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Two missing after freight ships collide off Sweden

One of the vessels capsized.

TWO FREIGHT SHIPS collided off southern Sweden today, with at least two people reported missing, Danish and Swedish authorities said.

One of the vessels capsized.

Media reports said the British-registered Scot Carrier and the Danish ship Karin Hoej had collided south of Ystad in Sweden, close to the Danish island of Bornholm.

Several ships and helicopters were sent to the scene, authorities in Sweden and Denmark said.

The cause of the collision was not immediately known but there was speculation it could have been due to poor visibility caused by fog.

According to the site marinetraffic, Scot Carrier was en route from Salacgriva in Latvia to Montrose in Scotland, while Karin Hoej had left Sodertalje in Sweden for Nykoebing Falster in Denmark.

Jonas Franzen, Swedish Maritime Administration spokesman, told Sweden’s Expressen newspaper: “We do not know what happened yet. One of the ships has capsized and is upside down.”

The Danish vessel will be salvaged by the Swedish coast guard and taken to Sweden because oil has started to flow into the water, Sweden’s TV4 said.

The Swedish Coast Guard said it was carrying out an environmental rescue operation “to prevent oil or other harmful substances from being released into the sea” but said there “currently” were no ongoing oil spills.

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    Mute Darren Callaghan
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    Dec 13th 2021, 11:12 AM

    With the technology they have these days like collision avoidance, radar its crazy how something like this can still happen but with the amount of freight being moved I’m not surprised, hopefully they can find out what happened and avoid similar things happening again

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    Dec 13th 2021, 12:51 PM

    Strange things still happen at sea, it must be impossible to time everything perfectly in advance. Sure even here the occasional driver thinks a Luas can avoid their car. There was a time when I used to give out about delayed goods, but when the Ever Given ship got infamously stuck, I started following Mark/Chief Makoi on YouTube and that was enlightening. So much preplanning goes into the designs and policies of shipping.

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    Dec 13th 2021, 1:06 PM

    @Darren Callaghan: one of the crew was apparently drunk according to Swedish media

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    Dec 13th 2021, 3:16 PM

    How do you crash 2 GPS tagged ships into each other on open sea? Mind boggles. I guess they really were blackout drunk ffs.

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    Dec 13th 2021, 5:50 PM

    @Joe Dobias: Must have had Tes%la self drive instaled.

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    Mute Fiona Fitzgerald
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    Dec 13th 2021, 6:28 PM

    @Billy McNamara: Or whatever cruise control the former Costa Concordia captain was using.

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