Bulk Carrier explosion in Gibraltar Bay

On Friday evening, February 19, ‘CSSC Cape Town’ arrived in the Bay of Algeciras, coming from Baltimore.

AIS data:

  • Feb 19, 23:03 > dead in the water at anchorage region, half a mile W off the Gibraltar breakwater
  • Feb 19, 23:08 > slowly backing off to SW at 0.3 knots. Later 2 knots
  • Feb 20, 02:21 > leaves Bay of Algeciras with eastward course
  • then, circles East off Gibraltar in the Mediterranean
  • Feb 20, 23:00 > back at GIB-W anchorage, at anchor
  • Feb 22, 21:00 > leaves anchorage, course S then E
  • Feb 23, 01:00 > in the Mediterranean E of Gibraltar, at 15 knots, destination Suez Canal
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