Anyone see a problem here

[Capt_Christo]

Anyone see a problem here. I think they went a bit far...dont you?

[Kmot]

It appears to me it ran aground. I doubt it buckled from the containers themselves.

[ThrustTugKeith]

I think it did break the back of the ship(without knowing the actual truth) in the picture.
The people who run those ships shouldnt put ANY containers on deck. This should be a written open water rule.
Its just the greed dominating this planet thats sickening.

Only my opinion.

[green-boat]

Ouch

[patmat2350]

More on this one at http://www.shipspotters.nl/Fowairet.html .
Apparently, repair involved cutting out a bit of the hull to make her shorter.
Pat M

[Capt_Christo]

She grounded on approach to a dock in Netherlands despite having a pilot aboard.

As of end of January she is at Damen Shiprepair yard at Schiedam.
They have taken out bays 32 and 36 where she was broken.
The repairer will put the parts together and she will be shortened by 30 m. When the ship is "repaired', she will be loaded for one voyage to the far east. She will get her "new part" of 30 meters in South Korea and make her a "normal" ship again. She will sail as a 'shorty' for only 1 trip. She still is in dock now, but expect her loading in less than a few weeks.

[patmat2350]

Zip-a-ship!

[johnmca72]

I think it did break the back of the ship(without knowing the actual truth) in the picture.
The people who run those ships shouldnt put ANY containers on deck. This should be a written open water rule.
Its just the greed dominating this planet thats sickening.

Only my opinion.

Do you mean that ships should only be loaded to half their designed capacity? Those VLCC ships are designed to carry deck cargo.

JM

[johnmca72]

Anyone see a problem here. I think they went a bit far...dont you?

I wonder if anybody got into any trouble over that...

JM

[ThrustTugKeith]

Please excuse that remark then....it just seems that the ship is grossly overloaded.

[MikeK2]

Keith, most of the deck boxes will be empties, or at least lightly loaded. You have to keep shunting the empties around otherwise they would all end up in the wrong place. On modern box boats there is a computer loading programme where you put the intended tonnage in the appropriate slots and at the press of a button you find out if the ship is stable, what draft she will be, if it will have a list and if the bending/shearing and torsion will be ok at any point of the hull, so you should never get in the state of that ship - emphasise 'should' !! There is also a maximum height allowed for any deck stack so as not to impede the visibility ahead from the bridge.
End of burble !
MikeK2

[tsparks]

it just seems that the ship is grossly overloaded.

If you think THAT one was overloaded, then don't look at the Shanghai Express,

http://www.shipphotos.co.uk/pages/shanghaiexpress.htm

It only carries 7500 containers on its decks. :)