Two vessels collided on the outer anchorage of the Chattogram port this afternoon (7 September), inflicting agonize to one ship.
The collision happened at round 2pm on the Alpha Anchorage when a fertiliser vessel struck a ship carrying lentils.
Md Omar Faruk, secretary of the Chattogram Port Authority, acknowledged, “The ships had been freed with the support of their captains after the propellers purchased stuck.”
No injuries had been reported, and authorities are investigating the cause in the attend of the incident.
Essentially based exclusively on the Chattogram Port Authority, the Liberian-flagged MV Pleasant Island become anchored and unloading lentils at Alpha Anchorage.
The Panama-flagged ship Navios Celestial, carrying DAP fertiliser, become discontinuance to Qutubdia when it collided with the “Pleasant Island”, inflicting the propellers to turn out to be stuck.
