Maersk Launceston collided with the Greek Navy minesweeper Kallisto<\/a> last Tuesday morning shortly after the containership departed Piraeus. The collision resulted in significant damage to the minesweeper, which remained afloat and was later towed to a nearby naval base. Only two of the vessel\u2019s 27 crew members were injured, but Sunday\u2019s update from JT Essberger indicated that the two have now been released from the hospital.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cManagers in the meantime regret the incident and the injuries and great disruption caused to the crew of Kallisto. The company has welcomed the good news that the two injured crew members have meanwhile been released from hospital,\u201d the update said.<\/p>\n
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As of Monday, the Maersk Launceston remained under arrest at berth in the port of Piraeus, where it has been held since the October 27 collision. A statement from the ship manager, JT Essberger, said an assessment of the vessel has revealed some minor damage, but the vessel remains seaworthy and managers are currently arranging …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[2264,1077,378,12746,93,3557,6631],"class_list":["post-20638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-authorities","tag-captain","tag-greek","tag-launceston","tag-maersk","tag-release","tag-temporarily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20638","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=20638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/20349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}