subscribers. Become an Insider
and start reading now.
Have an account? .
- More than 60 containers toppled off a vessel at California’s Port of Long Beach.
- The containers fell off the Mississippi, an 837-foot-long, Portugal-flagged ship.
- No injuries were reported from the incident.
Dozens of containers fell off a vessel docked at Southern California’s Port of Long Beach on Tuesday morning.
The US Coast Guard confirmed to Business Insider that it received a report about 67 shipping containers falling into the water.
The vessel in question was the Mississippi, an 837-foot Portugal-flagged ship, per a report by Reuters. According to data from Vessel Finder, a ship tracking platform, the ship is a year old and had arrived in Long Beach from Yantian, China, on Tuesday.
The Coast Guard told the AFP that the incident had occurred at about 9 a.m. local time on Tuesday, and no injuries had been reported.
A representative of the port did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.
67 containers toppled into the water surrounding the barge
Apu Gomes/Getty Images
Helicopter footage by ABC Los Angeles’ affiliate KABC showed dozens of containers floating in the waters surrounding the barge.
Some appeared to be half-submerged. Several containers that remained on the vessel had big dents.
Photos show a stack of leaning containers on the barge
PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images
Port of Long Beach is one of the US’s busiest ports
Screengrab/Alan Devall, Sarah Wemy/ Reuters
