Another Rena,MSC Clorinda,MSC Napoli etc etc
MSC CAROLE (PANAMA)
London,Mar 1
A press report, dated today, states: Fully cellular containership MSC Carole (52191 gt, built 1989) under the alternating command of MSC and Maersk and which services the Australian trades, has ran aground on a reef, off the coast of Jakarta in so far unexplained circumstances on Feb 28. Crewmembers on board the vessel are reportedly safe. No oil pollution has been observed until the morning of Feb 29. A planned attempt to remove the vessel from the reef on the morning of Feb 29, failed. The vessel supposedly ran aground on a reef at some point on Feb 28 but no further details are currently available. Data from the AIS station at Jakarta, records the vessel as being stopped for 15 hours at 1848 hrs, Feb 27. Since then, AIS data indicates that the vessel has effectively stopped. Cargo on board the vessel will be transferred to Baltimore. No other information is available on Baltimore, as of now .MSC will be providing space on their Capricorn service as a contingency for the cargo o Fmsc Carole, Maersk reported. MSC Carole was working under a vessel sharing arrangement at the time of incident. An executive at MSC inAustralia denied that MSC had operational control of the vessel at the time of incident, stating instead that Maersk had control. A Maersk spokesman stated that at the time of incident, the vessel was under the overall control of Maersk, on that particular leg of the service. He also added that the vessel had MSC crew on board. Recovery operations are now being handled by MSC, the Maersk spokesman said