{"id":976,"date":"2023-03-29T09:25:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T01:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/boxship-hits-pier-at-port-of-kaohsiung\/"},"modified":"2023-03-29T09:25:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T01:25:46","slug":"boxship-hits-pier-at-port-of-kaohsiung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/boxship-hits-pier-at-port-of-kaohsiung\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxship hits pier at Port of Kaohsiung"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"max-width:900px; margin:0 auto; background-color:rgb(246,246,246); padding:20px; line-height:25px; text-align: justify;\">\n<p><strong>A container ship carrying 6,763 TEU has damaged the quayside of the <\/p>\n<p>Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan while travelling at an excessive speed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1680052783839522-1.jpg\" alt=\"Boxship hits pier at Port of Kaohsiung.jpg\" title=\"Boxship hits pier at Port of Kaohsiung\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; padding:15px 0px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Media sources reported that vessel HYUNDAI TOKYO\u2019s appointed pilot was <\/p>\n<p>legally drunk at the time of the accident.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>By 9.00 a.m. on 20 March, the 997-foot-long vessel passed the <\/p>\n<p>breakwater.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The HYUNDAI TOKYO was on its way to the Port of Kaohsiung after leaving <\/p>\n<p>Ningbo in China, when the ship\u2019s excessive speed alerted the harbour master\u2019s <\/p>\n<p>office.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The ship was travelling at more than six knots, according to local <\/p>\n<p>reports.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1680052799161218-1.jpg\" alt=\"Boxship hits pier at Port of Kaohsiung.jpg\" title=\"Boxship hits pier at Port of Kaohsiung\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; padding:15px 0px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The pilot was contacted four times within a minute to be warned of the <\/p>\n<p>speed, but communications were left unanswered and the ship struck pier 77 at <\/p>\n<p>the port.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The vessel sustained only minor damage, local news reported, and it was <\/p>\n<p>held by the Maritime and Port Bureau while inspections were being conducted.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The vessel was eventually permitted to continue its voyage to Shekou, China <\/p>\n<p>on 21 March, only after the posting of a bond for any damage to the port\u2019s <\/p>\n<p>infrastructure and the signing of a declaration of responsibility.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A container ship carrying 6,763 TEU has damaged the quayside of the Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan while travelling at an excessive speed.Media sources reported that vessel HYUNDAI TOKYO\u2019s appointed pilot was legally drunk at the time of the accident.By 9.00 a.m. on 20 March, the 997-foot-long vessel &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hj_lang":[3],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"hj_lang","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hajomech.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hj_lang?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}