Containership Milano Bridge allided with cranes in Busan, one injured

A container ship from the Japanese shipping company ONE has collided with a crane in the port of Busan, South Korea. The terminal crane immediately collapsed and partly ended up on the ship. The incident happened Monday afternoon local time.

The container ship "Milano Bridge", which has a capacity of 13,900, sails under Panamanian flag and was built in 2018. As shown in the video , the ship was not loaded.

One injured

According to the maritime incident website Maritime Bulletin, it first sailed against another ship, the 'Seaspan Ganges'. Immediately afterwards, the 'Milano Bridge' came into heavy contact with three cranes of container terminal Busan New Port. One of the three cranes collapsed. As far as is known, one incident was injured in the incident.

ONE's vessel suffered considerable damage, as part of the crane ended up on the deck. Reportedly, the Seaspan ship was hardly damaged, if at all, and was able to continue its journey.

Timeline of accident

14:37: Commenced STBD turn, STBD 20 Helm, Dead Slow Ahead, Speed: 9.3Kts
14:39: Stopped engine, Speed: 7.6 Kts
14:40: Pilot appeared panicked, Speed 7.6 Kts, Dead slow ahead STBD 20 helm.
14:42: Pilot realizes heavy drift to port, panicked, full ahead engine, hard Stbd helm, concerned to avoid three (3) moored vessels. AFT Tug continuously pulling.

14:44: Cleared 1st moored vessel, drifting towards 2nd moored vessel, Navigation full ahead, STBD 20 helm, drifting further towards berth. FWD tug’s action not known as pilot speaking in local language. Master used BT.
14:47: Cleared 2nd moored vessel, random orders on ME and rudder, stern drifting towards port side, Speed 6 kts. 14:47: Cleared lesser beamed 3rd moored vessel.

14:49: Made hard contact with Gantry no.85 , fully collapsed on stern of ONE vessel. ME Nav full ahead, speed. 5.2 kts. FWD tug not pulling.
14:50: Emergency full stern to prevent contact with moored vessel ahead.
14:52: Hard contact with Gantry crane no. 81 by bridge wing, which was working on the moored container vessel ahead followed by slight contact with the moored vessel around Bay 02 & 06.

Flying Sailor

2 year before

The Mi***o Bridge seemed not to have reduced enough before the accident and kept using thrust to steer clear from quay and vessel alongside. Only after the collision with the quayside and the gantry the engines were reversed as seen by the rudder an the thruster wash going forward at that point.rnClearly no engine/steering gear failure because you see both acting in this emergency manoeuvre. Could be a miscalculation because of wind/current towards the quayside.rnAlso interesting to see what the dynamics between master and pilot were.

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Capt. Cahit Istikbal

The maneouvering track shows that the ship was not reduced to maneuvering speed at the very beginning. Skidding wrongly estimated. Last options wrongly selected. Thanks god the result could be worse.

PeterAF

Very Poor ship handling

Nse

Who was the captain ?

Capt. Rashid

Looking like not eng failure. But no tug assistance at all, neither in fwd nor aft. Very sad incident..

hearn

i saw almost no tug assist

Jimmy Rigby

Engine failure ?