The 13,100 teu Maersk Eindhoven turned the newest boxship casualty on the Pacific yesterday, struggling a blackout whereas en path to California and a subsequent lack of lots of of containers overboard. The accident occurred close to Japan because the 11-year-old ship made its means from Xiamen in China to Los Angeles. The crew are protected, propulsion has been restored and vessel monitoring suggests the ship has circled and is making for an Asian port.
Mediterranean Transport Co (MSC), which is a vessel accomplice with Maersk, acknowledged on its web site that due to the engine cease in heavy climate, the Maersk Eindhoven had misplaced “a number of hundred” containers overboard – the sixth reported incident of packing containers misplaced at sea since November 30.
Final month round 750 packing containers fell off the Maersk Essen, a sister ship to the Maersk Eindhoven, each constructed at Hyundai Heavy Industries, additionally whereas crusing from Xiamen to Los Angeles. That ship diverted to Mexico and the Port of Lazaro Cardenas and is now tentatively set to weigh anchor in two days’ time and make for Los Angeles.
A video of the Maersk Essen coming to dock in Mexico final month is carried under.
Vessel monitoring offered by MarineTraffic as we speak (see under the video) exhibits the heavy climate the Maersk Eindhoven encountered on Wednesday.