[Xploit Machine]

A gantry crane being delivered aboard the heavy-lift barge Yuzhou Qi Hang struck and toppled an existing quayside crane at Pier 20 in Keelung, Taiwan, on October 14, 2024. No injuries were reported.

The barge was berthing at about 2 p.m. when the top of the new ship-to-shore crane hit the shore crane. As the vessel continued moving, the existing crane was pushed backward, tilted onto one set of rail wheels and fell across containers on the wharf. The crane aboard the barge was cargo being delivered, not the vessel's own lifting equipment.

The shore crane was destroyed, and terminal operations were temporarily suspended. Port and vessel operators entered discussions with insurers over the damage.

[marcos_69]

I guess they didn't notice that their ship had giant cranes on it and that the dock also had giant cranes on it. Honest mistake.

[kellyhound]

Nov, 2024, The China-registered barge Yu Zhou Qi Hang, which knocked down a quay crane at Keelung Port in Taiwan two weeks ago, lost its ability to navigate due to severe weather and heavy load and was abandoned as a result, eventually washing up on Taiwan’s shoreline yesterday.

The ship left Keelung at 7:57 am local time on Tuesday for Zhangzhou in China’s Fujian province. It stalled some 4.5 km off northern Taiwan three hours later.

The captain gave out an order to abandon the ship later in the day as the wind and rain intensified. Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration was able to rescue all 17 crew members from the vessel. A 100-tonne patrol boat returned the crew safely to Keelung Port around 10:05 pm local time on Tuesday.

According to the coast guard, the ship was carrying three gantry cranes and was hit by strong winds coming from the outer rim of the approaching Typhoon Kong-rey. It was unable to leave the area and gradually drifted closer to the shore near Yehliu. The vessel ran aground along the shore of New Taipei City’s Yehliu Geopark on Thursday.

Tugboats were dispatched to the scene but they had to turn back due to rough sea conditions.

From Saturday afternoon, work would start on syphoning off fuel from the vessel. The barge is filled with 37 tonnes of diesel, 247 tonnes of heavy oil, and 6,280 litres of lubricating oil.

According to reports, there is only a limited risk of an oil leak but an emergency relief team is standing by in case of fuel leaks.

This has been a very poor run of luck for the vessel in a very short period of time. It accidentally knocked down an existing quay crane at Keelung Port in Taiwan while docking to unload new cranes from China’s ZPMC, the world’s largest crane manufacturer.

In a badly calculated docking manoeuvre, one of the new cranes onboard the vessel toppled over the old one, crushing several containers on the quayside in the process. Fortunately, there were no casualties or injuries reported. However, the damage is estimated at around $9.3m.

[volleyballbat]

Battle of titans.

[Mr.NoCredit]

At least they siphoned off all the petroleum products before polluting the ocean with it.

[IvorySmith]

The tug boat backing away slowly at the end, lol

[DarkSighted]

It's always blown my mind how those cranes are shipped, cross-ocean, all fully assembled and standing like that, SOP. Of course now, during salvage they'll probably run across the little surveillance/communication/potentially disabling devices the chinese have been building into the cranes they ship everywhere overseas....

[durt]

No wonder all my ebay shit is late ffs