{"id":18714,"date":"2020-10-03T04:01:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T01:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/coscos-bulker-runs-aground-in-virginia\/18714\/"},"modified":"2020-10-03T04:01:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T01:01:20","slug":"coscos-bulker-runs-aground-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/coscos-bulker-runs-aground-in-virginia\/18714\/","title":{"rendered":"COSCO\u2019s bulker runs aground in Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Hong-Dai  sits aground a quarter mile Northwest of Sewell&#8217;s Point  U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-intro-font-size\">The Panamanian flagged coal carrier Hong Dai ran aground on a soft sandy bottom near Norfolk, Virginia, on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p>The Hong Dai\u2019s crew reported no injuries, pollution or flooding concerns at the time, according to the US Coast Guard. <\/p>\n<p>It is reported that there are 22 crew members on board the bulker.<\/p>\n<p>Sector Virginia investigation crews boarded the ship Thursday morning and are assisting the ship\u2019s crew in assessing damages and the threat of pollution.<\/p>\n<p><em> &#8220;The vessel remains under a Captain of the Port order to remain in place and the Coast Guard is currently in communication with the ship\u2019s owners to assist in establishing a salvage plan,&#8221;<\/em> the Coast Guard said. <\/p>\n<p>The salvage plan is likely to involve the refloating of the ship with the assistance of tugs.<\/p>\n<p>The Panamax bulker, built in 2010, is owned by Chinese COSCO Shipping Bulk, data from VesselsValue, shows.<\/p>\n<p>The fully-laden ship was underway to Norfolk from Baltimore, Maryland, based on its AIS data.<\/p>\n<p>Data from Marine Traffic from October 2 indicates that the ship remains aground with a tug Jack Moran dispatched to the location.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\/coscos-bulker-runs-aground-in-virginia\/\">COSCO&#8217;s bulker runs aground in Virginia<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.offshore-energy.biz\">Offshore Energy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong-Dai sits aground a quarter mile Northwest of Sewell&#8217;s Point U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo The Panamanian flagged coal carrier Hong Dai ran aground on a soft sandy bottom near Norfolk, Virginia, on Wednesday night. The Hong Dai\u2019s crew reported no injuries, pollution or flooding concerns at the time, according to the US Coast Guard. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2157,932,11719,3828,3397],"class_list":["post-18714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-aground","tag-bulker","tag-coscos","tag-runs","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/18715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}