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Mega container ship MAERSK SHAMS aground in Suez Canal
Topic Started: 5 Jul 2016, 10:40 PM (25 Views)
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Mega container ship MAERSK SHAMS aground in Suez Canal

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Tuesday, July 05, 2016

Mega container ship MAERSK SHAMS ran aground at 133 kilometer mark, southern part of Suez Canal, at 1530 LTJuly 5, while proceeding in southbound convoy.

Traffic is hampered.

At 1700 UTC July 5 vessel was still aground, with tugs at grounding site, attempting to refloat the vessel.

MARSK SHAMS is en route from Ceuta to Suez.

The 117,176 DWT vessel was part of the Southbound Convoy (13th of 33 vessels), and some of the other vessels in the convoy have been detained.

Suez Canal tugs are attempting to refloat the ship.

Container ship MAERSK SHAMS, IMO 9726669, dwt 117176, capacity 10000 TEU, built 2015, flag Marshall Islands, manager OCEANBULK MARITIME SA, Greece.

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Edited by skibboy, 5 Jul 2016, 11:23 PM.
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Maersk Line Ship Runs Aground in Suez Canal

July 6, 2016 by gCaptain

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A Maersk Line containership ran aground in the Suez Canal Tuesday afternoon causing several hours of traffic delays before being refloated.

The shipping agency GAC reports that the vessel was number 13 in a southbound convoy of 33 vessels when it rang aground Tuesday (July 5) at kilometer 133 in the Suez Canal at approximately 15:30 local time.

The grounding caused some of the vessels in the convoy to be detained until the container ship was refloated.

The vessel was eventually refloated just before midnight local time and towed by Suez Canal tugs to the Suez outer anchorage located outside the canal by Wednesday morning.

Both convoys were expected to be back to normal Tuesday, GAC reported.

The containership has been identified as the 10,000 teu Maersk Shams, a 117,176 dwt container ship built in 2015.

As of Wednesday afternoon the vessel was still showing at anchor in Suez.

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