accident

Deadly accident on Danish Bridge – Strong winds caused that?

Six people have been killed and 16 injured in a train accident on the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark.

Rail network officials said debris from a freight train – possibly a tarpaulin – hit a commuter train during a heavy storm, forcing it to brake suddenly.

The debris struck the commuter train – running from Odense to the capital Copenhagen – at about 07:35 local time (06:35 GMT).

Emergency services reportedly struggled in the bad weather to reach the passenger train, which came to a stop on the...

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MSC’s mega vessel lost 270 containers in Germany – The company starts a clean-up operation

The cargo ship MSC Zoe encountered heavy weather while sailing toward Bremerhaven, Germany, on 2 January.

As a result, some 270 containers were damaged or lost overboard amid very difficult conditions,  3 of them with dangerous organic peroxides.

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company has started a clean-up operation in response to a substantial spill of containers in the North Sea.

MSC appointed on 2 January a salvage company to coordinate the retrieval of cargo and beach clean-up operations and is...

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What happened to the MSC Zoe?

The Panama-registered ship is described as the biggest in Europe, with a potential cargo of 19,000 containers.

As Storm Zeetje buffeted northern Germany with gale force winds late on Tuesday night, 270 containers of Zoe’s cargo fell off the ship and into the Wadden Sea.

By Wednesday morning, strong tides had already swept some of the containers on to beaches on Terschelling, Vlieland and Ameland and coastguards were scouring the sea for the others.

There were fears that other shipping could be...

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