A vintage feeder boxship belonging to Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) was involved in an accident yesterday that resulted in part of a giant ship-to-shore crane belonging to Yantian Port in southern China come crashing down on the vessel. The 1998-built, 1,730 teu MSC Riona was on an intra-Asia service, calling at Shenzhen’s Yantian port when the accident occurred at around 8.40 am yesterday morning leading to operations across berth two of the busy port to be suspended. No injuries were reported when part of a crane collapsed onto the vessel. Local reports show some containers from the ship fell into the sea. Information on how the accident occurred remains very limited at present. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); }); TagsMSC