This Container Ship Collision Dumped Brand New Cars Into The Sea
Two cargo ships have collided in a major Pakistani port, dumping containers carrying brand new imported cars into the sea.
It’s not clear what caused the Tolten to crash into the Hamburg Bay earlier this week, while the former was trying to dock at Karachi’s major industrial port, but the net result was damage to both ships and the loss of 21 containers, pushed into the water by the stationary Hamburg Bay’s bow.
The containers can clearly be seen in the sea, some floating out towards open water while others mournfully start to sink. Meanwhile, the dock workers simply stand by and watch the action, apparently in blind indifference to the mayhem. There might not have been a lot they could physically do to stop the containers falling, but surely there’d be contingencies to get started on…
The port has apparently been closed while the clean-up and salvage operations do what needs to be done.
So yeah, err, anyway. If you’re on the South Asian subcontinent and you’ve just taken a phone call explaining that your new car’s delivery will be delayed, now you know why…
Video via Jalopnik
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I hope they were all Fiat Multiplas
I hope they were all crossovers
I know they were new cars, but I hope they were all Lotus Esprits. They’d just have engaged their propellors and swum to the port.
Noooooooooooo!!!
Who the hell is the captain. His a stupid idiot
It was Capitain Shoji of the Myogi Night Kids. He’s had quite a history with colisions.
Did they state somewhere that they were cars? New cars especially aren’t shipped in containers, but rather on a RoRo (roll on, roll of) ship. They are designed to take around 6000 cars in multiple decks. It’s is very unefficient to transport thousands of new cars in containers because loading times for example. Usually containers are only used when cars are not able to move on their own power.
That’s an OSHA violation
Thats like throwing away food samples from stands in the grocery store in front of the employees’ face
What a sight to be seen! A bunch of containers with cars in them are raining from the sky!
This is the kind of stuff that makes me scared of shipping cars. One dumb move that’s out of your control and there goes your car.
But they allways put the cheap and light containers at the top, this story doesn’t make any sense.