A containership has been severely damaged above the water line in a collision with a coal barge off Indonesia.

The Suara Kalbar website reported that the 558-teu Tanto Mitra (built 2016) sustained a gash measuring five metres in length and a metre in height to its bow outside Tabanio in South Kalimantan.

The barge was named as the MBP 1515, which was being pulled by the tug MBP 3208.