Not less than 50 delivery containers slipped off a vessel on the Port of Lengthy Seashore on Tuesday morning, leaving officers scrambling to find out what occurred.
Port spokesperson Artwork Marroquin mentioned the ship, the Mississippi, was berthed at Terminal G simply earlier than 9 a.m. when the containers mysteriously fell overboard into the water.
Marroquin and different port officers didn’t reply to questions concerning the ship. They confirmed, nonetheless, that no accidents had been reported and all operations have been briefly suspended as responders work to safe the containers.
Port officers are within the preliminary levels of investigating what precipitated the incident.
An internet web site devoted to monitoring ships says the Mississippi flies underneath a Portuguese flag and was final docked in China two weeks in the past.
The incident occurred solely 4 days after the port was named the Greatest West Coast seaport in North America for a seventh straight 12 months by the commerce publication Asia Cargo Information.
The port handles greater than 9 million 20-foot containers per 12 months from 2,000 vessels, transferring one-fourth of all containers on the West Coast.
