FIRE raged aboard the 13,100-TEU Cosco Hope hit a gantry crane as it tried to exit leave Port Said, resulting in the crane boom falling onto containers on the berth and hitting an inflammable tank.
Crane boom hits Cosco 13,100-TEUer, sets ship ablaze on leaving Port Said FIRE raged aboard the 13,100-TEU Cosco Hope hit a gantry crane as it tried to exit leave Port Said, resulting in the crane boom falling onto containers on the berth and hitting an inflammable tank. More than 20 containers burned and two people were injured in the accident, reported Singapore's Splash 24/7. The four-year-old 366 metre ship is on charter to Cosco from Seaspan. It is now moored just outside the port as investigators assess the damage. The Suez Canal Authority deployed fire engines and tugs to the scene and the fire was under control by dawn. This is a second recent serious accident with which the canal authority has had to cope, having dispatched six tugs needed to shift the 12,500-TEU MSC Fabiola after she ran aground over the weekend in the Gulf of Suez, blocking the canal for a short time. In March, 2012, the MSC Fabiola having docked at Long Beach, was the biggest ship to call at a North American port. That title has since been taken by the 18,000-TEU CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin last February.
