I sorry if I didn’t explain things properly. The pilots made the correct decisions in the case of the MSC Michigan. They didn’t push the emergency stop and chose to keep control of the ship as well as taking preventive steps to clear the traffic from the bridge. Stopping the engine without having any guarantee when the engine would restart and regaining control would not be the best course of action.
If tugs had been still fast the emergency stop would have been the correct course of action as the ships increasingly speed would have been dangerous for the tugs.
For the record operation of the emergency stop was part of the PPM and was tested and recorded appropriately.
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