Container Ship Disaster

This is a small movie of what can happen if a container is loaded with dangerous goods, stacked low, and something happens. I have seen the pictures online and have received them from a friend. The information which I hold is that the container which caught on fire and started this whole mess, apparently was loaded with Chinese fireworks, which is ok, except that this was not listed on the manifest, hence the container was stacked pretty low. This is what can happen when things go very wrong.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Disaster
• container
• intermodal
• fire
• dangerous
• goods
• ship
• water
• explosives

[sega88100]

did the ship sink or was it salvaged

[bechho]

@sega88100 The port authorities managed to get the ship back to Rotterdam for massive repairs. I am not sure if it is still owned by Huyndai anymore.

[77magenta]

what crap.

[bechho]

@77magenta it is a bit heavy stuff.

[Derailedtrain666]

Heilige Kuh, Thats erstaunlich, im froh Sie teilte sich!

[bechho]

@Derailedtrain666 I know.

[Guilford88panam]

damn thatts bad

[postwar46]

This is the potential result of containerised dangerous goods cargoes, either improperly packaged, misdeclared, insufficiently segregated, or a combination of all three errors. Thousands of shipping containers clumped together aboard a merchant vessel, cannot be moved once the vessel is on the ocean, so a reaction or point of ignition will affect all. Mandatory regulations now require container packers to be trained as a preventitive measure. It is not a case of the magic box anymore.

[bechho]

@firewoodguy2009 I know. That is one of the reasons I have waited quite a few years before posting this. it is a massive fire

[bechho]

@TSBYrailroad big time

[bechho]

@Guilford88panam I know

[firewoodguy2009]

tnt