A Hong Kong-flagged product tanker, MV Fulda, suffered an explosion off the coast of Kandla, Gujarat, on Sunday, shortly after offloading methanol.
Following the blast, the Indian Coast Guard, Deendayal Port Authority, and pollution control agencies launched a large-scale emergency response. All 21 crewmembers were safely evacuated.
The explosion took place at around 1:05 PM IST, about two hours after the Fulda departed from Oil Jetty No. 2 at Deendayal Port. The 19,477 dwt tanker had just completed discharging a methanol cargo and was heading toward Port Sohar in Oman.
According to India’s Directorate General of Shipping (DGS), the vessel was 26 years old, built in 1999, and owned and managed by Fulda Industrial, a shipping company based in Hong Kong.
The Fulda had 21 crew members onboard, including 11 Chinese nationals, two from Bangladesh, one from Indonesia, and seven from Myanmar.
The first report about the explosion came from
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