Mega container ship EVER GLOBE contacted tanker KRITI EMERALD at 2330 LT May 6 on Western Scheldt in front of Bocht van Bath, Netherlands. Both ships were proceeding downstream towards sea, contact was caused by so-called sucking effect, when ships under way come too close. Understood the damages were slight, one of the ships lost her gangway (EVER GLOBE, probably). Both were anchored off Vlissingen in outer anchorage, and while EVER GLOBE resumed voyage to Hamburg in the morning May 7, KRITI EMERALD was still at anchor as of 1500 LT May 7, she’s en route to Primorsk.
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