VEHICLES stuck on a stricken ship after it ran aground in the Solent three weeks ago could finally start being moved from today .

It comes as top level bosses of the owners of the Hoegh Osaka are due to meet with inspectors to see how they go about unloading the 51,000-tonne vessel’s cargo.

The vessel remains in Southampton Port with its 1,400 luxury Jaguars, Land Rovers, Minis and other cars as well as 105 pieces of heavy plant machinery still on board.

Inspectors from the Marine Accident Investigation Branch, ship owner Hoegh Autoliners and other interested parties like Jaguar and JCB have been on board over the weekend assessing the damage and seeing whether equipment used to load and off-load its cargo is still functioning.

They will report back their findings in a series of meetings with bosses of Hoegh Autoliners today where decisions will be made about what needs to be done a Hoegh spokesman told the Daily Echo.

Investigators are continuing to probe what caused the accident, in which the vessel was beached deliberately on Bramble Bank sandbank, near Southampton, on January 3 after it began listing.

The ship’s owners took back control of the vessel on Friday from salvage crews who orchestrated a massive rescue operation to bring the ship back into port on Thursday .