From the MSC Napoli Response Centre

130 containers remain on board the vessel as of 17:00 yesterday.

Specialist pumps are being organised in Rotterdam to assist with operations to re-float the vessel.  These will hopefully arrive in the UK in a week to 10 days time, although no plan has been agreed yet for how the vessel will be re-floated.

Skimming of oil from the engine room, port side and Number 6 hold is continuing.  Salvers have been patching and repairing the hull in Number 5 hold.  Work is progressing well.

Water samples continue to be taken and tested from the holds of the vessel.

The MSC Grace is expected to arrive at Portland Port today to transfer another shipment of containers to Le Havre.

The Health Protection Agency has followed up the story that vodka was stolen from a container at Portland Port (as reported in media yesterday).  There were concerns that the vodka may be contaminated, and Dorset Police issued a warning urging 'anyone who has bought a bottle of vodka from a man in the Weymouth area not to drink it."   The advice from the Salvage Control Unit to the Health Protection Agency is that the vodka has been tested and found in good condition.  However, no known vodka has left the site.  The containers with the vodka are being loaded onto the MSC Grace.

Contractors are responding to reports of fruit juice cartons washing ashore at Branscombe.