MSC Napoli, latest update. 27 April 2007 From the MSC Napoli Response Centre. Around 300 containers remain on board and operations to remove them are going well. Authorities are confident that this part of the operation will be completed much sooner than first anticipated. Once all the containers are off the vessel, then a decision will be made about how the vessel will be removed - whether it can be refloated or cut up and removed. Skimming of oil from the surface of the water, in the engine room and Number 6 Hold is continuing. Water samples taken from within the vessel have not identified anything of concern. The Environment Agency is continuing to routinely sample water from locations along the coastline. Container processing at Portland Port continues. There have been no new reports of oil at sea or on shore. Container parts have been located below the low water spring mark off Branscombe, which are being recovered.

NB: Forget beemer bits and biscuits; The Napoli was carrying chromium. Market sources have suggested the cargo could have been at least 1,000 tons because this is the vessel's shipping requirement (Q: what is the current market value of this metal?)

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