On 4 March, a soy vessel has been stranded at São Francisco do Sul port, Brazil, Reuters reported. In fact, the vessel “Aeolian Grace” was loaded with some 65.000 tonnes of soybeans, but a maneuvering problem resulted it unable to leave the port.
According to the Brazil Port Authority, it is not identified whether there were any damages, while they are no any spills reported yet.
For the records, Aeolian Grace was destined to Singapore but due to a problem occurred during maneuvering all berthing and unberthing operations were ceased.
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Eventually, Port Authorities informed that the soy vessel unberthed 37 minutes after midnight on Wednesday, under smooth weather conditions.
Speaking of stranded vessels, thousands of containers reported to be stranded around Indian ports, due to the coronavirus outbreak, as their cargo documentations which provide the details of the goods inside the container boxes are in the closed Chinese offices.
