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Dredger MACUTI sank after being hit by container ship in Beira, Mozambique



Dredger MACUTI sank after being hit by container ship in the Beira,

Mozambique
June 30, 2016 at 08:30 by Mikhail Voytenko


Container ship leaving Beira, Mozambique, collided with dredger MACUTI in the morning June 27 in Beira channel, in a foggy weather. MACUTI hull was breached with ensuing water ingress, vessel rested on a sandbank, probably intentionally to avoid sinking. Container ship name wasn’t revealed, but according to available data, it’s MSC CHIARA , which left Beira in the morning June 27 and sialed to Durban, arriving there on June 29. As of morning June 30, vessel was still in Durban.