[kellyhound]

“Worse things happen at sea,” goes the old saying, but occasionally a momentary loss of control as a large ship enters a port can bring carnage to relatively fragile landside gantry cranes.

In this video, the 8,540 teu OOCL Durban, appears to have started a sequence of events upon its arrival alongside at Kaohsiung, Taiwan, this morning, leading to the collapse of two gantry cranes onto a stack of Yang Ming-liveried containers.

According to FleetMon, the 2011-built chartered vessel, deployed by OOCL on one of its Asia-Australasia strings, made contact with two cranes with its stern at around 11.30am local time.

The damaged containers appear to be in an export stack ready for loading onto a Yang Ming feeder vessel.

Local press reported that one port worker suffered minor injuries in the accident. Several more were trapped, but were later freed uninjured.

[Xtatic]

First and last day on the job?

[LittleNightmare]

[Major_Tom]

Awesome, I love the slow warping wrench of a heavy gauge steel structure going down.

[Hogmann]

Now I know why my Amazon order is late!

[lrd1024]

Captain to Helmsman "Did you just hear something?"

[William May]

I bet "Laurie" was driving the boat!
And laughing her head off.

[William May]

Originally Posted by lrd1024 ↗

Captain to Helmsman "Did you just hear something?"

'WHAT?!?! NO! I can't hear you! There's too much noise going on up here!"

[dowup123]

Yuri strikes again

[icehole]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

Several more were trapped, but were later freed uninjured.

imagine the horror they had to endure