An extremely giant containership needed to make a managed grounding within the Solent Saturday night time whereas on its method to the port of Southampton, the second incident this month involving a so-called ‘megaship’ working into bother in European waters.

The UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency mentioned it responded to the incident and reported that a big container ship executed a managed grounding on the Bramble Bank after experiencing a lack of energy Saturday night time in Southampton Water. At time of replace the vessel was already underneath tow and making its method to the Port of Southampton.

The ship is the 365 meter APL Vanda, a 2013-built extremely giant container vessel (ULCV) with the capability to hold 13,892 twenty foot equal models (teu). The incident occurred because the ship was crusing from Le Havre to Southampton.

The Coastguard reported that eight tugs had been despatched to help the containership by Port of Southampton Vessel Traffic Services (VTS). No injury or air pollution was reported, the Coastguard mentioned.

The incident is the second grounding involving a so-called ‘megaship’ in European inland waterways previously two weeks.

On February third, the 19,100 teu vessel CSCL Indian Ocean ran aground on the River Elbe resulting in the port of Hamburg. The Hong Kong-flagged ship spent six days arduous aground earlier than it was refloated with the assistance of 12 tugs early Tuesday morning. The reason for that incident is underneath investigation.

The 150,951 APL Vanda is considered one of ten extremely environment friendly, 14,000 teu containerships ordered by APL in 2011 from Hyundai Heavy Industries. At the time the ships had been touted as a few of a essentially the most gasoline environment friendly on this planet, with a brand new hull design optimized for sluggish steaming. At 369 meters lengthy, the containerships are solely barely smaller than the 400 meter, 18,000 teu ships which might be presently thought of the world’s largest.

APL is a part of the container transport arm of Singapore’s Neptune Orient Lines, which was taken over by CMA CGM in December.

You might recall, the Bramble Bank is identical place the place the MV Hoegh Osaka automobile service was deliberately grounded in January 2015 after the ship misplaced stability leaving the port of Southampton.