Video: Iraqi Freighter Strikes Boxship at Port of Umm Qasr

[Brief] On Christmas Eve, the truck Baghdad struck the moored container ship ESL Winner at the port of Umm Qasr, Iraq, creating damages to the Winner’s strict.
ESL Winner came to a little container terminal at Umm Qasr as well as anchored at concerning 1230 GMT on December 24. The Baghdad got here as well as came close to on an evident clash at concerning 1340 hrs, according to AIS information supplied byPole Star Baghdad struck the strict of the ESL Winner at reduced rate, displacing the moored vessel’s free-fall lifeboat, which came down on Baghdad’s bow, video clip gotten by Marritimi e Navi shows up to reveal.
After the allision, the Baghdad anchored at the exact same incurable, to the northeast of ESL Winner’s placement. Both vessels changed berths the following early morning, after that left the port on the 26th, headed outbound throughout the Persian Gulf.
Baghdad is a container-capable basic freight ship possessed as well as run by the Iraqi federal government, as well as she has actually long been released on a routine feeder path in between Dubai as well asIraq
ESL Winner is an 1,800 TEU feeder run byPeter Doehle Schiffarts She had actually just recently occupied a comparable turning from Jebel Ali toUmm Qasr