TSB: Pilot’s errant orders to tugs led boxship to hit crane, berth

TSB: Pilot’s errant orders to tugs led boxship to hit crane, berth

The pilot guiding a containership into the Port of Vancouver inadvertently gave opposite instructions to the tugboats assisting the ship into the terminal, Canadian authorities said, and attempts to reverse the mistake came too late. The Panama-flagged Ever Summit struck a gantry crane and berth infrastructure on Jan. 28, 2019 at 0401 while docking at Global Container Terminals’ (GCT) Vanterm…
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