"chit..that red container on the fourth level has my shipment of 36 cartons of illegal bacon flavored worm pills from Singapore....along with my French blow up kitty
Spark in the fuel tank! /s
It was a Russian and Filipino crew.
Foreign flag vessel. Rather doubt 4,500 containers of arms and such. Judging by where the fractures occurred in the vessel, I suspect improper loading of containers on vessel. Actually most large vessels have some sort of fracturing in the mid-ship half length. Comes from flexing while vessel is hogging and sagging.
Gunner
Salvage opportunity for sneaky bastards who can’t find ammunition because HSA cornered the market.
No big deal. A replacement shipment is probably being loaded as we speak.
MOL is SOL
she’s still afloat, albeit in two sections
http://shipandbunker.com/news/world/671309-update-mol-comfort-still-afloat-after-breaking-in-two
More of your Tax Dollars Pissed away.
But the actual news story is somewhat different than the complete changes and falsehoods presented in the story for this thread.
Merchant vessel 'Mol Comfort' splits into two off Mumbai coast, crew rescued
A Singapore-bound merchant vessel from Jeddah split into two around 840 nautical miles off the coast here today causing oil spill even as all the crew members were rescued, Coast Guard officials said.
'Mol Comfort', the 316-m-long vessel was carrying 4,500 containers from Saudi Arabia, they said.
"The vessel hull broke into two off the Mumbai coast and the crew members were rescued from the ship in two life rafts and a life boat," a Coast Guard official said.
The cause behind the incident was yet to be ascertained. It was also not known what the ship was transporting.
The Coast Guard coordinated the rescue operation and all the 26 members of the crew--- 12 Russians and 14 Filipinos-- were rescued.
The officials said that the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, Mumbai diverted three ships - MV Hanjin Bejing, MV Zim India and MV Yantian Express, which were travelling nearby, for the rescue operation.
The rescued crew members are being sent to Colombo, they said.
The ship was traveling to Singapore from Jeddah. Not to Syria to arm the rebels.
Also, it did not sink. The two pieces are adrift and they are planning to take them in tow.
This is according to Lloyds listings:
Lloyds Loading List lunchtime report...
A Mitsui OSK Lines boxship reported sunk yesterday is apparently still afloat, having broken in two on high seas some 200 miles from Yemen, according to an Indian Coast Guard official.
Many of the 4,372 boxes on board MOL Comfort remain on the split vessel, although some have fallen in the sea, according to Mumbai operations unit commandant Rama Rao.
Rao said MOL-owned car carrier Sanderling Ace was at the site monitoring the situation but that the seas were still too high, with swells of 5 m-6 m, to determine the extent of any fuel oil spill.
MOL has now confirmed that the ship’s fore and aft sections have separated. The fore part of the hull is drifting at around 013º00´N, 60º40´E, and the aft part is some 19 miles southwest of it.
“Both parts of the ship are laden with containers and drifting in an east-northeast direction. We are also arranging tugboats to tow both parts,” MOL said in a statement.
It said it was seeking to confirm details of containers lost overboard or damaged during the incident.
The 2008-built, 8,110 teu MOL Comfort, owned and operated by MOL on Loop 1 of the G6 alliance’s Asia-north Europe service, was sailing from Singapore to Jeddah at about 0700 hrs local time when the casualty occurred at 012° 33´N, 59° 46´E.
Water pouring into the hold forced the 26 crew to take to the lifeboats. All were rescued by the 2002-built, 7,506 teu containership Yantian Express, owned by Hapag Lloyd and bound for Colombo.
Rao said that having been alerted by Singapore-based MOL’s operations division yesterday, the coastguard diverted ships to the site of the casualty, more than 800 miles west of Mumbai.
He said it was fortunate for the crew that the casualty happened near a busy shipping lane, allowing them to be rescued quickly.
According to Lloyd’s List Intelligence, the Bahamas-flagged, 86,692 gt containership was built in Japan by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Nagasaki.
The vessel’s P&I insurance is covered by Japan Shipowners Mutual Protection and it is classed by Japan-based ClassNK.
Responding to questions from sister publication Lloyd’s List, the classification society issued a brief statement, saying it had “set up an investigation team in Tokyo and is working on the incident. The details are yet to be known to us”.
Kinda like TWA Flight 800 except the shot was horizontal instead of vertical?
>>> BUZZ KILLER WARNING <<<
Free Republic Detective Freepersup answering roll call- Here! Per the video news report: last intended voyage of 3rd largest container ship. Container contents are unknown. I repeat: container contents are unknown. This ship breakup isn’t unlike a fire fighting aircraft coming apart owing to a lifetime of stress. Need a BS meter on scene STAT. DEBKA? is that you DEBKA?
If true this is definitely a center fuel tank explosion. I wonder if any AC units were under the CFT?
Would it be too much to ask that 1000 containers of pork rinds wash up in Somalia?
Maybe more like the hand of God.
Another fast and furious scam down the drain. Obama is doing his best to arm the bad guys, and things keep going wrong.
pardon me, while I have a laugh....
Is the stern also missing in the top photo?
"chit..that red container on the fourth level has my shipment of 36 cartons of illegal bacon flavored worm pills from Singapore....along with my French blow up kitty
Wow, I need to check to see if pigs are buzzing around outside. Who could have predicted a 20+ year US military veteran would be cheering a Russian sub for torpedoing a cargo ship of US supplied weapons?
Way to go Vlad!
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. : Update (No.7): Incident Involving the Containership MOL Comfort06/22/2013| 09:50pm US/Eastern
TOKYO- Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL; President: Koichi Muto) updates the status of the containership MOL Comfort as of 23:00 JST (18:00 Dubai time) on June 22 , 2013. The vessel could not continue sailing under its own power from June 17 because the hull fractured in 2 parts while under way on the Indian Ocean.
1. Vessel
The fore and aft parts are drifting near 14"52N 65'46"E and 13'29"N 63'27"E respectively in an east-northeast direction. The weather at the site is still adverse. The patrol boat which we have arranged is expected to arrive at the ocean site around June 24.
2. Containers (No change from the Update (No.6))
Some of the containers might be lost or damaged during the incident, but majority of the cargo are confirmed to be aboard the fore and aft part.
3. Rescue of the cargo and hulls
We have contracted with a salvage company and are proceeding to rescue the cargo and hulls. Three tugboats are heading to the site, and two of them are expected to arrive around June 24 while the 3rd one is around June 25.
4. Oil leakage (No change from the Update (No.6))
We confirmed no large volume of oil leakage.