Category: Boxes Overboard
North Sea Collision (Grimsby)
Anchored oil tanker (Stena Immaculate) hit by Madeira-flagged cargo ship (Solong): Apparently 20 crew on Stena Immaculate, so maybe 12 on Solong? It’s a baby boat: 140/22m. All evacuated.
Copenhagen III: Helsingør Maritime Museum
Hamlet’s castle is not technically in CPH, but it is just up the “whisky belt” – Strandvejen, or “Beach Road”, passing Hellerup; Charlottenlund; Rungsted, where Karen Blixen’s small herregård is now a museum; Humlebæk, home to Louisiana; and finally Elsinore, where the museum is located underground about 20m from the castle. Image below possibly a…
Red Sea vs. Cape of Good Hope
From gCaptain: Meanwhile, from Splash: This is worth quoting in full: Ships taking the alternative, non-Houthi route between Asia and Europe face another perilous situation, namely the rough seas around South Africa. The 6,966 teu MSC Antonia lost 46 boxes overboard last week during severe weather conditions with another 305 containers damaged, according the increasingly…
Boxes Overboard (II). And Lego.
Denmark was not happy about the embarrassing December incident involving boxes falling off a Maersk giant due to a large storm in the North Sea. Not (reportedly) because it had anything to do with a Danish shipping company, but because of having to confront debris on West Coast beaches just before Christmas… Now, someone’s read…
Boxes Overboard (I)
“There are widespread reports of debris washing up on beaches along the northern part of Denmark’s North Sea shoreline after a Maersk containership lost boxes overboard. The shipping line is confirming that it learned of the incident early on Friday, December 22, and will be investigating the extent of the damage. The authorities in Denmark…