News / Worker injured as OOCL Durban wipes out Kaohsiung gantry cranes

Courtesy of Fleetmon.

“Worse things happen at sea,” goes the old saying, but occasionally a momentary loss of control as a large ship enters a port can bring carnage to relatively fragile landside gantry cranes.

In this YouTube video, the 8,540 teu OOCL Durban, appears to have started a sequence of events upon its arrival alongside at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, this morning, leading to the collapse of two gantry cranes onto a stack of Yang Ming-liveried containers.

According to FleetMon, the 2011-built chartered vessel, deployed by ...