{"id":7082,"date":"2020-03-31T05:37:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T02:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/cma-cgm-chartered-boxship-runs-aground-in-mississippi-river\/7082\/"},"modified":"2020-03-31T05:37:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T02:37:46","slug":"cma-cgm-chartered-boxship-runs-aground-in-mississippi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/cma-cgm-chartered-boxship-runs-aground-in-mississippi-river\/7082\/","title":{"rendered":"CMA CGM-Chartered Boxship Runs Aground in Mississippi River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Liberia-flagged containership ran aground in the Mississippi River on March 27, the US Coast Guard (USCG) said.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 8,533 TEU Belita grounded near 12-mile point, at mile marker 81 of the Mississippi River.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Following the incident, Coast Guard Sector New Orleans placed a one-way traffic restriction in the immediate vicinity of the grounded vessel.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOur top priority in this incident is the safe recovery of this vessel, while protecting the marine environment,\u201d<\/em> Capt. Kristi Luttrell, Sector New Orleans commanding officer, said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>There have been no reports of pollution or injuries.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the cause of the incident has been launched, the USCG added.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The 2006-built Belita, previously known as Parsifal, is owned by Greek Gemini Shipholdings, VesselsValue\u2019s data shows. In addition, the 334-meter-long vessel belongs to a chartered fleet of French shipping giant CMA CGM.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Post-Panamax boxship seems to have been refloated as it is currently en route to Tampa, Florida, underway using engine, according to information provided by MarineTraffic.<\/p>\n<p>world maritime news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Liberia-flagged containership ran aground in the Mississippi River on March 27, the US Coast Guard (USCG) said.\u00a0 The 8,533 TEU Belita grounded near 12-mile point, at mile marker 81 of the Mississippi River. Following the incident, Coast Guard Sector New Orleans placed a one-way traffic restriction in the immediate vicinity of the grounded vessel. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2157,276,3937,512,154,3938,3828],"class_list":["post-7082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-aground","tag-boxship","tag-cgmchartered","tag-cma","tag-mississippi","tag-river","tag-runs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082","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=7082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/7083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}