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A massive container ship attempting to leave the waters around New York City Friday reportedly suffered a similar issue to that experienced by the vessel that tragically brought the historic Francis Scott Key Bridge crashing into Baltimore Harbor late last month. Unlike the Singapore-flagged ...

The APL Qingdao, a monstrous shipping container, lost propulsion 'just north' of New York's Verrazzano Bridge. The nerve-wracking incident evoked images of the tragedy in Baltimore.

New York avoided catastrophe after a container ship lost propulsion near the Verrazzano Bridge, just days after the Baltimore bridge collapse.

A ship loaded with more than 1,000 containers ground to a halt near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York

The APL Qingdao lost propulsion near the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge over the weekend. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Just mere days after a cargo ship lost its propulsion in Baltimore, causing it to crash into and collapse the Francis Scott Key Bridge, another cargo ship lost power near New York's Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge over the weekend.

 

The Coast Guard said that the ship did not lose power, just propulsion, unlike the Dali which appeared to lose its power before crashing into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on 26 March

A containership lost propulsion in a busy New York City waterway and came to halt near the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge Friday…

An 89,000-ton container vessel ran into trouble in busy New York waters Friday, prompting a brief scare after Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.

Less than two weeks after a massive cargo ship caused carnage when it hit a bridge in Baltimore, a second enormous vessel has come dangerously close to a bridge in New York after it lost “some of its” controls in the city’s harbor.