General cargo ship OUTRIVALING 3 suffered engine failure while proceeding upstream in Cam river Haiphong, Vietnam, at around 1615 LT Apr 21. The ship went off fairway leading through navigational passage under the Hoang Van Thu bridge, and got stuck between bridge and embankment, with ship’s crane tower locked under the bridge and stern stuck in the embankment, damaging and ruining embankment railings and light poles. The ship is in full load, it took tugs more than 5 hours, to free her, take downstream and berth. OUTRIVALING 3 arrived from Shanghai.
Chinese freighter got stuck under Haiphong bridge
