Thursday, March 28

984-Foot-Long Container Ship Hits Docked Ship in Pakistan. See the Video

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So you think you have trouble docking? Or you worry about other boats hitting yours when you’re tied up at the dock? You have reason to be concerned. Take a look at this video of a huge, heavily loaded container ship clipping the side of another container ship that was docked inside the Port of Karachi in Pakistan, with several dozen containers tumbling into the water.

The collision was caused by the MV Tolten, a Hapag-Lloyd ship that’s 984 feet long with a 150-foot beam. It sideswiped the MV Hamburg Bay (which is only 961-feet-long) as the Tolten was coming in to the dock at the South Asia Port Terminal in Karachi, one of the busiest commercial shipping facilities in South Asia. There were conflicting reports about the number of containers that fell overboard, ranging from 20 to 55. The Pakistan Navy was helping to retrieve the containers, although some sank at the dock. The terminal suspended operations pending the cleanup. There were no reports of injuries.  See the video here:

https://www.porttechnology.org/news/video_captures_containership_collision_at_karachi_port

 

 

 

 

 

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