Container Ship Executes Controlled Grounding

NOL’s 14,000 TEU container ship APL Vanda executed a controlled grounding at Bramble Bank in the U.K. after losing power on Saturday night.

Port of Southampton Vessel Traffic Services sent eight tugs to the vessel. No damage or pollution has been reported. APL Vanda was pulled into deeper water shortly after midnight and has now returned to port safely.

The Singapore-registered container ship is more than twice the size of the car carrier Hoegh Osaka which was deliberately grounded in the same location in January last year.

Saturday’s incident comes less than two weeks after the mega-container ship CSCL Indian Ocean, ran aground in the Elbe River as it headed towards the Port of Hamburg.