A recent news article published in the Maritime Bulletin states that COSCO 20,000 TEU container ship troubled off Portugal.
Unspecified damage troubles COSCO Ship
Ultra Large Container Vessel (ULCV) COSCO SHIPPING VIRGO according to Portugal Maritime Authorities, suffered loss of propulsion due to unspecified damage on Dec 24, while sailing along Portugal coast, en route from Piraeus to Rotterdam.
Giant ship was disabled and adrift for some 3 plus hours according to track, from 1330 UTC until 1700 UTC, then she resumed sailing, arriving at Rotterdam on Dec 27. As of 0330 UTC Dec 28, she remained berthed at Rotterdam.
Clean sustainable shipping
Short-time loss of propulsion due mainly, to engine issues, is a most wide-spread type of accidents. At least several such accidents are monitored daily, globally, thanks mainly, to “clean sustainable shipping” dangerous and disruptive regulations.
But there’s only a handful of giant ships with container capacity exceeding 20,000 TEU, so of course, each and every accident with such ships, however “trivial”, is an event in itself.
Details of the vessel
Container ship COSCO SHIPPING VIRGO, IMO 9783461, dwt 201827, capacity 20038 TEU, built 2018, flag HK, manager COSCO.
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Source: Maritime Bulletin
