News / Boxes to be transhipped after new CMA CGM ship's engine fails in Xiamen

CMA CGM Osiris Credit VesselFinder.

One of CMA CGM’s new 15,000 teu ships suffered mechanical failure as it was about to depart China’s Xiamen port on Tuesday.

The incident happened just as the CMA CGM Osiris was leaving Xiamen Ocean Gate Container Terminal for Shekou on the French liner operator’s Red Sea Express 2 (REX2) service that connects Asia with the Red Sea.

The ship arrived from China’s Jiangnan shipyard in November, one of nine 15,000 teu vessels CMA CGM commissioned from there and affiliate Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding.

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