[kellyhound]

Huge shipping containers tumbled into the sea when two large ships collided at a Karachi port.

Captured on video, a loud wailing sound can be heard as one vessel appears to grind up against the other, which is stationary by the shore.

Crates begin falling off the end of one ship, believed be a Hapag-Lloyd vessel called Tolten, crashing into the sea.

More than a dozen multi-coloured crates tumble down, landing on top of each other and sending large spurts of water into the air.

Eventually, the ship furthest from the shore slowly begins to pull away, leaving behind a pile of half-submerged containers littering the water.

The clip, filmed by a man in a yellow hard hat who at one point turns the camera on himself, has been shared thousands of times on social media.

The South Asia Port Terminal suspended operations while the crates were cleared out of the water.

The Independent contacted Hapag-Lloyd for comment but none had arrived at the time of publication, but in a statement to Port Technology the firm said: “Our ship the ‘Tolten’ rammed another ship while berthing in Karachi. We deeply regret that this incident occurred."

“We have ascertained on-site that no one was injured as a result of the incident, and that there has been absolutely no environmental pollution. There is yet to be a definitive explanation for this incident.

“We will conduct an in-depth investigation of the incident, and are working as hard as we can to get the vessel back on its way as quickly as possible.”

[Ninjavandal]

Someone's ass is soon to be grass!

[bread&butter]

That explains why one of my orders was on back order.

[Bletch]

I guess someone lost his job over this one

[booboo2718]

They're lucky if they only lost a dozen of those containers.

[Stevieaitch]

Thats awful. Imagine if someone had emigrated and all their worldy goods were en route in one of those. They were probably filled with spinners and bad quality shoes but still. Sheesh.

[Stevieaitch]

Oh yeh the camera man is probably the single most useless piece of shit on the planet. He managed to film his stupid face, the stupid face of his stupid colleage, the stupid floor and sometimes barely managed to keep it still enough to see a container fall. What a prick.

[eyeful_hound]

Huh, shipping containers aren't invincible. Go figure.

[vulturedoors]

That's where all the piles of flea market goods and stuff come from. Damaged shipping containers get sold off cheap.

[Nyckname]

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