Cargo ship snaps in half off the coast of Japan

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Originally published at: Cargo ship snaps in half off the coast of Japan | Boing Boing

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…, spilling gallons of crude oil.

Understating it a little?

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Someone who knows about international logistic please help me out here. The whole cargo was wood chips? Must be some really fantastic wood chips…

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I spent much of my Covid-19 pandemic isolation watching Mighty Ships on the Smithsonian Channel. I have nothing but massive respect for crew members on cargo and tanker ships.

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Wooden Chips by CSNY was a great tune.

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And the one by Jefferson Airplane, too! :grinning:

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They’re used as fuel in former coal-burning power stations and for some reason the country that burns them doesn’t have to add the CO2 released to their official stats if the wood was grown somewhere else :man_shrugging:

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The ship was classified as a wood chips carrier.

CRIMSON POLARIS (IMO: 9370783) is a Wood Chips Carrier that was built in 2008 (13 years ago) and is sailing under the flag of Panama.
It’s carrying capacity is 49549 t DWT and her current draught is reported to be 11.4 meters. Her length overall (LOA) is 199.9 meters and her width is 32.2 meters.

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I love this community

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Apparently the cargo was destined for the Temple of the Wood Chip Monks.

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So how many wood chips did the wood chip ship ship?

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successfully? almost none :wink:

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Misinformation; there is no containment of crude or any other oil in sea nor on land. Alaska’s Valdez spill is still killing the sea life decades later.

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http://www.sanoyas.co.jp/en/shipbuilding/business/new/ship03.html

This ship is designed for carrying wood chips for paper. Unlike normal bulkers (for coal, iron ore, grain, etc.), vessels carrying a low specific gravity of chips are measured in terms of cargo hold capacity rather than deadweight capacity. This wood chip carrier is equipped with cranes, hoppers and belt conveyors for enabling efficient unloading of wood chip. We have already constructed more than 50 wood chip carriers, and are the leading shipbuilding yard in Japan for this type of vessel.

wood chips are lighter than most bulk cargos. This ship doesn’t share a vulnerabilty with the Derbyshire, for instance.

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So… the front fell off?

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Most likely for either paper or high density particle board. You wouldn’t believe the plethora of things moved in bulk on ships. There’s a Schnitzer dock near downtown Oakland, California that loads scrap steel onto foreign ships. Some ships even are specialized for carrying sulfur. Supposedly, there’s a Guinness ship hauling beer in stainless steel tanks between the British Islands. It sits in the maritime imagination like a unicorn.

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That film is a classic! I’ve seen the actual disaster recovery documentary, and it had this and a “what really happened” segment at the end. The wrh part had to do with a film crew in a helicopter and somebody flicking a lit cigarette onto the tanker disgorging oil.

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No, totally different. In this case, the back fell off.

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Not enough to remain buoyant.

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