- Province authorities and emergency teams arrived & tried to communicate with the ship.
- Photos and videos of the crash directed to a general cargo ship.
- No IMO number either on a bridge nameplate or on the superstructure front.
Mysterious boxship washed ashore, former CMA CGM JAKARTA Video UPDATE, writes Mikhail Voytenko for Maritime Bulletin.
“The ship was underway to Alang for dismantling, understood unmanned, on tow” – Update.
What happened?
A mysterious wreck of a container ship was found by locals on the morning Oct 10 on Thua Thien Hue Province coast, north of Da Nang, north-central Vietnam.
Total loss
The ship was, beached by storm during the night, and heavily damaged, she broke in two and most probably, is a total loss.
To their big surprise, there were no people on board, at least they didn’t see any.
Still a mystery!
Province authorities and emergency teams arrived at the site and tried to communicate with the ship via VHF and loudspeaker, but to no avail.
The ship was abandoned, crew fates a mystery.
No database
“The ship was identified as JAKARTA, HK or Taiwan flagged. Problem is, there’s no such ship in databases”.
Photos and videos of the wreck led to a general cargo ship with container capacity, CMA CGM JAKARTA.
unnamed ship
Until recently, the ship was operated by CMA CGM, she left Hong Kong on Sep 29 as CMA CGM JAKARTA, and disappeared, to surface 11 days later, wrecked on the northern Vietnam coast. On close bridge photo the last word of the name, JAKARTA, is seen. No IMO number either on a bridge nameplate or on the superstructure front.
About containership
Container ship JAKARTA (ex- CMA CGM JAKARTA), IMO 9265574, dwt 9966, capacity 1118 TEU, built 2002, flag Taiwan (?), manager?
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Source: MARITIME BULLETIN
