Here’s something you don’t see everyday. [image] Berthed Containership Loses 67 Boxes Overboard at Port of Long Beach U.S. Coast Guard units and local emergency responders have established a safety zone at Pier G in the Port of Long Beach following a significant container collapse incid…

[image] Ctony: So far these barges are only being used in LA/LB and Port Hueneme at this time as far as I know. San Francisco

As seen in the video: Two cranes with the boom down. One have been moved away (probably after the aft stack collapsed). The other is holding up a stack of containers, thus reman in in place.

There are many videos regarding this incident. And i repeat again : one gantry in position is working one bay only unless it shifts from one bay to another what sometimes happens when there is a shortage of gantries. Hence one gantry can cause the collapse of containers in one bay only by crane…

Its California. the usually cold iron the ship like it was plugged in to shore power or a genset on the barge or shore the emissions barge captures the exhaust or some hocus pocus of that nature

Did anyone see the barge guys scrambling for their lives? Crazy. Any news reports have details on whether everyone was safe?

I have not seen it or experienced sth similar but I do confirm that all lashings are gone prior gantry movements. Hence the antiheeling system is set to abt +/- 1 deg sensitivity what of course brings angry shouts from engineers as the pump is geting crazy pumping back an forth. BUT of course the …

:man_facepalming:t3:. The distance some will go to not pay the tariffs . . .:rofl:

Thanks Spo. Really interesting explanation. Parked loads of Container Ships but never worked one. :+1:

I would estimate the list to starboard to be between 7° to 10°. This is well outside the acceptable limits for a cellular container vessel of her size. This alone should not have caused the stacks to topple unless there was acceleration in the vessel’s movement . I very much doubt that the ship was …

70 Containers Fall From Ship Onto Barge in Long Beach

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Thanks Spo

Was going to ask for anyone with container ship knowledge to contribute.

Seemed to me like a really Blimey moment.

Have you ever seen this happen anywhere else?

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70 Containers Fall From Ship Onto Barge in Long Beach

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