A virtually brand new handymax bulker has run aground on the US west coast, the US Coast Guard (USCG) has confirmed.

The 63,386-dwt KM London (built 2017) ran into trouble in the Columbia River near Crims Island at river mile marker 54.5, late on Thursday.

The ship ran aground on the north side of the navigational channel outbound the Columbia River laden with wheat.