An 89,000-ton container ship lost propulsion near a bridge in New York City waters Friday night, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The vessel, identified as M/V APL Qingdao, was anchored near the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge. new york post report Sunday. The paper noted that the ship was traveling along the shipping route between Staten Island and Bayonne, New Jersey at the time.
Giant container ship loses power near Verrazzano Bridge in New York City, days after Baltimore Key Bridge disaster https://t.co/XvTzJGFgco pic.twitter.com/bSBIbdX7bE
— New York Post (@nypost) April 7, 2024
News of the incident comes just weeks after a cargo ship crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in late March, causing a fatal collapse, according to Breitbart News.
The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapses after being struck by a ship.
Possibility of mass casualties. pic.twitter.com/1z9fMaJNod
— Postmillennial (@TPostMillennial) March 26, 2024
Meanwhile, a photo show APL Qingdao sitting near the bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island:
BREAKING NEWS: A New York tugboat captain reported the incident. @gCaptain “Container ship APL Qingdao lost power while sailing through New York Harbor. They had three escort tugs but needed three more to get her under control. We recovered it and anchored it near the Verrazano Bridge.” pic.twitter.com/Z2IP04xmLs
— John Conrad V (@johnkonrad) April 7, 2024
The Coast Guard detailed the incident and how the ship regained propulsion.
The New York Coast Guard’s Office of Vessel Traffic received a report from the Qingdao M/V APL at approximately 8:30 p.m. Friday that the vessel had experienced a loss of propulsion in the Kill Van Kulu Channel. The ship regained her propulsion and, with the assistance of three towboats, safely anchored at Stapleton Anchorage, outside the navigable channel just north of the Verrazano Bridge.
It’s standard procedure for tugboats to accompany large ships like this heading into the Atlantic Ocean, ABC 7 report Monday.
A reporter for the magazine explained it as follows:
Officials say the bridge’s design, which builds protective rock islands around the supports, even if the ship is close to the bridge, could prevent a container ship from losing power and colliding with the supports, such as on March 26 in Baltimore. He points out that the catastrophe could probably have been prevented. Six construction workers were killed when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, including its girders.
Coast Guard authorities required APL Qingdao to have its propulsion system certified for repairs, and the crew was required to submit a casualty report on what happened leading up to the accident. Once these requirements were met, the ship continued its journey to Charleston, South Carolina. post.
“APL Qingdao is registered in Malta and owned by French shipping and logistics company CMA CGM. It was bound for Norfolk, Virginia, at the time of the outage,” the paper said.
Breitbart News reported on March 29 that efforts to build a bridge where Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge once stood could cost anywhere from $400 million to several billion dollars. It is estimated that
