News / VIDEO: Yang Ming vessel hits Turkish quay and takes out cranes

Here’s the moment, on Saturday, when the 14,000 teu YM Witness took out most of the cranes at Turkey’s Evyap Port in the Gulf of Izmit, east of Istanbul.

No fatalities or injuries to crew or dockworkers have been reported, but the terminal is likely to be out of action for months, judging by the way the ship-to-shore cranes toppled – according to the terminal, it has four quay cranes in operation and at least three of them can be seen ...