diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index e53d8e1..9d22ab1 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # syntax=docker/dockerfile:1
 
-ARG PYTHON_VERSION=3.10.12
-FROM python:${PYTHON_VERSION}-slim as base
+FROM python:3.10.12-slim AS base
 
 # Prevents Python from writing pyc files.
 ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
@@ -11,8 +10,8 @@ ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1
 
 
-ENV MT_API_CONFIG /app/config.json
-ENV MODELS_ROOT /app/models
+ENV MT_API_CONFIG=/app/config.json
+ENV MODELS_ROOT=/app/models
 
 ENV HUGGINGFACE_HUB_CACHE=/app/models \
     HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER=1 \
diff --git a/app/views/v1/translate.py b/app/views/v1/translate.py
index 745363a..e1c8952 100644
--- a/app/views/v1/translate.py
+++ b/app/views/v1/translate.py
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
 
 translate_v1 = APIRouter(prefix='/api/v1/translate')
 
-DEVDEBUG = True
 logger = logging.getLogger('console_logger')
+logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
 
 def fetch_model_data_from_request(request):
     config = Config()
@@ -39,10 +39,9 @@ def fetch_model_data_from_request(request):
                 detail=f'Language pair {model_id} is not supported.',
             )
 
-    if DEVDEBUG: 
-        logger.debug(f'compatible_model_ids {compatible_model_ids}')
-        if use_multi:
-            logger.debug(f'use_multi {use_multi}')
+    logger.debug(f'compatible_model_ids {compatible_model_ids}')
+    if use_multi:
+        logger.debug(f'use_multi {use_multi}')
     
     regular_model_exists = model_id in config.loaded_models
     multilingual_model_exists_for_pair = any([mid.startswith(MULTIMODALCODE) for mid in compatible_model_ids])
@@ -56,9 +55,10 @@ def fetch_model_data_from_request(request):
             # model_id = get_model_id(src=MULTIMODALCODE,
                                     # tgt=MULTIMODALCODE,
                                     # alt_id=request.alt)
-            model_id = config._pair_to_model_id(compatible_model_ids[0])
-            if len(compatible_model_ids) > 1:
-                logger.warning(f"More than one compatible model. Choosing {compatible_model_ids[0]} among {compatible_model_ids}")
+            compatible_multi_model_ids = [mid for mid in compatible_model_ids if mid.startswith(MULTIMODALCODE)]
+            model_id = config._pair_to_model_id(compatible_multi_model_ids[0])
+            if len(compatible_multi_model_ids) > 1:
+                logger.warning(f"More than one compatible model. Choosing {compatible_multi_model_ids[0]} among {compatible_multi_model_ids}")
 
         else:
             raise HTTPException(
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ def fetch_model_data_from_request(request):
             detail=f'No multilingual model support for pair {src}-{tgt}. Remove flag `use_multi` from request',
         )
 
-    if DEVDEBUG: logger.debug(f'model_id {model_id}')
+    logger.debug(f'model_id {model_id}')
 
     return model_id, src, tgt
 
diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index d10b8c9..e59d69b 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -3,18 +3,19 @@
 import uvicorn
 from app import create_app
 
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
+    load_models = [item.strip() for item in os.environ.get("LOAD", "es-ca,ca-es").split(",")]
+
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="An API designed to provide translation services for text between different languages.")
     parser.add_argument("-m", "--models", type=str, default="./models", help="Directory path of models", required=False)
-    parser.add_argument("-l", "--load", type=str, nargs="+", help="Option to load models, if it contains 'all' it will download all models", default=["es-ca", "ca-es"])
+    parser.add_argument("-l", "--load", type=str, nargs="+", help="Option to load models, if it contains 'all' it will download all models", default=load_models)
 
     args = parser.parse_args()
     os.environ['MODELS_ROOT'] = args.models
+    
     models_to_load = args.load
-    if 'all' in models_to_load:
-        load_all_models = True
-    else:
-        load_all_models = False
+    load_all_models = 'all' in models_to_load
 
     app = create_app(load_all_models, models_to_load)
     uvicorn.run(app, host="0.0.0.0", port=8000, log_config = "logging.yml")
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