It is reported that on the afternoon of July 14th, at around 4 pm local time, a container ship named "SOUL OF LUCK" belonging to a Hong Kong shipping company suffered a major accident at the TPKS container terminal in Semarang Port, Indonesia! Directly crash the dock crane!
It is reported that this is a feeder barge that travels between Malaysia's Port of Klang, Singapore, Indonesia's Semarang, Surabaya, and other places, including multiple shipping companies such as Daffy, COSCO, and Istar.
At present, the ship is still stranded at Semarang Port. If there is cargo on this ship, please confirm with the shipping company as soon as possible the safety of the cargo and the re shipment date.
The scene was very tragic, with multiple cranes destroyed! This accident is expected to have a serious impact on the normal operation of the TPKS container terminal at Semarang Port in Indonesia! Recently, there have been shipments to this port, please be careful as there may be delays or port changes!
The workers on site recorded this thrilling and terrifying moment with their phones. The ship departed from Port Klang in Malaysia and encountered an unexpected incident during berthing. From the video, we can clearly see that the ship directly crashed into a shore crane.
After the accident, the area was immediately closed. Other work areas that did not receive damage after three hours resumed normal operations.
The business information of the shipowner is as follows: the shipowner is VICTORIA OCEANWAY from Greece, and the ship operating company is GOLD STAR Venus from Hong Kong.
According to media reports, the accident also caused damage to some containers in the Semarang Port area, and the exact quantity is not yet clear. Fortunately, there have been no significant casualties except for one dock worker who was injured and sent to the hospital!
Semarang Port is located in the central part of the north coast of Java Island, Indonesia, and is one of the main ports in Indonesia. It is the fourth largest city in Indonesia and a hub for agricultural and handicraft products on Java Island.
At present, Semarang Port has multiple international routes to countries such as China, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia. With the increasingly close economic and trade cooperation between China and Indonesia, multiple shipping companies have opened routes from Indonesia's Semarang to cities such as Shanghai, Tianjin, Ningbo, Qingdao, Xiamen, etc. in China, and the cargo throughput has continued to grow in recent years.
Last month, a large container ship named NAGOYA EXPRESS under Herbert's flag collided with a gantry crane at Fangcheng Port in Guangxi during a major accident! The container ship has been detained for more than 13 days!
Given that the Semarang port accident is more severe and has a wider impact on the port, it is expected that the container ships involved in the accident will also be detained, and normal port operations will be severely affected. Semarang port will face significant delays!
Due to the fact that overweight containers can easily cause gantry crane accidents, it is not difficult to understand the first reaction that people have, and overweight containers do harm others and themselves.
So I hope everyone's safety alarm will continue to sound, don't take chances, or strictly control the weight of the goods according to the loading regulations!
Data source: Shipping Information, Souhang Network, Xinde Maritime, and the Lianying team have compiled and published, and have been hacked and deleted.
