Container Ship
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‘Slow-moving disaster’: Group wants urgent action on cargo spills in B.C.A group that's been cleaning up debris from a cargo ship that lost 109 containers off the B.C. coast says the incident should be a wake-up call to the need for more urgent action.EnvironmentMar 6, 2022
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Cargo ship that lost containers, caught fire in B.C. waters finally moving to portThe unified command managing response to the MV Zim Kingston incident said the vessel is proceeding to an anchorage in Nanaimo, B.C., on Friday.NewsDec 3, 2021
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‘No sign’ of 105 containers from cargo ship in B.C. waters: coast guardThe Canadian Coast Guard says it believes that many, if not all, of the 109 containers that fell from a cargo ship off Victoria in late October have sunk.EnvironmentNov 11, 2021
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B.C. businesses feeling supply crunch from container ship mishapWhile 109 containers were lost from the MV Zim Kingston, the vessel's entire manifest of some 2,000 containers remains aboard with no clear timeline for release.CanadaNov 6, 2021
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Halifax breaks record by welcoming largest container ship to ever call on North America’s east coastWith a length that's equivalent to nearly three-and-a-half football fields, the Marco Polo will be hard to miss at the port.CanadaMay 17, 2021
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Burning container ship likely headed for Bahamas instead of Halifax: shipping expertNo one was hurt after the fire broke out as the ship sailed about 1,900 kilometres southeast of Halifax, but the vessel's 22 crew members were evacuated from the ship as the fire grew and the weather turned ugly.CanadaJan 23, 2019
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Container ship fire burning off Canada’s east coast now ‘largely contained’The German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd says five crew members were transferred back to the Yantian Express on Wednesday evening from one of the massive tugs fighting the fire.CanadaJan 10, 2019
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Water cannon aimed at container ship that has been burning for 5 daysA big Belgian tug is using a high-powered water cannon to extinguish a fire aboard a container ship that has been burning off Canada's east coast for the past five days.CanadaJan 8, 2019
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Crews attempting to douse blaze on disabled container ship off Nova ScotiaA spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard says the Maersk Mobiliser from Newfoundland is en route to the Yantian Express, which has been dealing with a container fire since Thursday.CanadaJan 7, 2019
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TVs, furniture wash up on Dutch islands after container ship loses cargoThe Dutch Coast Guard said up to 270 containers had fallen off the Panamanian-flagged MSC ZOE, one of the world's biggest container ships.WorldJan 3, 2019
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