An ultra-large container ship operated by MSC has been refloated after running aground in the Singapore Strait off Indonesia.
Vessel-tracking data from S&P Global showed that the 2019-built, 14,300 TEU MSC Faith was grounded near Batu Berhanti Beacon, an area where waters are shallow.
MSC Faith, serving MSC’s Asia-South America service, had departed Singapore’s Pasir Panjang Terminal on 31 January and was on its way to Yantian, China.
The ship is beneficially owned by ICBC Financial Leasing, which had funded its construction at Hyundai Heavy Industries through a leasing agreement with MSC.
None of the ship’s 24 crewmen were injured and there were no reports of oil leakage.
Claims consultancy WK Webster indicated that all the crewmen were evacuated from the ship, which was refloated and towed to an anchorage at Batu Ampur, Indonesia, on 1 February.
The area where MSC Faith ran aground is near where IRISL’s 6,572 TEU ship Shahraz ran
aground in May 2020. Salvors spent 10 months offloading containers from Shahraz, which had a badly damaged hull. Shahraz was eventually repaired in China and its ownership was transferred to Honduras-incorporated Adige Shipping and renamed Flora.
Martina Li
Asia Correspondent
