Evergreen ship suffers stack collapse

Evergreen Marine Corporation has confirmed that its 2014-built 9,466TEU ship Ever Liberal, has suffered a stack collapse while en route from Busan, South Korea, to Los Angeles at approximately 0230 UTC on 30 December 2020.

The Taiwanese liner operator told Container News that when the ship was around 20 nautical-miles southwest of Japan’s Kyushu island, heavy winds and rough seas caused some of the containers to topple.

Up to 36 40ft containers fell overboard while 21 similar containers fell onto...

https://container-news.com/evergreen-ship-suffers-stack-collapse/

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