Two people were killed as a result of an accident in the engine room of a Dutch-flagged cruise ship while it was in the Bahamas on Friday, March 22. Holland America Line’s (HAL) Nieuw Amsterdam was anchored near the company’s private Half Moon Cay resort when an accidental release of steam occurred...
Container shipping experts have said that there are similarities to the massive losses suffered by the ONE Apus and the MSC Zoe accident, as container losses from large ships rack up.
Dutch Safety Board member Lianne van der Veen, who described the MSC Zoe accident to Container News readers during the third Cargo Integrity Campaign online Seminar in October, had said that the Dutch investigation into that incident in January 2019 had been caused by the high stability of the vessel causing it to...
https://container-news.com/one-apus-losses-similar-to-msc-zoe/
Research by the Dutch Safety Board has revealed that the shipping routes above the Wadden Islands during periods of northwestern storm form a risk for large, wide ..
A 19,200TEU ship which lost 342 containers in a North Sea storm hit the seabed as the vessel was tossed up and down in heavy seas according to a report into the MSC Zoe incident published on 25 June.
Dutch Safety Board (OVV) investigations, carried out with input from Germany’s BSU and the Panamanian registry reported the storm conditions were not particularly severe, but that the northwesterly winds that were blowing on the day of the incident in January 2019, meant that the waves were steep...
https://container-news.com/msc-zoe-report-says-vessel-hit-the-bottom-in-storm/