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Tugs have freed an MSC containership which went aground off Italy yesterday.

It was the second such incident in one day and the grounding of the 8,566 teu Elaine on a breakwater outside the port of Gioia Tauro late last night followed a bulker getting stuck in the Suez Canal. 

The 339-metre Elaine had called at the port on its route between the US and the Middle East and was departing for Malta, manoeuvring with the help of two tugs, when it apparently turned wide and got ...

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