A few days ago, Maersk’s container ship “LAUST MAERSK” collided with a ro-ro ship “NAPOLES” in the Alberland Sea, about 53 nautical miles southeast of Malaga, Spain.
At the time of the incident, the “LAUST MAERSK” was sailing from the Panama Canal to Italy via Tangier and Algeciras. “NAPOLES” sailed from Malaga, Spain to Melilla.

After the collision of the two ships, the forward section of the port side above the waterline of the “NAPOLES” was damaged, but it continued to sail and reached Melilla. There is no news about the damage of the “LAUST MAERSK”, but the voyage of the ship has been interrupted, and a container is suspected to be lost.
At present, there are no reports of injuries on either the container ship or the Ro-Ro ship.
It is understood that the “LAUST MAERSK” ship is deployed on the ECUMED route from Latin America to Europe. The ship has a capacity of 4258TEU and was built in 2001.