International shipping 24000TEU class container ship crashes into the dock (International shipping bulk carrier catches fire in African waters)

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2023-12-29 16:41

There were two cargo ship accidents this week. A very large container ship crashed into Europe's second-largest container terminal. A bulk carrier with 18 Chinese crew members on board caught fire off the coast of Africa.

24,000 TEU class container ship crashed into the dock

On Christmas Day, HMM ALGECIRAS (23,934 TEU), a very large container ship of HMM, suffered a major accident while docking at the port of Antwerp, knocking down one of the port's dock cranes and damaging another crane.

According to Alphaliner and local media reports, the accident occurred at the Noordzee pier operated by PSA when the bow of the HMM ALGECIRAS hit two quay Bridges on the pier, at least one of the very large quay Bridges collapsed and was severely damaged in the yard, the other was also damaged, and one of the quay Bridges was knocked down and fell into the yard.

Citing local sources, Alphaliner said the bridge was unmanned at the time, so there were no casualties and no damage to the ship was minor.

It is reported that PSA Noordzee pier is one of the two tidal piers on the right bank of the Scheldt River in the port of Antwerp, the pier shoreline is 1250 meters long, the maximum water depth is 17 meters, the design capacity of 2.6 million TEU, there are 10 super large shore Bridges and 4 medium-sized shore Bridges.

As a result of the accident, one berth at the pier will be unavailable.

Northern European winter winds and ocean currents make navigation challenging, and in December 2019, the 9,326 TEU APL MEXICO CITY was involved in a similar accident in the Port of Antwerp, when it damaged a shore bridge at DP World's Antwerp Gateway terminal.

Bulk carrier catches fire off Africa

At 22:00 on December 26, the China Maritime Search and Rescue Center of the Ministry of Transport received the shipowner's alarm: A Panamanian bulk carrier "APOLLO TRIUMPH" (Chinese ship name "Apollo Triumph", 19 people on board, including 18 Chinese and 1 Vietnamese) in the middle of the Mozambique Channel in Africa when the cargo hold fire, the crew abandoned ship aboard the life raft, is lost.

After receiving the alarm information, the China Maritime Search and Rescue Center immediately launched an overseas water search and rescue emergency response mechanism, and coordinated with the maritime search and rescue centers of Mozambique, Madagascar and other coastal countries near the incident.

Contact vessels near the incident area at full speed to the scene search and rescue.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other members of the national Inter-ministerial Joint Conference on Maritime search and rescue, as well as relevant central enterprises such as COSCO Shipping, will be notified of the danger information and ask them to coordinate with relevant parties and their forces to carry out search and rescue.

After multi-party coordination, at about 2 o 'clock on December 27, the merchant ship "AS CHRISTIANA" arrived at the incident area and rescued all 19 crew members in distress on the life raft safely, and the rescue operation was successfully ended.

Ship data show that the involved bulk carrier "APOLLO TRIUMPH" ship (IMO 9594365), deadweight tons 12317 tons, built in 2010, the length of the ship 116.94 meters, width 19.6 meters, flying the flag of Panama.

According to the ship's AIS information, the APOLLO TRIUMPH was en route from Luanda to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania at the time of the incident.

According to foreign media reports, the fire on board is likely to have occurred late on December 25 local time, the crew of the ship tried to put out the fire themselves or hope to effectively control the fire, but apparently failed.

The AIS update time of the ship stopped at 3 a.m. on the 27th, and the specific cause of the fire and the dynamics of the ship are not yet clear.

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