(Los Angeles) Dozens of containers fell on Tuesday from a huge ship moored in the port of Long Beach in California, interrupting the operations of this major platform for world trade.
A video shows the containers falling like dominoes of a huge ship, registered in Portugal, while cranes moved above them in the port of Long Beach, near Los Angeles.
Air images have revealed that several containers had crushed on what seemed to be a kind of support ship.
Photo Damian Dovarganes, Associated Press
The American coast guard said that at least 67 containers had fallen into the water around 9 a.m.
The contents of the containers were not immediately known, but the journalists who flew over the premises reported having seen shoes and clothing floating in the water.
Some of the 12 -meter boxes already seemed to have flowed, while others floated on the surface of the water, stacked on each other like scattered matches.
The American coast guard said that at least 67 containers had fallen into the water around 9 a.m., but that no one had been injured.
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A video shows the containers falling like dominoes of a huge ship.
“The freight operations have been temporarily suspended from the terminal while the emergency services endeavor to secure the containers,” said Art Marroquin, spokesperson for the port.
An exclusion zone was established around the ship, with the presence of police emergency aid, firefighters and coast guard.
The port of Long Beach is one of the most active in the United States, with a volume of trade of $ 300 billion a year, according to its website.
It is one of the main rotating plates for imports from Asia and is linked to more than 200 ports around the world.
