on collision occurred at 11:30 a.m. local time.
“One of the ships was sailing from Kolkata to Haldia and the other from Haldia to Kolkata,” a shipping line agent at Haldia said. “One vessel suffered serious damage and is reportedly in danger of sinking.”
Kolkata Port officials said vessel movements were not affected as the mishap took place outside the main shipping channel of the river.
The exact cause of the accident is currently under investigation.
Haldia is a sister facility of the Kolkata Port Authority. According to the latest traffic data, KPA handled 307,000 20-foot equivalent units from April through October, the first seven months of fiscal 2010-11, compared with 282,000 TEUs in the year-ago period.