Important Takeaways:

• Container ship APL Qingdao loses power and slows to a halt near NYC’s Verrazzano Bridge 12 days after cargo vessel crash in Baltimore left six dead
• A huge container ship lost power near New York City’s Verrazzano Bridge – less than two weeks after a cargo vessel crashed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge.
• The container ship APL Qingdao, which weighs a staggering 89,000 tons, lost propulsion around 8:30pm while travelling through New York harbor.
• The APL Qingdao, registered in Malta, conked out as it crossed the Kill Van Kull waterway, a narrow shipping lane between Staten Island and Bayonne, New Jersey.
• The Kill Van Kull is three miles long and it demarcates Newark Bay from Upper New York Bay. It is one of the area’s busiest waterways.
• After the Qingdao’s power failure was observed, three tug boats rushed to its aid and sought to bring the gigantic shipping container under control.
• A Coast Guard spokesperson told the New York Post that they received a report of the errant shipping container around 8:30 pm.
• ‘Coast Guard Vessel Traffic Service New York received a report from the M/V Qingdao around 8:30pm, Saturday, that the vessel had experienced a loss of propulsion in the Kill Van Kull waterway’.
• The spokesperson added that the ‘vessel regained propulsion and was assisted to Stapleton Anchorage by tugs’.

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