A dredger has been partially sunk by a collision with a containership off Mozambique.

The All Africa website reported that the hull of the state-owned 3,900-dwt Macuti (built 2013) was breached in the incident on Monday in the access channel to the port of Beira.

Water flooded into the ship and its stern sank on to a sandbank.

The Panama-flagged boxship was leaving Beira en route to Durban.

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