Three remain to work the ship. Pollution-response measures activated. Coordination with DG Shipping, central agencies and the state. Cause, cargo and oil volume are not in that product.

India Shipping News, 12 September, from Deendayal Port Authority: about 14 nautical miles from OTB. KMAX EMPORER in that spelling — loaded coal, about 14.4 m draught — heavy damage and taking water. Port tug from Tuna, Harbour Master and a pilot. Twenty-one of twenty-four off. Three remain: the Captain and two Chief Engineers, waiting on owners. Two more port tugs and two Coast Guard ships standing by. Other Kandla traffic continuing.

Painted name on the ICG stills is KMAX EMPEROR. That spelling controls. EMPORER stays as the DPA-via-press typo.

India Seatrade News, 12 September: side-shell damage and engine-room flooding on Kmax Emperor. Twenty-one lifted by lighterage barge Rishi XXX. Three remain, “including the vessel’s Captain.” That officer list is not the same as “Captain and two Chief Engineers.” They are not merged.

No DG Shipping primary, no company letter, no UKMTO, no flag circular in this pack. VesselFinder IMOs: KMAX EMPEROR 9477426, AIS stale on the Indian coast; TRUE MARINER 9599822, AIS stale Red Sea. Those positions are not the Kandla press picture. Flag on VF for KMAX EMPEROR is Liberia. Some press print Cyprus. Unmerged.

What the photographs show

The ICG aerial is a black-hulled bulk carrier, red boot-top, white house aft, KMAX EMPEROR on the port bow, red hatches, a tug at starboard aft. TRUE MARINER is not in that frame.

Established

• ICG: collision KMAX EMPEROR × TRUE MARINER, OTB Kandla; 21 of 24 off; 3 remain; pollution response on.
• DPA via India Shipping News: ~14 nm from OTB; coal; ~14.4 m draught; taking water; Tuna tug + HM + pilot.
• Painted name KMAX EMPEROR.

Not established

• Who had the other ship, who was give-way.
• Oil in the water (ICG response ≠ a slick in the text).
• One list of the three men left on board.
• IMO and flag in the ICG or DPA product (VF only).
• Cause.