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Maersk Give Details of Emma Maersk Incident
Maersk Line's 15,500 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity containership Emma Maersk will return to service on the Asia-Europe route on July 18, five months after being damaged in an accident, Seatrade Global reports.
The newest edition of Maersk Line's Maersk Post magazine offers details of the February incident, in which a propeller tore loose from the ship, making a hole in the hull.
"Alarms were ringing all around us," said the vessel's chief engineer, Michael Sort.
"There was a large hole and water was pouring in.
"We could not stop it, but we went in, reached into the water and opened the suction valves for the pumping system.
The water eventually rose to a height of 16 metres, half filling the engine room, but, with the help of a sudden change in the wind direction, Captain Marius Gardastuvo and his crew manoeuvred the ship into the Suez Canal Container Terminal (SCCT).
The hole in the ship was repaired at SCCT, and Emma Maersk was then towed to Fincantieri's Pallermo yard, where the ship was fully repaired and trials were carried out.
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