Feeder ran aground in the Kiel Canal

On Jan 31, 2017, short past midnight the "Elbsailor" ran into the embankment close to the ferry pt. Schacht-Audorf during the Eastbound transit of the Kiel Canal. The ship was enroute from Hamburg, where it had departed on Jan 30 at 3.40 p.m., to St. Petersburg. It blocked the canal as no other ships could pass in the narrow fairway at the accident site. The tugs "Stein" and "Holtenau" were called from Kiel at 3 a.m. Only at 6 a.m. they managed to pull the ship off. It was pushed out of the way in the morning hours and secured at a pier in Klein-Königsförde before the tugs started to tow the "Elbsailor" to Kiel for surveys and investigations.