Tag: Kiel Canal

Embla allided with the center wall of a Brunsbüttel lock in the Kiel Canal, Germany, reportedly causing minor damage to the lock wall.

On 20 February the bulker ran aground on an embankment of the Kiel Canal while the vessel was traveling from the Netherlands to Estonia.

An incident occurred on 6 February in the Kiel Canal, Germany, when two containerships, ESSENCE and X PRESS MULHACEN collided.

On 1 February the containership Bernhard Schepers collided with the central tail and gate niche of the new north lock of the Kiel Canal.

Kiel Canal is now open again, after an oil spill had forced it to close just before Christmas, as the German authorities reported.

The German Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation published the accident report of the multi-purpose vessel ELSE, which sailed into a lock gate at Kiel Holtenau on the Kiel Canal (NOK), on 29 August 2020.

Yesterday, a head-on collision of two general cargo ships resulted in closing Germany’s Kiel Canal to traffic.

Traffic dues for Kiel Canal will be suspended until the end of 2021, as a step by the Kiel-Canal Initiative to maintain the competitiveness of the canal.

According to the Itzehoe police department in Germany, a 1.380 TEU Cyprus-flagged containership collided in the large south lock of the Kiel Canal in the evening hours on 23 November.

The Antigua Barbuda-flagged general cargo ship 'BBC Amethyst' collided with a lock in the Kiel Canal in Kiel-Holtenau, Germany, in the early morning hours of Sunday, 7th April. The vessel was en route from Norrköping, Sweden to Rotterdam, Netherlands.