MSC Napoli sheds more containers

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Yesterday's and last night's gales have caused the ship to lose about 6 or 7 containers which have washed up on the beach near Branscombe again. Before you rush down there to see what you can scavenge, the police have closed all roads leading to the beach and the Branscombe car park.
 
Saw this ship aground in Singapore a few years back (she'd been there for at least a month). More recently, she had a "jumbo-isation" (cut-and-shut job) in a VietNamese shipyard. This added a 50m (!!!!) mid-section, just ahead of the bridge: from the photos, looks like the welding failed. Forumites may like to know there's another 3 sisterships out there, same job done by the same yard....
 
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Saw this ship aground in Singapore a few years back (she'd been there for at least a month). More recently, she had a "jumbo-isation" (cut-and-shut job) in a VietNamese shipyard. This added a 50m (!!!!) mid-section, just ahead of the bridge: from the photos, looks like the welding failed. Forumites may like to know there's another 3 sisterships out there, same job done by the same yard....

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MSC Napoli has no sisterships DNV Exchange

In March 2001 the Napoli, then named the Normandie, deviated from a deep-water channel in the Straights of Malacca and travelling at 22 knots ran straight onto a submerged coral reef. She spent several weeks on the reef and then four months being repaired in a Vietnamese shipyard; the damage caused to the ship’s hull was substantial and over 3000 tonnes of steel were used in the repairs. No mid section added just a repair to damage.
Chronicle of HYUNDAI-VINASHIN Shipyard
 
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I really don't know why there are any containers still on deck. By now they should have been offloaded. The contents of the containers will be perishing by the day I would have guessed. If I were in charge of this salvage operation I'd rope the containers together, pass the end of the rope to the "scavengers/pikeys" and leave the job up to them. They seem far more capable and effective than the official teams and by tomorrow morning all that will be left will be a massive shorebased cleanup operation for the council.

Cheers, Brian.

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I think that is a naive comment at best but I will restrain myself.

In a container terminal the boat is level, the crane is a specialised piece of equipment on a stationary platform.

On the Napoli the boat is listing, the twistlocks holding the containers together are jammed and the crane is going up and down with the swell. So far nearly 400 of the 800 odd on deck have been removed. Bloody good going given the weather they have been suffering and the need for the salvors to clamber over the precarious stacks.



As to the pikeys, they made a hell of a mess, scattering rubbish everywhere and making the clean up job longer.
 
It would appear that you don't have a clue what you are talking about. The operation to remove containers would appear to be going very well in difficult circumstances. The priority must be to minimise the risk to the salvors who are having to disconect the containers before they can be lifted.
 
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