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Watch Japanese Tugs Free Grounded Containership MOL Express

Rob Almeida
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January 21, 2015

screen shot via YouTube

A spectator on shore captured the following high quality video of Japanese tugboats working together to free the containership MOL Express after she ran aground while maneuvering in Tateyama Harbor, Japan.  Seaspan, the owner of the vessel, says the tugs managed to free the vessel, which was on charter to Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, on the morning of 14 January, three days after the incident.

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